Why Pokemon Let's Go Failed As A Remake

I like Pokémon go I just got pikachu one it’s decent

i genuinely enjoyed this game. i’m not a huge pokemon fan but i only really know the first 151 pokemon and that’s what i grew up with. i didn’t really play any other pokemon games with the newer pokemon. it was nostalgic for me.

It didnt failed 😂😂😂, those games were one of the best we got for switch, plus before making this video, at least search why they made it like this. Lol u even comparing other remakes like alpha saphire and omega ruby 😂😂, you are nuts.

wait!!! waiit!!! what if there was complete old pokemon games on the machines? like you play every old version of pokemon there on the machines, its not hard to include! those games are tiny in terms on mb, why not?! it would be a perfect game!!

yeah id rather play lets go Evee than Legend of Arceus, Sword and shield or Pokemon violet

Honestly, the Pokemon catching aspect is my only throw-off. I understand that it was made to appeal to the Pokemon Go players, but it just sucks in my opinion

They could have either kept the Pokemon catching aspect intact, or just make up for it in some game-changing way

Let's go sucked, leave pokemon go mechanics on pokemon go

I would've preferred BDSP was an accet flip from Let's Go than the trash we got 😢 now gen 4 will never have a dignified remake 😡

Jesus Christ here is to save you just acpet him into him into your heart

the only thing i liked was the art style and following pokemon. would love a 3d remake of gold/silver in the visual style of lets go but soul silver is hard to top, its probably the best pokemon game and gamefreak seem to fuck upp all the remakes these days

What's the name of that first song? Nostalgia hitting hard!

I will give this game some credit, overworld encounters are amazing, and being able to see shinies / specific things right there is god sent

Nintendo sacrificed yellow versions possibly only remake into a Pokémon go game and i honestly hate it even more so since yellow version was my first ever gameboy game and my childhood they should have stuck to the original formula of the game with the 3d graphics

i completely disagree. as someone who played fire red millions of times and ranked as my favorite. i rank let's go higher. mind you this is purely subjective. but while there's a lot of stuff that pissed me off about the game. like the lack of content and boredline cutting it. the game is insanely fun. the catching mechanic is infinitely more enjoyable than the tedious wild battles. sure the motion controls were bad at first. but i got used to it. and it was a blast since then. unlike wild battles. every single encounter is unique. based by preformence i can have higner rewards and exp. while wild battles were the same old thing that i just used repel every single time while playing fire red. the only memorable wild battles were legendariy wild battles. and let's go does have them. albit different. post game i agree with you. let's go has it lacking a lot. however the sevii island while enjoyable.. weren't much to begin with. the rocket story was made bigger and better in let's go. lorelei has more appearence in rock tunnel to compansite for the sevii islands. the only thing i agree is that the game lacks content and is incredibly easy. no game is probably be easier than let's go. which was probably the intent. the rival is hollow so much that i don't even see him as a differant charactar then blue. seeing how he appears in every single place blue did in fire red. the only thing i see firered having better than let's go is just the quanity. other than that. let's go crushes it with its better quality of life enhancement and enjoyment.

luckily i bought this game second hand on ebay, realised what a complete crap it was by the time i reached the safari gym, and returned to sender. i lied and said something was wrong with the game so i got my return postage paid for too. Despicable me? Yes.

I disagree, never has shiny pokemon ever been easier to obtain.

I really liked Lets go! Played with the Polished Pikachu romhack which ramps up the difficulty and allows you to capture every pokemon

What if in an alternate timeline, only 8 Gens existed and they came out between 1996 and 2006? With a total of 1,000 Pokemon. Then if the Mega remakes came out between 2006 and 2016. And Gigantamax remakes between 2016 and 2026.

I see ilca putting heartgold soulsilver in hd

I love Let’s Go. It’s my first ever Pokémon game and I’m deeply fascinated by it. It does a great job introducing me to the Pokémon world, I enjoyed so much that later I went to bought all the Pokémon games available on 3DS and Switch.

