TOP 10 THINGS YOU MISSED IN THE LET’S GO PIKACHU AND EEVEE TRAILER
A brand new trailer for the upcoming Nintendo titles Let’s Go Pikachu and Let’s Go Eevee
was recently dropped, and despite only being just over a minute in length, it’s got fans
buzzing!
Being released for the Nintendo Switch, the games made major waves during Nintendo’s
2018 E3 press conference when it was revealed that players could sync up their Pokemon Go
app with the Switch title, and that you could get your hands on some really cool JoyCon
controllers that were, of course, in the shape of a Pokeball.
Just take my money now, please.
So what does this new trailer reveal?
Well we’re diving into that today with our list of the top 10 things you missed in the
let’s go Pikachu and eevee trailer!
10 Surf The trailer boasts ‘travelling with secret
techniques’ as one of the mechanics the game is introducing.
We see the trainer player character riding on a surf board with their Pikachu up front,
maneuvering through water filled with Pokemon.
It’s clearly the Surf HM at work.
It’s not the only HM moves to seemingly get a new take either.
In contrast to that, though, the shot right after it depicts Eevee using the Cut move
to break through a small tree to reveal an otherwise inaccessible path.
This feels more like a revamped take on the Cut HM rather than a redesign like the Surf
HM. 9 Fly
The FLY hm makes use of something different as well; balloons, along with what appears
to be some sort of bike contraption attached to it that you and your Pokemon sit on.
In the trailer, your trainer character holds onto little handles that have several balloons
attached to them, with the device rising up into the air.
It’s questionable whether or not something like this and something like surf are actually
HMs anymore.
It appears that the Cut move that we mentioned in our last number is most definitely a Pokemon
move, but these forms of transportation don’t seem to rely on the Pokemon themselves to
make them happen.
8 Pokemon are Everywhere!
Unlike the traditional Pokemon games where you can’t see Pokemon in the wild (they
find you as you traverse through tall grass or in caves or in water), these games depict
wild Pokemon in the surrounding environment to you.
The opening shot that we discussed earlier with our Surf number depicts exactly that;
you can see a bunch of tentacool swimming around nearby as the player character and
Pikachu surf their way southbound.
For those of you who were major fans of the anime, this will feel just like you’re navigating
through that story when you take a step out into the wild, which is pretty exciting.
7 Choose your Gender Much like the more recent Pokemon games, you
can choose the gender of your player character!
The design seems to be pulling notes from the original Pokemon games trainer, mixed
with some of the newer assets from more recent games, like the Pokeball logo on the trailer’s
hat.
6 Celadon City Landmarks The trailer highlighted some parts of Celadon
city, and it was a really exciting look.
You’ll notice several familiar Celadon landmarks, including the department store, and the Game
Corner, which has become less of a casino and more of an arcade, based off of the arcade
machines controls.
Otherwise the layout of the building is still very familiar, which is pretty darn cool.
5 Team Rocket One of the things you may have noticed about
the Game Corner shot is that there’s a familiar uniformed figure being shady up against a
poster.
They’re wearing a big ol’ red R on their black shirt.
And they’re guarding a poster!
It’ll be curious to see how the Team Rocket missions pan out, and whether the games will
stick to the old format that Red and Blue and Yellow, or if new mechanics will be added
to make navigating the Rocket missions a little less linear.
4 Walking Pokemon Back when Pokemon Yellow was released for
the Game Boy, a new mechanic was introduced that fans of the series, both games and anime,
really wanted to see.
Walking Pokemon.
Pikachu would follow you around, and you could interact with the little guy, and he would
have different reactions to things.
This became a consistent concept in the games, also appearing in Pokemon Diamond, Pearl,
Platinum, HeartGold and SoulSilver.
It also seems to be the case with the Let’s Go games.
While you constantly have Eevee or Pikachu following you around (often sitting on your
head or shoulder), you can also be followed around by a Walking Pokemon of your choice
from your roster.
The trailer depicts the player character being following by a Raticate, a sandshrew, an Oddish,
a jigglypuff, a Grimer, The Pokemon also seem to be to scale to an
extent; you can spot several pokemon hanging out with their trainers in the trailer, including
a Poliwrath, who is bigger in size than his master.
3 Kanto Gym Leaders Erika isn’t the only familiar face when
it comes to Gym Leaders in this trailer.
Despite the emphasis on challenging her, the next several shots after her highlight in
the trailer show the player character taking on other famous Kanto gym leaders, including
the likes of Misty and Lt Surge.
There’s also a battle with an Onix, and we can only assume that that’s likely a
gym battle with Brock from Pewter City.
We knew that the games would be set in the Kanto region, but this was our first glimpse
of the 2 Attacks
One interesting mechanic introduced was the Partner Power; these are special moves that
Eevee and Pikachu will have in battle.
While that’s cool, that brief segment is followed by another attack based mechanic;
new exclusive moves that your Pikachu or Eevee can learn.
And it’s a tad odd, because they’re moves that, other than being brand new, are outside
of their type.
Pikachu has a move called Splishy Splash that is clearly a water type move.
It uses it to completely knock down an Onix.
Eevee has one called Bouncy Bubble, another water type move, that it uses against a Charmeleon,
and another one called buzzy Buzz, an electric move that’s used against a Magikarp, and
ANOTHER ONE called Sizzly Slide, a fire type move, on a Magnemite.
1 Accessibility This, alongside the reappropriating of HMs
makes it seem as if the games are attempting to be more accessible with what you can do
with Pikachu and Eevee.
But the question is, does that diminish the challenge that these games may have provided?
If you don’t need to get a water type Pokemon to use surf, does that defeat some of the
purpose in the necessity of catching them all?
The game has been marketed as more of a casual kind of Pokemon game, especially considering
it’s been paired with Pokemon Go.
Nintendo seems to be pushing it as more of a friendly collecting style adventure that
still boasts mechanics like battling and exploring Kanto.
But one of the greatest criticisms of recent Pokemon RPGs is that they feel like they’ve
been watered down compared to the original Pokemon Red, Blue, Yellow and even Silver
and Gold titles.
So, what do you make of this?
Do you think amping up the accessibility of the game diminishes some of the fun that comes
with having more of a challenge?
Let us know in those comments below!
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