Pokemon: Let's Go, Pikachu!

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  1. Tricky1
    Nov 25, 2018
    1
    a truly disappointing game that is directed at a hopeful new generation of pokemon player, neglecting those who already love the series. Also dumbed down to an insulting degree,
  2. Otonaburu
    Nov 29, 2018
    1
    Let's Go would make a very good free software to be attached to the Pokeball+ or even a tech demo (again, available for free) to drum up excitement before the next big Pokemon release. However, this is not the case and instead people are not only asked to pay full price of 60$ for a game that clearly comes from a handheld, but even worse, for a game that is in no way a definitive versionLet's Go would make a very good free software to be attached to the Pokeball+ or even a tech demo (again, available for free) to drum up excitement before the next big Pokemon release. However, this is not the case and instead people are not only asked to pay full price of 60$ for a game that clearly comes from a handheld, but even worse, for a game that is in no way a definitive version of the first generation Pokemon games. The first remake, FireRed/LeafGreen, had much more content available for a lower price (and a free dongle to trade wirelessly and play minigames) but even the original Red/Blue/Yellow is giving Let's Go run for its money when it comes to the value provided. Add to that performance issues like unstable framerate or unrefined motion controls, and it's very hard to justify the price tag to anyone who either respects his/hers money or the series itself.
    While I don't condemn changes made to the game's formula in Let's Go, there being no way to adjust gameplay according to one's preferences, like turning back on wild Pokemon battles, turning off exp. share or simply allowing the players to use the ProController, builds an image of an unfinished product, which stands out in a bad way among (mostly) great games so far released by Nintendo on Switch.    … Expand
  3. zeldaafan
    Nov 19, 2018
    0
    Gamefreak's laziest Pokemon title yet. No difficulty, bad graphics and it reuses the awful animations from the 3DS game. Look at Pikachu's double kick and Blastoise's hydro pump- unacceptable.
  4. likdatatertot
    Nov 20, 2018
    0
    dumbed down pokemon, a shame they have to waste resources on such a terrible game when they should be focusing on the next big pokemon games for 2019
  5. Themaximumexp
    Nov 21, 2018
    0
    Juego decepcionante, por favor, no hacer caso a las notas tan infladas, de verdad que no merece la pena.
  6. tigrock
    Dec 9, 2018
    0
    Well, this game is pure garbage. Why? Because you can't battle wild pokemon as always, you're forced to do the **** PoGo mechanic. Also, there aren't abilities. It's the same **** game from 1996 but much worse. I hope the 2019 game to be better because this is a shame to de Pokemon franchise
  7. charganium
    Dec 3, 2018
    0
    cons:
    -less content than the 20-year-old game it's based on
    -worse graphics than the 3DS Pokémon games -only gen 1 Pokémon -Go-style catching -Mew locked behind a $50 paywall -forced motion controls that don't even work -most features from gen 2 onward, like held items and abilities, have been removed -poor online -chibi oversaturated artstyle -terrible animations -overall a    cons:
    -less content than the 20-year-old game it's based on
    -worse graphics than the 3DS Pokémon games
    -only gen 1 Pokémon
    -Go-style catching
    -Mew locked behind a $50 paywall
    -forced motion controls that don't even work
    -most features from gen 2 onward, like held items and abilities, have been removed
    -poor online
    -chibi oversaturated artstyle
    -terrible animations
    -overall a soulless cashgrab designed to appeal to Go players and genwunners
    pros:
    -KANTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!    … Expand
  8. ArcticShrike
    Nov 21, 2018
    0
    One time, when I was 7 years old, my parents promised to throw me an amazing birthday party. Then two days before my birthday I got a bad grade on an exam and got grounded for a week, the whole birthday thing went down the toilet. I thought that would be the most disappointing moment of my life.
    Then I played this game.
  9. covcha
    Nov 22, 2018
    0
    The game is very casual and lacks content. If you do not have the name and characters of Pokémon the game would not have obtained the sales you have. I really do not recommend it and especially to your fans, I tell them to get as far away as possible from this game.
  10. Fabio
    Nov 20, 2018
    0
    I love pokemon games but I hate this one. Cannot understand why Nintendo changed the formula used in the franchising. You can not battle wild pokemon, not exist in random battles. The game have very few in-game contents and the game. Is not worth the money.
  11. Veiled
    Nov 20, 2018
    0
    Una basura como un piano, un insulto a la saga Pokemon con el único objetivo de atraer casuals encima usando el efecto nostalgia de la manera mas rastrera posible. No se merecen ni un 1 de valoración, que se centren en hacer un Pokemon de verdad y no esta porqueria.
  12. Garus24
    Nov 19, 2018
    2
    Total decepción, el juego es tan sencillo que he pasado los gimnasios matando de un solo golpe a los pokemon de los lideres! Es una historia identifa al primer pokemon de game boy, casi nada cambia. Por lo que se paga, no hay compensacion del juego. Deberia de ser un juego casi regalado por lo,chafa. Ni siquiera adaptaron las animaciones de batalla a los pokemon. Son copy paste.
  13. pm_goulart
    Nov 20, 2018
    1
    Over 20 years, Pokémon has been one of the series that make fans to enjoy new adventures. There are a lot of things that make Pokémon the huge success that it is. However, it seems that in Pokémon Let's Go everything was lost.

    1°: The addition of grass in the overworld is pointless. Pokémons can come and by and you don't even need to walk on the grass to trigger an encounter. 2°:    Over 20 years, Pokémon has been one of the series that make fans to enjoy new adventures. There are a lot of things that make Pokémon the huge success that it is. However, it seems that in Pokémon Let's Go everything was lost.

    1°: The addition of grass in the overworld is pointless. Pokémons can come and by and you don't even need to walk on the grass to trigger an encounter.

    2°: There is no Pokémon reward anymore. In order to get some Pokémons, you either have them in your team and train them until they could evolve by level up or by stone effect or you could spend some time searching around until you could find a very rare final evolution of such Pokémon. Now it is pointless as when you walk into the Mt. Moon and you just need to wait until a Clefable spawn or having a Butterfree spawning by your side at Veridian Forest.

    3°: I get the 150 ones... But how could they exclude the whole bunch of evolutions and pre evolutions of Kantonian Pokémons found in generations ahead? It is another pointless thing for me. The game simply ignored all the evolutions of pokémons. Instead, they added Alolan forms and Mega forms. Kanto should have their updated pokedex with their 184 Pokémons.

    4°: Pokémon appearing in the wild is very cool, but it causes a lag in the game. There are moments when the frame rate drops and this is due the appearing of the pokémons.

    5°: The controls were terribly planned. The could let people play in the TV by the use of both joycons or pro controller. However, they force you to choose either traditional way [handheld] or with movement controls. In addition, it is disturbing because in every game, the movement control is in the left hand and the options is in the right hand. Now they force you to choose either playing with right hand or left hand. They could leave the option of playing with both joycons as if it were on handheld mode.

    6°: The pokeball plus. It is bad having access to one of the pokémons by just buying a peripheral. Bu the problem is because this peripheral can't be used in any other game.

    7°: The game is repetitive and does not have the replay fact. By the middle of the game, you get tired of so much battles and the lack of a catching story. You play just for playing... This could have been improved in this remake. Yet, everything was made equally in the yellow version.

    8°: The game is simply easier and difficultly pokémon would have achieved its huge success if it was like this. The game turned back to everything that make it great. The playing mode in the game should have come in a "easy mode" where players could choose to play in a easy one or in a traditional one.

    9°: Battles with friends is fun, but again pointless as the surprise factor and training factor don't interfere anymore. Battles were a complicated fact in pokémon core series as it demands a lot of time and lots of combinations to make everything perfect for a battle.

    10°: Why removing the buying factor? What is the point of having pokéballs all the time? You can find a pack of 5 in the overworld, you can earn as reward and you can buy them for just 100$. It is like having infinite pokeballs.

    I could go on and on... But I won't... The game change bad aspects of previous ones... But what we want is not make change everything and erased all the concepts, instead we want things to build up. In this past 20 years, we have seen how pokémon storage have been changed, for instance... This updates does not change the game, but make improvements which are well accepted... What Pokémon Let's Go did was basically ignore all the things the series have been loyal for over 20 years.    … Expand
  14. sac1603
    Nov 22, 2018
    2
    + good overworld changes
    + Green is finally a canon character
    + good music + following pokemon is cool - Holds your hand - "Friendly" rival is patronizing - challenges for getting into gyms are patronizing - catching mechanics blow - attack animations are lazy - only 153 pokemon in the game - leveling is limited to catching pokemon over and over again - master trainer    + good overworld changes
    + Green is finally a canon character
    + good music
    + following pokemon is cool

    - Holds your hand
    - "Friendly" rival is patronizing
    - challenges for getting into gyms are patronizing
    - catching mechanics blow
    - attack animations are lazy
    - only 153 pokemon in the game
    - leveling is limited to catching pokemon over and over again
    - master trainer post-game is lazy and just busy-work in terms of content, no substance

    Why would you play this game instead of emulating Fire Red? There's more content, a post-game, and even more pokemon in the game! This is just Pokemon Go for the switch! Are you seriously gonna spend $60 on a FREE MOBILE GAME YOU CAN PLAY ON A SMARTPHONE?

    Get smart and don't buy this game. Vote with your wallet.    … Expand
  15. what3verman
    Nov 26, 2018
    0
    The controls (at least on handheld) are wonky as hell and barely work, I can't run down without using the Pokeball, every encounter feels like catching a legendary without the charm, the story is somehow both a remake of Yellow and a sequel to Red/Green/Blue, so it looks like everyone is an absolute moron by redoing everything the exact same way, there are no more wild battles, meaningThe controls (at least on handheld) are wonky as hell and barely work, I can't run down without using the Pokeball, every encounter feels like catching a legendary without the charm, the story is somehow both a remake of Yellow and a sequel to Red/Green/Blue, so it looks like everyone is an absolute moron by redoing everything the exact same way, there are no more wild battles, meaning grinding is entirely money- and luck-dependent, everything is super easy and it insults everyone's intelligence with the handholding being somehow worse than Gen VII, and the characters are a real downgrade from the original. Oak is now a dick by making a joke about forgetting his grandson's name, "Trace" is a poor man's Hat and Green put together (and I hated Hau personally), Green is back for some reason and they changed him too much for that point in his development, and nothing has been improved. There are no more held items nor Abilities (which FireRed and LeafGreen had), the new moves are laughably bad (like the infamous Baddy Bad), the over reliance on charm means every other aspects were overlooked, and I personally did not like the Go mechanics from the ground up, even though that was also a mess in general.

    Did this game do good things? Sure. The Master Trainers are a neat idea (though I feel they went overboard with every single Pokémon having one, meaning for the most part you have to stop them from evolving and feed them candies for the postgame), Blue being canon is nice though ultimately unnecessary, rematching the Gym Leaders is cool (even though it's not the first game to do so), and I guess the Pokémon following you again was nice (though not a deal maker/breaker for me). But those positives are vastly outclassed by negatives that are a lot more essential in a game. The controls barely work, but hey look at that Pikachu's clothes! It's just hiding your head in the sand.    … Expand
  16. Steggles
    Nov 19, 2018
    1
    This game may look appealing to some but do not be fooled. Firstly let's say this is a main series (as pokemon has been saying) and not core (i.e. RBYG to USUM and the games in between) games. If this spawns a series of let's go games, creating it's own separate thing than whatever. However the craze of pokemon go has largely died down since 2016, although the game still as just overThis game may look appealing to some but do not be fooled. Firstly let's say this is a main series (as pokemon has been saying) and not core (i.e. RBYG to USUM and the games in between) games. If this spawns a series of let's go games, creating it's own separate thing than whatever. However the craze of pokemon go has largely died down since 2016, although the game still as just over 2million active users, it seems odd that pokemon company has even bothered to draw these players closer to the core series via this weird hybrid of the two. Not stating this without reason, the core series consistently sell over 10million, with exception to installments like emerald, crystal, platinum (that sell over 5million). Total core series sales is just under 230 million units. The begining of the last generation; Pokemon sun and moon sold over 16million. Making an attempt to add 2million Go players at least seems to be pointless, as if they had any interest in the core series they would have already picked one up or stayed with it. So kinda seems like a waste of time to make these games, objectively. But let's go over the games

    What are the positive aspects of this game:
    1. It looks nice; the art direction is HD for the most part so nothing to complain about to much*(N.B on the much part)

    2. It is super easy; if you have a child who is a recent fan of pokemon go, then this is a good start i guess, and a start in which many players began 20+yrs ago.

    3. Pokemon walk around with you; this was a feature in Heart Gold and Soul SIlver back on the DS system (however that included around 450ish pokemon, just a bit less than that), it's nice to see your partners mostly to scale behind you

    4. If your a new commer the game only includes the first 151ish pokemon, so completing the pokedex isn't as intimidating as a task as it is in the newer games with over 800 pokemon. For old first generation fans returning to the franchise it is also nice for the same reason.

    Negative aspects of these games:
    1. this game costs $60 USA ($80 AUS, if like me you live in Australia); ok so normal price yeah, the games on the handeld lines where about $50is only a $10 increase. yup a $10 increase for a game that has 80% less content. oh boi.

    2. Mew is behind a pay wall; i hate microtransaction, lootboxes, you name it. DLC i don't mind as long as it is worth the price, i.e. witcher 3 DLCs absolutely worth the price, Breath of the wild, yup sure worth the low price, you get it good quality extra content for a fair price, most of the DLC i enjoy are ones in which i feel like i don't need them to have a full experience. SO what does this have to do with Mew, well mew is 1 of the original pokemon and has a lot of lore and fan love, so what do they do, the slap that **** behind a $50USA ($70 AUS) controller that is not needed to play the game and is only used for a gimmick. They also want it to be the only way to get mew, as you can't transfer your mew from Pokemon go to these games.

    3. 80% less content compared to core: like i said before this is not worth the money. This game only includes 151 of 8010ish pokemon in the franchise, removes held items, abilities, EV's, anything competative. Removes wild battles for GO's simple capture. This doesn't work, the motion control are inconsistent and you have to use them, it **** wth leveling. People for this complain about core series, "RNG" system of battling and weakening pokemon (which by the way is not slow, annoying or grindy, cause it has many methods to increase your odds of catching pokemon and if your tired of running into pokemon just use a god dam repel, you have access to them form the start of the game), however this supposed better system is so so much worse; wild pokemon can just spawn at your feet (one top of another pokemon, why is this a thing) they glog the overworld (just try using any rideable pokemon you hop of them at any ledge or inconvienience), catching pokemon gives you more exp that trainer battles (which is dumb) meaning to level up your box will be inevietably filled with hundreds of pidgey's.

    4.This game is so easy. Every trainer or rival, gym leader or bad guy never has more 4 pokemon or even 2, they force you to enter gyms with a requirement that makes it easier, your partner literally has a broken movepool and can solorun, stats and moves are broken, and you can use the other joycon to go 2player and effectively tag team 2v1 anyone, all the critic reviews or people saying this is hard, are **** at pokemon and videogames.

    5. This game has sudden frame drops (how? like how?), the shadows are still pixelated (why? this is a switch that can run Doom with decent fedelity and frames), the art style is booring, so are the characters, they introduce meltan just cause (mythical for the sake of being mythical) to enitce people to buy it for complete pokedex's. The music is eh, heard better fan remix's.

    This game is only worth $20. Wait till this goes on sale    … Expand
  17. SHMIKE
    Nov 21, 2018
    0
    Been a pokemon fan since the beginning. This game was fun for the 24 hours it took for me to beat the game and I couldn't wait to experience competitive end game with easy to get IV pokemon so I could really try all my favorites to really get a good grip on pvp... There is no competitive pvp and now this game has no end game content except pointless high IV pokemon and boring shines thatBeen a pokemon fan since the beginning. This game was fun for the 24 hours it took for me to beat the game and I couldn't wait to experience competitive end game with easy to get IV pokemon so I could really try all my favorites to really get a good grip on pvp... There is no competitive pvp and now this game has no end game content except pointless high IV pokemon and boring shines that take way to long just to have a different color. Also pointless master trainers that reward pointless titles for a hard feat accomplishment. Super happy this isn't an a official pokemon release and gen 8 is still on the way!… Expand
  18. hisfake6m
    Nov 22, 2018
    0
    The laziest Pokemon game yet. Toddler level difficulty, poor graphics and missing content.
  19. Talix
    Dec 14, 2018
    0
    An utterly lazy attempt at nostalgia cash-in that takes a backwards step in every way. Pokemon games have reached the pinnacle of stagnation with Pokemon: Let's Go, Pikachu!/Evee where the formula is stripped down to bare-bones mechanics. The game is designed to allow you to play with one hand, presumably so you can browse on your phone at the same time - a good move since the game is soAn utterly lazy attempt at nostalgia cash-in that takes a backwards step in every way. Pokemon games have reached the pinnacle of stagnation with Pokemon: Let's Go, Pikachu!/Evee where the formula is stripped down to bare-bones mechanics. The game is designed to allow you to play with one hand, presumably so you can browse on your phone at the same time - a good move since the game is so boring. The argument that this game makes Pokemon more accessible is utterly and completely flawed - Pokemon games were designed for kids, and kids aren't stupid. By removing anything that might be considered challenging (safari zone, bikes, battling wild POKEMON, ect) they have found a away to make yet-another-re-make with a new and worse twist. Pokemon needs new ideas, not stripped down games that don't meet the standards of a mobile game.… Expand
  20. djm11b1p
    Nov 29, 2018
    4
    Got the game because all my switch friends are playing it. Was hoping this would be a solid remake of the originals but holy **** is it terrible. They removed the best part of the RPG elements of the game. You don't have to fight other Pokemon to level yours up...just catch them. You can't fight wild Pokemon, just throw Pokeballs and hope they land on them. Pretty much a guaranteed captureGot the game because all my switch friends are playing it. Was hoping this would be a solid remake of the originals but holy **** is it terrible. They removed the best part of the RPG elements of the game. You don't have to fight other Pokemon to level yours up...just catch them. You can't fight wild Pokemon, just throw Pokeballs and hope they land on them. Pretty much a guaranteed capture every time. They took the worst parts about Pokemon Go, a mobile game, and implemented them into a $60 remake. The only combat is against Trainers and, while it is beautiful in its animation and design, is a huge let down. This is a $30 game at most since they took out the one thing that made Pokemon have a long play time, and that is combat. This is just a cash grab using the Pokemon nostalgia.… Expand
  21. Devilsking
    Nov 20, 2018
    0
    i used to have unwavering faith in the franchise, went in almost blind expecting great things from this lastest new installation. one advise don't buy this ****
  22. Lyghtning
    Nov 19, 2018
    2
    Awful. This is another game that just revisits kanto for the 5th time while making the game have less content than the remakes of gen 1, firered and leafgreen. So many pokemon are cut so you are left with the original 151 and a new pokemon only transferable from the mobile game, Meltan. You cannot capture them all without buying a $50 controller that will barely work outside of pokemon,Awful. This is another game that just revisits kanto for the 5th time while making the game have less content than the remakes of gen 1, firered and leafgreen. So many pokemon are cut so you are left with the original 151 and a new pokemon only transferable from the mobile game, Meltan. You cannot capture them all without buying a $50 controller that will barely work outside of pokemon, making this game effectively $100 if you buy the game + ball deal. The main game is offensively boring and way too easy. A game being easy can be seen as a selling point, but this game takes it too far and makes every battle require no thought. You are always over leveled because every caught pokemon levels up everyone in the party and cannot be toggled off like the exp share in sun&moon. Even if you tried to do a self set challenge, the game even tries to stop you from doing that because gyms now have requirements to enter, such as forcing you to have a pokemon of the type effective against the gym, have enough different pokemon caught, or have a pokemon be 3 levels higher than the gym leaders pokemon. There are also stat candies which raise the stats of pokemon up by a whopping 200 extra. This would have been a good optionial addition for players who wanted the game to be easy, but the game was balanced without these in mind and thus make them completely useless to those who wanted a challenge, and the players who do like to minmax just turns the game into a one hit ko fest. The post game is also lacking in content. There is no battle frontier or battle tower, or even the battle maison. Just master trainers, who are barely even trainers because they have only one pokemon that is the same as yours and the battle requires no thought, just leveling that pokemon up and feeding lots of candies is the only effective strategy.

    As for presentation, the graphics aren't great and has very little performance issues, but should not be a deal breaker reason. The music is surprisingly very lackluster, since every song has no kick to it. Most of it is remixes to music we have heard before, but there are no standout instruments to each track. Good for overworld and peaceful music, but terrible for battle themes.

    And the major game design choices made are poorly executed. Pokemon being in the overworld is a good change, but it ruins the urgency of finding the exit of a cave or dungeon to prevent your team from being weakened, because there is no incentive other than to be done with the game quicker. With encounters being easily avoidable, preparation for a cave/dungeon isn't necessary at all. A change could have been made so pokemon fight you in these areas. As for the new catching mechanics, party wide exp and motion controls should not be forced. For some stupid reason, the motion controls cannot be disabled in docked mode. The 2 player mode is also poorly implemented. You get to travel with a friend in the overworld, but the second player cannot do anything but walk around with them. This also created a problem with the difficulty again, making no trainer be fun since everything would die in 1 turn.

    The game is marketed at those who have nostalgia for kanto and very VERY young children as a way to ease them into other games, yet hold their hand way too much and do nothing to prepare them properly at all for an already easy series due to the different mechanics and play style the game wants you to go for.

    Overall, the game has poorly executed ideas and suffers immensely from a difficulty level being toned down way too much even when trying your hardest to implement your own challenges. A very easy platformer like kirby can be enjoyable because of the many different ways you can play around with the mechanics. A turn based rpg cannot work when even the dumbest of decisions wont kill you. The original games could be beaten by many as a child, so why is there a need to change it to be the level of easiness there is now? Very boring, lacking in content, and would be best to wait and see how the next pokemon game comes out, or buy the many other, and better rpgs on the switch.    … Expand
  23. LightCreed
    Nov 20, 2018
    0
    As a long time pokemon fan I was hoping what gamefreak what do next to improve the pokemon generations from handheld to home consoles and one of the recent pokemon spinoff releases was pokemon let's go a direct sequel of pokemon go and it is disappointing and heres why.

    To start of it is an obvious gen 1 remake which we already got second putting in that format will have many people    As a long time pokemon fan I was hoping what gamefreak what do next to improve the pokemon generations from handheld to home consoles and one of the recent pokemon spinoff releases was pokemon let's go a direct sequel of pokemon go and it is disappointing and heres why.

    To start of it is an obvious gen 1 remake which we already got second putting in that format will have many people having questions about this game and it is important that you give them that response however what we got is a boring spinoff that has no challenge and removes wild battles, abilities, breeding, and much more which core pokemon games had. And since this is targeted towards kids it will make it sell better right? wrong nintendo did that with the wii u and guess what it had very weak sales and the console was weak compared to the xbox one and ps4 and seeing how super smash bros ultimate shows all the details sakurai has worked through and with promising gameplay buy that instead. besides this game has the most laughable graphics I've ever seen while the pokemon is on point same can't be said with the main characters and npcs but people wil defend this game by saying well what's wrong of it's chibi? freakin sun and moon and it's sequel showed actual models of the humans and that is a huge step forward for the 3ds while it held your hand it still had the core features it's post game content was somewhat alright and there was some challenges. here this game holds your hand a lot it tells you which pokemon to catch and what level your pokemon need to be in order to pass the gym what the heck whatever happened to freedom of catching them leveling them after battles it just makes the game even more easier than it already is. Plus this game doesn't have post game content even oras had the delta episodes and that was amazing this game has master trainers which is honestly a joke. plus why cant i play this game with two joy cons besides handheld mode come on and the pokeball plus is not worth it at all .

