Detective Pikachu 2 Game "Nearing Release" According To Pokémon Job Profile

The Detective Pikachu games really love to get announced, never be talked again for a few years and then someday they actually release to the surprise of everyone

Kind of surprised they'd even bother given the weird, drawn out schedule behind the first game's release and how no one really seemed to especially care about it at the time.

Guess you can bank on the movie to elevate its profile a bit, but while it is a good movie that did well (though not in Japan) I don't think it's had a lot of cultural staying power and it's been a few years at this point.

Detective Pikachu wasn't that good I thought. It's not really a puzzle solving game since Pikachu keeps telling you the solutions. So it's more like a "watch Pikachu solve puzzles" game.

with how consistent (if not rushed) most pokemon games and spinoffs come out its intriguing that this is the game thats been stuck in limbo. i dont think its even that highly regarded

Completely forgot about this one.

I'd have expected a port of the first game on Switch by now, which bafflingly launched over a year after the Switch hit store shelves. This really should have been a multiplatform release a la Fire Emblem Warriors and Sushi Striker.

Wasn’t pikmin 4 nearly ready in like 2016

@blindsquarel : I suspect that was a reference to Hey! Pikmin (which released in mid-2017, shortly after the Switch's launch), but something must have been lost in translation for people to jump the gun and assume that they were referencing Pikmin 4. There's no way that Nintendo have been sitting idly on Pikmin 4 for over 6 years, and the franchise's modest audience certainly doesn't justify such prolonged development.

@Silly_G
What I am trying to say is that until the game is officially revealed, these rumors and leaks have no substance,

@Fizza Honestly I think Pokemon Conquest has probably been doomed by a combination of 1), being a crossover which would complicate working out doing another one, and 2), coming out a month before Fire Emblem Awakening came out and blew up that series into being a giant hit in the same genre. Those two factors together kind of render Conquest rather pointless to produce.

That said I would totally buy a Pokemon Conquest 2 the instant it came out, like without hesitation.

I completely forgotten a sequel was even announced.
Imo the original game was a bore, even by the standards of most 'family-friendly' mystery games.

@Lizuka @Fizza Pokemon Conquest was also doomed to release on the dying DS hardware when the 3DS was already live and released. Didn't stop me from buying it though, that was a fantastic game.

I actually think it's the best way Pokemon can revisit Gen 5 for a remake/Legend Arceus styled game (being that it heavily featured Gen 5 Pokemon). Maybe give it an original story and characters, flesh out the main campaign more, and diversify move pool. Set it in the Unova region of the past and center it around warring factions between the Reshiram and Zekrom Kings.

Sad Pokemon spinoffs aren't as great as they used to be, most Pokemon media has felt too "safe" since Gen 6 launched and the Pokemon models were standardized. Pokken was probably the only last unique and decent spinoff and even that game is dead.

I'd completely forgotten about this but I'll definitely be picking it up.

I never played the original but I loved the film and honestly it's probably the only live action video game adaptation movie I've ever seen that was any good. After the mess that was the latest Mortal Kombat movie I'd given up hope on there ever being a decent video game adaptation but it turns out I'd been sleeping on one for years.

@Munchlax Detective Pikachu 2, the Pikmin 4 of Pokémon.

Oh man, I completely forgot this was announced, a few years back.

I think I'll wait for the movie. The last game was very clearly designed for kids, and the "puzzles" were not challenging at all, at least from what I played. The movie didn't have any mind-numbingly dull puzzles, but it did have Ryan Reynolds!

@Axecon I dunno, New Pokemon Snap and Super Mystery Dungeon / DX were pretty good. But there has definitely been a dearth of interesting spin-offs.

The big question is when exactly does it release?

@sanderev It hasn't been THAT long.

@Munchlax No it doesn't. Tears of the Kingdom and the Mario movie both have set release dates. And Pikmin 4 took nearly a decade to be publicly announced, not three like this one.

I admit I forgot about this one. I played the first on 3DS and enjoyed it, though for the most part it was pretty easy and didn't have a lot of replayability. For a Pokemon and 3DS game (using a 2018 lens), it was graphically unique and portrayed Pokemon in a very different manner than seen before.

I should also mention that the movie, while fairly decent for a video game adaptation, took the skeleton of this game's plot and ran away with it.

I enjoyed the first game for what it was. The ending with the festival was underwhelming, though. My favorite chapter was the one where you investigated the lab. I'm looking forward to this sequel, and I wouldn't mind having the first game ported to Switch in the mean time.

@KayFiOS I think the second movie actually got scrapped sadly

@Silly_G It's a reasonable conclusion, but Pikmin 4 was mentioned as being "nearly finished" only a week or two before Hey Pikmin released, so I suspect that they were actually two separate games.

It's a question how the game will look with Unity. I honestly expected Creatures to use Unreal Engine after posting an image of Pikachu running on the engine in December 2017. Knowing how Creatures appreciates the graphical force of Pokémon games, I am invested!

i just want it to be closer to the 3DS game, than the movie
i legit hate the movie
and i am a Pokémon fan, but that movie angers me

I loved the first game so much! I been (very) patiently waiting for the second one since it was first announced. I am #HYPE for Detective Pikachu 2!

@DragotheKomodo the long since confirmed that the game and the movie are completely unrelated to one another and that the sequel will continue right were the first game left off. The plot of the movie is exclusive to the movie, the game will be entirely different and nothing at all like the movie. This is confirmed by The Pokémon Company themselves during one of the past Pokémon Directs a few years back.

I’ve played the 3DS version of Detective Pikachu since it came out, I’ve beaten this game many times, I’m planning on playing it one more time then I’ll wait for the game to come out for the Nintendo Switch, I don’t know why it would take them this long to make a sequel for this game, I’m excited to play it

I’ve been waiting for a very long time for this sequel for Detective Pikachu, hurry up Nintendo, I want to play the new game and find out how it ends