Then, as with many of the past years (see below), it's time to send off the Pokémon Go season with the post on the season's end. Actually, the end of this season won't be for another couple of days, but also as usual, I'm covering the season's end on this day just like in previous years to keep that in line. So, the season was dubbed as "Precious Paths", and as I noted at its beginning, it has a bit of a celebratory quality to it, and that became evident in all of its happenings for not only Pokémon Go but also beyond.
Pokémon Go brought the celebrations in full force from the expected ones in the first and last months of the season, as well as some wild ones in the middle of that. The real celebration, though, has to be Pokémon Go Tour that straddles the anniversary of Pokémon itself (and is actually proceeding today and tomorrow - more details very, very soon). They're all very great moments, and they're all meandering all over the place, so the "Precious Paths" become evident through the happenings.
In other areas of Pokémon, the paths may not have been evident, but their meandering - as with Unite's new licenses and TCGP's new packs - obviously headed to the same anniversary, and that's still something to behold. That also means that every fan, no matter what their game or dealing for Pokémon, expects the anniversary as much as any other of their kind - it's their most "precious path", in a way. The regularity involved with them may or may not have suggested precious things, but what was gained from them may have.
At any rate, for both of them, the most "precious path" would be the development of Pokémon from its other beginnings and the contributions that have shaped that and in turn these specific forms. After 30 years of that development, just about anything from that path can then be considered "precious" even though today's path is actually a branching of multiple paths from the main path. The games above then present the best parts of these paths, conjoining them into their own "precious path" as above.
Now that the paths presented as things in Pokémon Go are at their ultimate point, the things to be taken from them are the things that fans can stand to remember for the better. Certainly, because of the subtitle of the game, the remembered things can progress on their own paths and make new ones that fans will further remember. For that, the same can be regarded as being true for Pokémon itself as three decades have passed and it continues its development for many, many more years to come.
One year ago: The Peak of Dual Destiny
Two years ago: The Peak of Timeless Travels
Three years ago: The Peak of Mythical Wishes
Four years ago: The Peak of Heritage
Five years ago: The Peak of Celebrations
Six years ago: Pokémon Go Event Rollup, 2/28/2020
Seven years ago: The Birthday of a Hero
Eight years ago: Cosplay Poses
Nine years ago: Cosplay: Japanese World 2017
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