I thought this topic was thread worthy simply because I express so much negativiy about fad like things and felt I should give my thoughts about it after some use. Also, my opinion is more important than anyone elses.
If anyone here has read my posts about this app you'd know I was quite skeptical and negative about it. Well this was before I actually got the thing to work properly and thought it was all hype.
Holy balls is it awesome. Like seriously, it's genius.
I went for a 30 minute walk to try it out for the first time about 2 hours ago. It was pretty simple to get working and ran without a hitch. As I exited the residential area I live in, I noticed that while walking past real life landmarks, I could tap on them in app and see a picture of the real life location. This gave me some experince and the RPG player in me started getting excited. More importantly, there was a Metapod nearby just hanging out. So I caught it and all those stats came up, granting me more experince. I thought the catching of the pokemon themselves was a weak spot as it's overly simple but it's still fun to stop and engage each one you see.
I saw two gyms and upon clicking them I was greeted by professor leggings that I needed to be level 5 before I could go to them. But it was a Scyther gym. Scyhter! Let me go get sword hands professor leggings!
Anyway, it's great because it makes locations useful, it's a social ice breaker("Hey, go to the supermarket on Fake Rd, there's a Archanine") that adds this depth and FUCK I can't wait to go back out and catch some more.
I was wrong about Pokemon GO. It's the best app I've downloaded all year. If you haven't tried it, try it and love it.
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