Pokémon GO Anniversary Event Details

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Pokémon GO is celebrating its first birthday in many parts of the world and the latest event celebrates the occasion. The special anniversary event is active from July 6th (today!) to the 13th, so don’t wait to take advantage of it!

Players will be able to find Ash Hat Pikachu and catch it for their collection. Anime fans may be especially interested after watching almost 20 years of Ash Ketchum’s journey to become a Pokémon Master.

In addition, special sale packages (called “Anniversary Boxes”) will be available to purchase and include many helpful items at a discount.

Are you pumped to catch another Pikachu? Or will you be giving this event a pass?

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  3. Shoot, I posted my comment in the old article. Basically my thoughts are:
    – there wasn’t enough content to make an actual direct but they did anyway
    – it’s becoming more apparent to me that this game won’t be able to justify the “2” in it’s name. I had faith in Nintendo originally, but it isn’t looking great.

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  4. OMG I’m watching the Litten/Stoutland episode……..This is such a freaking sad episode……….Why would Disney end their marathon this?!?!?!?!

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    • happOk that was such an emotional episode. I’m so happy Littwn was able to find some sort of happiness. Ash is a real mensch

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    • BAH I SAY, The episode was sad but the dub failed to live up to expectations and truly capture how powerful this episode is

      Three areas
      -When Litten is frantic and begging ash for help the dub doesn’t have that sense of desperation that the original had especially when the final leaf fell and Litten was screaming to the sky, just not that emotion
      -The score: The music was downtrodden but still had pep to it, the original used not only Snowpoint city’s music but also the added Meowth’s ballad which really made the whole grief and sorrow so much more stronger
      -and lastly the dialogue felt just so dumbed down as always, when Rotom asked where Stoutland was Kukui only replied “I’m sorry” his “Don’t ask that” just felt so much more serious and effective

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      • Well I didn’t see the Japanese dub so…..yeah…..I’d say perspective is key and you preferring one over the other doesn’t mean the English dub did a bad job.

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        • I command you to go watch the Japanese one right now
          Don’t fucking bother with youtube since they have to edit the music out
          Go to Watchcartoononline.net right fucking now and you better be bawling your eyes out when you get back
          DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR!? MOOOOOVE OUT

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          • I really don’t care…. I enjoyed watching the English dub and now you’re kind of ruining it…..thanks…..

  5. I can’t believe it’s been a whole year. I’ll never forget the GO craze. Anyway, if you don’t pick Ice Cream for the Splatfest I’m going to be slightly disappointed.

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  6. Wow this is the most pathetic fucking event I’ve ever seen from this game. Literally the entire event is a sale and a special Pikachu…. what asshole made this

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  8. Eh, I don’t play Go anymore but this event has less stuff than I expected, even the solstice event was better

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  15. So the 20th movie is airing in Paris today. I wanna say it may already be in the process of doing so. we could have leaks of the teaser any hour now!!! lol

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      • I’m just really interested to see how they handle some of the finer plot points. With Brock and Misty being replaced I wonder if they’ll have slightly different designs. If so why? If not then why even bother replacing them to begin with? Plus it appears the journey will be slightly different too. I wonder what they’ll focus on and what they’ll leave out. I doubt they’ll end the movie with Ash losing at the Indigo league hahahahaha

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    • Top excuses I use:
      – Ehh I should better study
      – Game wasn’t that great anyway
      – The section where I’m at sucks
      – Game’s too long, I will never finish
      – This is better with friends (who never come over)
      – I should focus on games I haven’t beaten
      – Game’s too hard
      – There is a port coming. One day. I’m sure of it
      – I better wait till I can play it stable on emulator

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      • I too feel a similar pain Brudda
        I just feel like a waste of carbon right now, back in my prime I was gaming and drawing 25/8 and I was nailing down achievements and milestones and all sorts of stuff, but now I’m a fatter lazier sadder person, barely doing anything noteworthy with his life and trudging through a boring mire of repetitiveness

        Day in day out everything feels the same

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  19. Okay, I’m looking through my backlog and found these games which are a good option to finish. Tell me which one I should pick and why!

    – Super Mario 3D World: No idea why I didn’t play this through, seems like I can beat most of it in 10 hours too.

    – Twilight Princess HD: Already a small 8 hours in, and I really like the game, but I have already done most of TP when it launched except for beating Ganon. I don’t know if beating the HD version will give me more satisfaction compared to playing BotW.

    – Xenoblade Chronicles X: Long, long game and I didn’t do much of it. I think the sheer size of it made me stop playing coupled with the fact that I expected a Switch port, but I still think having to play for 50 hours to beat it is too endearing. Maybe I can play till I get a skell though?

    – Tokyo Mirage Sessions: Bought it, never inserted disc, how’s the game anyway?

    – Persona 5: Really liked it, but again, the size of the game is just too big and it needs continous plays or else the story won’t be enjoyed as much. This is one of the better options I think though.

    – FFXV: Didn’t completely like the beginning and the patches are making it better, I better hold off for a while.

    – Dragon Quest VIII – I liked it, but it has some serious drawbacks compared to IX in my opinion.

    As you see, I have a paradoxal problems with liking game that are really long but where I don’t have any time to reasonably finish them.

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      • I disagree. The exploration is the key aspect of X, and when you get the skells the world gets so much smaller and you don’t have to think about how to get anywhere. You just go up and fly directly there, no journey or anything.

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        • I mostly just used Skells as transport tbh, although I do wish that there was more areas where you can’t use Skells

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    • Persona 5 . It and TP are the best games on the list, but since you’ve already played the original already you should go with p5 instead.

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    • I say Xenoblade X, but I’m very partial to that game in particular. Two things though:
      – Xenoblade 2 runs on the X engine, which makes a port all the more likely. I was gonna replay it recently but decided to hold off for that reason. However if you’ve never finished it, go for it.
      – It might be best if you only want to play until you get a Skell, because the game goes downhill from there. The skells make the world soooo much smaller and easily accessible and the exploration is the best part.

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    • Super Mario 3D World, hands down. It’s definitely not like the traditional 3D Mario games but it’s very polished and a really fun experience. You’ll really enjoy it, and it won’t take too long either.

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