The new version of "Pokemon GO" is now available for some users. It now offers you, as the player, to choose a buddy from your monsters who will go with you in catching Pokemon and collecting candies
"Pokemon GO" may as well make you fit as you stare all day blankly at your phone while walking. But as you go, you get candies as well.
It's just like getting a pet, but this is in the virtual world. You get to choose a Pokemon to go with your avatar, and you have to train and walk him around to get candies, Forbes reported.
You can also bond with your Pokemon as the old version of the game lacks "connection" between the player and Pokemon. But the "Pokemon GO" magic is slowly fading away. Will the new buddy system save the game from being a fad?
The new feature in "Pokemon GO" will make the player go out and walk and train his/her buddy outside rather than just staying at home.
Well, what's the catch? The candies don't come too often. Business Insider comments that "the rate which the candy drops is pretty low." The amount of effort you exert into walking your buddy around town would not equate to the number of candies you would get.
"Pokemon GO" is an augmented reality game which allows the player to catch pocket monsters, popularly known as Pokemon, with Pokeballs. The game is made by software developer Niantic. The developer hit a home run with this one as the game reached hundreds of thousands of downloads already.
The San Francisco-based developer is also the brain behind Ingress, an augmented reality game made in 2012 for some Android users. It was only made available for iOS in 2013.
How ironic is it that you get fit while getting candies in "Pokemon GO?" Now you have a reason to get those legs moving!