    In conclusion, despite being a spinoff this game has the least effort put in to the game, it has less of the main pokemon appeal, it is very easy, and getting mew frim the useless peripheral is just not right since mew is supposed to be rare not something that can be obtained immediately. plus this game needs more pokemon, firered and leadgreen can allow you to catch gen 2-3 pokemon and even gen 2 allows you to go back to gen 1 which was amazing. I dont recommend anyone to buy this save your money    … Expand
  24. tykonic
    Nov 20, 2018
    0
    Heavily overpriced for a bland and unambitious game.
    Painfully easy even for Pokemon standards. Cuts core mechanics like abilities and weather as well as more than 500 mons, thus making it very awkward for long time players and doesnt quite feel like the game that was gonna bring go players into the main franchise since... all the core mechanics of a main series game arent even there. And    Heavily overpriced for a bland and unambitious game.
    Painfully easy even for Pokemon standards. Cuts core mechanics like abilities and weather as well as more than 500 mons, thus making it very awkward for long time players and doesnt quite feel like the game that was gonna bring go players into the main franchise since... all the core mechanics of a main series game arent even there. And yes, its a kids game, but Nintendo themselves advertised it as a game "to keep veterans on their toes". Which is ridiculous.
    Region got recycled for the 7th time, character animations got recycled from the 3DS models, which feels lazy. The battle animations are also extremely unimpressive considering the switch has very high potential in that regard. The frequent frame drops the game has are inexcusable for a 2018 game. As for the new additions:
    Catching mons with motion controls feels klunky and bugs out often. Proper targetted catching can be bought for an additional 50$ and the Pokeball Plus is an absolute nightmare for controlling your character outside of the catching process.
    Arbitrary requirements to enter gyms are now present, with one of them forcing your to enter a gym overleveled. Thanks for spoonfeeding me, Nintendo.
    It is a pretty game. But thats about it. Not worth the 60$, and very disappointing for Pokemons grand entrance on the switch.    … Expand
  25. MatQuaD
    Nov 21, 2018
    0
    Worst Pokemon game in history of this franchise. Remove strategy, feature and a lot of pokemon for help casual player is a suicide for the brand. 1/10.
  26. ikkan
    Nov 26, 2018
    4
    Pokemon yellow for kids the new generation kids that are not allowed to be frustrated. I used to play pokemon blue on gameboy and it was impossible to beat brock and mist without leveling a lot my pokemons. Now i beat the entire gym with one run, without leveling my pokemons and without using a single potion. My recomendation: Get the Physical version, play and sell.
  27. jtilt
    Nov 23, 2018
    2
    It’s as if the developers were told to make a game with as little content as possible drag on for as long as possible. Tedious, lazy, and terrible.
  28. werol2
    Nov 23, 2018
    1
    Pokemon Let's Go is a beautiful looking Game.The Graphics are very polished and you can see Pokemon on the surface, i enjoyed that feature.
    Thats all positive i have to say about this game though. The game felt to me like a beta test of how much content they can cut from a game before people get mad.
    -The coop sounded amazing in theory but it is propably the worst thing about the game.    Pokemon Let's Go is a beautiful looking Game.The Graphics are very polished and you can see Pokemon on the surface, i enjoyed that feature.
    Thats all positive i have to say about this game though. The game felt to me like a beta test of how much content they can cut from a game before people get mad.
    -The coop sounded amazing in theory but it is propably the worst thing about the game. As player 2 you are not only unable to interact with anything in the game but you are mere a teleporting hologram following the protagonist to enable him a 2 v 1 battle. Thats it (well you can stun roaming pokemon for about 1.5 seconds to help the real player catch it more easily). Oh and if the protagonist initiates a 2 v 2 battle you are getting straight up benched. The most anoying thing about coop is that it unbalances the allready ridiculous easy game to a point were it is just not anymore enjoyable.
    -The catching system is straight out of Pokemon Go. I personally didnt enjoy this concept but i get why people would prefer the "throw ball in face feature" over the old fashioned way. What noone should enjoy is that the throwing mechanic is frustratingly unpredictable and shouldnt have left the aplha version of this game.
    -The xp rate of just blindly catching anything you see wins against all other means of getting xp wich leads to the pokemon mass production playstyle we all love from pokemon go. Catch a lot of pokemon > Put them in the "send to oaks blender" > Get Candy > Feed the pokemon that matter. Oh and the pokemon that matters is really just Eevee, wich is so ridiculously overpowered that after teaching it its new abilitys, we at some point had to remove it from the team for ruining the combat experience.
    - The new Breeding experience for the people that love to create the perfect Pokemon is quite non existing. After seeing a ditto pillow in the daycare center i got shortly exited, but then i realized you can put there only one pokemon at a time. Removing another aspect i loved about the main series.
    They just removed pokemons selling points, copied the cashgrab mobile, increased the graphics , increased the price and created the most casual experience i had for a very long time,almost as if this game was targeted towards toddlers.    … Expand
  29. Scrungo
    Nov 23, 2018
    1
    If you want to play a good Red/Blue/Green game, play Firered and Leafgreen for the GBA.
  30. Panchondo
    Nov 21, 2018
    0
    Pokemon Let´s Go Pikachu se queda por debajo de spiderman de PS4, no mejora sus mecanicas, los graficos son los mismos de 3ds, pero con alisado.
  31. rubin
    Nov 21, 2018
    0
    Minimum effort, maximum profit seems to be the MO at GameFreak and unfortunately this game might be their biggest offender yet. It has the least amount of content of any Pokémon game since the original Red/Blue/Yellow, missing roughly 80% of existing creatures and majority of gameplay staples, while sporting somehow the highest price of admission of any Pokémon game yet (with one of theMinimum effort, maximum profit seems to be the MO at GameFreak and unfortunately this game might be their biggest offender yet. It has the least amount of content of any Pokémon game since the original Red/Blue/Yellow, missing roughly 80% of existing creatures and majority of gameplay staples, while sporting somehow the highest price of admission of any Pokémon game yet (with one of the highly sought after monsters deliberately being put behind a $50 paywall, and the very watered down online features demanding another $20 to be used). Let’s Go also doesn’t do the Nintendo Switch justice in strictly technical terms. In stark contrast to Nintendo’s own blockbusters such as The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey, the 2.5D world of Let’s Go is made of simple, flat textures with terrible lightning and very limited animations, more fitting for a mobile or handheld game than a fully priced console release. Avoid at all costs.… Expand
  32. Ughduty
    Dec 31, 2018
    0
    Nice graphics and music is all good one can say about this game. Everything else is just a big let down. The worst is the menue system where you have to click up to 16 times to reach specific functions. Next comes the difficulty that is not existant except for a few unfair battles where I even encountered a trainer that had a Pokemon that was not legitimate (a level 26 Diglett that knowsNice graphics and music is all good one can say about this game. Everything else is just a big let down. The worst is the menue system where you have to click up to 16 times to reach specific functions. Next comes the difficulty that is not existant except for a few unfair battles where I even encountered a trainer that had a Pokemon that was not legitimate (a level 26 Diglett that knows the move Fissure)! Why is there still no options to setup the difficulty as I like it? They could for example have listened to the Pokemon fanbase and build in options for Nuzlock runs where one even could configure the details of it. Instead we get a boiled down version that is even more basic than the original Pokemon Yellow. This was a waste of money.… Expand
  33. GODFEARIN6
    Nov 22, 2018
    0
    Ugh where was the pokemon i grew up with? Like why are games being dumbed down and stuffed with Microtransactions? Its not just this game but many. I love you pokemon and all that it is but i refuse to play this crap anymore.
  34. GluttonWarlord
    Nov 21, 2018
    0
    Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee are ridiculously easy games that cannot be lost under any circumstances, to the point that it's difficult to really call them games. Experience share cannot be turned off resulting in the player always being incredibly higher level than their opponents, and if they got any ideas about doing something earlier than before they would have a 100% chance of success,Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee are ridiculously easy games that cannot be lost under any circumstances, to the point that it's difficult to really call them games. Experience share cannot be turned off resulting in the player always being incredibly higher level than their opponents, and if they got any ideas about doing something earlier than before they would have a 100% chance of success, the game will outright prevent them, requiring players to have the tools needed to easily beat every boss before they fight them. Catching Pokemon is now a mindless affair that has players throw balls at Pokemon as they put up no resistance whatsoever, effectively turning the entire game into the Safari Zone from previous titles.

    The game is a remake of the original Pokemon Red and Blue that offers nothing of its own, instead dumbing down an already easy game to the point of unplayability. You don't have to be a skilled gamer to be appalled at the lack of challenge in these games, as there is so little challenge that there is no real gameplay as the game plays itself, with the "player" as more of a spectator. Nearly all advances the series has made have been left in the dust in the attempt to make the game appeal to a more casual audience. The Pokemon Company has deleted abilities, held items, and over half of the moves in the Pokemon franchise's extensive library seemingly at random. Only generation one Pokemon are present in the game, as the game pretends that the advances the series has made in the past 22 years don't exist. The gameboy advance remakes of Red and Blue, Fire Red and Leaf Green, were far more respectful to the franchise as a whole, as well as having any semblance of difficulty.    … Expand
  35. KaslanaDx02
    May 13, 2019
    0
    Que mal refrito, literal es lo mismo que la entrega pasada, ¿que paso con nintendo? ¿Porque no hubo majia ni innovavion?, menudo juego mas cutre 0/10
  36. thestarsquad
    Mar 29, 2019
    1
    This game is literally garbage. Obviously it's intended for children and casual Pokemon Go fans who don't know what they're doing, but this game could not be easier. It's like Game Freak thinks we're 2 years old. The starter Pokemon are overpowered and beat everything in the game without trying and get broken moves super early on, they don't let you enter gyms without certain types/levels,This game is literally garbage. Obviously it's intended for children and casual Pokemon Go fans who don't know what they're doing, but this game could not be easier. It's like Game Freak thinks we're 2 years old. The starter Pokemon are overpowered and beat everything in the game without trying and get broken moves super early on, they don't let you enter gyms without certain types/levels, you can't battle wild Pokemon, and the enemy AI is trash. Enemy Pokemon will intentionally use non-damaging moves to let you win. Like, constantly. On top of that most other trainers have 1 Pokemon, 2 at best. And if you play co-op mode you get an extreme unfair advantage. How is this acceptable? If you have a full party I genuinely don't think you could lose a battle if you tried. What happened to trial and error? The game holds your hand the ENTIRE game. You can design a game for children without making it such a cakewalk! I mean, look at generations 4 and 5. Those games were definitely children's games, but the difficulty was still ramped up enough that you lost battles occasionally, and you had to battle wild Pokemon to gain levels. I was like 9 years old when I played generation 4 and I struggled, but I still beat the game! Children are not idiots. And if you insist on designing a game for idiots, why not implement a hard mode? Why not AT LEAST give the player the freedom to enter a gym, get obliterated, learn a lesson, and come back once they understand how types work? The game has completely streamlined any difficulty whatsoever. You don't learn or figure out anything on your own- the game does it all for you and gives you all the answers. Not only does it give you the answers but it FORCES you to play the game a specific way.

