Classic Pokemon, Now With Cramping! │ Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu & Eevee Review

It's Pokemon Red/Blue/Green/Yellow's second set of remakes, and this time there are some pretty heavy changes. How do these decades-old games hold up on Switch?

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TWOOTER: @ArloStuff

FireRed clip courtesy of Missildine Online!

"Reloaded Installer #11" by LHS.

[reckonedabandon]

He named his Eevee Walueevee.
Goddamit.

[magicsevens]

“Why limit the amount of Pokémon you can get?”

Oh the irony.

[hall]

"a future mechanic where you have to sneak up on them" Well arlow, do I have something to tell you

[CT--teif]

"When you see an Onix in the wild, YOU SEE AN ONIX IN THE WILD!"

[MaccDaKnife]

You got the pokeball for free to review, with the implication of saying good things about it. The fact that you gave an honest opinion shows how true you are to yourself. I very much respect that.

[hypnotic]

If the pokemon dont STAY in the tall grass....Then why didnt they remove the grass or make it look more natural or something???

Like, the only reason the grass was in a un natural square, was because thets how they had to do it back then. But if a ratatta can run out of the grass and walk on the "Safe" tiles, then couldn't they have just made the grass look more natural or just remove it?

[Metalseadraking]

I mean no offense, but seeing you use Dragon Rage on Dragonite, its no wonder you find Lets Go hard

[auggy]

“I hope next years titles have more effort” :/

[GreenLinzerd]

"The last one I played was Black and White" "You can now re-use TMs!! :O"
Arlo pls

[bugsyn]

2016: POKÉMON GO!!

2018: POKÉMON LETS GO!!!

2020: OH MY GOD POKÉMON WE NEED TO GO IVE BEEN ASKING FOR FOUR YEARS

[samvimes]

14:12 "but this really does look and feel like a 3DS game that was uprezzed a little and plunked onto the Switch"
14:25 "character animations can be really stiff and awkward, like we're looking at HD skins sitting on top of old-timey sprites"

Boy, these complaints almost feel quaint now that Sword and Shield are out.

[egg_lrd]

“You can use your TMs more than once now!”

I... Thought you said you played Black and White...?

[Freeasacar]

Nintendo sends him hundreds of dollars worth of stuff and he still remains objective in his review. Keep up the good work Arlo.

[Decubitus]

For the sake of clarifications, reusable TMs have been a thing since generation 5 in 2010, and yeah, they have been a very welcome change. Party-wide experience sharing has been an option since generation 6, but up to now it was an option you could decline if you wanted to level your team up the old fashioned way, Let's Go makes it mandatory. Pokémon dodging attacks, etc. based on affection was also an addition of gen 6, specifically tied to the Pokémon Amie virtual petting minigame.

[FloatingSunfish]

Arlo: _"I can only hope that they put a LOT more effort into next year's title."_

Gamefreak: * reuses Sun and Moon's models and NPC animation *

[owenmcdonald]

Arlo: "Ampharos! I choose you!"
Gen 8: ah ah ah, I don't think so!

[Ewilliams]

Actually they did the sneaky thing one time in the ruby and sapphire remakes

[canine]

YOU NAMED YOUR EEVEE WALUEEVEE???
i'm not even mad bro

[truegreen]

Definitely a great review. I do wanna note that I feel the grid like layout of Kanto in Let's Go does seem completely deliberate (either through laziness or stylistic choice) when you play a Gen 7 games, since in Sun and Moon, the layout of routes and locations aren't grid based anymore and completely dynamic. The grass patches and roads aren't perpendicular and polygonal. So I think Game Freak has already left the trend, but just wanted to emulate the Game Boy layout.

[anthonypalumbo]

"I feel bad because they sent me this" is the exact reason they send review copies. Intentionally or not, you getting it from them makes it so you will go easier on the game than you maybe should.