App Review: Pocket God
Hey guys, this is Mackie. It's another one. Today, I'm going to be reviewing an app called Pocket God for the iPhone and iPod touch.
So, before I show you what it does, I'll explain to you, um, what it does. So, what Pocket God really is for is entertainment. Basically, you have an island, and you can change your island. You can change the environment a little bit, and you have people—I forget what they're called—living on the island. You can rename the people, and you can do anything you want with the people. You can move them around, you can feed them, you can make them fish, you can make them explode. So, you're the god of all these fish. They worship you, and you have all the power.
It’s good for people who are bullied a lot in school or are insecure or something, and it’s also just fun to play with. So, I'll show you right here on my iPhone what the icon looks like. I know it's sideways; I'll just flip it around. It says Pocket God, and it has no shine on its icon, and they rounded it themselves.
When you open it up, it will display this loading screen for a few seconds. It doesn't take too long to load, unlike a lot of other sites. It takes a little longer to load, in my opinion, than Super Monkey Ball and a few other sites or apps, but it doesn't take forever to load. So, once it's done loading, it'll start up.
It plays this music, um, obviously all the time. You can pick up this guy, like this guy. I'll drag him around and drop him. You can add another person, and actually, you can display names in case you want to give them names. So, I named a few. Sorry, I'll display their names. I think, yeah, that's Bill Gates right there, and he just got eaten by a shark. It's kind of funny.
So, you can also pick up the shark and make it kill people. It's fun. So, it's mostly hurting these people, and there are default names too, like Newbie, Booby, all those things. You can change the day, the time of day, by moving the sun around.
If there are a bunch of little mini things built into this app that make it amazing, like if you tap the moon a bunch of times, a bat comes out of the moon and bites one of the guys—um, then they will turn into a vampire. So, it's kind of funny. Now, if I add another person, it's going to eat them.
This app is kind of fun, and you can also change—I'll make it sunny again—and you can change the island. Right now, there are two islands, so they could add more definitely. They actually incorporated a porta potty into this. It's kind of cute.
So, if you have a bunch of people there, then they'll go to the bathroom. What's interesting to me is you can only have five people on the island at once. It makes sense, but it's also a limit. So, once one person's in the bathroom, if someone else needs to go, he'll blow up, and they never come out. So, Bill Gates is in the bathroom, so I'll just take him out.
So, that's kind of gross. If you, um, I'll move everyone outside of this egg. They incorporate a bunch of little games into this, like if you crack this egg right here, then the dinosaur will come out, and then it’s like a mini-game. You try to give them a spear so they can fight it off. You're really their god, and you're supposed to be leading them around, but you can just kill the dinosaur if you don't like them.
You could also control the ocean and make a huge wave come over them and crash over them. So now they're underwater. This is an underwater scene they added in the latest version. If I put this guy in this thing’s mouth and then I bring the spear up, he'll die. Um, so it’s mostly violent, actually.
And this underwater scene—that's all that's magic and special in this underwater scene. You can just flip to get out. So, obviously, they come out with—um, it's actually interesting—they come out with updates every week. So, they've probably already submitted the next update, and the next update will presumably be, um, I think they'll add more to the underwater, and they might do something special, like, um, sorry, adding something like a new course or something.