    There are obviously a few good things about the game. Pokemon following you, being able to access the box anywhere you want, no more wild encounters- all good things. However the game sugarcoats these improvements in the easiest Pokemon game literally ever. I honestly can't believe that the Pokemon Company thinks this is acceptable. Pokemon is a huge franchise and it deserves better. This was the most disappointing Pokemon game by far, especially after generations 6 & 7, the easiest generations of all time. Pokemon can be a game for kids but it's also a game for adults- they can't keep giving us bad games, with bad plots, that have literally no difficulty at all and FORCE you to use Pokemon that make the game easier. The game sucks and it's a depressing representation of modern Pokemon. The games could be so much more, but it feels like GF and TPC don't even care about pleasing fans. I'm sick of it. 1/10.    … Expand
  37. Poopoobutter
    Jan 1, 2021
    3
    Why would they change the random pokemon battles into a lame catching mini game? That decision was terrible.
  38. BowLL
    Nov 22, 2020
    1
    i'm SERIOUSLY disappointed in the game, it was never the feeling that i had, ready to play a paid pokemon game for the first time, only to find that it was not really with the other games, it's definitely overpriced with a lot of randomness and overly limited mechanics compared to the other games, even seeing the trailer for pokemon sword & shield looked better than this crap that i played.
  39. LSS777
    Nov 27, 2020
    3
    Terribly boring, maybe kids will like it. The function with knocking out Pokémon is interesting, but this is the first 15 minutes.
  40. Suroguner
    Jan 27, 2019
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Let's Go is a No Go.

    Right off the bat this game baits you with nostalgia only to bash you over the head with its poor capture mechanic and awkward single joycon controls. Adding to the frustration, pokemon can run away at literally any time up to and even including when the pokeball hits. Even the Encounter pokemon can run from you too now.

    Speaking of Encounter pokemon, you now have to battle them first before you can try to capture them. Plus you only have 5 minutes to beat them in. This restriction is quite unfair as now you need to over power your pokemon to finish the battle in time to get to the capture phase.

    The motion controls for the capture mechanic are also inaccurate at times causing your ball to fly off to the left when you want to throw to the right. Most of the time when I wanted to throw directly in front of me, I had to move the joycon up as if I was throwing underhanded. I should mention also that while doing this, my joycon was in the joycon grip accessory alone as not using the Left joycon too felt awkward.

    Next is the issue of the box your pokemon are stored in. in every mainline pokemon game, as well as Pokemon Colosseum and XD Gale of Darkness, your pokemon were sent into multiple boxes that could hold up to 20 in the old Gen 1 and 2 games, to 30 pokemon each in Generation 3 and up. Now you have a single box that hold up to 1000 pokemon! Game Freak expects you to be capturing tons of pokemon, but doing so makes it harder to pick out a pokemon to use, similar to picking out a marble from an ever increasing bag of marbles. Without being able to use multiple boxes, sorting pokemon becomes as easy as cleaning a kid's bedroom.

    When it comes to training pokemon you're going to have to rely on that capture mechanic most of the time as the only battles you'll be facing are from either 6 specific encounter pokemon, or Trainers. This winds up giving you little personal experience in battling with little room for experimenting outside of battling the elite 4 or Green.

    While hyper Training was brought back for this game, it's now rendered moot as there is now a candy system in place to also make a sugar junkie out of your pokemon as you boost their stats with more than just Rare Candies. Beware though, if you take your buffed out pokemon online, you stand running the risk of your pokemon facing a sugar crash and having their stats reverted for the online battle unless you choose the right rule set.

    Also online battles and trades are pay walled by the Nintendo switch online service now.

    The amount of unique pokemon you can get is also SEVERLY limited to just the first 151 pokemon, plus what might as well be considered Generation 8's first 2 pokemon, Meltan and Melmetal, as they are not usable anywhere else other than the multi-generational pokemon Go. Speaking of Pokemon Go, at the time of this writing, Pokemon Go has pokemon captureable from Generations 1 through 4, but only Bulbasaur through Mewtwo, as well as Meltan and Melmetal can be transferred into Let's Go. This means that in order to get Mew in Let's Go, you need to get the pokeball Plus while the Mew promotion is still going on.

    Speaking of that device now, the Mew on it can only be redeemed once. so choose wisely what you do with it. As for how good the device is, I can not say as I do not have it.

    While the Game corner does make a comeback, none of the games are playable in it despite the place being converted from a Casino into an Arcade. Instead, you can come here to pick up respawnable items. Fun. /s

    The NPC's of Fushia even lie about the Safari zone now as it has been replaced with Go Park.

    In past games you could get a bike you could ride to speed up, or ride Tauros in Gen 7. In Let's Go, you get to pick the pokemon you ride, from a selection. However if you get too close to a wall, your pokemon goes back into their ball leaving you on the ground.

    Now all that said, I did find somethings likeable about this game. Certain interactions with your partner pokemon were enjoyable, the new Additional story elements were a plus (the additions, not the replacements), and even the part where you get to play as your partner pokemon in the rocket hideout were enjoyable, but they were not enough to save this game.

    Nostalgia can only take a product so far, and that distance is even shorter when you have access to the original game, the first remake, and the port to the 3DS. Pokemon Let's go is a No Go, but because of the stuff I did enjoy, I'm giving it a 2 instead of a 1.    … Expand
  41. Hellspeller
    Jan 22, 2019
    3
    Love that this is 1st Gen only.
    HATE that that you cant play with a controller on TV !? (1-hand nunchuk only)
    HATE that you dont battle wild pokemon and this is a piece of crap Pokemon Go clone
    HATEFULY DISPISE the catch rate of pokemon past lvl 20 (Cant catch ANYTHING ! Ruins the game entirely)
  42. mrwho995
    Mar 2, 2019
    2
    This is the first Pokemon I've ever played.

    This game has got a lot of negative reviews from Pokemon fans for decisions like getting rid of random encounters. Probably the only good thing about this game is the lack of random encounters, which are an incredibly tedious and annoying gameplay mechanic. This game would have been bad and outdated a decade ago. Now, it's just awful. The    This is the first Pokemon I've ever played.

    This game has got a lot of negative reviews from Pokemon fans for decisions like getting rid of random encounters. Probably the only good thing about this game is the lack of random encounters, which are an incredibly tedious and annoying gameplay mechanic.

    This game would have been bad and outdated a decade ago. Now, it's just awful. The art style is uninspiring and bland. The music is repetitive and aged. And the gameplay feels 20 years out of date. The core of the game is an incredibly dull and repetitive lull. The story is generic and bland, so all that leaves you with is the two main gameplay mechanics.

    You aim pokeballs. You battle pokemon. That's literally the entire game. After 5 minutes you've already experienced 90% of what the game has to offer. Every fight feels the same, every catch feels the same. The game is just incredibly boring.

    The game feels like a bad handheld from over 10 years ago ported to a modern device. The map is unimaginative and linear, the freedom of movement is virtually nonexistent. And the game is scattered with mind-bogglingly bad QoL decisions. The tree chopping ability is a tedious slog to get through, for example, when there is literally no reason for it not to be done automatically and quickly. Accessing what you want requires far too many clicks: three buttons to look at a map, which is completely useless anyway, which in any other game you could pop up whenever you want. And as a whole the game is incredibly slow: there is a painfully tedious amount of downtime in combat.

    If the other Pokemon games are anything even remotely close to this, I have no idea how the franchise has lasted so long. I really struggle to think of any redeeming features. And this crap cost me £50.    … Expand
  43. okottekoneko
    Mar 13, 2019
    2
    I wanted to like this, i really did, it looks great, but optimization and core mechanics of what make pokemon games what they are are lost for no logical reason.

    Its like they took poke'mon go, and tried to shoe horn it into an RPG. You dont fight wild poke'mon, you only catch them, with no weakening, using the same system from poke'mon go, just with less skill needed. Catching    I wanted to like this, i really did, it looks great, but optimization and core mechanics of what make pokemon games what they are are lost for no logical reason.

    Its like they took poke'mon go, and tried to shoe horn it into an RPG.

    You dont fight wild poke'mon, you only catch them, with no weakening, using the same system from poke'mon go, just with less skill needed.

    Catching tons of duplicate useless poke'mon gives exp to your team, the only thing really resembling training is you let oak grind your extra unwanted poke'mon into candy, and you use that to buff your team.

    It's a shallow form on what poke'mon red/blue/yellow was, and its just kinda meh.

    I hope my kids like it, because its boring the hell out of me, and i have been playing poke'mon since i was 8 when blue and red came out.

    On top of the gameplay issues, there are also technical issues, from the moment the game starts right away you notice the game drops frames, like really bad, movement is not very smooth and the lag gets annoying quickly.

    The game overall just feels sloppy and lazy, i hope this trend does not roll over to the new poke'mon games recently announced, because if it does, they will likely kill the series.    … Expand
  44. mileafly
    Dec 19, 2019
    0
    This is my first Pokemon game and I hate it. I have always wanted to check out the Pokemon series to see what all the fuss is about but I can't bear to play this anymore. I have not played such an easy, completely challange free and brainless game in a long time. The "difficulty level" in this game is simply the most pathetic I have ever seen. This seriously fels like it was made for 5This is my first Pokemon game and I hate it. I have always wanted to check out the Pokemon series to see what all the fuss is about but I can't bear to play this anymore. I have not played such an easy, completely challange free and brainless game in a long time. The "difficulty level" in this game is simply the most pathetic I have ever seen. This seriously fels like it was made for 5 year olds or younger? Also it is super annoying to have to throw my controller at the screen to catch Pokemons, just stop with those things please. I have read some other comments that say the older games are better and more hardcore though so I might check some of them out instead, but this has seriously left a bad taste in my mouth for the whole "Pokemon thing" so I don't know if I even want to do that.… Expand
  45. spencersong
    Mar 12, 2019
    3
    This game is so boring that I constantly doze off when I was playing. No interesting Characters, No fun interaction with the envirment. The awkward capture mechanic makes me wanna jump off a building. Soooooo SO BAD!
  46. Federx
    Nov 19, 2018
    2
    easily the worst in the series, the amount of removed features is incredible, even as a bare bones remake of yellow it's subpar at best
  47. obi12323
    Jun 25, 2020
    3
    This game is the lowest value you will receive for a full price Nintendo Switch game. The story is the exact same as the original, which isn't a bad thing, yet it adds absolutely nothing new. The game is pretty short, and the postgame offers nothing interesting. No one considers going around Kanto and fighting each type of Pokemon 1v1 to be interesting.

    The main rival is easily the    This game is the lowest value you will receive for a full price Nintendo Switch game. The story is the exact same as the original, which isn't a bad thing, yet it adds absolutely nothing new. The game is pretty short, and the postgame offers nothing interesting. No one considers going around Kanto and fighting each type of Pokemon 1v1 to be interesting.

    The main rival is easily the worst character in the entire Pokemon series. Whereas Blue was cocky and made you want to be better than him, the main rival in this game is the most bland and uninteresting character. Some positives would be the music, graphics, and the fact that Pokemon actually follow the player.

    For a full price game, Pokemon Let's Go offers a very little amount of content, which itself is low quality. There are far better experiences gamers can have paying for a full price game on the Switch, such as the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon series.    … Expand
  48. SurgeOfDurge
    Mar 24, 2020
    0
    Way too old in terms of effective playability for the player to enjoy. Button mashing in order to get past walls of texts like any other Japanese game. Limited gameplay. Simplicity. Lack of options in settings. Bad co-op. Half-assed customization. Repetitive.
  49. Daggerrim
    Jan 7, 2019
    2
    This game is just bad it's just A down graded version of Pokémon Yellow with better graphics and music.
    It's basically Pokémon Go which I hate mixed with Pokémon Yellow which I find mostly fine.
  50. Gallego
    Nov 15, 2019
    0
    Un juego excesivamente fácil, con todas las mecánicas menos las capturas simplificadas y muy infantilizado. Justo lo contrario que necesita esta saga. Perfecto para casuals y niños entre 2 y 4 años, terrible para veteranos que llevamos años apoyando la saga. Tema de monturas y que los pokémon aparezcan sueltos por el mundo es una increíble adición, pero no compensa todos los puntos flojosUn juego excesivamente fácil, con todas las mecánicas menos las capturas simplificadas y muy infantilizado. Justo lo contrario que necesita esta saga. Perfecto para casuals y niños entre 2 y 4 años, terrible para veteranos que llevamos años apoyando la saga. Tema de monturas y que los pokémon aparezcan sueltos por el mundo es una increíble adición, pero no compensa todos los puntos flojos de este juego. Una gran decepción y un juego lamentable. Lo mejor es olvidarse que existe este juego y esperar al de 2019. Ademas añadir que solo hay 150 pokemon, muy corto en contenido.… Expand
  51. Hoose
    Nov 20, 2019
    2
    2/10 too much Kanto pandering , its like the 5th **** time we go back here, I dont think this game is made for toddlers , but more for genwunners manchildren.
    Also Mew stuck behind a 50 bucks poke ball ? Yeah this game is legitimate cash grab , doesn't worth 60 $.
    well at GF acknowledge Green now.
  52. ilenes
    Nov 16, 2018
    0
    i expected nothing and im still disappointed by this blatant cash grab by game freak.
  53. greninjaX
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    when you look at it in hindsight, this game was the beginning of pokemon's downfall. many of sword and shield's problems started here
  54. koulatta
    Dec 24, 2018
    4
    I've constantly been a supporter of Game Freak's endeavors into new consoles for my whole life, and there hasn't been one game that stuck out negatively to me once until the release of Let's Go. I have over 40 hours into this game. I've beaten it, nearly completed the 'dex, and even caught a shiny Pokemon! But I would call this more of a port from the Game Boy Color's Pokemon Yellow thanI've constantly been a supporter of Game Freak's endeavors into new consoles for my whole life, and there hasn't been one game that stuck out negatively to me once until the release of Let's Go. I have over 40 hours into this game. I've beaten it, nearly completed the 'dex, and even caught a shiny Pokemon! But I would call this more of a port from the Game Boy Color's Pokemon Yellow than anything even comparable to FireRed or LeafGreen. $60 for a game that we'll all forget about in months to come.… Expand
  55. Auron732
    Jan 8, 2019
    2
    It's really hard to put the sheer disappointment of these games into words. These game are single-handedly the worst pokemon games that Gamefreak has ever made. Gamefreak has made a lot of questionable decisions as of late but those decisions were always at least balanced with some iota of passion or vision. These games are a debatable improvement over Pokemon GO. DEBATABLE!!! How is itIt's really hard to put the sheer disappointment of these games into words. These game are single-handedly the worst pokemon games that Gamefreak has ever made. Gamefreak has made a lot of questionable decisions as of late but those decisions were always at least balanced with some iota of passion or vision. These games are a debatable improvement over Pokemon GO. DEBATABLE!!! How is it that we can compare A FREE MOBILE GAME TO A $60 RELEASE WITH PERIPHERALS AND DLC AT EXTRA COSTS!!! These games are an insult to everyone who purchased them. The graphics are identical to Pokemon GO with none of the excuse of it being on a phone. The gameplay (if you could call it that) is directly ripped from the mobile game with the story of the Yellow being lazily glazed over it. There is nothing in this game that justifies the cost. I have to return both of these games because I have more self-respect and self-awareness to let Gamefreak take advantage of me. Anything less then demanding a full refund would be a desperate act of denial. I understand that a lot of people played GO and they enjoy this game but, you deserve so much better than GO's sloppy seconds. There is a depth to this game that is sorely missing with none of the passionate flash that enraptured kids in the 90's. I have to wait for user reviews for every pokemon game after this, Gamefreak simply has no credibility anymore putting out something so shamefully half-assed. If you need a reason justify your Switch purchase, buy Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate, Breath of the Wild, or Bayonetta 2. If you desperately need to play a pokemon game, play the original Yellow Version on ROM. Gamefreak doesn't deserve the money from digital sales, go pirate the game that's 20 times better from 20 years earlier.… Expand
  56. Dionysus108
    Jan 24, 2019
    3
    This should have been a slam dunk. Unfortunately, Gamefreak didn't realize or care about how much changed due to the exclusion of battling wild pokemon. An example of this is how easy it is to breeze through any cave/dungeon because you only have to fight the trainers who are already a joke due to the change in difficulty.
    And the change in difficulty is a real thing too, I played Pokemon    This should have been a slam dunk. Unfortunately, Gamefreak didn't realize or care about how much changed due to the exclusion of battling wild pokemon. An example of this is how easy it is to breeze through any cave/dungeon because you only have to fight the trainers who are already a joke due to the change in difficulty.
    And the change in difficulty is a real thing too, I played Pokemon Yellow to make sure my nostalgia wasn't blinding me and it was undoubtedly harder. I caught a bulbasaur in veridian forest and raised it to level 6 so it learned vine whip and then immediately destroyed Brock without a sweat. The only bit of challenge came with onyx that actually damaged me, but thanks to my so-called "rival character" giving me 5 potions when I arrived in Pewter City. At Cerulean city I then wiped out Misty with even less effort thanks to Pikachu.
    Any novelty in trying out the neat gameplay and having pokemon walking around in the grass wears off within an hour and you realize your left with (so-far at least) the worst Pokemon game ever made. If you still want to buy this, i recommend waiting till its on sale for at most $15    … Expand
  57. lui93
    Feb 27, 2019
    4
    Take the old original games on gameboy and overlay the good graphics and bad mechanics of the mobile game and overcharge it for what it is.