IMO I agree with you on somethings, and disagree with you as well. Speaking for myself, Let's Go Pickachu and Eevee (I have Pickachu) is what go me playing Pokemon Go, I wasn't that into it until the Let's Go games came out. Plus when Pokemon Yellow came out, that quickly became my favorite version back then, that's why LGPE was a must buy for me. This wasn't in my opinion meant to be a mainline title rather than a tester game. I think for that it did its job. I dislike having to buy the sort of useless PokeBall Plus just for a mew, especially now in 2024 where at this point we have Pokemon Home and I have a few mew to spare. The nostalgia factor is why I feel this game was good, especially in the period of time the game takes place in the Pokemon timeline. I think it would have been cool if they probably did introduce Pokemon from other regions as part of the Pokedex in Let's Go apart from just Alolan variants, maybe even a new Pokemon species altogether that was discovered in the Kanto region. I liked some of the elements from other titles they implemented in the game. I personally stopped playing Pokemon from Blue, Red, Yellow up until X and Y so the titles in-between I didn't play. I only bought brilliant diamond for that reason and I personally felt that game was less fun than this one until the Legends Arceus connection became relevant. I feel this game will always be a mixed bag, but a bad game it is not, personally one of the best console Pokemon games so far. And that's the factor here, console vs handheld. The requirements take much more and the fan demands as well. Which is why Scarlett and Violet has it's woes. But I think this game was a great showing of what Gamefreak could do, and I hope they continue to try and innovate the franchise in the future especially with a new console in the works.

Gamefreak needs to remake kanto in the legends arceus style. That would be amazing.

Tbf pokemon lets go was never designed with the average pokemon fan in mind, it was designed to give pokemon go players (a good percentage of that being young children) there first tradition experience, they did what they had to do (have the 2 most well known base evolution pokemon (pikachu and eevee) as cover pokemon, have the words pokemon and go everywhere, have connectivity with pokemon go, keep it easy because of the target audience, keeping the story and map simple and familiar, not adding heaps of post game like gen 5 onwards). Would of loved it though if they added gen 2 as an additional dlc for £/$10-15

Let's go was a disappointment however it did age better than most of the modern Pokémon games on the switch.

The only thing that irritated me about these remakes was the fact that they'd allow Mega Evolutions and the Alolan forms, but wouldn't allow cross-gen evolutions for Kanto Pokemon.

I had to reinstall this week to add Tangela Goldeen Seaking Farfetch'd Cubone and Marowak to my living dex- what a nightmare, that task should have been incredibly easy and fast but no, it took three hours and over 120 ultra balls to catch and then level them up enough to evolve respectively. I was so happy when I was done, I uninstalled immediately and I will never play it again, ever. I laughed so hard that the clods who made this game made me swim back and forth in a tiny 4×1 water patch until a goldeen appeared, and tangela wasnt much better- just run around in circles on this 3x3 tiny island and good luck avoiding all the pokes you dont want in this little phone booth of an island. I would rather wipe my save data and hardcore nuzlocke SV than play through this awful mess again

OLD LE GOOD... NEW LE BAD!!!!!
please keep your nostalgia bias to yourself

If we are talking about what matters.... SALES then these games were successful. This game was also successful to me on a personal level. I am a OG Gen 1 player on the gameboy and gameboy color. Now that i have kids i can introduce them to pokemon and know everything and its young kid friendly. This game was targeted to new players and not veterans. Aiming to GO players and younger kids with a easier game.

Let's go actually felt like an attempt. Bdsp was just bad

I refuse to think of these games as remakes in the first place - in my mind these are spin-offs.
Even pretty damn decent spin-offs insofar as they make for a different experience that successfully simplifies the core Pokémon concept for people with extremely short attention spans. Certainly helps that the Let's Go! games actually have pretty damn good visuals.

Legends: Arceus was kind of the continuation of this concept to me in that both of these games are primarily about watching cute Pokémon waddle around and then catching them. Which is fine! But it's also not what the series is about in my mind.

I got this game for free along with a Nintendo switch I got for cheap at a pawn shop. I’m currently on my way to Celadon City and I gotta say I’m honestly having a good time. Yeah I could be left wanting more but if I had a kid who was 4-5 like me when I first played Pokémon Red, I’d gladly give him/her this game. I think it’s a good first experience for people new to the games and fun/nostalgic for people like me who haven’t gamed in years. Overall I’d give it a 3/5. I wouldn’t call it bad—it’s like playing Yellow Version all over again. It’s pretty mediocre for today’s standards is all. Still loving the game though

Well its better than the newer gens that came out, it looks much better and runs much better too, I wish they would be able to implement all that into the actual big games. Its a missed opportunity, but I really liked lets go pikachu personally, Im not a die-hard old school fan of the pokemon games, just the show, so I was pleased with this game.

