And now, in perhaps its boldest move yet, Pokémon has released a mobile game centered entirely around what is widely considered its weakest, most useless pokemon ever: MAGIKARP.
The goal of “Magikarp Jump“ is to make the titular Pokémon, Magikarp, well, jump. Your protagonist is introduced to Mayor Karp, who is in charge of Hoppy Town, where “everybody loves Magikarp.” The mayor explains that despite its reputation as a Pokémon that doesn’t know any good moves for battle, the people of Hoppy Town love competing with Magikarp in other ways.
Gameplay is simple: feed and train your Magikarp to increase its Jump Power (JP), and then enter it into jumping competitions. There’s no skill involved, and the game isn’t difficult, but it’s endearing and I found myself becoming attached to the Magikarp I’d spent all of 20 minutes with. Unfortunately, once your Magikarp reaches level 20, it’ll retire from the jumping competitions and you have to start over with a new one.
Well, the Magikarp jump have not yet reached the level of Pokemon Go or other previously released games but it is grabbing the attention of many pokemon fans across the globe.
About 100,000 – 500,000 people have already installed it on their android phones.
“Magikarp Jump” is available for free and you can download it from Google Playstore and Apple store.
Before leaving checkout the trailer of Magikarp Jump :
