I think it’s going to be notably difficult explaining to my employers on Monday that I’m leaving my current occupation to pursue my dream of becoming a renowned Pokemon trainer. “But Karl, where are you going?” “To become the best there ever was, sir!” This is a career enabling my own penchant for encouraging composite creatures to battle one another for my amusement and rewarding their success with permanent incarceration within perennial retracting sized balls. And considering that such an alternate vocation is now a viable solution, I’m looking forward to explaining. Pokemon GO, the formatively licensed collaboration between communal mobile gaming and the permeating lineage of Pokemon, is probably the most substantially adaptive and innovative the Pokemon series has been for quite sometime, representing a culmination of variable activity you’d associate with the diversified merger of social mobile gaming and pocket monsters. Pokemon GO enables gamers to attract and capture Pokemon in the real world (REAL. WORLD! *Squall*) with a detecting navigation on your app, with an attached device presumably that alerts you to a Pokemon’s vague approximation in your vicinity. Once the subject is within range, you’ll have to determine its exact location with your camera and capture it. This feature lends itself well to the depiction of attaining a subordinates assistance through innate visitation as somewhat of an adventure. Whether or not this functionality continues to inspire you to engage in capturing what will invariably be another Caterpie, or if there’s an even or more appropriately fair distribution of variable critters is very difficult to infer as such tentative stage. Of course Pokemon GO’s introduction could also be a prelude to many awkward discussions regarding your suddenly erratic attitude, as you dramatically abscond from the house to apprehend a Bulbasaur! It also actively encourages you to move around and search for Pokemon much like the traditional RPG elements depicted in its contemporary predecessors, creating figments in reality that is easy to assimilate into.

Of course it’s going to be a little awkward trying to explain to my work colleagues why I’m standing in the middle of the warehouse suddenly afflicted with a need to take pictures of inanimate objects, or explaining to my driving instructor the exact reasoning for my own assented route on the day. Also, never the one resist a good double-entendre which I contribute to on a daily basis, Pokemon GO represents mandatory fields for plush, vacuous innuendo’s. Such as wandering into someone’s front garden and saying “Ssh, I don’t wish to alarm you miss, but there appears to be a Jigglypuff nesting in your bush.” I guess it could be worse, it could be a Krabby?! Considering the series longevity of its standing mediocrity over the past decade and Nintendo’s persistent reluctance to distribute its exclusive utilities to anyone else, to see something genuinely inventive from Pokemon is a cause for excitement. Or perhaps this a measure of the excitement in my life right now. Uh hang on a second……sorry I’ve got to go. There’s a wild Farfetched in my garden, tearing up my newly furnished lawn! Get in my ball you!

Are you excited by the announcement of Pokemon GO? Let me hear your thoughts. Check out the trailer above if you haven’t already. Cheers.