Pokemon GO

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  3. Negative: 264 out of 726
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  1. Daveisonline
    Jul 21, 2016
    3
    I've had enough of this BS. This game is Broken ... BROOOKKEENNN, It crashes frequently, locks up if I catch a Pokemon or start a Gym battle, Constantly logs me out. The Opening Load times just add fuel to the fire of frustration of having to constantly restart the game.

    There is literally no excuse for a game to be released in such a current state, especially since it likes to drain my    I've had enough of this BS. This game is Broken ... BROOOKKEENNN, It crashes frequently, locks up if I catch a Pokemon or start a Gym battle, Constantly logs me out. The Opening Load times just add fuel to the fire of frustration of having to constantly restart the game.

    There is literally no excuse for a game to be released in such a current state, especially since it likes to drain my Battery and my Data plan. It's unoptimized, it's shallow and its clear they released it early to cash in on the Pokemon Nostalgia.

    If you want to keep playing, I ain't going to stop you. However I implore you DON'T SPEND A CENT on this game until they fix the issues.    … Expand
  2. DaveAus
    Jul 26, 2016
    3
    Very basic gameplay without the combat or features of the main games. Suffers from poor optimization and performance, the freemium model means they have your game save to server side for every time you usea item and time you touch a pokeball which leads to more data usage and chances of freezing then necessary. No trainer battles or trading with friends.
  3. Mustchekitteh
    Aug 2, 2016
    3
    - The game mechanics are god awful
    - Playing it in rural places is horrible
    - Using gps to hatch eggs is a nightmare due to it not picking how far you have actually walked - Need Gyroscope just so AR can work - small towns barely have pokestops and gyms if any. - spawn locations are awful - Battle mechanics are worse than **** - Can't explore much due to trespassing - Exploring    - The game mechanics are god awful
    - Playing it in rural places is horrible
    - Using gps to hatch eggs is a nightmare due to it not picking how far you have actually walked
    - Need Gyroscope just so AR can work
    - small towns barely have pokestops and gyms if any.
    - spawn locations are awful
    - Battle mechanics are worse than ****
    - Can't explore much due to trespassing
    - Exploring is boring due to pokemon only showing up in cities
    - Not having a clue where to look for them unlike in the actual games where some tails would pop up and you could sneak up on them
    - Doesn't take skill only luck in where you live or the locations of your house

    All and all niantic sucks at having any kind of concept on how pokemon is meant to be. This is what happens when you don't let Nintendo and game freak have more saying in what should be put in it. I honestly don't care about walking around the actual world to find them. I like the idea of making the character walk around in a fictional world. Where you still use gps or step counts to move your character around. Just you wont have to go to such desperate lengths to hunt one down. This game kills the pokemon spirit and makes it some dried out half ass version of what it truly means to be a trainer. You don't win battles due to your own strength and level. You win battles due to your pokemon, they teach you and you teach them. Not you teach them and they just take your candy and have no ability to interact with them.    … Expand
  4. Luigibros
    Oct 25, 2016
    3
    Garbage, it's so boarding, I played, and got boarded after I got 2 Pokémon (which were a ratatta and pidgey) and went on the internet to complain about it, the next day I got a bunch of responses which were from probably ignorant 7 year olds cause a bunch of post's were in all caps, and they just kept calling me a lazy/fat bastard because I don't like it, f*ck Pokémon go, sun and moon willGarbage, it's so boarding, I played, and got boarded after I got 2 Pokémon (which were a ratatta and pidgey) and went on the internet to complain about it, the next day I got a bunch of responses which were from probably ignorant 7 year olds cause a bunch of post's were in all caps, and they just kept calling me a lazy/fat bastard because I don't like it, f*ck Pokémon go, sun and moon will be much better than this steaming pile of garbage… Expand
  5. NahtanojOrigin
    Nov 30, 2016
    3
    It w a s f u n for like T W O W EE K S . I r e m e m b e r j u st p l ayin g i t a nd t he n b e i n g a l l l i ke " th i s i s bo r i ng" i t g o t t o the p o i n t w he re p ro g re s s in g w a s r e a l ly s l ow . i d ele ted the game be c ause it w a s dummmm
  6. YaBoiRoice
    Apr 14, 2018
    3
    While pretty fun at first this game gets incredibly repetitive after a while and the updates haven't helped. I stopped playing it after a couple of months and the only thing that kept me still playing up until that point was the fact that some of my friends also played it and we had fun together. If it hadn't been for that i probably would've quit after a week. And I also have anotherWhile pretty fun at first this game gets incredibly repetitive after a while and the updates haven't helped. I stopped playing it after a couple of months and the only thing that kept me still playing up until that point was the fact that some of my friends also played it and we had fun together. If it hadn't been for that i probably would've quit after a week. And I also have another complaint. Progressing can be incredibly hard if you don't have time or a way to battle in gyms. After a while your low capacity can be a very annoying thing and not having any special items is awful as well.… Expand
  7. DieterfallCZE
    Nov 15, 2022
    3
    really bad :((((
  8. AlexMakesToast
    Nov 23, 2022
    3
    Go = 3/10
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  9. shard013
    Aug 10, 2016
    2
    Game mechanics are pretty much non existent and what is there is not fun. The catching is nearly all random based.

    No battling wild Pokemon, no trading, no direct PVP. Gym battles are a joke. Terrible spawn rates outside of cities. As for technically, it's quite buggy and the servers are terrible. As well with the overpriced pay to win in app purchases, it feels like this is a    Game mechanics are pretty much non existent and what is there is not fun. The catching is nearly all random based.

    No battling wild Pokemon, no trading, no direct PVP. Gym battles are a joke.

    Terrible spawn rates outside of cities.

    As for technically, it's quite buggy and the servers are terrible.

    As well with the overpriced pay to win in app purchases, it feels like this is a cash grab with very little thought into making a good game and more about how to make quick profits.

    About the only things going for it is the Pokemon brand name, and the animations are mostly pretty well done.    … Expand
  10. LegLock
    Mar 9, 2019
    2
    Sunk Costs Fallacy.

    This is a game which is trivial to beat but almost impossible to enjoy. It is the antithesis of every Pokemon game before it. Resources collection is miserly and time consuming. There are still horrendous, game-breaking bugs after nearly 3 years which Niantic has absolutely no interest in fixing.
  11. itchipod
    Aug 10, 2016
    2
    May be fun for easily entertained people, not for real gamers. No pokemon battle, you just collect stupid sprites. If you catch a pokemon, you just caught it nothing more. The app aslo suffers from disconnection and bugs from time to time.
  12. GamecubeLover
    Jul 21, 2016
    2
    The game is super glitchy and I had to wait 3 DAYS to get an account or to make one. I like the game encourages people to go outside but people HAD DIED and gone in people's yard's! The gameplay is so bland and bad it makes five nights at freddy's look like the best idea the universe has ever had! This game should die not people.
  13. PWD
    Aug 7, 2016
    2
    Ok, the good side first.
    This app gets people outside, it encourages social interaction, and it has caused many to get exercise they would otherwise have avoided. That's the good side.
    Now, the bad side. To start with, the game often freezes. It's a battery hog. It often has server issues. And those are the minor points. Much worse, is that there is no limit on the number of    Ok, the good side first.
    This app gets people outside, it encourages social interaction, and it has caused many to get exercise they would otherwise have avoided. That's the good side.
    Now, the bad side.
    To start with, the game often freezes. It's a battery hog. It often has server issues. And those are the minor points.
    Much worse, is that there is no limit on the number of pokemon caught per minute. This has caused the game (which is, in fact, a massive multiplayer game) to be overwhelmed by botters who are griping on the bot sites that they are being teleport restricted to less that 50 per minute! And, to be utterly factual here, there is no possible way to prevent cooperation between apps on Android, that's what the OS is designed to promote. Literally, to actually stop all botting would be to break the OS. Bad idea.
    To cap off that stunning bit of stupidity, they created the usual "high leveling curve" found in MMO's with cash shops. This means that botters get a HUGE advantage over regular players, because regular players cannot play 24/7. Therefore, you have botters making level 33 (couple of million XP) in three days or so, and dominating the gyms. That's a HUGE problem that Xiantic is essentially ignoring. It's been my belief for many years now that a certain amount of botting in MMO's is tolerated to encourage non cheats to use the cash store to catch up.
