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TONIGHT! Q and A with Shami Stovall, author of the FRITH CHRONICLES

October 9, 2024 by hpholo Leave a Comment

Q and A with Shami Stovall, author of the FRITH CHRONICLES

Wednesday, October 9th @ 8pm EST

H.P. Holo/Edie Skye chats with author Shami Stovall about the Pokemon-meets-Harry Potter fantasy adventure of the FRITH CHRONICLES!

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What are the Frith Chronicles, you might ask?

I like to tell people they’re “Harry Potter meets Pokémon”—an epic fantasy tale of bonding with mystical creatures. The creature a person bonds with will determine the magics they gain.

Volke Savan, the main character, starts out on his small home island. If he can bond with a mystical creature, he can become an arcanist, and then he can finally leave and explore the world like he always wanted.

Unfortunately, there is a magical plague that warps creatures into monstrous versions of themselves… And Volke finds himself in the thick of it. Adventure ensues!

Fun fact, true fact: Every creature in the Frith Chronicles has unique magics they grant their arcanist upon bonding. The arcanist trains to improve their magic and grow their power.

(Plus every creature can “evolve” into their true form, gaining a new, powerful ability, so the fun of the adventure is just beginning!)

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Filed Under: Interviews and Podcasts, Q&A Tagged With: Action, adventure, Frith Chronicles, harry potter, Kickstarter, Pokemon, Shami Stovall

Isekai Skies (Monster Punk Horizon #2) Cover Reveal!

August 9, 2021 by hpholo Leave a Comment

Last week, you saw a peek at Book 1 in my new GameLit adventure comedy series, Monster Punk Horizon. 😀

Now, since the second is going to crash-land soon after its release – a month, to be exact – here’s the cover reveal for Book 2! 😮

Cover art by Jackson Tjota

Isekai Skies (Monster Punk Horizon #2)


🌟 GameLit 🌟 Portal Fantasy 🌟 Adventure 🌟 Comedy 🌟


✨ Coming November 18th, 2021 ✨

Audio Release Date TBA

🐉🐉🐉

I Got Engaged and Ended Up in Another World!

An epic convention. An epic cosplay. An epic engagement. It was the best night of Kaito’s life—until the ground opened up beneath him.

Well, technically, a portal did. Either way, it sucked.

Now, trapped in another world with rampaging monsters, he’ll have to learn to survive. Fortunately, this world is conveniently similar to his favorite video game. And he’s got monster hunting experts (?) Pix and Jaz to show him the ropes.

With their help, he might last long enough to find a way home.

But if not, at least he’ll have fun hunting monsters before he dies!

Preorder Here!
Or Read a Sample of Book One Here!

Last week, you met my series protagonists Pix and Jaz, two girls who just want to hunt monsters and pay off their college loans. They were born and raised in the monster-dominated world under the Dazzling Skies, so named because its sky is taken up by thousands of glittering portals to other worlds, which constantly dump interesting loot and monsters for them to hunt –

And sometimes people for them to save.

Which makes the Dazzling Skies a perfect setting for an isekai story.

If you’re unfamiliar with the word – “isekai” is a Japanese term meaning “different world” and refers specifically to light novels and anime in which a character is transported from their familiar world into a fantasy world, often with distinct video game trappings.

I was indifferent to the isekai genre when I first encountered it several years ago, but as the genre developed and began to play with and parody its own tropes, I grew to love it – especially Overlord, The Rising of the Shield Hero and – I kid you not – Reborn as a Vending Machine, Now I Wander the Dungeon (Review here, btw! 😀).

And, while I hadn’t set out to write isekai stories at the inception of this series, I quickly realized that the basic structure of the world I’d set up lent itself well to such stories. This structure, in turn, would allow me to show the bizarre world of the Dazzling Skies from an outsider’s perspective.

Book 2‘s protagonist, Kaito, is from a strange world himself – a far-future version of our world where everyone has hyper-advanced biotech altering their perception of reality, and where a particularly angry breed of cow changed the course of history – but the world under the Dazzling Skies is far stranger than anything he’s ever encountered. Though, fortunately for him, it does share some similarities with his favorite Immersive Video Game series … 😉

Isekai Skies (Monster Punk Horizon #2) is set to release on Kindle Unlimited this November, and is already available for preorder.

