Pokémon Go. Two words that when brought up spark controversy. Some feel that Pokémon Go has no benefits while others feel that it is beneficial. Pokémon Go helps improve the mental and physical health of players due to it makes users walk a lot, it brings people together in real life, and it is educational (New York Times, 2017).
There are many goals of this game and the most important one is that when playing is to catch all of these characters. In order to do so this, one must walk around various places such as parks and neighborhoods and even different scenes within the game to catch the different kinds of Pokémon. But the catch is that the game will not spawn any Pokémon if one is traveling at a certain speed so one must walk around to have a chance to catch Pokémon. There is one other way to get Pokémon in this game is to …show more content…
Since Pokémon Go is a GPS location based game one learns geography and map reading. To receive items that help one advance in the game, one must visit PokéStops. These PokéStops are typically landmarks and historical markers, some which may even be hidden in one’s own neighborhood. After one reaches level 5 in the game one can pick a team and participate in gyms and raids. Just like the PokéStops, the gyms are typically landmarks and historical markers. PokéStops and gyms were adapted for Portals in the company’s older game Ingress m Teachers on the other hand look at the benefits of Pokémon Go as it helps students improve their ones’ math skills (Meghan, Modafferi, 2016). In Pokémon Go one must figure out how many more candies it will take to evolve one's Pokémon into a different Pokémon. An example of this is that it takes 25 candies to evolve an Evees into a different Pokémon. For every Evees that one catches one receives 3 candies. So, one must do the math to figure out how many Evees one must catch to evolve it into a different
There are many goals of this game and the most important one is that when playing is to catch all of these characters. In order to do so this, one must walk around various places such as parks and neighborhoods and even different scenes within the game to catch the different kinds of Pokémon. But the catch is that the game will not spawn any Pokémon if one is traveling at a certain speed so one must walk around to have a chance to catch Pokémon. There is one other way to get Pokémon in this game is to …show more content…
Since Pokémon Go is a GPS location based game one learns geography and map reading. To receive items that help one advance in the game, one must visit PokéStops. These PokéStops are typically landmarks and historical markers, some which may even be hidden in one’s own neighborhood. After one reaches level 5 in the game one can pick a team and participate in gyms and raids. Just like the PokéStops, the gyms are typically landmarks and historical markers. PokéStops and gyms were adapted for Portals in the company’s older game Ingress m Teachers on the other hand look at the benefits of Pokémon Go as it helps students improve their ones’ math skills (Meghan, Modafferi, 2016). In Pokémon Go one must figure out how many more candies it will take to evolve one's Pokémon into a different Pokémon. An example of this is that it takes 25 candies to evolve an Evees into a different Pokémon. For every Evees that one catches one receives 3 candies. So, one must do the math to figure out how many Evees one must catch to evolve it into a different