You’re Niantic, and your neighborhood of Pokémon GO gamers is fairly damned pissed at you over an entire bunch of latest modifications, not least to Group Days. So what do you do to attempt to make things better? No, sorry, you’re improper. You make the subsequent Group Day about sodding Starly.
In what’s more and more wanting like a Producers-style try to destroy the sport (“Springtime For Hitmonlee,” anybody?), July’s Group Day seems designed to be as ass-achingly boring as is humanly doable.
It’s nonetheless three hours lengthy, regardless of completely everybody in the whole world (I requested) wanting them again to the way more handy six-hour model, however this Sunday we are able to all get pleasure from gathering a Pokémon that makes Rattata appear fascinating.
There’s no introduced twist, no particular further taking place, no suggestion we’d lastly get some closure on the dragging on GO Fest storyline about Professor Willow’s disappearance. Simply one other generic month-to-month occasion, which is able to presumably have us slog by means of the very same duties because the final 37 of them: catching 10 Starly, evolving a Staravia, after which being rewarded a Staraptor like everybody who’s ever performed doesn’t have already got them falling out the edges of their cellphone.
I shall be delighted if I’ve to eat my phrases about all this, and it seems the entire thing is a entrance for a giant shock, lastly some kind of payoff for this half-arsed Extremely Beast storyline that has thus far been restricted to 3 cities on the entire planet. I’m not holding my breath although.
As soon as once more, for about 0.5% of the inhabitants of gamers, “native” occasions are happening for the Group Day, which is nice as long as you possibly can see the ocean. (Apart from Colorado this time! A brand new in-land occasion to cowl about 11 states!)
G/O Media could get a fee
Oh, I do know, as of late solely value a greenback, and no matter, it’s a dumb cell recreation. However I genuinely liked enjoying this recreation with my son, and it’s so crappy to observe it descend into this mire of clearly horrible selections and seemingly intentionally boring occasions. Niantic might have picked any Pokémon it favored. We might have had Goomy, Roggenrola, Rowlet, Litten, Jangmo-o, Timburr, Sewaddle, Tynamo, Lotad…All three-stage evolutions, none ever having had their day.
OK, military of Starly-stans, let’s hear your hate. Not less than it’s not Pidove I suppose.
