Let’s Go Pikachu and Eevee are finally out!
The game, for the Nintendo Switch, is essentially a reimake version of Pokemon Yellow, except
it’s got a whole lot of new features to offer.
It’s the Pokemon RPG that many fans of the franchise have been waiting for, and Game
Freak definitely delivers, packing it full of all the kinds of Pokemon fun we’ve been
craving ever since the Switch dropped, along with a bunch of treats hidden within plain
sight that players of the series will really get a kick out of.
So today, we’re counting down our picks for the top 10 Easter Eggs you missed in Let’s
Go Pikachu and Eevee!
Let’s get to it!
10 The Bundle Box Let’s start off our list with an Easter
Egg that isn’t even in the game; it’s on the box of the game.
For those of you who went out and purchased the Pokemon Let’s Go Bundle, there’s a
nice little easter egg hidden away on the box.
Yes, the physical box.
Flip that thing upside down, and you’ll see two familiar fossils buried amongst some
dirt, underneath the box’s text.
That ain’t mold, friends!
(Some people on reddit actually admitted they thought it was!
Or that the box was damaged.)
It’s the helix fossil, which in the games gives you Omanyte, along with something that
looks like it’s either a fossilized omanyte, or a dome fossil, which was the fossil that
gave you Kabuto.
And hidden under the text is something that looks a whole lot like old amber.
But, if you’re in Australia, the box doesn’t even have the text on it, just the fossils.
Pretty neat.
9 Game Grumps If you’re a fan of Let’s Plays on YouTube,
you’re probably familiar with Game Grumps; they make a series that was created back in
2012 in which they play games, with a comical take on many a game’s content.
With over 4.8 million subscribers and 4.3 billion video views, they’ve really established
themselves as a fan favourite.
Turns out that wasn’t lost on the developers of Let’s Go.
There’s three master trainers in the game (a mechanic we’ll talk a bit more about
later) who are named after the men behind Game Grumps.
One is Danny, another Arin, and the third Ross.
This isn’t the first time they’ve gotten a shout out in the games they play, either.
Ross, along with Arin and Jon, have also had NPCs in World of Warcraft named after them.
8 Mew Truck Those who are particularly fond of Generation
1 will probably dig this number.
In Vermillion city, after you get through the SS Anne and the ship has sailed, the crew
member who appears at the end of the pier doesn’t push you away like in previous games.
Walk down that pier to the very end.
Surf off of the edge of the right side of the pier.
There’s another dock you can reach just across the water.
And there’s a truck parked there, blocking the passage way.
Back in the day, there was a rumour that if you used Strength, you could push the truck,
and get Mew.
While you can’t use it in Let’s Go, it’s still a really nice throwback.
Although it’s worth noting that back in the day, people really believed that if you
were able to make your game glitch, you could get Mew to appear.
And these days, there’s ways of achieving that in Red and Blue, like using Arbitrary
Code.
But oh how kids wanted that Mew so bad back then!
7 Blue Since Let’s Go Pikachu and Eevee are loose
remakes of Pokemon Yellow, it shouldn’t be surprising that there would be a few familiar
faces in the game.
Blue, your Rival from Pokemon Red and Blue, who was the inspiration for Gary Oak in the
anime, makes an appearance in the game on multiple occasions, giving context to all
of the things going on with Team Rocket.
There’s also a nice little wink to the previous games with Blue stating that Professor Oak
is his grandfather, and Oak doesn’t recall what his name is, just like he does when you
were initially given the option to name your rival at the star of Red, Blue and Yellow.
And after you defeat Giovanni in the Veridian City gym, Blue takes over the gym, and even
makes a comment about remodeling the gym, which is what eventually happens by the time
you return to Kanto is Pokemon Gold and Silver.
6 Koga The Let’s Go games may take place in Kanto,
but there’s a whole lot of references to the second generation region of Johto.
And the time differences between the original Blue and Red games and the second generation
Gold and Silver games is not lost on Game Freak.
There’s a bunch of subtle comments throughout Let’s Go that hints to the future that we’ve
already seen in Gold and Silver.
This includes a conversation with Koga, the Fushia City gym leader.
Upon the first time you rechallenge him, he’ll make a comment about wanting to join the elite
four, which is something that by the time Gold and Silver rolled around initially, he
was a member of.