And again, if you’d like to be one of the lucky people to read it early, be sure to join the Pug Scouts – our VIP Street Team! 😀 I’ll be sending out eARCs soon, and all you have to do in exchange for your free book is post a review once the book is live!

Join Our Street Team Here!

In the meantime, keep your eyes on the blog next week for the cover reveal of Monster Punk Horizon #3!  😀

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Filed Under: Holo Books Tagged With: adventure, Anime, Another World, coming soon, Different World, fantasy adventure, GameLit, H.P. Holo, isekai, light novels, LitRPG, Monster Hunter, Monster Hunter Rise, Monster Hunter World, Monster Punk Horizon, New Series, Pokemon, Portal Fantasy, Tabletop Games

Introducing Monster Punk Horizon – a New GameLit Series from H.P. Holo!

August 2, 2021 by hpholo Leave a Comment

Yesterday’s blog post told you there’d be interesting book-and-monster-related news, and here it is!

It’s been a looooong time coming, but I’m excited to announce that I finally have a new series coming out! 😀

What new series is this, you ask? 😮 Well, read on!

Where my last book The Wizard’s Way was a love letter to all things steampunk, this series is a love letter to all things monster – hunting, collecting, researching … and sometimes, befriending and bribing into badass kaiju battles. 😄

See, while I was in the process of writing The (still-in-progress) Wizard’s Circus, I flipped through some of my early writing notebooks from middle school and junior high. Around that time, I was obsessed with Pokémon, Digimon, Monster Rancher, and virtually every other monster franchise that was coming over from Japan at that time – and it showed in my writing. There were monsters and monster trainers/tamers/friends everywhere, and as I continued to flip through these notebooks, I realized that decades later, I’m still into these kinds of franchises.

After all, as of recently, Jacob and I have been spending our weekends competing in Digimon Card Game tournaments, and even before that we spent most evenings playing Monster Hunter World and Monster Hunter Rise together!

It was then that an idea hit me, and would not let go until I’d brought it to realization – a series that pays loving homage to all those monster franchises in much the same way The Wizard’s Way did to steampunk fantasy.

And so, without further ado, I present to you Monster Punk Horizon, a GameLit fantasy adventure comedy coming soon to Kindle Unlimited! 

Cover art by Jackson Tjota

Monster Punk Horizon #1

🌟 GameLit 🌟 Fantasy 🌟 Adventure 🌟 Comedy 🌟

✨ Coming October 14th, 2021! ✨

Audio Release Date TBA

🐉🐉🐉

Monster Hunting for Fun and Profit!

Pix and Jaz are two girls who just want to hunt monsters, craft armor, and pay off their college loans—but when a colossal new monster falls through the portals in the Dazzling Skies, it’ll take all their skills to survive it.

Their skill levels? Slightly above noob.

Fortunately, they have their oversized swords, a lot of sass … and one giant monster friend who might help them out.

For a price…

Preorder Here!
Or Read a Sample Here!

The eBook is already up for preorder on Amazon (and paperback and audio are coming), but if you’d like to be one of the lucky people to read it early, be sure to join the Pug Scouts – our VIP Street Team! 😀

Join our Street Team Here!

I’ll be sending review copies out to Street Team members soon, and all you have to do in return for your free copy is post a review online once the book releases! 😀

In the meantime, keep an eye on the blog for next week’s cover reveal for Monster Punk Horizon #2! 😄

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Filed Under: Holo Books Tagged With: adventure, Comedy, Digimon, Digimon Card Game, Fantasy, fantasy adventure, fantasy comedy, GameLit, Kaiju, LitRPG, Monster Hunter, Monster Hunter Rise, Monster Hunter World, Monster Hunting, Monster Rancher, Monsters, new book, Pokemon

Adventures in Card Collecting, Part 1 – Pokémon

July 23, 2021 by hpholo Leave a Comment

Several weeks ago, Jacob made the fateful choice to show me a random article about the insane state of today’s Pokemon card scene.

