Topic: Pokémon Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee!

@IceClimbers Here's another for you:

https://gonintendo.com/stories/310085-pokemon-games-unveiled-...

Okay, got it lol

Honestly, I wasn't anywhere near this negative, but this really does kind of look like the Sticker Star/Federation Forces of Pokemon. No online and extremely casualized for the GO audience.

If the "Core RPG" wasn't confirmed to be something else already I would be scared for the future of the franchise. I still am, a little.

Thank goodness this was leaked in advance. Saved us a lot of negativity right before E3.

I'm at least comforted in the fact that they are taking their time with the true next generation game as I always felt releasing one in 2018 would be way to early. This will be a nice hold over even though I have no interest in GO.

Ditto. At least we know that the Let's Go games are filler until the core titles hit next year. I'm still very curious about these, but I'm not sure if I'll end up getting them at this point. Too many other games to play, and I haven't even gotten to Ultra Sun yet.

General reactions seem to be mixed. It’s actually a bit shocking some sites I’ve been to are 100% on board for this and other sites are complete salt storms. It’s a little funny tbh.

These games remind me a lot of Federation Force, except take away a lot of backlash since we know there's still a "core" Pokemon game coming soon.

Ah well. I'm just interested to see how it'll be.

I'm guessing the comment section for this on IGN is full of salt, trolls, and salty trolls?

And look at that, the motion controls are optional it seems.

https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-video-games/pokemon-lets-g...

"Now you can use your Nintendo Switch’s Joy-Con to toss a Poké Ball at your target with one hand, either by pressing a button or flicking your wrist. With fewer buttons and intuitive action, it’s never been simpler."

So if anyone was worried about that, it seems that's no biggie.

@Tyranexx Believe it or not no. The major negative ones I saw were Gamespot, Polygon, and a handful of people here, which surprised me. A lot of people are jumping to conclusions about this game, and some misinformation is being spread. People are saying we can’t grind, which I haven’t seen anything official saying we can’t.

I’m alright with these games. I didn’t expect much, but they’re fine for me.

@TheTetrisGuy: I'm trying to keep an open mind about this one for the time being. We'll certainly have more info before long.

It does help that they're waiting another year for the next core entries as I hoped they would.

I should add that I think the character designs are awesome, some of the best in years imo.

I don’t know how to feel right now

@TheTetrisGuy Actually agreed, these are my favorite designs I've seen since Black/White 1. X/Y was great too, but Black/White 1 has my absolute favorite character designs in the series.

Didn't like (Ultra) Sun/Moon's character designs as much, but that's just me. They still look fine enough.

idk...

I haven't posted in awhile but I just had ask.. does anybody think this is a bit of a downgrade?

Looks like they reused the same models but removed ink shading (something a lot of youtubers did with homebrew to make oras-sun and moon look better), reused the animations, and on top of that cut out the rest of the pokemon besides the original 151 (if serebii is correct on that).

Idk i'd expect something better for a switch pokemon game. Like a visual upgrade with all the same content, not a slight lighting change and cutting out tons of pokemon while reusing most of the models and animations in the previous games.

Only thing I will say I like is the character designs, but without online play and seemingly no training without wild encounter battles, I'll pass.

Gives me monsta hunta story vibes tbh

So upon further inspection on the recent news, these are in fact NOT core games, and are instead more of a Go tie-in and a game to keep us patient for the core game releasing in 2019 apparently. I am definitely relieved, and I'm much more open to this concept knowing it is not a main game.

Sorry if I'm just echoing what other people have already said on here but I just want to throw in my opinion on all this. First of all I'm not a big Pokemon fan but I absolutely understand just how significant of a game series it is. With that said I think Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee is good filler for this year and will do exactly as it was designed to do, give young and new players a decent game to start off of on a current system. No, it's not as focused on battles like a core series game and is more about just exploring this cool new world, but that's exactly the point it's not part of the core series. There is going to be a core series game coming out next year with all the mechanics of previous entries and maybe some new ones as well. It is very apparent that Game Freak is spending a good amount of time on its development to make sure it is polished and perfected for even a Pokemon fan with high expectations. Good games take time to be made, and Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee is there to help quench our desires until next year while also bringing in a wider audience into this beautiful and ever-evolving series of games.