There is a lot of confusion regarding the status of the Let’s Go games. It is undoubtable that it is essentially Pokémon Go on the Switch, while having a familiarity of traditional Pokémon games (it was confirmed to be a remake/re-imagine of Pokémon Yellow Special Edition), some people are questioning its status as being part of the “core”.
A few things to know before knowing the full intent and purposes of Pokémon Let’s Go Pikachu and Let’s Go Eevee (and Pokémon Quest): This is the first time Game Freak has developed a Pokémon game outside of the core series.
“What is a Core game”?
In Japanese, the core series is always refer as Pocket Monsters Series (ポケットモンスターシリーズ), while side series and spin-off games use abbreviation of “Pokémon” in the title instead.
According to this Pokémon conference (you can watch the video here), Tsunekazu Ishihara, president and CEO of Pokemon Company states that Let's Go games as as main games and spin-offs.
People are putting too much emphasis of it being core as a way that it's suddenly, suddenly somehow creates a new direction for the franchise, despite the fact that it's simply their own series.
Joe Merrick said:
"Pokémon Let's Go represents a decent gateway into the Pokémon main games for GO players and inexperienced players. It may not be for the hardcore of us."
4chan User said:
>You’re mad because Game Freak was a cock tease and we all thought we would be getting our real game yesterday but we got a side project
No, most people were prepared for something FAR worse.
Based on the leaks, we had every reason to expect that if Let's Go was real, that it WAS the "New Mainline Pokemon Game" that Gamefreak announced at E3 last year, and that the nature of Lets Go would reflect the future of the series.
We now know that even though Lets Go was real, this isn't even the case, and the casual interpretation of the Pokemon RPG formula is something akin to Four Swords/Tri-Force Heroes in relation to the normal Zelda games.
But no, instead of being relieved, they're ass-mad because Let's Go forces insecure social rejects to be reminded that Pokemon isn't a cool kids club for hardcore competitive players and that they're small children and casual players who also have Game Freak's attention, and this outrages them because they aren't important or special enough to join any actual clubs or groups, so they feel like their safe space that made them feel special about themselves is being violated."
tl;dr Let's Go series is in a unqiue sittuation. It has a characteristic of a spin-off, but considering that it will most likely have some connectivity to Generation 8 games in the future (Let's Go being a gateway for Go on Mobile Devices); Let's Go is to Pokemon is what Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey is to Shin Megami Tensei. It's not "core" in the truest sense of the word, but part of the mainline and not a spin off. It's essentially another "core series" that might developed it's own line in the future, depending on its success. And yes, Let's Go games is part of Generation 7.
We're still getting Generation 8 games, announced to slated release next year.
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With that out of the way, there was a horde of misinformation, mainly by people who were ass-mad about the games in the first place (newsflash folks, Pokemon is and always will be a e causal kids game. Always has been since it's creation and will continue to do so), about Let's Go right
here. Yes, there is online, yes you cannot evolve Pikachu and Eevee (your starters... it's like it's referencing the Yellow version for some reason....!), although you can just catch another Pikachu and Eevee in the wild and evolved them.
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