    And now, the worst part. This game is inherently unfair. By design. IF (and few seem to be doing so) you play by the TOS, then you are to go outside and walk to find pokemon. If you are disabled, unhealthy or otherwise impaired, then you cannot play under the TOS. Disabled vets need not apply. Moreover, they brought out this game with pokemon concentrated in cities, the larger the city the better, rather than in rural areas. Ashe was a fool, he should have stayed in the big city rather than walking the countryside to find pokemon! So farm kids, rural kids, people anywhere outside a major city should just give it up right now. On top of that, icing on the cake as it were, these designers decided that pokestops would be at "points of interest". I'll admit they are trying to fix that, as quite a few have popped up in my region that were not there at first - though you would have thought a US Navy base with decades of history behind it would have had a pokestop at the entrances! Or maybe the National Guard Armory? Those MIGHT be of equal interest to a few parks? Or two dozen other places I could have named? This, at least, they are fixing.
    Even the idiots at Niantic should be able to do simple math. Try this, a pokemon per minute, using magic lucky eggs from the cash shop every time (expensive!) plus playing 8 hours per day (like a job - and carrying a dozen phone batteries with you) plus hitting every pokestop, plus evolving or hatching every pokemon in that time - that gives a maximum number for how much XP one could collect. Do the calculation, you get 3 million XP (give or take) since launch. EVERYONE dominating gyms has more than that. Level 34 would require something like 3 and a half million XP. That's simply impossible even with double XP from lucky eggs. Yet thousands of 30 + players (you can see their level in gym information) have filled up the game. At a guess, over 300,000 - as that's how many bots have been downloaded from a single bot site. There are many bot sites. In Singapore, the game was released this week. Singapore players are screaming about level 33 to 35 botters dominating every gym.
    On top of all this, Niantic is incompetent. This week they decided they'd magically stop remote botters by requiring a sim card. Did they even check the app development kit for God's sake? There's a PC emulator included for app development, the same one they are using, which includes sim card emulation, just enter a phone number. Now people, that's total incompetence, not even looking at your own tools. So now I can't play on my eight inch android tablet with my cell in my pocket doing it's WIFI thing, oh no, have to play on the gadget with shorter battery life! Can't use the car WIFI, my God, that's cheating or something! I've seen this before, and I'll say now, bail out before it's too late, because incompetent game designers will drive you insane before they drive you away.
    To sum up, a decent concept spoiled by no consideration of ANYTHING before launch. You have to wonder who or what was on this design team, and if they have any experience at ALL with the real world. It was obvious and self evident that this game, as an MMO, would be subject to bots. To allow bots to rule utterly was stupid. To allow people to continue to play while catching more than 2 or 3 pokemon per minute or with crazy XP totals is absurd. Limit XP per day, per hour, toss people with stupid numbers. They are doing none of that.    … Expand
  14. Bleedthedream18
    Aug 18, 2016
    2
    Prior to the update, I would have given this game a 7. However, the update wrecked this game. Niantic took one step forward and two steps back.

    Pros: The nostalgia of capturing 151 Pokemon is a brilliant concept. You do actually feel like a Trainer. There's no better feeling than evolving or finding new Pokemon to catch. Collecting Stardust and watching your Pokemon grow feels    Prior to the update, I would have given this game a 7. However, the update wrecked this game. Niantic took one step forward and two steps back.

    Pros:

    The nostalgia of capturing 151 Pokemon is a brilliant concept. You do actually feel like a Trainer. There's no better feeling than evolving or finding new Pokemon to catch.

    Collecting Stardust and watching your Pokemon grow feels rewarding.

    The servers rarely crash anymore. The game plays fluently for the most part.

    Cons:

    The game still will freeze in the middle of gameplay, sometimes during crucial moments like catching new Pokemon or during gym battles.

    After the update, the Pokemon now run away so much easier. This is my biggest complaint. Challenge is one thing, but this makes the game almost unplayable. It's unpredictable, unfair, and annoying. Even worse, sometimes you may have to use 4-8 balls to catch a simple Pidgey or Weedle, and they may still run after that. Also, the amount of supplies you get at Pokestops just does not equal the amount of balls you'll be using to catch these things. So, why not just be selective and not catch every Pidgey you say? Well, then how are you supposed to level up? See, Niantic designed it in a way where once they got you addicted, you WILL have to end up spending money eventually. They know what they did. They made the Pokemon run more, so you'll run out of balls, and have to buy more. After all, you want to level up more, don't you? It's a joke.

    Speaking of leveling up, after say level 20, it becomes a chore. You ALWAYS get 100 experience points per Pokemon caught DESPITE the fact that as you grow in level, you need more and more experience points to level up. In any good RPG, you earn more experience points as you fight harder enemies and progress in the game. However, here, you get the same experience points whether you catch a 100 CP Pidgey or a 876 Scyther. Imagine how many Pokemon you have to catch to level up from 23 to 24 when you still only get 100 experience points per Pokemon and you need 150,000. Imagine yourself sitting on a bench for 8 hours throwing hundreds of balls and catching hundreds of the same Pokemon over and over everyday. Sounds fun? Don't waste your time and money. It's not worth it. Did Niantic ever play another RPG before?

    There is no way to tell what is nearby. How can you zero in on certain Pokemon when there's no way to tell where they are? That Nearby List in the corner is completely wrong and useless. It's just a random roll of the dice what shows up. They wrecked the very core essence of the game. I honestly caught better Pokemon just staying home rather than going out and hunting them, wherever they are.

    The amount of Pidgeys and Ratattas that show up is just laughable. Would it have killed them to have a little more variety? Again, I'm torn between wasting balls on them to level up or just putting the phone down and not bothering.

    The way the gyms are structured is terrible. The gym battles themselves aren't the problem. It's the fact that sometimes you'll have to beat a gym five, six, or even seven times to claim it. Are you kidding? You didn't have to do that in the Game Boy games. No one wants to sit there and do the same battle you already won six more times. Couldn't they come up with a better system? What happened to badges? Also, good luck owning a gym for more than an hour before someone takes it, or worse, someone could be standing right next to it ready to take it over after you win. There's no way to stop that.

    Overall:

    I think what frustrates a lot of people is the lack of respect Niantic is showing for a franchise like Pokemon and it's players. They shouldn't have released this game until a lot of the complaints people have been saying were addressed. I believe this game is here to stay, however, and I can only hope for a better experience with Generation Two and future updates.    … Expand
  15. lg0669466
    Sep 7, 2016
    2
    Although this game is very creative and helps people get out of their houses and walk around, this game has many bugs, force quits when too many people are using it, and is dangerous as many people have been put in danger while playing this game. I feel that all the hype about this game will soon be coming to an end.
  16. xxxboilozxxx
    May 29, 2017
    2
    nothing like pokemon and its like a loop and bad server quality like ea bad combat people most of the time cheat and a bad game its utter **** and a mess
  17. Thedarkadonis
    Mar 26, 2020
    2
    Pretty good game RUINED by the devs. Niantic is the scummiest, trashiest, group of no-gooders I've ever seen. They single-handedly ruined this game with their incompetence and greed. They'll ban you for playing the game for no reason! Then tell you to screw yourself. THEY BANNED THE #1 PLAYER FOR NO GOOD REASON AND DIDN'T EVEN CARE! The SCUMBAGS!!! It's a huge shame because thePretty good game RUINED by the devs. Niantic is the scummiest, trashiest, group of no-gooders I've ever seen. They single-handedly ruined this game with their incompetence and greed. They'll ban you for playing the game for no reason! Then tell you to screw yourself. THEY BANNED THE #1 PLAYER FOR NO GOOD REASON AND DIDN'T EVEN CARE! The SCUMBAGS!!! It's a huge shame because the game had a great concept and SO MUCH POTENTIAL. It's all gone to waste now.

    Don't play this game...Not because of the gameplay, but because nobody should support this festering, bloated carcass of a company. NIANTIC IS TRASH    … Expand
  18. GameCatastrophe
    Sep 3, 2023
    2
    This game is such a good idea conceptually. The theme around all of the Pokémon series is travelling the world, discovering Pokémon, and having the ability to do so in the real world is a great idea. However, this game slowly became less of a game and more of a billboard. Nowadays, if you want to get a specific, early-game Pokémon, you have to wait for a celebration of that specificThis game is such a good idea conceptually. The theme around all of the Pokémon series is travelling the world, discovering Pokémon, and having the ability to do so in the real world is a great idea. However, this game slowly became less of a game and more of a billboard. Nowadays, if you want to get a specific, early-game Pokémon, you have to wait for a celebration of that specific Pokémon or you can't get it. Additionally, with the seasonal events and missions, the game seems to revolve more around marking your calendar and going to a real-world event rather than playing the game normally. Another problem is that as you progress through the game, certain goals will have to be reached, some of which are unrealistically challenging or entirely luck-based. Some features are also limited to certain areas or require transportation or other things in the real world that may not be available to all players.
    In conclusion, I think that this game started off alright, but slowly became desperate for content and community involvement as the years went on.    … Expand
  19. RailgunMisaka
    Jul 14, 2016
    1
    There was so much potential here, but it was all wasted. No Battles besides really bad gym battles that are nothing like the old games. If you don't live in a main city, you're screwed, I live in a small town outside a city, the closest pokestop is 15 km away, and I've walked around my town for 2 hours and not seen more than a couple of pokemon. The game drains battery life like MAD, goodThere was so much potential here, but it was all wasted. No Battles besides really bad gym battles that are nothing like the old games. If you don't live in a main city, you're screwed, I live in a small town outside a city, the closest pokestop is 15 km away, and I've walked around my town for 2 hours and not seen more than a couple of pokemon. The game drains battery life like MAD, good luck getting more than 4 hours of play, even with battery saver on. I could go on, but seriously, this game is BAD, hopefully the new 3DS games make up for this.… Expand
  20. Tytos
    Jul 8, 2016
    1
    - Requires a Gyroscope for AR to work
    - Rural areas are empty
    - Combat has nothing to do with Pokemon (nothing tactical about it, its just who can swipe faster)

    Summed up, what they could **** up hard, they ****ed up even harder
  21. crimsondoor
    Jul 22, 2016
    1
    I am an old gen1 & 2er and to me this is just a mediocre game with the Pokemon logo slapped on it. It brings nothing new to the genre - there are already very similar AR games. I don't get what makes it interesting to some people.
  22. Ramiro1992
    Aug 4, 2016
    1
    Casual garbage, this game is just a money making project directed to the brainless and casual audience, mostly kids. I mean why the **** you wanna play this if you have so many hardcore games to play, this is just a temporary trend, hope it ends it soon, but thankfully I am aware of what i play and i don't join this casual crap. The fact that it is for ios just tell you how much of aCasual garbage, this game is just a money making project directed to the brainless and casual audience, mostly kids. I mean why the **** you wanna play this if you have so many hardcore games to play, this is just a temporary trend, hope it ends it soon, but thankfully I am aware of what i play and i don't join this casual crap. The fact that it is for ios just tell you how much of a casual game this is, mobile videogames are among the worst ever made, not including portable consoles of course, because portable consoles are meant and designed to play videogames. At the end of the day, Pokemon Go is a cheap and lame attempt to make some money out of the casual audience, you failed once again Nintendo.… Expand
  23. lwnewton
    Jul 21, 2016
    1
    Is this the place were you write a review of games or of their ability to get people outside? This is game a piece of garbage here's why:

    No skill required
    No depth what so ever
    The game mechanics are completely broken. There's incentive to not evolve Pokemon
    The game rarely works
    The tracking system does not work well
  24. weirdcryo
    Jul 23, 2016
    1
    Early Access "game", it's not really entertaining and the only hype is on catching Pokemons irl which to be honest is pretty dull (at least for me), I got more excitement from other things.
    Besides the Pokemon everything is far away from the real universe game we all love playing.
  25. nadavkr3
    Aug 3, 2016
    1
    Pokémon go is a bad game .Gameplay - just throw Poke-balls on Pokemon that you found.The battles are just a few clicks without elements of real Pokemon games . And the effects of the game on people every day immersed the phone .
  26. necdi
    Jul 24, 2016
    1
    In the beginning of the this essay, I want to indicate that; my country is Turkey and this game is not available our App Store. Because of that, I signed up a new Apple ID from Australia and downloaded this game.(like other Turkish users).

    Of course, I have great expactation about Pokemon Go. Because, this anime was the best anime for my childhood. As a consequence of observations, I    In the beginning of the this essay, I want to indicate that; my country is Turkey and this game is not available our App Store. Because of that, I signed up a new Apple ID from Australia and downloaded this game.(like other Turkish users).

    Of course, I have great expactation about Pokemon Go. Because, this anime was the best anime for my childhood. As a consequence of observations, I firmly believe that; most of people are playing this game, but a great majority of people do not like enough.

    First of all, this game is so boring. We can only catch Pokemons and after 5. level we can go to a GYM and fight with other pokemons. When intending to "fight"; this is very simple, we are touching screen recurrently, thats all thing about fight. Another issue is "Zubat" thing. They are in everywhere and this situation definitely irksome. In addition; servers of the game are too slow, the reason of this situaiton probably is huge user number. This is normal, but while you are trying to catch powerful pokemon, the game freeze because of these slow servers.

    This game is new and in my opinion it is not ready for world.    … Expand
  27. DocOcarina
    Jul 7, 2016
    1
    I have never given a game so low a score, but this one has earned it. The servers are crashed more than they're up. I sat in a shopping plaza in my state's capital next to the largest road in the city with absolutely no Pokemon on the map. Best of all: the camera mode, the biggest part of the game, doesn't work unless your phone has a gyroscope. It would have been nice if this wasI have never given a game so low a score, but this one has earned it. The servers are crashed more than they're up. I sat in a shopping plaza in my state's capital next to the largest road in the city with absolutely no Pokemon on the map. Best of all: the camera mode, the biggest part of the game, doesn't work unless your phone has a gyroscope. It would have been nice if this was mentioned somewhere (Just looked again. The gyroscope is NEVER mentioned in the app info) So in order to play this game if it didn't crash constantly and actually had Pokemon in a city with a population of over 800,000 people, I'd need to spend nearly $200 just to get a phone capable of running it thanks to a gimmick that the game never warns you about.… Expand
  28. Beltyra
    Jul 9, 2016
    1
    After having it a few days, here are my thoughts:
    The only good and fun part is when Im at Universal Studios playing it. And thats only cause theres a pokestop every 10 feet, and people constantly have lures up on them. Plus there are several gyms between the two parks and citywalk. (Not that it matters cause gym gameplay is borked) So if youre not at a park, its just horrendous, and    After having it a few days, here are my thoughts:
    The only good and fun part is when Im at Universal Studios playing it. And thats only cause theres a pokestop every 10 feet, and people constantly have lures up on them. Plus there are several gyms between the two parks and citywalk. (Not that it matters cause gym gameplay is borked) So if youre not at a park, its just horrendous, and slow, and boring, and repetitive.
    The game is INSANELY lackluster! There is ZERO depth here to the gameplay! The game is a tech demo, maybe a beta at best. Loads of bugs and freezes often, and the only thing that seems to work is the cash shop! No battles other than gyms(which have a massive list of issues with balance and gameplay), cant trade (a MAJOR feature of the brand since its inception), slow leveling/upgrades, useless starter pokemon, battery is gone in an hour, battery saving mode is broken and doesnt keep the app open, and repetitive crappy pokemon spawns! Just to name a couple things off the top of my head.
    The tech is there, but this is one of the most underdeveloped games Ive ever seen in my 28 years of gaming. For having an open beta, there is a severe lack of QA and playtesting in this game. Yes, the basic idea IS fun and cute and exciting, but its soooooo poorly executed, you will literally uninstall the game after 2 days when you realize nothing spawns unless you have a lure($$$) and if it DOES spawn, its your 987th Rattata.

