"Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu /Ibrahimovic " (hereinafter referred to as LGPE) is a work released after the first generation of "Pokemon Pikachu". Based on the original plot and map, the system has been drastic and modified, which has caused a lot of controversy before it was released. This article will also review this work.
Pokémon Let's Go Pikachu/Ibrahimovic
ポケットモンスター Let's Go ピカチュウ/イーブイ
Developer: Game Freak
Publisher: Nintendo
First release date: November 16, 2018
Platform: Switch
Attributes: Exchange, collect, fight
Those bright changes
plot and map are not much different from the original version, but after all, it is a work remade with the latest technology on the latest platform, which can be said to be several levels more shocking than that of the year. Some plots and combat scenes of special divine beasts have also specially created cutscenes, which is very satisfactory as a remake.
▲Riding on the big rock snake
Another highlight is that all Pokémon has a very large enhancement compared to the past. All Pokémons can release Pokémon and follow them behind them. Some Pokémons will also have special small details, such as Miracle Frog Seed will come over when they are close to the flower bed. Some special Pokémons will not follow after being released, but will instead ride on them. Some Pokémon's body shapes are also reflected here. For example, when the Big Rock Snake is released from the ball, players can step on the Big Rock Snake to experience the condescending scenery. Not only in the scene, the size gap between fighting is also more obvious than before.
▲So why can’t you ride a coconut egg tree?
However, there are other problems with riding. First of all, although the interaction with Pokémon is very good, it feels like the bicycles used to be convenient over time. When riding on Pokémon, if you encounter some narrow passages, you will suddenly withdraw the ball and release it when the space becomes wider. This further and further destroys the rhythm. In addition, after passing the level, flying Pokémon such as Flamingo Dragon, Fossil Winged Dragon can increase the flight altitude and move across map obstacles. It is convenient to move. The problem is that you cannot control the altitude of the flight. You have to talk to the NPC or enter the room to retract the Pokémon back into the ball first. It is convenient to be able to add shortcut keys to use props like the previous few works, but you can only open the menu to retract the Pokémon back into the ball, which has a very poor rhythm.
▲Champion Road
The previous PM series were all fighting against the enemy. In this game, like "Pokemon Go", you can see the bright thunder on the map, and then directly throw the ball and catch it after contact. Minglei is a very well-received setting, so that unwanted battles can be avoided when running away, and there is no need to fight with other unwanted PMs when capturing. It would be better to say that the frequency of encountering enemies in the original five-step battle makes people more stressful. I hope that the Minglei setting can be used in the future. However, Ming Lei’s disadvantage is that it can allow players to pass smoothly. However, the number of trainers is increased in this game to maintain the balance of process difficulty, so this disadvantage is not a disadvantage in this game.
Those dark changes in front of you
I personally don’t like the practice of canceling field battles in this game, and the game capture is also very monotonous. In previous works, in addition to the types of Pokémon used, the capture rate will also be adjusted according to the level difference, remaining HP, abnormal status, etc. In this game, only the elf ball with higher capture rate is left, or the tree fruit method is used to increase the capture rate. In addition to capturing, canceling the field battle means that in addition to the trainer battle, you can only level up through capturing. Although using dual handles to capture it together can achieve a very high experience magnification, it will always appear in the box with a bunch of unnecessary PMs.The box management of this work is not convenient, and when cleaning up the stacked superbats, I almost gave the flashing PM to Dr. Oki.
▲Book 10 free white balls
I personally like to use red and white balls and white balls to catch them, but in the later stage of this process, the capture rate of red and white balls is basically red circles. Before catching the elves, they ran away. This also makes people feel less free. The content of the combat part of
has been greatly reduced and has been cut to a distortion. Pokémon's characteristics were cancelled, the effort value was changed to the awakening value increased by the sugar-killing, the props were not allowed (it could be evolved by MEGA), and the joy two-on-one was added. The richness of the game's changes has been changed back to a level similar to the original version. It even makes people feel that GF hopes to make a clear distinction between this work and the previous work and even the new work that will be released in the future. After all, they know the best of what kind of game they make.
Take the awakening value instead of the effort value as an example. This is the awakening value that is increased by feeding sugar and the effort value with a total of 510. The upper limit is independent of each item, and each item can be increased by up to 200 points. In the previous work, how to effectively allocate effort values has been the top priority in the current cultivation theory. The practice of using awakening values instead of effort values is just to let people mechanically brush PM to the upper limit of the value. What's more, when fighting with players, the part that increases in the awakening value will be cleared, leaving only the race value and individual value to calculate the ability value. It was really heartbreaking that the combat system with low threshold and deep connotation of Pokemon became like this, but fortunately, this work was not said to be the official eighth generation, but more like the console version of "Pokemon Go".
Even if you don’t talk about combat, for mild players who like to collect, this game only has 151+2 Pokémons to collect. No matter how much you like level , this number is really perfunctory.
Is the touch music system of this work strengthened or weakened? Maybe it varies from person to person, but in the previous work, 800 PMs were touched casually. In LGPE, you either touch Pikachu or Ibrahimovic. Although some interactions are much richer, it is too much of a difference to only touch these two. Cute is quite cute, but in addition to Pikachu and Ibrahimovic, I also have many other favorite PMs. It is disappointing to cut only two of them in one breath.
Orthodox Pokémon next year? What kind of evaluation can
LGPE get? The first thing to look at is its positioning in the series. If it is the orthodox sequel to the first Pokémon work on the Switch platform, it will have too much changes to the game, which will not only have a huge impact on old players, but also cause new players to misunderstand such that Pokémon can be caught directly by throwing the ball.
Fortunately, this work is probably just a purely nostalgic remake. First of all, it can only teleport Pokemon from "Pokemon Go" to the game, and it also specially replaced the hunting park in Kuraku City with a facility linked to "Pokemon Go". The possibility of PM dying is very slim, so it is more reasonable to think that the new work launched next year is the orthodox eighth generation work.
But if this game has achieved huge commercial results, the orthodox sequels in the future will become a similar model, I don’t know if it will be really good at that time. I may not like Pokémon in the future.
A9VG experience summary
If you treat this work purely as a nostalgic remake, it is actually quite good. Although some changes are too big, many places are done very carefully. Moreover, Pikachu and Ibrahimovic are indeed quite cute. It would be a good opportunity to get in touch with the Pokémon game first with this opportunity.
However, the connotation of this work is too far from the previous work, and adaptations such as awakening value are not suitable for inheritance to the next work. Even though the process of clearing the process and collecting the picture books is still a relatively interesting process, it's all there to do.
A9VG is rated 7/10 by Pokémon Let's Go Pikachu/Ibrahimovic. The details are as follows:
