The game will feature online functionality for battles and trades and requires a Nintendo Switch Online subscription to play. However, there are still battles with Trainers and Legendary Pokémon Wild Pokémon are no longer battled but rather just captured using similar mechanics to Pokémon GO. The game only features the first 151 Pokémon and some Alolan Form Pokémon. They can be played with just one Joy-Con and capture is done by flicking the Joy-Con like Pokémon GO.
You can also send your Pokémon from GO to Pokémon GO Park to get them in Pokémon Let's Go Pikachu & Eevee.
These games feature co-op locally as well as a new device like a Poké Ball called the Poké Ball Plus that lets you take your Pokémon around with you in Pokémon GO and be used as a GO Plus. These games also include a Brand New Pokémon which can also be sent to Pokémon GO. In addition to this, you can have other Pokémon of your team follow you in a manner akin to previous games. These partner Pokémon are with you always and cannot evolve. In the game, you get a specific starter Pokémon: Pikachu in Let's Go, Pikachu and Eevee in Let's Go Eevee. These games are remakes of and so are games set in the Kanto Region following an altered version of the game's story. Pokémon Let's Go, Pikachu & Let's Go, Eevee are the first mainline Pokémon games on the Nintendo Switch. Pokémon Let's Go, Pikachu & Let's Go, Eevee Black: Victini & ReshiramWhite: Victini & Zekrom.Pokémon Ranger & The Temple of the Sea!.Mystery Dungeon - Explorers of Time & Darkness.Mystery Dungeon: Blazing, Stormy & Light Adventure Squad.Pokémon Battle TrozeiPokémon Link: Battle.Verdict: With its balanced blend of old game mechanics and a new catching mechanism coupled with great graphics and gameplay, Pokemon: Let's Go, Pikachu! (or Eevee) will appeal to Pokemon fans both new and old. Opening this mystery box allows you to catch the new Pokemon Meltan. Doing so not only increases your experience but you will receive a mystery box in Pogo. If you are a Pogo trainer, you have the added incentive of transferring your Pogo's Pokemon into this game. This is because my Pikachu can defeat much stronger opponents, which is not the case with Pogo. All the Pokemon move as they should, while their battle animations are detailed and entertaining.įurthermore, I finally feel like Ash Ketchum, the main protagonist of the Pokemon cartoon series. Not photo-realistic but fantastic in an anime sense. The graphics of the game world, characters and the Pokemon are superb. For example, when your water-fearing rock Pokemon Onix comes up against a water Pokemon Blastoise. You can switch Pokemon during battles, which is handy especially when you find an ill-matching opponent. Each Pokemon has up to four skills that it can use in battles.
Whenever you catch one, you’ll earn a score multiplier based on how you caught it, just like in Pokemon Go. You can bring up to six Pokemon into these turn-based battles. Pokemon: Let’s Go offers enticing rewards for catching a bunch of Pokemon. However, for more powerful Pokemon like Snorlax or Articuno, you will need to battle them first before you can catch them.īattle animations in the Pokemon: Let's Go games are detailed and entertaining. Thus, you can move your character towards a Pokemon to start the catching sequence. You can actually see the Pokemon walking or flying around in the game world. In the Pokemon: Let's Go games, you no longer encounter Pokemon randomly unlike in previous Pokemon games. But the biggest selling point is that it comes with the hard-to-get mythical Pokemon Mew. This device is shaped like a Pokeball and comes with a press-able joystick as well as motion controls.
Unfortunately, you cannot use the Nintendo Pro Controller to control your character or throw a Pokemon when you dock your Switch to the TV.Īlternatively you can use the new Pokeball Plus ($89.90) device that Nintendo just released. Or when the controllers are mounted on the Switch console, you can use the A button for throwing.
You can take out the Switch Joy-Con controllers and use its motion controls to simulate the ball-throw to catch a Pokemon. This helps to reduce the grind of the game, as there are a lot of in-game trainers, including Jesse and James of Team Rocket, that seek to battle you. It is similar to the mobile game Pokemon Go (Pogo), in which you throw a Pokeball to catch a Pokemon. While the original Pokemon Game Boy games require you to defeat a Pokemon in battle before getting the chance to catch them, the catching mechanism here is more simplified.