Little did he know what monsters he was about to awaken. 😁 (Yes, plural.)

I’ve been a Pokémon fan since age 12, when the series and associated games first started coming to the US. I saved up my hard-earned preteen allowance to buy a Game Boy Color solely to play the Pokémon video games and then spent everything that was left on Pokémon cards. My enthusiasm waned when I hit high school and decided I was grown up enough to put away childish things (😐), but once I stopped feeling so full of myself in adulthood, my love for the series returned.

To this day, I still play Pokémon Go like it’s that one week in July 2016 when the game first came out and there was such a sense of joyous community that we all thought Niantic had singlehandedly achieved world peace through Pokémon. (Ha.) There are Pikachus hidden all over my house. The Detective Pikachu movie was a high point of my adult life.

I hadn’t touched my cards in 20 years, though, and figured that, if I was to offload them, now was the time to do it.

For the uninitiated: Pokémon card collecting right now is bonkers, y’all. A combination of pandemic-inspired collecting (a hobby easy to do from home … especially with stimulus checks), scalpers rushing stores to buy up stock for sale at inflated prices, and all things Logan Paul have united to send prices for the cards skyrocketing. (For perspective, one of my comic shop pals decided to bite the bullet and finish his Pokémon collection last Feburary. At that time, it cost him $400 to do so. The same cards today, post-pandemic, would have cost him several thousand. 😳)

My collection was modest, but given that I did all my collecting during Pokémon’s earliest days, I knew I had at least a few cards that would sell well, so I started researching to figure out how best to price them for auction.

And Y’ALL.

Turns out there’s a whole card collecting culture that I was wholly unaware of.

Pokémon Investing, for example, is A Thing, and involves strategizing which sets, packs, etc. to buy and keep in anticipation of their value rising. (Which it absolutely does with Pokémon cards. Unopened Base Set packs – single packs, from the first release – can go for $200-$400, and even semi-recent booster packs sell for at least 3x their original market price. 😳) There are controversies over the ethics of pack-weighing before selling (because heavier sealed packs are more likely to contain holofoil cards). There are even card types from the generation I collected that I’d never even heard about – namely the shadowless Base Set cards, which are an early printing that lacks a shadow behind the focal picture on each card. (The shadows were added in subsequent printings to enhance the look of the card.)

All this to say, the more I learned about the modern collecting culture, the more it fascinated me, and the more I wanted to get back into it.

I started that week wanting to sell all my cards and ended the week ordering bulk lots off eBay and Facebook Marketplace to jump start my collection. 🤣

I don’t plan on being a hardcore collector. I’m in it mostly for the fun and sense of childish, nostalgic glee the series instills in me, so my collection’s basically going to be Pikachus, cards with art I like, and Pokémon with ridiculous, silly designs and punny names. (In accordance with this, my first goal is to build up my Perrserker horde.) Plus, frankly the idea of having expensive cards in my house stresses me out, especially given the frequency with which Nova likes to put her butt on whatever I’m paying attention to at any given time. 😬

My Perrserker horde is already multinational.

Still, it’s been enormous fun to return so hard to a hobby I hadn’t thought about in decades, and to find such a fascinating new branch of it.

But it didn’t end there.

This is where the plural “monsters” comes in.

Part 2 to come! 😁

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Filed Under: Adventures Tagged With: Collecting, Hobbies, Hobby, Pokemon, Pokemon Card Collecting, Pokemon Cards, Pokemon CCG, Pokemon Collecting, Pokemon TCG

Adventures in Mystery Pikachus

November 9, 2020 by hpholo Leave a Comment

Y’ALL. There’s been a mystery brewing in our yard today. 😳

When I went to see Jacob off to work at The Real World Job, we spotted a weird item in our neighbor’s yard. We thought it was just a leaf bag, but checked it out anyway to find that it was a random Pikachu beanbag. Because of its placement, we figured it wasn’t intended as a decoration, but left it and didn’t think any more of it.