    Don't be fooled by nostalgia.

    There IS appeal, and yes this IS the pokemon game we've been wanting for 20 years. It just needs more time to bake. PLEASE put this one back in the over and lemme know when it's actually a game.    … Expand
  29. Dearth
    Aug 5, 2016
    1
    This is not a Pokémon game. At best it is a step counter with Pokémon in it or hopefully just an advertising gimmick for the upcoming actual game (see Sun & Moon).

    Aside from catching Pokémon with Pokéballs it lacks all the essential mechanics of a Pokémon title including building a team, training up Pokémon, choosing skill sets, battling Pokémon, dueling with other trainers, puzzles,    This is not a Pokémon game. At best it is a step counter with Pokémon in it or hopefully just an advertising gimmick for the upcoming actual game (see Sun & Moon).

    Aside from catching Pokémon with Pokéballs it lacks all the essential mechanics of a Pokémon title including building a team, training up Pokémon, choosing skill sets, battling Pokémon, dueling with other trainers, puzzles, etc. Though Niantic can clearly make a complex augmented reality game (see Ingress) they have stripped away both the complexities of their earlier title and of the Pokémon titles, essentially just creating a Pokémon mini-game. They have taken a simple but massively popular game of rock/paper/scissors and turned it into a coin flipping contest designed to compel you to pay for micro-transactions. Add to all this that their servers hardly let you connect and this is equivalent to an early access beta release with a lot of work still to go for a viable product launch.

    If you were looking for the next step in multi-player interactive gaming or Pokémon games (or both) this is not what you will find.

    If anything due to the lack of planned updates, market-growth-first rollout plan, and inevitable end of playability when the weather gets worse this really seems like a stunt to just get people interested in Pokémon again.    … Expand
  30. Arko777
    Jul 17, 2016
    1
    As a big fan of the Pokemon franchise I'm truly disappointed and I don't understand the hype for this "game". It's addicting but gets old real fast because:
    - There are no trading system,
    - No player vs player, - Only 151 out of 721 Pokemon, - If you live in the countryside or far away from a major city you won't have as much (if any) poke stops and gyms in your area thus limiting    As a big fan of the Pokemon franchise I'm truly disappointed and I don't understand the hype for this "game". It's addicting but gets old real fast because:
    - There are no trading system,
    - No player vs player,
    - Only 151 out of 721 Pokemon,
    - If you live in the countryside or far away from a major city you won't have as much (if any) poke stops and gyms in your area thus limiting your experience.

    the only kinda but not really battle that you can have is against AI that controls the Pokemon stationed in the gym by the other player. And even this "battle" is simplified to screen taping without real strategy like in real Pokemon games.

    Stay away from this so called "game".    … Expand
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 37 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 37
  2. Mixed: 19 out of 37
  3. Negative: 2 out of 37
  1. Jeuxvideo.com
    Jun 2, 2018
    90
    You don’t even have to like Pokémon to enjoy Pokémon Go. During the previous year, Pokémon Go has tuned its ideas and it’s now even more original and addictive. This is a one-of-a-kind game.
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  2. CD-Action
    Sep 17, 2016
    90
    The best mobile game I have ever played. [09/2016, p.66]
  3. games(TM)
    Sep 14, 2016
    70
    Improvements and additions over time – including the Raid-style events for catching legendary Pokémon, as teased in the original trailer – as well as ongoing tweaks to fundamental systems stand to improve Pokémon Go as a game, but the quality (and novelty) of the experience of playing, particularly as part of a group, is already there. Go could still one day be the legendary game its immense potential hints at.
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