I don’t know about you, but after long bouts of playing Pokémon Yellow on Game Boy Color in my youth, I would often hear its battle music wherever I went in some hallucinatory haze. It must have brainwashed a generation as there are still people out there that play the series to this day.
Those same people are no doubt going to lose their minds over this newest announcement from Pokémon Company: Pokémon Go.
“The day has finally come when Pokémon appear in the real world,” Pokémon designer Junichi Masuda said.
Niantic will be working together with the Pokémon Company and Nintendo on the project that will allow players to go out into the real world and catch Pokémon, not unlike the idea Wii Fit had of staying healthy and gaming at the same time.
You will able to get your hands on something called the Pokémon Go Plus: a watch peripheral which will allow you to throw a Pokéball when paired with your phone. That’s right, Pokémon Go is for mobile devices only, which is an instant red flag for me. Seems strange that Nintendo wouldn’t try and bring it to its flagship consoles, but maybe I am just being too much of a cynic. Mobile gaming has been tainted to me since Dungeon Keeper *hisses*.
The game won’t be a hundred miles away from Pokémon Snap and will allow kids and parents to play together. In a classy move, the debut trailer’s reveal was dedicated to the late Satoru Iwata.
Quite how this will work in a realistic environment is anyone’s guess, but the brains behind it have been hard at work on it for quite some time so you would expect that it’s in safe hand. Although augmented reality is still on the precipice of breaking into gaming, this could be a release that cracks it.
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