Pokémon GO" Gameplay Diary: "Pokémon GO" finally adds a friend feature!

Pokémon GO" will make Pokémon appear in every corner of the city! Let's walk a lot and get a lot of Pokemon!

Pokémon GO" now has a "Friend" feature that allows users to connect with other users. We have updated "Pokémon GO" and tried using the "Friend" feature.

What can you do with the "Friends" feature?

By registering as a friend, you can send each other gifts that will give you random items. Since some of the gifts may contain eggs that give you Pokémon in the form of Alola, we want to actively send gifts to each other.

I actually tried registering as a friend!

The other person's name, friendship level, and Pokémon caught are displayed in a list, but when I reported this screen to my friends, I received feedback that "I don't want it to be discovered that I caught a weaker Pokémon!" When I reported this screen to a friend, he commented, "I don't want it to be revealed that I caught a weak Pokémon! It is true that I would be more proud if the message "I caught a Legendary Pokémon" was displayed on the screen.

You can get ■Gifts by turning PokéStops.

You can have multiple Gifts, so let's send them to your friends by turning PokéStops as often as possible!　But you can only send one Gift per day. You can only send one Gift per day, and you can't send a Gift to a Friend if the Gift they sent you hasn't been opened yet.

If you look for your friends on the Internet, you can get a lot of gifts!

Nowadays, you can easily make friends on Twitter or LINE groups.

Of course, if you want to receive many Gifts, you can do that, but there is a caveat. The address of the PokéStop where you received the gift will be notified to the recipient. The image above is an image of a gift you sent, but this is not the screen you see when you send the gift.

This is the screen of a gift actually sent by a friend. The ID, the image of the PokéStop, and the prefecture and city are clearly displayed. If you search for famous monuments, you can easily find them, and your area of activity will be identified. It might not be a good idea to register as a friend easily! I felt it was a bad idea.

■Exchange of Pokémon is now possible.

If you can exchange Pokémon with anyone you have registered as a friend, you can finally get Pokémon that are hard to get in your area. However, it seems that you need to have a friend nearby to exchange Pokémon with, just like when you used to be able to connect your Game Boy with a cable.

Also, please note that there are detailed rules for exchanging legendary Pokémon and other items, such as a limit of once per day. I was disappointed that things did not work as expected, but I also feel that this is a restriction so that only certain users do not benefit.

■Feelings about the friend function

Although there are some inconvenient points, such as the display of addresses, I am very happy to see the implementation of this feature because there has been little interaction between Pokémon GO users until now.

I want an egg that looks like Alola, so I have to walk around a lot!

(Princess Sasa)