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I play this game on my cellphone.
While I wasn't in this game directly at Launch in 2016, I've been playing this game pretty much since it came out, with a couple of caveats there. I started playing it, I think 2 or 3 months after it was released. And then about a year into playing it... there was an update that happened that temporarily ruined it for me. Namely making it so that you could no longer spin poke stops while driving over 20 miles an hour. And they changed the CP of many Pokémon. At that time I had already gotten a sizable collection of Pokémon that were level 64... my favorite number. That update ruined almost that entire collection. So after that happened, I stopped playing the game for almost the entirety of 2017.
However, I did return to it in 2018 and have been playing it almost every day since, even now in 2025... with one exception. In about 2021-2022... my phone was broken and old and couldn't really run it any more. So while I was trying to get a new phone... I went almost that whole year with hardly being able to play it.
anyways, enough of my history of the game. Now to what it's like for me.
I wasn't really allowed to get into Pokémon as a kid. I was watching the show a little bit when it first aired, and I even started getting into the cards. I became a little con artist in elementary school, conning other kids out of their cards... I was a devious little f*cker at times lol. But I didn't have any of the actual Pokémon games with one exception.
See my parents were the type that saw Pokémon as demonic and making kids hyper. Yeah those type of parents. And so they made me stop watching the show, made me burn all my Pokémon cards (and Harry Potter book), and go on to other things... I really got into Digimon around that time.
So the only Pokémon game I had growing up, was Pokémon Snap on the N64. Loved that game, and I was able to get away with it, as "it's just taking pictures of Pokémon, mom!"
So yeah that was my Pokémon experience growing up. What exactly got me to want to play Go when it cameo out in 2016... I can't really remember now. But here I am nearly 10 years later and still playing it almost every day. Stuck at character level 47 due to not being able to complete one of the tasks for level 48, but still going strong.
This and Snap are the only Pokémon games I've played and I enjoy this one. It's one of only two mobile games I've stuck with long term, the other being Sonic Forces Speed Battle.
and the thing is, I'm not really that much of a Pokémon fan... but I still really enjoy this game. And it's kept me returning to it for all this time, so that's something.
i've considered giving it up a few times... but then there's that Sunken Cost fallacy kicking in.
In all honesty, I'll probably continue playing it till they shut the service down. If that ever happens.
Wanna add me as a friend in game? my friend code is 1014_8483_7146
as QuantomX64
Mistake Status: There's a few here and there, mostly with logics of the world.
Revealing mistake: The Alolan variant of the Exeggutor is portrayed as being so tall that its head is usually off screen above the camera, but when bending down for attacks you can still see it's head. If you defeat a gym while using the Alolan Exeggutor however, the victory screen will have it's head cut off much lower down and just disappearing into the void where it could still be seen otherwise.