I played Pokémon Go in Croydon

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The Pokémon Gym that stands ten minutes from where I live is an imposing beast: a wedge of purple-orange glass slicing through the Croydon skyline. Right now, it belongs to Team Yellow, which is great because that's who I've sworn fealty with, but also not so great because it is already fully staffed. Before I start trying to sort that out, I'll just grab my phone and trawl the high street for a better class of Pokémon. I've seen Dratini there. It's only a matter of time.
Since being tasked with giving Pokémon Go a weekend whirl, I've come to a conclusion: Pokémon Go is shallow. Like, really shallow. There is no real strategy to acquiring new Pokémon, and it's entirely possible to best player-inhabited Gyms by tapping very quickly. All of the depth of the games, all of the layers they've built across the history of a franchise - gone.
But at the same time Pokémon Go is also very, very, very, good.
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