Pokémon Go recently launched as a mobile device for both Android and iOS phones; and I couldn’t be happier.
Finally children of my generation can live out their dreams of becoming Pokémon Master. For years and years it’s all we dreamed about; to go walking in the wild; and catching wild Pokémon and training and battling them. Now, thanks to Nintendo, Niantic, and their incredible technology, that dream is finally a reality.
Pokémon Go brings to reality everything that I, and millions of other children around the world used to dream of as a kid. Now I can just be like Ash Ketchum and become “The very best that no one every was” People are collecting Pokémon, grouping together and making teams, and rivalries and battling gym leaders just like in the shows and video games.
Pokémon Go encourages kids and adults alike to go out and explore the environment. All over the internet there are people walking through the city, the forest, climbing mountains, taking boats on lakes, all to catch their very own Staryu, Dratini, Ninetails, and many more.
For those that don’t know, the app uses the camera to simulate wild Pokémon in your area, right in front of you. It’s the closest we’ve ever had to actually having actual Pokémon in the wild, for now.
Pokémon Go, almost overnight, has taken the world by storm. It is encouraging people to go out and explore, exercise, and beautifully combines nature and technology. It has opened up a whole new world of ideas for video game developers, boosted stocks, and made millions happy, and make them feel like kids again.
While the full Pokémon experience isn’t totally uploaded into the program, they’re getting close. There are teams currently developing and adding on to the very first instance of “real world gaming”; creating codes and software to develop trainer versus trainer battles, which would immerse the player in the world of Pokémon even more then it already has.
When it comes down to it, Pokémon Go is the experience we’ve all been waiting. For years we’ve been playing the Pokémon games we all know and love from a top-down, third person perspective, and now it is in the first person, real world level that immerses us and makes us feel like we are in the forests of the Kanto Region, training to become a Pokémon Master.
