During the weekend, I tried playing Pokémon Go while it was sunny outside and walked to Hendrick’s Park with one of my friends. I tried tapping on one of the Pokémon stops along the way and couldn’t access the items due to a sudden lack of internet connection. There weren’t many stops along the way to this park, unfortunately. There was a lot more at Riverfront Park probably because it’s more well-known. The most exciting moment I had while playing Pokémon Go, overall, was seeing one of the eggs hatch. A Pollywog was born, which was rather anti-climactic since I had already captured one of those at that point. The slogan for Pokémon Go is: “Gotta catch ‘em all” but no, you really don’t. It may be encouraged but it’s not mandatory. I think that if you catch enough of one type of Pokémon, you can level one of them up. I haven’t bothered to try it. Whenever I collect more than one type of Pokémon, it’s usually because I think it looks cool.
This game was the most infuriating one that I’ve played for the class. I found Pokémon Go more of an inconvenience than anything else. The player has to go out of their way (to the stops for balls and berries) to progress through the game without an end goal. Most of the time I couldn’t even open the app. I’m curious to see if the game will become more popular during the summer. When it first released, the app was a hit but I don’t think it will be as widely played partly due to the crashing and partly due to the loss of novelty. The updates can only do so much. I wouldn’t recommend Pokémon Go to a friend mainly because I’m so frustrated with it.