Reviews for Pokémon GO

I don't understand how or why it was decided that players can waste time, effort, and resources into doing raids just for a CHANCE to catch a desired Pokémon. But in a real Pokémon game, it's a guaranteed catch without having to spend money. I literally have no desire to play something that punishes you for trying. Such a disgustingly lousy model for a game EDIT: Sent a text while waiting in a raid lobby, app completely restarted and lost my pass.

Fun game, but there's been an extremely annoying glitch lately that's only gotten more frequent with this latest update. For some reason, if you turn the phone screen off while the game is the focused app, there's a high chance that you'll no longer be able to interact with anything in the game at all upon unlocking your phone, forcing the player to restart the game. I'd appreciate it if someone in Niantic looked into this; no other game that I've played does this.

I've done everything to troubleshoot, and as many others are saying- after the recent update, you can't get the game past the first screen, or you get stuck on "enter date of birth" and can't enter a date. I've uninstalled, reinstalled, cleared cache, restarted phone. I tried every suggestion. I'm upset because I play everyday, now I'm sitting with nothing to do and frustrated, and Niantic hasn't addressed the issue/ say nothing about fixing it. Will change it to 5 stars, if a fix is ever made.

The safety feature that does not let you catch will be active even if your not moving. it's random and can engage even if you haven't been in a fast moving car. they won't fix this. you don't know if the catches you miss are because of this or not. Definitely don't do any paid raids. I have a picture of this happening. there are continual bugs in this game that they will not acknowledge, connection issues that interfere with catching anything, even excellent throws will not work.

If this game didn't have a pokemon wrapping, it would not be played at the numbers it has. And with Scoply adding more and more cost, it's not a sustainable hobby. It was fun when it was a simple hang out with friends, but infuriating gameplay, frustrating development choices, and now massive increases in premium purchases have all taught me that so is bowling or a movie. Pass on this one and save yourself.

Ever since the last update, whenever I switch out of the app and this back over to it, the sound completely cuts out and I have to restart the game. Aside from that and the recent removal of the navigation bar while playing (which forces me to constantly waste items when swiping to bring up the bar), the game is great. If those two issues were fixed, this game would be 5 stars.

This game is amazing for a lot of reasons. That doesn't change the fact it is half of a Pokemon game. Got the catch em' collectible thing Pokemon is known for going for it. But it fails miserably to have anything of substance for a combat system. Even in its mediocre gameplay, it tends to feel exceptionally unpolished and cheap. I marveled at this game in 2016 when it came out. They have proceeded to under deliver on just about everything they promised for the next few years.

The throw mechanics in this are extremely random. When you are attempting to catch something that is "far" away it is impossible to reach. Most of the time the ball will fall short and randomly, but rarely, the ball will launch as far as is needed. Given there is no way to practice throwing to figure out how to make it work with your device, you'll fail many catches because none of the balls are making it to the pokemon. You lose money on raid passes for something the player has no control over.

The number of bugs in this game is absurd. It's almost every other day (sometimes several times a day) where the game suddenly "fails to sign in" over and over for several hours. The game used to be a lot more stable, but it's honestly been the last year or so that the quality has plummeted. Sometimes, after healing my pokemon following a battle, then going into a gym battle again, it will forcefully switch the pokemon to the last one used in the previous battle with the health it had before.

the pairing system in the trainer battles are non-existent. and when I continuously tap on the superpower thing during a battle, I have to tap it from 5-20 times before it will let me do my ultimate. also not really a big deal but I wish it was a bit easier to get coins in the game, because I rarely am able to go anywhere to put Pokemon in gyms. other than that, everything is amazing and I love this game.