We're a historical simulation, living our lives so that a future civilization may experience the pre-apocalyptic past and mine it for technological knowledge.
Have you played Assassin's Creed? It's kind of like that. And the avatar in Pokémon Go are the actual players.
It's us, the Pokémon Go players, that are the avatars. For a modern precedent, consider the husbandry of dogs.īut here’s the "wait is this cigarette actually salvia" part of the theory. Naturally, wildlife responded by becoming at once more violent and adorable. Men and women have lost faith in one another, and now crave more than anything else a sense of safety and camaraderie. The cataclysmic event at the heart of this theory annihilated most life, and what survived adapted to appease the dominant species: humans. The pokémon that players meet eerily resemble Earth’s actual fauna for a reason: they’re cynical mutations of the animals that currently roam our planet. Like history displays in a local museum that can't afford relics, the world is littered with a standardized, circular, spinning tablet featuring a photograph and a couple words about what once was. And so pokéstops are simply memorials to the memories of the occupants of this future world. The creations made by human hands have been so efficiently razed that not a single stone remains. In this theory, pokéstops would appear at first to be excavation sites until we consider their uniformity. The map is the obvious clue, a bird’s-eye view of our familiar cities, the buildings replaced by verdant green. A singular focus drives everyone: conquer the land. Set at an unspecified point in the distant future - long after both an apocalyptic event and the natural period of recovery that followed, in which nature reclaims our planet’s surface - the human race has become nomadic. What I tell is a story about life on Earth - our Earth, not the fictional cities of other Pokémon games. So, in the interim, I’ve hoisted the burden upon myself. At least not until a private college adds that master's program. Of course, there are no Pokémon Go story experts. The nibs of plot are more akin to tea leaves, clues waiting to be given meaning by a skilled interpreter.
It’s not that the game lacks a story entirely, rather the narrative available to its 7.5 million participants doesn’t follow a three-act structure or any structure at all really. Why are we fighting one another? Why have we been forced to take one of three sides in a war for territory? Why is it that our world and the game’s world have been bonded through our smartphones? Who's to say!Ĭurious players are left to parse brief tutorial text for context and motivation.
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Unlike the series of roleplaying games that precede it, Pokémon Go doesn’t bother with dialogue and story. Pokémon Go is family friendly entertainment, while also being the latest popular video game about life after the apocalypse and nature’s inevitable reclamation of our planet.
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