Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu!
Take your Pokémon journey to the Kanto region with your energetic partner, Pikachu, to become a top Pokémon Trainer as you battle other trainers. Use a throwing motion to catch Pokémon in the wild with either…
Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! is an adventure developed by Game Freak, released 16 November 2018 on Nintendo Switch. The main story takes about 39.5 hrs to finish.
What Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! is
Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! is an adventure game developed by Game Freak and released in 2018. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo Switch only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon: Let's Go, Eevee! are 2018 role-playing video games developed by Game Freak and published by the Pokémon Company and Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch. The games are remakes of the 1998 Game Boy title Pokémon Yellow. Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee! are part of the seventh generation of the Pokémon video game series and are the first main series installments to be released for a home game console. They feature connectivity with the mobile game Pokémon Go and support an optional controller, the Poké Ball Plus.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy, kids and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative and Single player.
Where it sits in the Pokémon series
Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! is the 239th of 306 entries we hold in the Pokémon series. The next entry was Super Smash Bros. Ultimate in 2018. Its critic score of 77 is 3 points above the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. Melee at 100.
How it was received
Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! holds a critic score of 77 out of 100. That places it above 56% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 8 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 76, across 167 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 39.5 hrs.
What it launched against
Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! launched on 16 November 2018, within three weeks of Red Dead Redemption 2, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Battlefield V and Hitman 2. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Red Dead Redemption 2, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Battlefield V, Hitman 2.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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