    Still a good game, got a solid 30 hours out of it and had fun while playing.
    Bad things except for the catastrophically mechanics was bad performance and loading times was a joke.

    would recommend to buy this if you find it on a sale but not otherwise
  58. Heracross
    Jun 15, 2019
    0
    Juego que destruye la franquicia desde su base, tomando las mecánicas y bajandolas a niveles infantiles en extremo.

    Pokemon Let's Go como un juego de la saga principal apesta, no tanto por las mecánicas que pudieron estar y no están, no tanto por el hecho de no poder luchar contra pokemon salvajes, sino por ser una versión tan asquerosamente casualizada y sin ningún ápice de curva de    Juego que destruye la franquicia desde su base, tomando las mecánicas y bajandolas a niveles infantiles en extremo.

    Pokemon Let's Go como un juego de la saga principal apesta, no tanto por las mecánicas que pudieron estar y no están, no tanto por el hecho de no poder luchar contra pokemon salvajes, sino por ser una versión tan asquerosamente casualizada y sin ningún ápice de curva de dificultad comparado con el juego en el que se basa, cosas como que uno tiene un repatir. exp soldado con fuego desde el principio, incoherencias tales como que nada mas empezar tienes 50 pokeballs sin que nadie te las diera, cosas absurdas como que te obliguen a llevar a un Pokemon efectivo contra los dos primeros gimnasios, y la rotura anal de poder sacar de la caja a un pokemon donde quieras, cuando quieras, hacen a Pokemon Let's Go una basura como RPG, cuya dificultad solo depende de que el jugador se auto-limite a si mismo o juegue en formato nuzlocke. No hay mas.
    Los movepools de los pokemon y especialmente de Eevee y Pikachu iniciales estan rotos y demasiado casualizados, lo desafiante del Pokemon Amarillo original estaba en por ejemplo, vértelas con Brook con ningún Pokemon de tipo Agua/Planta y ver como derrotabas a sus Pokemon de Tipo Tierra con un Pikachu, como RPG le daba sabor al asunto, pero en Let's Go es completamente asesinado con la aparición de Psyducks y Oddishs en pleno Bosque Verde, lo cual es vergonzoso, así es todo el juego, un vórtice de condescendencia y facilidades sin fin.

    Mejor compren otro juego, lejos de la franquicia Pokémon.    … Expand
  59. Team_Andromeda
    Aug 13, 2019
    0
    the most bad pokemon have ever seen. Please, could you give the IP to monolith software ??
  60. Zankyouo
    Sep 3, 2019
    3
    Este pokémon me perece junto con el 3ro, el peor de la franquicia. Esta casualizado hasta el punto en el que la dificultad es tan baja que o te limitas los factores jugables que te da el juego, o no te puto diviertes.

    No entiendo porque cojones Nintendo no entiende aún que su público no es gilipollas, para que voy a jugar un juego de pokémon como pokémon go pero con un sistema de combate    Este pokémon me perece junto con el 3ro, el peor de la franquicia. Esta casualizado hasta el punto en el que la dificultad es tan baja que o te limitas los factores jugables que te da el juego, o no te puto diviertes.

    No entiendo porque cojones Nintendo no entiende aún que su público no es gilipollas, para que voy a jugar un juego de pokémon como pokémon go pero con un sistema de combate sin gracia? Para eso juego únicamente pokémon go. Ir explorando la región con nuevos gráficos es lo único destacable y de que me sirve? La experiencia no a sido para nada buena y solo me he quedado con un sabor de boca agrio viendo como cada vez esto se va más as a la mierda.

    A parte de que no te pierdes nada, es la misma mierda que jugaste hace años pero para con un nivel de dificultad inexistente y gráficos mejores, hazte un favor y mejor juega al original que aún siendo obtuso para estos tiempos, es mil veces mejor que esta porquería    … Expand
  61. Xolam
    Sep 30, 2019
    0
    No wild battles, no held items, no breeding, nothing and still the easiest game in the franchise

    I know it's supposed to be for new players, but we all started pokémon with those features, new players don't have to use them. Making such a piss simple game with NOT EVEN 200 Pokémon is just a big joke, this sin't a pokémon game it's just 60€ for a safari park
  62. Javi3394
    Oct 6, 2019
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I haven't liked the game at all. I didn't enjoy, it wasn't a challenge. It's been much worse than the original Pokémon yellow, after more than 15 years. There isn't a good endgame, no skills, no hatching, nothing, it's a really crack in time… Expand
  63. Nick766
    Oct 25, 2019
    2
    Pokemon let's go Pikachu on its own is an ok game but it can't be even nearly considered as good as games like omega ruby and alpha sapphire. Most of the best features that have stayed since the start of Pokémon games have been removed: when you encounter a wild Pokémon, you enter a Pokémon go like catch sequence instead of battling the Pokémon, this just makes the game boring and almostPokemon let's go Pikachu on its own is an ok game but it can't be even nearly considered as good as games like omega ruby and alpha sapphire. Most of the best features that have stayed since the start of Pokémon games have been removed: when you encounter a wild Pokémon, you enter a Pokémon go like catch sequence instead of battling the Pokémon, this just makes the game boring and almost childish. It doesn't feel like a game you would pay $60 for, it feels like a indoor version of Pokémon go. In conclusion, I really dislike what they did to this game, I hope they fix it in sword and shield.… Expand
  64. JoseLuisMJ
    Nov 8, 2019
    4
    The adventure is fun it is 100 times better than yellow but that's it for the ups.
    Its very limited pool of pokemon makes it boring once you have catch them all because there little post game and pvp battles are so simplified they didn't used the games for the VGC.
    Not worth 69 dollars
  65. carloscoffanni
    Nov 14, 2019
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Falta Pokémon falta novidades falta desafios falta muita coisa, e o jogo esta extremamente facil… Expand
  66. Erisxc
    Nov 15, 2019
    0
    Kkkkkkkwk no es el que te lo digas por el momento de tu viaje a la ciudad y el mundo que
  67. MazdoTechno
    Nov 19, 2019
    2
    This game is horrible, it really is
    If you want to play Kanto so badly just play the extremely superior Fire Red/Leaf Green or even the original games
    Incredibly easy
    Incredibly boring
    Just taking Gen one and sucking anything good or interesting from it was not a good idea
  68. Janek1907
    Dec 25, 2019
    4
    Makes fun, but not for long. A story doesn’t really exist and there are only the first 151 Pokemon. For nostalgic players, good game, but for players like me (I started with gen.3) really nothing special. No online content, easy to play. You can catch the three legendary bird Pokemon before you are champion! But the game has one thing I really like: The Pokemon aren’t random in grass, youMakes fun, but not for long. A story doesn’t really exist and there are only the first 151 Pokemon. For nostalgic players, good game, but for players like me (I started with gen.3) really nothing special. No online content, easy to play. You can catch the three legendary bird Pokemon before you are champion! But the game has one thing I really like: The Pokemon aren’t random in grass, you can see them. But this is sadly the only good thing in the game. Makes fun, but I wouldn’t play it a second time… Expand
  69. GreenDude1
    Jan 17, 2020
    2
    This is easily the worst pokémon game I've ever played. I despise it with all my might. It removed everything that made pokémon good, yet for some reason, mega evolution is still a thing, when all it does is boost your stats. Oh yeah, abilities are also gone, which makes the competitive extremely weak. The new rival is probably one of the worst in the series, being a generic friendly rivalThis is easily the worst pokémon game I've ever played. I despise it with all my might. It removed everything that made pokémon good, yet for some reason, mega evolution is still a thing, when all it does is boost your stats. Oh yeah, abilities are also gone, which makes the competitive extremely weak. The new rival is probably one of the worst in the series, being a generic friendly rival that has no conflicts to make him interesting or endearing. The gameplay is so easy that it makes X & Y look like Dark Souls. Also, your starter, while the partner Pikachu and Eevee were pretty interesting concepts, and the idea of them having unique movesets of different elemental attacks is pretty good...on paper. Instead of just one at a time, they straight up made it so you can have your entire moveset just OP moves. Before you say "oh but Pikachu and Eevee are weak" well not in this game, especially with the game's mechanics. The partner variants have higher stats, so giving them one at a time would've been enough. I get that this game is catering to Pokémon Go players, but even with that excuse, it's poorly executed. And to top it all off, this game has nothing new. You can criticize X & Y all you want, but at least there it had something new and interesting to it. What does this game have going for? Melmetal. That's it! There's no reason for it's existence except a cheap cash grab that makes me feel disgusted. It gets worse every time I see it, and I hope to god they don't make another game like it. But if they do, actually make it good.… Expand
  70. MakeishaKAxxx
    May 4, 2020
    4
    Overall, I think the graphics are good but it has quite a repetitive gameplay.
  71. SuperMarioMario
    Jul 22, 2020
    3
    Nice, but so boring. I literally fell asleep several times. Plus, the music gets annoying over time because you always catch Pokémon to get XP. Also Go Park was a bad idea. Any desire to catch new Pokémon is taken away from you, because instead you can simply transfer them from Pokémon Go. Let me smash wild pokemons.
  72. martinho_99
    Feb 7, 2021
    4
    Okay but still a disappointment! You can't fight wild pokemon. All your team pokemon level up even without fighting. The enemies are super super weak. The catching system ist really annoying because the switch pro controller is not supported and the small controllers are very bad everyone knows. Why does Nintendo still refuse to give us different difficulty levels? Do they want their gamesOkay but still a disappointment! You can't fight wild pokemon. All your team pokemon level up even without fighting. The enemies are super super weak. The catching system ist really annoying because the switch pro controller is not supported and the small controllers are very bad everyone knows. Why does Nintendo still refuse to give us different difficulty levels? Do they want their games only to be played by little children? But still far better than Sword/Shield.… Expand
  73. x_superepico
    Jul 31, 2020
    0
    why make a good game when we can sell a 20y old game that everybody has played and could easily and free emulate in a computer! but first will should make it casual, change the capture system, and overpower pikachu or eevee, because casuals like this cute things!

    all the development seems to go to the graphics, what is unnecessary, see minecraft. fire red for GAME BOY ADVANCE 15y old,    why make a good game when we can sell a 20y old game that everybody has played and could easily and free emulate in a computer! but first will should make it casual, change the capture system, and overpower pikachu or eevee, because casuals like this cute things!

    all the development seems to go to the graphics, what is unnecessary, see minecraft.
    fire red for GAME BOY ADVANCE 15y old, have more content that this, what also you can get free.
    i'm sorry, but one of my favourite sagas is gonna die soon.    … Expand
  74. EasyGamerBoi
    Jun 10, 2021
    4
    I’ll be honest, this is probably the least fun I’ve ever had playing a Pokémon game. It’s down there with the Ultra games. Why GameFreak continues to be an “indie studio” shoveling out worse & worse triple A games every year baffles me. To start with the positives I had about this game, the visuals are admittedly nice, especially compared to the game we got a year later. It also adds toI’ll be honest, this is probably the least fun I’ve ever had playing a Pokémon game. It’s down there with the Ultra games. Why GameFreak continues to be an “indie studio” shoveling out worse & worse triple A games every year baffles me. To start with the positives I had about this game, the visuals are admittedly nice, especially compared to the game we got a year later. It also adds to the “cuteness factor” this game has with Pikachu & Eevee. Am I sick of seeing them plastered on every piece of marketing involving Pokémon? Yes. They’re still adorable in game though. I also like how they brought back Pokémon following you & how shiny Pokémon actually appear shiny in the over world, why they didn’t bring that shiny feature back in SwSh (aside from the DLC you’d have to pay $30 for just to have Pokémon follow you, wild Pokémon still won’t appear shiny tho lol stupid af) is yet another bafflingly stupid design choice that they can add to their shamefully long list of stupid design choices. That’s where the positives end & I have to get angry with TPC yet again. Why.. WHY are you remaking Kanto AGAIN?! Who is asking for this trash?! Kanto is the most boring & generic region out of all the Pokémon games I literally cannot name a si how memorable location that wasn’t done better in another Gen. Even most of the Pokémon in this Gen are either ugly or dumb, aside from a handful of good ones. How this boring ass generation continually gets preferential treatment over half a dozen other BETTER gens is beyond me. Nostalgia sells & GameFreak is gonna milk it until I’m dead clearly. They’ve been out of ideas for a while now but this game really put the nail in their creative coffin imo. These games just shouldn’t exist. The extra time and resources that went to these games should have gone towards Sword & Shield, maybe they wouldn’t have turned out the way they did if things went that way. At this point I’m so sick and tired of seeing the same 151 Pokémon and same tired ass region that I will never touch this game again, or any like it. Stop the Gen 1 pandering & start taking some goddamn risks again for the love of Arceus. This ain’t it. Save yourself the time and money & go play FireRed or LeafGreen instead. Or move onto better franchises.… Expand
  75. Sleepyycatt
    Aug 7, 2021
    0
    This game is a terrible, lazy, disgusting excuse for a Pokémon game. Don’t buy this trash.
  76. zhekon03
    Aug 17, 2021
    1
    Игра конченная ! Русского нет, покемонов почти нет, сюжета нет, система не посмотрели на меня значит не сразились. дерьмо, если я прохожу мимо то прохожу мимо, игра типа рассчитано на детей от 6, но ребенок не всегда учит инглиш с 6 лет, я вообще не говорю уже про полную систему типов покемонов, стихий покемонов и т.д. дебилизм, хорошо что я смотрел сериал, а то так бы и не разобрался, иИгра конченная ! Русского нет, покемонов почти нет, сюжета нет, система не посмотрели на меня значит не сразились. дерьмо, если я прохожу мимо то прохожу мимо, игра типа рассчитано на детей от 6, но ребенок не всегда учит инглиш с 6 лет, я вообще не говорю уже про полную систему типов покемонов, стихий покемонов и т.д. дебилизм, хорошо что я смотрел сериал, а то так бы и не разобрался, и даааааааааааааа, выходит следующая игра покемон в 2022 и да там снова будет хуйпойми какой открытый мир, не перевели на русский, кто-нибудь кто это читает, пожалуйста устройтесь в корпорацию Nintendo, и помогите перевести игру прошу, спасибо, ну а так игра в полне дерьмо, да !… Expand
  77. PokemonTrainer2
    Nov 22, 2021
    0
    I wish I could get more Pokemon. FireRed & LeafGreen has 386 species, but this game is not. It has only 153 species.
  78. Toasttt
    Mar 26, 2022
    4
    bad . .
  79. worstgamepokemo
    Oct 2, 2022
    0
    worst pokemon game ever. i see that they tried to integrate pokemon go and console games. but you have to spent hundreds of pokeballs to catch YOUR OWN pokemon that you transferred from pokemon go. also, no post game content available. i thought that "yes, i beat elite four now i can sail to sevii islands" but guess what? there are no islands! this is literally the worst pokemon game ever.
  80. Luky1996
    Nov 30, 2022
    4
    Un gioco gradevole ma che taglia tanti contenuti rispetto al precedente remake rosso fuoco, sistema di combattimento con selvatici da rivedere totalmente. La semplificazione delle lotte rimuovendo le abilità è un peccato.
  81. Marioipod13
    Aug 23, 2023
    3
    Absolutely overpriced and sold in several parts. It's also lacking numerous features from previous games, the PokeBall Plus being the only way to get Mew is just a giant cash grab.

    In short, play FireRed/LeafGreen instead, they have 200+ more Pokemon to collect, more content, and can actually interact with other Pokemon games to get even more content and gameplay.
  82. LegoLover
    May 28, 2023
    3
    I'm a fan of Pokemon and I've played a lot of Pokemon games, but this game fell far short of what I expected and I regret buying this game for graphics and gameability.
  83. fnenamg
    Sep 8, 2023
    4
    There's nothing to it. Pokémon is just a shell of its former self.
  84. TreasureOrTrash
    Sep 8, 2023
    0
    Trash!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 84 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 65 out of 84
  2. Mixed: 19 out of 84
  3. Negative: 0 out of 84
  1. PLAY! Zine
    Mar 5, 2019
    85
    A simple, nostalgic return to the Kanto region, offers little if you are a series veteran eager for complexity and challenge. But if that's not your main interest, Pokemon Let's Go has it all! It's a simple, cute and fun game that will keep you hooked for hours. An excellent starting point for newcomers, and a great nostalgia trip for those in a search for one.
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  2. Nintendo Force Magazine
    Feb 26, 2019
    85
    If you've got a kid in your life who's never played Pokémon before? Buy this game immediately. [Issue #37 – January/February 2019, p. 67]
  3. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Feb 8, 2019
    78
    It’s hard to make sense of the game that’s basically a Switch port of iOS/Android remake of Pokemon Red/Green. Is it a step forward, step backward – or maybe just a shameless cash-in? Turns out, it’s a great remake – the world looks exactly as we imagined it back when we were staring at black and white pixels of original Red/Green. [Issue#235, p.44]
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