Anyway, Jacob goes to work. I go to the porch to write. When I get up for my break walk, THE PIKACHU HAS MOVED. 😳 And it’s right next to my water hose, right around the corner of my house, perfectly positioned where I can see it. 😳😳 Which is SUPER CREEPY. 😳😳😳

(But, like, still a Pikachu, so I’m not as creeped out as I should be. 🤣)

So I go to investigate this thing. Turns out that it’s not a beanbag, but a giant costume mask…that is light enough to be blown about by the wind. Which proceeds to blow it across my driveway. And is a lot less creepy than anything I was imagining. Thus, by the Rules of Yard Wind, I now have a new writing buddy! #mysterysolved ❤️

Actually I’m going to walk the neighborhood later to see if it blew out of anyone’s yard, ‘cause it’s a really well-crafted mask, and I’d hate for someone to put all that work into it only to lose it. If it doesn’t get claimed, though, IT MINE. 😁

UPDATE: Mystery solved again! It belonged to our neighbors across the street! 😃 Turns out they’d bought it for their son’s birthday party and had been looking for it all day.

Also, it’s not handmade, but rather purchased online for what they claimed was an embarrassing amount of money – which is a super cool thing to learn about my neighbors. As I return their Pikachu mask in my favorite Pikachu shirt. 😄

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Originally posted on H.P.’s Instagram.

Filed Under: Adventures Tagged With: Cosplay, costume, Halloween, halloween costume, mask, Mystery, Pikachu, pikachu costume, pikachu mask, pocket monsters, Pokemon

Detective Pikachu – Movie Review

May 21, 2019 by hpholo Leave a Comment

I showed up to an early preview of Detective Pikachu in my full-body Pikachu jammies, fueled by 20 years of Pokemon nostalgia and an insatiable love of bad movies, so there was no way I wasn’t going to like this thing.
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Even so, you can imagine my delight when it proved to be not a so-bad-it’s-good travesty of Pokemon fandom, but legitimately good, entirely worthy of my Pikajams, and perhaps the only recent piece of entertainment (other than Avengers: Endgame) that has actually respected the dedication of its fans.

