After a month of wrangling, we're finally allowed to grow into Cosmoem, after jumping through all the hoops
When Pokémon Go introduced Cosmog at the start of its most recent quarterly season, the Season of Light, it did so in the most perplexing way possible. This fan-favorite pocket creature was eventually included in the mobile game, although in an unevolvable form. Finally, with the start of the week-long Evolving Stars event today, it can. But only one step.
POGO has had a strange run of late. While the game's language and event concepts have never been particularly spectacular (pun intended), 2022 saw it reach perplexing terrain. Players have been frustrated by poor communication on everything from covid-19 safety to what the entire Ultra Beast wormhole plot was supposed to entail. So, with the commencement of the Season of Light, I was hoping for some clarity to light on things.
Instead, we had Cosmog and Professor Willow both turn up, as well as the debut of A Cosmic Companion, one of those poorly-flagged stop-start Special Research events. Players gained Cosmog through it around the beginning of September, and then...it suddenly stopped. Today, a month later, the next stage has begun, and we will be amazed to realize that this Pokémon can evolve!
Imagine if it had originally emerged six years ago as the game's flagship Pokémon in Pokémon Sun and Moon, and we'd all already knew its three-stage evolutionary path for the greater part of a decade!
Willow asks you if you and Rhi have been able to identify this implausibly obscure and mysterious monster in today's update, picking up on a dialogue you've long forgotten and have no in-game way of seeing replayed. (Rhi was the blue-suited person from the wormhole we saw in the Summer who no one desired or cared about.) You've discovered the name is Cosmog! Extraordinary. And now it's time to evolve it into Cosmoem, albeit you'll never know because no one has ever heard of it before.
I'm not sure why POGO persists on conducting their storylines as if they're completely apart from the rest of the Pokémon universe, especially when it always requires pretending players don't know significant facts that have been solidly established in the mainstream games for many years.
Given that we only have one Cosmog, you may be frustrated by the need to evolve it. However, according to the official website:
"There is a rumor that Trainers will be able to encounter more Cosmog in the distant future."
I'm not sure if this is a hint of future time-traveling antics (I asked and was told it's not a typo for "not-too-distant future," but they're also not ready to announce when). Given how the game's been going this year, I'm guessing it's literal, and they're planning to add another in 2076, but only if you let a stranger cough straight into your mouth.
The third portion of this Special Research is scheduled for November 23, giving us another month and a half to pretend to be surprised when we learn what will happen with the two-way evolutionary split for Solgaleo and Lunala. And whether we'll get anything truly interesting if they're smart enough to incorporate Necrozma.
As it happens, Pokémon Go hasn't had a particularly stellar week. The latest relaunch of the three team leaders resulted in some genuinely ghoulish characters (with the new Spark still looking like he's been run over by a steamroller) and news that the game's already exorbitant costs are about to rise in a number of areas due to Apple's price increases.
Fortunately, Rhyhorn and Ralts have returned to the wild as of this morning, so I'm prepared to forgive the game for anything in my chase of a shiny of either.
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SOURCE: kotaku
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