Pokémon has never fully disappeared from our culture, not since its release back in 1996.

What had once been a small game on a tiny Gameboy has now exploded once again in the form of Pokémon Go. It’s been quick to spread across the Wayne State campus, and nearly every student can be seen randomly pausing now and then on the sidewalk. Just what it is actually isn’t hard to explain.

Pokémon Go is what some would call a Pokémon game with augmented reality — bridging the gap between the digital and real world. Using your smartphone, you can catch Pokémon that appear randomly, can walk around to hatch Pokémon eggs, or even battle other trainers’ Pokémon to take over gyms.

A reason this has spread over Wayne is because it is a hot spot for Pokémon. Many gyms are around town, and there are multiple spots to restock on Pokéballs to catch more of these cute little creatures. Lately though, it has been seen that the amount of users of this app has gone down by twenty percent since the app was released in July.

Thus I interviewed a few fellow Pokémon masters, in an attempt to see just why this sudden craze is beginning to wear down. I sat down with three people, Elizabeth Weaver, Patrick Handcock and Jennifer Jagervi, each having their own reasons and views to Pokémon Go.

Out of the three, Elizabeth was the most hopeful for the game. Coming from the team Mystic (being the blue team) after wanting to be on the same team as some friends, she seems to like almost everything within the game.

“I find myself battling for gyms, but also catching Pokémon. It’s a little mix,” Elizabeth said.

“Catching Pokémon, more so,” Patrick said, “I read online there was a huge gathering right outside of a police station that made the authorities very nervous to say the least.”

It is true that there are problems with the game, which is one of the greatest reasons players are beginning to put away their dreams of being a Pokémon master.

Jennifer actually deleted the app. “It got annoying so I stopped, until they fix everything.”

There are indeed things that the app needs to fix or improve, with Elizabeth wishing for a chance to: switch between the three teams, catch Pokémon a better way, get a better tracking system and a proper multiplayer to finally face off against other trainers.

At the end, it was agreed that the game is revolutionary, but the initial craze is starting to slip away. With one of the three masters giving up on their journey to be the very best the final scores were given. Elizabeth gave the game a five out of ten, while Patrick gave a more generous seven out of ten.