Based upon the 3DS game, Detective Pikachu follows once-aspiring Pokemon trainer-turned-insurance drone Tim Goodman as be begrudgingly teams up with a talking Pikachu to investigate the death of his detective father. Given what I’ve read of the game (I haven’t played it), it actually seems to be a pretty fair adaptation, but let’s be real, no one is seeing this movie for adaptive accuracy. We’re seeing it so we can squeal at the absurd miracle of getting 1) a big-budget Pokemon movie in which 2) Pikachu is voiced by Ryan FREAKING Reynolds and 3) the fan artist responsible for the “creepy realistic Pokemon” series was tapped to help design the Pokemon for the big screen. It’s not a perfect movie (I’ll get to that in a bit), but for our particular audience, Detective Pikachu is a treasure.
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It’s unabashedly a fanservice movie, but it’s a fanservice movie done right. It watches as if the filmmakers somehow delved into all our Pokefan heads, found what we most wanted to see on screen, and then crafted a plot that allowed us to see it in a way that (mostly) made narrative sense. We get to see many of our favorite Pokemon, and we get to see Pikachu battle both a Charizard and a Mewtwo, all set up in a world that we would willfully inhabit if we could: a world that combines both the childlike wonder of the regions we remember exploring with the adult perspective of the world we grew up to live in.
Tim himself is very much a stand-in for adult fans, who wanted to be Pokemon trainers as kids but now find themselves in significantly less magical adult jobs. And though it’s a movie based on a children’s property, it’s not really a movie for children. Kids can watch it, of course (as long as parents are okay with them hearing Pikachu drop some mild cusses), but ultimately it’s designed for those of us who grew up with the franchise.
Which is why my inner 12-year-old was screaming the whole time, and my adult face literally hurt from grinning so much.
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Half the people in my theatre squealed Pokemon names with delight every time they popped up on screen—perhaps the only time anyone has ever been excited to see Pidgey or Magikarp—and though I usually hate it when people talk during movies, this time I was squealing right along with them. Detective Pikachu’s filmmakers earned my trust the moment Tim comments about a cubone wearing the skill of its dead parent, and kept it right though the ridiculous end.
Make no mistake, this movie is an absolute love letter to Pokemon fans.
Its mileage with non-fans, though, will vary. While the Pokemon fan in me gives Detective Pikachu infinite stars, the analytical writer has to acknowledge that outside that context, it’s close to a 3.5-star movie. The opening act is solid, but near the middle and end, the plot undertakes some seriously complicated gymnastics to make itself make sense, and they don’t always land gracefully. Many plot twists are revealed through barely-earned flashback-style exposition dumps, and the device used to make these dumps—advanced holographic imaging tech that can piece together complex environments from video footage—introduces plot holes through its very existence.
Characters often lack information at the convenience of the plot, even though they should logically have that information because of the way the device gathers it. Never mind that some was gathered from police cameras that can apparently travel through time. Given that the source of its most essential information was police footage, Lieutenant Yoshida (Ken Watanabe ❤!) in particular should have had significant plot-affecting information that he conveniently didn’t, purely at the whim of the writers.
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Unexpectedly, some of the plot gymnastics became less egregious upon a second viewing (Of course I saw it twice), but even then those come down to the cheap writing trick of cutting off important information the mere second before characters can actually receive it. Granted, it works to keep the structure of the film intact—and the film is tightly paced—but such devices also make the tension feel artificial and frustrating.
The film’s emotional beats also fall flat. It’s hard to take seriously as anything but a comedy, which means that its attempts at genuinely sad scenes don’t really work, especially when Tim is mourning his dad to a talking Pikachu of all things (despite a convincing performance by Justice Smith). When it combines its emotions with comedy, though, it excels—as when a devastated, lonely Detective Pikachu sobs the iconic Pokemon theme in a truly inspired gem of a scene.
Finally, though she’s essential to moving the plot along, Kathryn Newton’s unpaid intern-slash-aspiring reporter Lucy Stevens fills her role with every spunky reporter stereotype ever and as a result is, frankly, grating to watch. The way the movie uses her Psyduck partner, however, is hilarious.
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Psyduck itself raises pesky world building questions—Why the heck would a person in a high-stress environment in the middle of a densely populated city want a Pokemon whose stress headaches can literally trigger apocalyptic geography-leveling energy pulses?—but then, those kinds of questions are ultimately irrelevant to Pokemon fans, given the absurd characteristics we’re accustomed to seeing in Pokemon lore (see again: cubone wearing its mother’s skull. And that’s not even the most WTF of them).
Pokemon’s is a world that functions best when you don’t think about it too much except in terms of how it’s awesome, which is something the filmmakers did quite well—even for Pokemon that didn’t necessarily merit it, and this is yet another great success of this movie.
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I’ve never given two thoughts to Mr. Mime or Ditto except to be pissed at how hard it was to find them and how lame they were once I did. Detective Pikachu took two of the lamest Pokemon, used them brilliantly, and instantly turned them into two of my new favorites.
More than being mere fanservice, this movie contributed something new and wholly unexpected to the Pokemon universe—first by simply existing, and then by giving fans a movie that loves its world as much as they do.
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Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m about to don my Pikajams and see it again.
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EXTRA: Also, because they’re fun, the other promos, including the brilliant and adorable release day “full film leak.”



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Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Charizard, Cubone, Detective Pikachu, Ditto, Fanservice, Justice Smith, Kathryn Newton, Ken Watanabe, Magikarp, Mewtwo, Movie Review, Mr. Mime, Pikachu, Pokemon, Pokemon Detective Pikachu, Psyduck, Ryan Reynolds

Pokemon Go: Halloween Event – Game Review

November 3, 2016 by hpholo Leave a Comment

I’ve been a Pokemon Go player since day one, but when I first learned of this past weekend’s Halloween event, I was only cautiously excited. After all, for everything Pokemon Go does right, there are ten other features that amount to “could have been awesome but were ruined by stupid problems.”
It was a pleasant surprise, then, when the event turned out to be a rousing amount of fun – with very few problems to speak of! 😀
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For the uninitiated, Pokemon Go’s Halloween event ran from Wednesday, October 26th through Monday, November 1st.
During it, players could earn twice as much candy for basically everything – catching Pokemon (which earned 6 candies vs. the normal 3), trading Pokemon (2 vs. 1), hatching eggs (variable numbers depending upon the egg distance), etc.
Buddy Pokemon also yielded candy 4x faster than usual, with 1km buddies finding candy at .25km, 3km at .75km, and 5km at 1.25km.
And of course, select Pokemon fitting the Halloween theme appeared in greater numbers.
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Oddly, though I imagine the increased Pokemon sightings were meant to be the big draw for the event, they were the least exciting part for me. Plus, I’m not sure why anyone at Niantic looked at Pokemon Go and said, “You know what this game needs? MORE ZUBATS.” 😐 Frankly, it’s not like any of the Pokemon featured were especially rare to begin with, but I went from having one wimpy Gastly and Meowth before the event to a whole army of Haunters and Persians during, so I can’t complain too much.
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The real success of the Pokemon offerings was not in the Pokemon featured, but the sheer number of sightings in general. In my neighborhood and favorite haunts (pun intended), I’m lucky to occasionally see a Pidgey. Heck, it is exciting to see a Pidgey. But for those few days, all those areas had Meowths and Drowzees and Cubones and Gastlies galore, such that I was actually able to play without making a special trip, which is what I usually have to do (a perk of being your own boss: scheduling dedicated Pokemon Go days). That said, thanks, Niantic, for making your game playable in suburbia, if only for a week.
As fun as that was, though, the best part of the event was its candy-related perks.
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Due to the aforementioned suburban lack of Pokemon, I use Pokemon Go as a glorified walking app, more than a game:
Each day I assign myself an egg or a certain number of candies and walk the distance necessary to hatch/find them. I’ve really enjoyed the introduction of the Buddy Pokemon system because it tricks me into walking more. After I hatch a 2km egg, I’ll usually see that I have 1km left to go on a Buddy candy; so I start a new egg, find a candy, see that I now have 1km on my new egg, etc… It is a vicious cycle that has resulted in some sweet leg muscles. Anyway, given the way Pokemon Go updates distances (in .2km-ish chunks rather than by step), the diminished distances introduced in this event led to A LOT of “Oh, just .1km to go” loops and resultant candies. Hooray for app-assisted health!
The candy perks had high strategic value, too (if the word “strategy” can be applied to a game like Pokemon Go). Prior to the Halloween event, I had several uncommon Pokemon that were within 10 or so candies of evolution – not a huge number, but no small amount of walking, either, given that most were egg-hatched Pokemon not common in my geographic area (and that I thus couldn’t evolve with candy from wild Pokemon). After a Halloween of plugging those Pokemon into the Buddy system, though, I evolved nearly all of them on walking alone! Combine those with all the Meowths and Zubats and Cubones and Gastlies (SO MANY GASTLIES) that I was able to evolve from catches, and this event made for an XPpalooza!

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SOOOOOOO MANY GASTLIES.

I can almost literally say that there was nothing wrong with this event.
Almost. It wouldn’t be Pokemon Go without a random problem.
Early in the week, I encountered a glitch that kept my distances walked from updating, but that was fixed within a day with a quick patch. More significantly, one of Pokemon Go’s new features/issues is that it dampens the sounds of programs running in the background of a device. Which, I guess, is cool if you need the extra quiet to concentrate on flicking Pokeballs at cute little monsters. Not so much if you want to listen to music while you play – or, as I do, listen to audiobooks while you walk. With Pokemon Go’s new sound settings, I have to turn my iPhone’s volume all the way up to even begin to hear my book. (I don’t run with headphones in for safety reasons, so the book has to compete with environmental noise.) It’s not a problem worthy of nerdrage, but it would be nice to have the option to turn it off.
But really, that was the biggest problem I had with this event. Overall, though Pokemon Go’s persistent general problems have gone unaddressed (WHERE IS TRACKING? TRADING? BATTLING YOUR FRIENDS?), the Halloween event was a huge step in the right direction, and I look forward to seeing what other seasonal events Niantic has up its sleeve.

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: App Review, Game Review, Halloween, Pokemon, Pokemon Go, Review

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