Pokémon GO App Reviews

When its raining outside you should make it to where it would rain in the game

This is my favorite mobile game of all time. I say there is NOTHING wrong with this game. I am happy yall added the speed limit thing so you cant cheat. -From A Pokemon Go Player

Better battery performance 10% in 15 minutes is to fast

The latest update renders the game unplayable. By that I mean is that the game loads fine up to the game screen, there I just get a light blue screen with all of the overlays, but nothing else loads and I cant do anything. Thanks for ruining a six day steak >_>

Update: April 10, 2017: I hate this app so much. It makes no sense that I cant battle with my Pokémon to gain experience and evolve them that way. I cant choose the moves I want them to learn, and Im unable to find enough Squirtel in my home town to evolve to a Worturtle. My Pokémon are weak, and cant gain XP in battles so they cant grow and evolve. The buddy walking system is a joke. I had to walk miles just get a single candy for my Bulbasaur. Fire Pokémon are almost non-existent, and there is still no Pokémon center for healing the Pokémon whos energy you exhausted in the gym battle (all for no XP and no real pay-off). I also dont understand why the opponent Pokémon at the gym can attack several times but my Pokémon has to hold for several seconds without being hit in order to deliver its special attack. This is crap. I thought all of this was being fixed? I dont even want to have to physically travel in the real world - its distracting and having my face shoved in a phone in public is embarrassing. I want this kind of environment in a touch-screen Pokémon game. Let us roam the map freely and give us a virtual world within the app or let us use the mapping system that is in place. I drive to get around anyway, as my area literally has no Pokémon outside from normal and occasional water types. This isnt reflective of a traditional GameBoy game, as so many of us wish it was. Update August 9th: Im also fairly certain that Niantic is now paying people to post FIVE STAR reviews for this crap app. Most of the reviews dont even make sense. 1-3 Stars are usually people with real issues. Update August 8th: Okay, so this is pathetic. Theyre so busy changing the game animations and the looks of the Pokéballs (which now look terrible, by the way - less shiny, dull, and with a HUGE ugly button on them, barely visible black locking bar going around the ball) that theyve neglected to address the issue of only common Pokémon still spawning in rural areas, if any Pokémon spawn at all. Its incredibly annoying and frustrating knowing that just people some people live in larger cities theyre now on level 24 and 25, because the have the appropriate resources to play the game. They can get PokéStop items with each and from that can level their Pokémon up even further without much effort. We literally have to DRIVE to play this game, theres no walking to it. We wouldnt see anything if we walked. Im serious. Im just frustrated that theyre busy changing the look and the design when there are SERIOUS game flaws that arent being addressed. Maybe its taking longer to work out, and this was an easy fix, but really... the new Pokéballs have this cheap look to it. Id downgrade if I could. :-/ Well, I was very disappointed with the initial release. The Pokémon are just treated as "throw aways" and there is no achievement in leveling them up with gym battles or wild Pokémon encounters. You want people to exercise with this app? Make it a requirement to battle down the Pokémon and catch them with a PokéBall (one to THREE maximum) and then allow them to walk with them around other trainers to battle and earn Gym badges within 8 Gyms in their area, about 1/2 hour within each other. Make the state Capitol the Pokémon League or offer an online access version to it and then use your trained and leveled-up Pokémon to battle against the Elite Four. Find Thunderstones, Moonstones, Waterstones, and Firestones in areas around town. Allow for them to appear on the map like Pokémon. Give users the ability to evolve their Pikachu if they want and allow for their Pollywhirl to evolve when they want to with a Waterstone. How cool would that be? Also, we need a Pokémon Center to heal them without using potions galore. Have Niantic even played the original games? Im serious. This is NOT how Pokémon should be. But even more so, this app and game have just become a joke. No tracking, no excitement, and when your tracker when be zero you punished the players by taking away their online tracking maps. Do you know how exciting it was to find something other than a Pidgey or Zubat and hurry over to it? I live in a rural area, and got excited to go and drive 10 mins into town to get that Pokémon! It expired by then, but it was enough fun that I hung around to play for another three hours on my own. This game needs a lot of improvement. Ive spent over $20 and right now I cant do anything but hunt aimlessly for Pokémon. That gets old after about the first week.

