Eurogamer is reporting this evening that the upcoming Pokemon: Let’s Go Pikachu! and Pokemon: Let’s Go Eevee for the Nintendo Switch will feature mandatory motion/gyro controls in docked and handheld mode. When playing in handheld mode you are still required to move your system around to aim, but to throw a Pokeball, you thankfully just have to press a button. Here’s exactly what the publication was told via a statement:
“In handheld mode with both Joy-Con attached – you are still required to move around to aim, but you press a button to throw the Pokéball.
“It is not touch screen like on a smartphone because the Switch is quite a bit heavier than your smart phone.”
The Pokemon Company also told the site that the region of Johto will not be a bonus feature in the game (as it was back in Gold and Silver).
Wonder of this will allow Pro Remote, since it has gyro?
Yaaaaaayyyy I’m sooooo glad they shoehorned in motion controooollls, this will be fuuuun and intuitiiiivveee.
Also this game basically just killed handheld mode, I gotta keep one joycon on the system to hold the thing, and then one to play the game. I mean they’ve made such atrocious decisions already. No wonder trade, battle spot, or GTS, no wild battles, single joycon control scheme, REQUIRED gyro and motion, and on top of ALLL that YES it is a CORE GAME. TBH would’ve been happier with an USUM port.
but you don’t need to separate the joycons in handheld.. you’d aim like you do in Splatoon or LoZ:BotW then throw the pokeball pressing a button… that’s actually pretty good.
I mean first of all you didn’t read the article because it literally says “In handheld mode with both Joy-Con attached – you are still required to move around to aim, but you press a button to throw the Pokéball” and second off NO IT IS NOT A CORE GAME DUDE THEY’VE OUTRIGHT SAID IT ISN’T MULTIPLE TIMES.
*FLUSH*
Anyone not wanting this year’s game have next year’s to look forward to. I just want to go back to Kanto and ease back into the series.
i got in to pokemon when the anime series started and playing my first pokemon game, pokemon sapphire.
I was so pumped for this when it was revealed, but I’m becoming less and less interested with each new bit of info they give us. Why did they have to ruin it with all this new crap?
How do you know it’s crap? Try it.
I can understand the confusion but I think what he means by “this crap” isn’t the feature itself but the forced nature of it. Contrary to what some developers think; Not everyone likes motion controls, even Splatoon’s Developers acknowledge this and not makes them forced.
He doesn’t need to try motion in those games to already know he would prefer a button-orientated control scheme.
But it’s not a bad feature. Moving a joy-con to simulate a throw isn’t unjustified crap. Cappy is controlled with motion controls, it’s not ‘just crap’, it’s just a nice way to simplify a control scheme, and that’s far less understandable than a movement to throw something.
Oh so there gonna pull a skyward sword huh was t picking the game up anyway but catching Pokemon doesn’t not seem like the main mechanic in this game so I don’t see why people are complaining
Catching Pokemon is definitely a key mechanic since it’s going to be your way of grinding in this game.
They literally stated in the interview that you mainly will be battling others, and etc and catching wild Pokemon wasnt even mention which leads me to believe that you’ll most likely catch them on the app and catch a few on the actual game
Doesn’t bother me. Aiming with a stick is super clunky.
Hopefully it’ll be smooth like aiming with a bow in BotW.
or ya know, we can press the damn button like we’ve been doing for over 20 years now.
it literally says in the article you press the damn button
I’m sure its only mandatory for those sections where to choose to capture Pokemon via the ball toss so as to aim. I imagine this who play out battles won’t be effected?
And i bet Bowler AA will defend motion controls…
Audie – Bowler-, boy, just dance for all the MNN people…
You know…
ALL CAPS…
– Church of Sasori
I thought they learned after Starfox Zero that this is a BAD idea.
Gotta hand it to Nintendo. They never know when to quit.
Every now and then i’ll bust out my Gameboy Color and Blue Version and dive into that Nostalgia pool!
||This civilian weapon should be irrelevant to all hardcore Pokémon fans since they announced that the core games will be released next year…until then I’ll be still playing splatoon 2 with my boyfriend…||
I’m upset about no Johto. I’ve been wanting a Kanto remake that also explores Johto during that time. Plus I think HD Johto would be amazing.
Will this Let’s Go even have the same amount of content as FR/LG? It so far doesn’t look like it.
Who knows, maybe something will be offered through DLC. Still I don’t think that it will be an empty game, Nintendo usually is serious towards their customers.
I get it being mandatory when using the PokeBall Plus but… Whatever.
Seeing how that PokeBall is just a round joycon I get that it’s mandatory for both.
Yeah, whatever.
I get the feeling this is gonna be 1 of those those things that people are initially gonna be against but give it an hour or 2 and they will have completely gotten used to it.
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