Thursday, 10 September 2015

Pokémon Go, please don't get hyped yet.

So yeah, Pokémon Go was revealed and people are hyped and it looks so cool and there are pretty computer graphics on trailer and it seems like what we've all been waiting for.

But hold your horses please. The trailer literally tells us nothing about the game. Pretty much everything it shows are some CG Pokémon that may or may not even appear in game, according to the quick gameplay shots at the end of the trailer, game looks more like a Pokémon tamagotchi / battling simulator hybrid than a AR game.

These are all the real gameplay footage shown in the trailer

Now, I do not doubt that the game actually may be fun and as it will be free to get from GPlay or Appstore you do not lose anything when trying it. I am going to try it (assuming my phone doesn't crash like with every other App I install with my old ass phone), but that's when the game is actually released AND we have some more legit information about it.

Currently we do not know anything about what kinds of microtransactions are in the game? Do you pay for better Pokéballs? Do you pay for a chance of finding better Pokémon? Do you pay for access to those timed events that I assume there will be (the Mewtwo one shown in trailer)? 
How is the gameplay ACTUALLY? Is it a Pokémon battle simulator on phone or is it simpler? More complicated? Does the game actually have any AR functionality at all? What does the pokéball accessory actually do? 

I am sure sites like bulbapedia and Serebii will cover the game thoroughly in upcoming months preceeding the games release, so we will get more information. Game may turn out looking better than expected, it may turn out being another Fallout Shelter, we just do not know yet.

I really do hope this game will be fun, the f2p microtransactions don't turn it to P2Win and that it'll be a fresh breath of air when waiting for the next main series game (about which we should get some more information in couple of times when CoroCoro releases). 
So let's just all be patient and not make too many hyped predictions that blur our vision!

Until the next time! (AND I REALLY TRY AND REMEMBER TO MAKE THE RGTS ANALYSIS FOR NEXT WEEKS RGTS!)


Kim

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