I evolved my 1007cp gloom into bellossom and it only went up by 406cp which was EXTREMELY disappointing. I feel like it was a waste of candy and the time getting a sun stone. Please make the CP go up higher when you evolve pokemon to its final evolution. :(

Pokemon Go started off as exiting to me whenever I first started the game. I got really into it during the summer it came out. Pokemon were everywhere! I thought this would be like a real life version of the actual game series. But there are a whole lot of flaws that causes me to delete the game. The whole game is inaccurate to the game series, and the anime for that matter. The first thing I noticed was the gyms. Gyms in the Pokémon games on the consoles such as 3ds, game boy, ect. Had different attacks, and strategies you could use like leer and tackle. But in Pokémon gos gyms you....tap and swipe over and over. Complete bummer. Evolving pokemon is different too. Pokemon are supposed to become friendly with you in the game and evolve! But the way you do that in Pokémon go is stupid. You have to catch the same Pokémon and get candy and stardust to evolve them, by transferring them to professor willow (I think thats his name). You cant even battle anyone elses Pokemon. It wouldve been so fun to meet other "trainers" and battle their pokemon like in the game. The least this game couldve offered from the start is battling other players or trading. But I guess the Johto region was more important than making the game accurate. Anyway this game is completely inaccurate and I hope it changes to simulate an ACTUAL Pokémon adventure. Its good for the people who are just trying to be popular and dont know the first thing about Pokémon. Maybe if it was accurate to the game it would be better.

It just takes up too much space.

Do not download if you value your battery. This app drained 45% of my battery just from running in the background. That is without the Pokémon go plus accessory connected! This game was amazing at the start. The hunt for Pokémon was engaging and fun. It actually encouraged exploring. With the new "tracker" it just tells you where Pokémon are. There is no fun in that. Also if you live near pokestops you dont get to see whats actually nearby. Long story short the new "nearby" list shows you Pokémon locations with no thrill of the hunt and force you to drive there if you want the Pokémon at all.

They finally fixed it so please STOP WRITING BAD STUFF they fixed it with very creative way to and Im really happy the fixed the tracking system

With its impossible health, everyone has it in a gym. With the timer it is impossible to defeat in enough time. Please nerf Blissey.

Whenever I evolve my eevee, no matter what I prename it. It always becomes Jolteon? Not cool.

My favorite aspect of this game is that it gets me out and moving. I also like battling but its not the greatest yet, and it always lags me out of battles.

Needs a player versus player aspect other than gym battles, would add more to the game.

After having the game crash five times in the past two hours (including three times in the midst of fighting gyms), I decided to delete the app. I doesnt matter if Im level 33. I dont care that Gen 2 is finally rolling out. It doesnt matter that Ive been playing since day one. IF YOU CANT PLAY ITS WORTHLESS. The game has always been horribly bug ridden. But I gave Niantic time. They didnt expect the success they had. Their servers were overwhelmed. I got it. BUT IT HASNT GOTTEN BETTER. I cannot think of another game which is so excruciatingly buggy. ---- Played on my iPhone 6, 64GB, with latest updates to iOS and PokémonGo. ---- Free to good home: Snorlax @3000 CP, max IVs across the board. UPDATE: April 10. I revisit the game after updates. Presently, Im averaging less than nine minutes between crashes.

When I use the incense and lucky egg at the same time, sometimes my game will crash. You need to fix that because thats no good. The rest of the game is cool beans though, thumbs up!

1) "You are going too fast!" While walking behind a grocery cart in my local HEB, standing around in the lumber department of a hardware store, or standing still in my front yard. 2)closest 2 Pokestops are both 4 miles away. (I live in an extremely rural part of Texas) 3) Everywhere else has Pokestops at post offices and fire stations... except the closest place to me. Just the post office. 4) no longer taking new gym and pokestop requests. 5) walk up and down a 0.9 mile driveway 3 times, and egg distances walked dont change. 6) getting warmer or colder on nearby Pokemon is gone.

So this game has helped me with some agoraphobia issues, but its been testing my patience over the last three weeks as it crashed four or times per session. Also, you should talk to cell phone operators about signal strength, because some of your pokestops are completely unable to be used reliably. There needs to be more variety over Pokémon in the wild. Im tired of catching paras, ratatas, and pidgies at level 21. The water festival was great but now theres no sign of water based Pokémon. Very unbalanced set up.

Pokémon cant even pop up for me since the update please fix they dont show up on the radar and it does not say a word

My game froze after the update. Should I delete and download it again?