In early July, Nintendo's new game "Pokemon Go" was released. It quickly climbed the charts, becoming the number one app on Google Play. So what's all the hype? I downloaded the game upon request of another, originally with no intent to use it, and found out.

When you turn on the app, you're cautioned right away to keep alert and stay aware of your surroundings. It's a great concept - however, it has already been on the news about people being hit by cars and stumbling upon dead bodies while playing the game. Great thing to find while playing a video game, I know.

Getting into the game though is fairly easy: first, you talk to Professor Willow, then create your character avatar and choose a nickname. After those easy things, next is choosing your starter Pokemon from the three given options: Charmander, Squirtle and Bulbasaur. All of them are great options, but I went with Charmander myself. Tapping the Pokemon you choose, you're then brought up close to it so you can catch it with a limited amount of Pokeballs.

Once that's done the next steps are just a walk in the park - literally. The main focus of the game once you get all that starter stuff done is just to walk around, collect more Pokemon and level up. I haven't gotten very far in the game, being new to it and all. I've barely reached level three.

So, why is this game getting so much attention? it just seems like your regular old app, and yet it's more than tripled Nintendo's stocks.

The game is intriguing, because you have to be willing to go outside and walk around in order to make any progress whatsoever. So now, people who usually have no real reason to go out and exercise can without even a second thought. People are jumping at the chance to take long walks to hatch the eggs they find and discover which Pokemon they received, or just to hunt for them. The only real downsides to all of this is how fast your battery dies while you play, plus the data usage and the fact that it's another distraction for drivers and pedestrians alike. The app hasn't been out in the United States for even a month, and of course people are already getting injured from it. One girl even tried passing through a busy highway staring down at her phone and got hit because she didn't know where she was, blaming the app for the accident. Weirdly enough though, as previously stated, the app has also lead to two dead bodies being found, each on its own day and by different people. No identities to the deceased were ever released but it's crazy how even more transfixed people become to their phones with this app, when in fact, I feel like it should be the complete opposite. Whenever I go out to play I always stay on the side of the road no matter how quiet it is. Unless I have to get on to the middle of only a QUIET road, never would I ever stop dead on a road I knew many cars passed by. And when I do, I always look around to make sure I'm not going to be in the way of a driver.

So why is this so hard for everyone else to do? To me it just seems like common knowledge but I guess for a select few I might as well be very, very wrong.