Stop talking about BDSP

I honestly love this game. Seeing as how I never played the original red/leaf green or their remakes, I thought this game was super fun and I liked the catching mechanic. But your video is great and u made good points

This game is a trash, i’m trying to play this but this game disrepect everything Previously established on the series, some pokemons They should be weak against mine, my ground Pokemon got defeated by a poison Pokemon, i mean, the poison have the weak against the ground, wtf a pokemon who should be weak againt my type is defeating me with 1 fucking hit, thats unfair, unlogic and stupid.

The very weird part about Pokémon let’s go Pikachu and Eevee is that give it the remake status kind of feels wrong these games are really arbitrary sequels yes I know that sounds weird but that’s because it actually is the case for this game

Using CPI inflation calculator $40 for FRLG in 2004 is equivalent to $54.44 in 2018 so the price comparison is not as severe as you present.

I have played at least 1 or both versions of each of the paired games from Gens 1 to Gen 9. I also played Legends Arceus. I never miss out on any main series Pokemon games aside from the Lets GO games.


I skipped it.

I cant imagine spending $60 on a game that us vastly inferior to a GBA game (FRLG) when it runs on a significantly mote powerful console.

LGPE is a blatant cash grab meant to take advantage of our nostalgia and it worked. But I aint falling for it. I saw how lackluster its contents are.

Also the $50 paywall for Mew is like the icing on top as to why I hate LGPE.

-No held items when FRLG had it.
-No sevii islands thus making its postgame almost non-existant.
-Megas are available but due to the lack of abilities, Megas are basically useless
-Abilities were removed when FRLG had it
-153 Pokemon only when FRLG had 300+

I cant find one good reason to drop $60 on a blatant cash grab.

The only way I would play LGPE is if it gets released as a 1 week free trial for NSO subscribers (Pokken Tournament got released as a Game Trial for NSO subscribers but I doubt they would do the same for LGPE).

But overall, aint no way im wasting money on this trash. LGPE sucks.

Btw BDSP sucks too. But at least it has more features and content than LGPE!

Goddamn im scared on the future of remakes. They are turning to just cash grabs now.

Back then when remakes get announced, you'd expect additional features/mechanic that the original one didnt have.

Nowadays its the same shit with a different coat of paint.

I bought BDSP(Brilliant Diamond only. Not both) because I was hoping to get something new out of it but alas, there was none.

At least I succesfully shiny hunted Shaymin, Darkrai and Arceus in my Brilliant Diamond. Gotta make that $60 worthwhile somehow. ☹️

I feel like the Lets Go games aren't meant to be remakes but rather are supposed to be a bridge between Pokemon Go players and Pokemon main series players.

The Lets Go games are alright, not the worst we got out of Pokemon. Not necessarily meant to be the Fire Red and Leaf Green, but a Pokemon Yellow brought into the modern age with Pokemon Go compatibility.

These games are actually incredible remakes, they're just not for an entrenched Pokemon fans. If you stop looking at this as a mainline game and instead as an onramp to mainline games from people who were introduced to the series by Pokemon go

If they took out the whole catching thing and made a remake that was longer like soulsiver or heartgold, this would be the correct direction for Pokémon. Arceus, scarlet, Violet are just boring asf, with Pokémon that aren’t good and is visually unappealing.

It's funny that you complain about how easy the game is, but then you complain that pokemon moving around are hard to catch. There's berries that make them stay still.

People will hate me, but i think the capture mechanic was actually very good.

Failed my @ss

Its sad id rather Mind Wipe myself and replay Lets Go Pikachu than consider replaying Shield or Scarlett. And that's without feeling nostalgic about gen 1 cause its nothing like gen 1 lol

Let’s Go is my favorite modern remake. I mean nostalgia is huge, but challenge running it is a lot of fun.

for beeing that new, ure videos are allrdy very good, i wish u the best for the future, keep going!

Lol, basically is the last good Pokemon game