I've been laying dormant for a while now, work has been busy and my free time has been dedicated towards work around the house and actually going out and doing things. Which is actually kind of the topic of this post. Pokemon Go, has now been released for close to a week and it's been really fun.I really didn't pay too much attention to details of it while it was in development because I wanted the thrill of when I would get a new game when I was younger. Didn't really look into it much and everything about it was new and exciting. Somehow I succeeded in this, despite the numerous articles being posted all over the internet. So here are my reactions.The very first encounter I had was with a weedle that I found lurking in my bedroom and I had my trusty squirtle and i spent a solid couple of minutes trying to figure out how to battle it. Though I've come to terms with it now, if you're going to have a pokemon catching game with no weakening, why not allow you to throw food like in the safari zone?which segways us into number two...My biggest gripe with the candy system is how there is a completely different one for each basic pokemon. At first I thought the candies would be seperate for each evolved pokemon as well. Which made me think 3rd forms like Charizard, Blastoise, or Venusaur would be essentially a pipe dream without a crazy grind. I think rather than having x number of the right candies was a poor option choice too. You can also use candies and stardust to make the pokemon stronger. So should I make my pokemon stronger, or evolve it? Well duh, evolve it first since they drain the same resource which is slow to acquire anyway. But if that's the case, why not stick to the script more and just have the option to make it stronger and have it evolve at a certain point, if you want it to.I don't see much of a reason why they shouldn't include some sort of navigation feature into the game. I know the game intends for you to walk around and explore at your leisure, but it's so close already might as well include it.Most of the time the phone is at an angle that I can't really see anything anyway, but there are so many people walking around playing this game now that everyone I see with their phone out, I assume they're playing and I want to see what they're finding.My pokemon affection began with yellow version and so far, Pokemon Go, has felt like an homage to what I would have killed for as a child. Which is a wonderful play on their point because their demographic is young adults, who have phones, still are nostalgic and desperately trying to grip onto their childhood just a fraction of a second longer before submitting to adulthood. That being said, to keep this game really enthralling long term for me, I would like to see more pokemon added, and not only that, but make some a little more region specific, not entirely but make some pokemon common in some areas, and uncommon or rare in others.Especially if they make different pokemon more common in other regions I would love to be able to trade. Give us an in game friends list, show us when they're online, let us chat an negotiate some trading among each other. This would be especially cool for connecting us with people visiting from across the world.So those are my initial reactions and thoughts on the app. All in all, I like it a lot and will continue to play it. Here are some screen shots I've captured so far.