Plus, he references his daughter in the second time you rechallenge him, Jenine, who ends
up taking over the Fushia City gym in gold and silver.
5 Archer It’s not just Gold and Silver that the games
reference;Heart Gold and Soul Silver also get a nice little nod in the form of Archer,
the admin for Team Rocket in those games.
If you go back to Team Rocket’s hide out, he’ll be by Giovanni’s desk, and he’ll
challenge you to a battle.
If you defeat him, he’ll show you a letter he was writing that contains his ambitions
to form a stronger team Rocket outside of the Kanto region.
In HeartGold and Soul Silver, Archer is the leader of the group trying to bring back Giovanni.
This, along with many other little references, really hints that Game Freak aims to create
a sequel to Let’s Go in the Johto region, where these continuity inclusions will definitely
pay off.
4 Pokemon Mansion If you check out the Pokemon Mansion, on the
bottom floor where you find the key for the Cinnabar Island gym, there’s a room that
has a massive scientific looking machine that you can find.
When you select it, it’s described as a large container made of thick glass.
It looks as if something has been beating on it over and over from the inside.
This is none other than the glass tank that MewTwo was contained it, where he was created.
This details is pulled right from the Pokemon anime film from 1998, Pokemon The First Movie,
where we got to see MewTwo and Mew’s origin story.
It was a major cinematic event back in the day.
3 GameFreak Building In Celadon City, if you go into the GameFreaks
building and head on up to the third floor, there’s an Easter Egg that will unlock after
you’ve defeated the Elite Four.
There’s an NPC you can talk to who is named none other than Morimoto.
Morimoto is the main Game Freak designer and programmer at Game Freak who has worked on
a slew of Pokemon games since the original Japanese Red and Green titles, and is famous
for his creation of Mew.
You can battle him, too.
In the same room, you’ll notice that there’s a few posters on the wall, too.
Those are the original posters from Japan that promoted the initial Pokemon Red and
Green games, and Blue and Yellow.
There’s also a calendar that features Pikachu’s sprite icon from the original games, too.
2 Nidorino vs Gengar There’s a ton of little details in the games
that are a throwback to the original Pokemon games.
One of those is in Pallet town.
So if you go inside of your house, and go up into your room, in the top left hand corner
of the screen, hanging on a wall above your computer and desk, there’s a poster.
And what’s on it?
Nidorino versus Gengar.
So back in Pokemon Red Blue and Yellow, when you turned on your Gameboy about to play those
games, there was an intro sequence that featured these two Pokemon battling each other.
Leaf Green and FireRed also did it’s own updated take on it.
Plus, a little bonus Easter Egg for this number – right next to the poster there’s a calendar
that has a Pokemon icon on it.
That icon is the OG Pokemon icon that appeared in Red and Blue when you opened up your roster.
1 Master Trainers One of the brand new features the games offer
is that after you defeat the Elite Four, you get to face off against Master Trainers, with
the intention of defeating them and gaging their titles.
But the whole trick with them is that you have to defeat them by using the Pokemon that
they are masters with, meaning if you’re facing a Master Trainer who specializes, in
let’s say, Psyduck, for example, you would have to defeat them by using your own Psyduck.
It’s neat addition, and there’s 145 of them you can battle in the game, giving the
game much more longevity than some of its previous predecessors.
But there’s a nice subtle Easter egg included in the game when it comes to the Master Trainers
who are the Zubat and Golbat trainers.
The Zubat trainer’s name is West, and the Golbat trainer’s name is Keaton.
If you’re a fan of Batman, those names are probably tickling your ear buds a bit; they’re
references to the first two popular actors to play the caped crusader, Adam West and
Michael Keaton.
West was known for his 1960’s campy Batman television series and feature film that followed,
and Keaton played the Dark Knight in the 1989 Tim Burton Batman film, along with its sequel
Batman Returns.
In addition to that, there are a few other Master Trainers who have been named after
other pop culture references, including one named after WWE’s Randy Orton.
And the master Trainer for Pikachu?
They’re named after Ikue Otani, who voiced Pikachu for years.
There we have it friends!
There’s a lot of other Easter Eggs out there and little details about the game that we
didn’t get the chance to talk about, so give us a shout in those comments below if
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