Pokemon GO is Increasingly Defined by Insurmountable Challenges

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Niantic has kept itself busy with Pokemon GO. By introducing Seasons, Niantic has new events to plan and manage, many of which are longer and more elaborate than the hit mobile game's earliest events. Pokemon GO Seasons provide in-lore reasons to introduce new Pokemon and bring Legendary Pokemon back to Raids. New features like Seasons and additional Pokemon have kept Pokemon GO feeling fresh after years, and with so much more potential content left to add, the game's future still looks bright. Even so, Pokemon GO's drastic changes have had both positive and negative impacts.

For instance, Pokemon GO players frequently voice concerns about the game's challenges, some of which are either impossible to complete or too difficult to be practical. Certain Pokemon GO medals are hard to max out, and some Special Research quests have sat uncompleted for months or years. Pokemon GO's ongoing new content and bug fixes are great, but Niantic seems to have unintentionally left certain aspects of the game behind. For the sake of Pokemon GO's quality and the satisfaction of fans, Niantic ought to take another look at Pokemon GO's oldest Special Research and medals.

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Although Niantic has tweaked some of the game's achievement-like medals to match other changes in Pokemon GO, others have fallen by the wayside. For instance, the Pokemon GO Fisher and Youngster platinum medals require catching 1,000 extra-large Magikarp and extra-small Rattata, respectively. Even for day-one Pokemon GO players, these are difficult medals to get, especially since Magikarp and Rattata get rarer as more Pokemon join. Other daunting platinum medals include the Ultra Hero badge, which requires beating