A new Niantic game released just a few days ago and that good ol' feeling my family used to get from playing Pokemon Go . . . is back, baby! It's BACK!
That feeling I got was the same one from when everyone in my family downloaded Pokemon Go and got outdoors for a bit, playing the game together, and that's the feeling that came back yesterday when, again, everyone in my family downloaded Pikmin Bloom and started walking around.
Now, I realize that some people never stopped playing Pokemon Go, but let's be honest, it's nowhere near what it was like back in 2016 when everybody was crowded around hotspots and restaurants at those hotspots were giving discounts to gamers. That was a crazy time that I'm not sure will ever be duplicated.
That said, if you've played Pokemon Go, Pikmin Bloom will feel very familiar, and for those that have actually played any of the Nintendo Pikmin games, you'll appreciate seeing your little buddies again.
As the story goes, the world is full of tiny unsee-able creatures called Pikmin, but your phone does a bang up job of revealing them to the human eye. You plant your pikmin and harvest them by walking around the world. Once you've walked around a bit, you pick your pikmin out of their planting pots and bam, they're ready to harvest Nectar for you.
The more nectar you have, the more your pikmin will give you their petals. The more petals you have, the more you can spread flowers while you're out on your walks, beautifying the virtual world along your way.
On yesterday's walk we headed toward our local neighborhood park because it was a node with a huge flower that was not yet bloomed.
Once we arrived we walked all around the edges of the park together until it magically bloomed and our neighborhood's flower was doing great.
Earlier in the day, I also took the opportunity to spread flowers all around the voting location since no one had . . . go out and vote, friends. Cover those voting locations in flowers!
At the end of every day around 9pm, Pikmin Bloom takes a moment to review your day and tally up the number of steps you took. It even gives you a personal journal entry and snags one of your photos.
Pikmin Bloom also lets you take pictures with AR so you can show off the Pikmin hanging out in your house.
I hope you have a chance to spread some flowers and to stretch your legs with Pikmin Bloom. It was great to bring some of the magic back into taking a walk yesterday.
Happy Dueling!
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