Play time: Sporadically throughout the day

I have discovered some disadvantages to the game. The first being the need to operate the app with the highest screen lighting setting. As a person with very sensitive-to-light eyes, I found this to be frustrating as I was playing on my way home from campus. Because the screen brightness was adjusted to be so low on my phone, I could not see anything on my screen because of the glare. So for a good portion of my walk, I was simply hitting random parts of the screen because the only thing I could see on my phone was my reflection.

By this point in the day, I was starting to get kind of hungry. Add in the general annoyance from people not sharing the sidewalk (Gee thanks, mister! I really would rather walk through a mud puddle than be on the sidewalk!), and my patience was wearing thin by the time that I was playing consistently while walking. I did change my path home and found that the number of Pokemon available on 13th was much higher than on 15th (an advantage to trying to avoid the construction that we WEREN’T INFORMED OF). I was even able to enter a training gym as well. Hi, Team Mystic! Granted I chose Mystic because I was already very annoyed with the app taking forever with introducing the trainers and teams. By the time that I was to start training my Pokemon, I was ready to shut down the app. Then begins the battle, when I realize that I have no idea how to operate within a gym and can barely try to figure it out when I can barely see what is happening on the screen. The one highlight of my hangry playing time was finally figuring out where the settings on the app are to switch to power saving mode. Hopefully, this will save a little bit of power in the future days I’m playing.