Why Pokemon Let's Go Failed As A Remake 

The reason for Pokémon Let’s Go being made was to get the Pokemon Go players to get into the mainline games. It did it’s job. So it’s a good remake in what its intention for being made was.

The weird thing is that I'd rather play let's go then bdsp like at least they tried to do something different

Rivals can be friendly, but they have to be well written to be memorable. Barry is a good example of this.

The main reason I hated let's go was the only mechanic in the wild is just throwing a bunch of pokeballs and you run out of money fast. Only time you battle is at a gym or a trainer and that was not fun

Looking back, Pokemon Let's Go isn't a bad game at all. It just screams lost potential. As someone who grew up not only during the Pokemon boom of the 90s, but with the Yellow version, it saddens me that we have this misrepresentation of what made the original Yellow version awesome. So I'm totally with you on why it failed, you only have the original 151 Pokemon + Melmetal & Meltan, their Mega and Alolan forms and that's it. You don't get access to the other generations like FRLG did. Now, I'm not asking for a 1:1 remake a la BDSP, but at the same time, they could've improved on what made the originals so great, instead of making a weird Pokemon GO/mainline hybrid.

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

Gamefreak looks at the sales numbers Lets Go didn't fail as far as Gamefreak is concernt, as it outsold every single one of the remakes. Estimated revenue is also interesting to look at, as its a remake of yellow. However, Lets Go brings in the most revenue for remakes, the only one coming close is BDSP. Even looking at Lets Go and the Original Generation introduction games (So every first game in a generation), only 5 of them outsell Lets Go (With most of them being later generation, from gen 6 and onwards, the only oddity being Sun and Moon, who brought in less revenue and the other 2 are RBG and GS. So it might seem a fail for the fanbase, for Gamefreak it isn't.

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

It seems like you're confusing rival with enemy. A rival is just someone you compete with to reach a shared goal. They don't have to be an antagonist, they just have to give you competition. You can prefer antagonistic rivals, but that doesn't mean a friendly rival "doesn't make sense"

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.

Let's Go seems more appealing to me now than current Scarlet and Violet, and BDSP.

I love it and am playing it right now. Different strokes for different folks.

FRLG cost $30 when i bought it in 2006

I just thought these games were just okay

39.99 dollars when converted to todays money is 77.91 dollars so its actually cheaper if you account for inflation

Great video man, this is a topic I've wanted to make a video on for so long but never got around to it! Let's go had some things going for it but it felt like they made so many weird decisions and squandered it.

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

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

I just wanted to say I love your content man!! You fs dieserve to have way more subscribers! I was whching some of your Pokémon chalange videos, and was wondering on how you were able to capture the gameplay on the ds?

I'm definitely going to get this game. The moment we can play the original Kanto region I was sold

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

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

7:02 7:10 the trash throw for emphasis after all that movement got me deceased

pokemon switch games are so bad that Let's Go is my favorite switch entry, and the best looking pokemon game yet...

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.

Visually, I believe Let's Go is one of the most beautiful games I've ever seen, but gameplay wise, it really is sad. I totally agree it needed a difficulty setting, because then it could be a game for newcomers and older players at the same time, and the lack of content that was already in FireRed and LeafGreen seems ever worst. I really hope that they take this feedback from the community and make a better remake when it comes to redo the 2nd generation again. Johto is considered by many the best region and I really hope they do justice for it.

The Let's Go Gym requirements are akin to the ones seen in the EToP manga that was a retelling of Season 1 in manga form

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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

I think let’s go is its own thing to be honest if they want to do a remake of Pokémon yellow, which they did and they really didn’t wanna expand on the areas like they did with fire red and leaf green, which is very good in that case, then they did it the best way that they could. There’s a lot they could’ve added, but since they wanted to make a simple yellow remake while building upon a lot of current features like importing from Pokémon GO and better animations I think they did a pretty good job. Adding all that extra stuff breaks away from the story and the objective I think the game was pretty much for newcomers who wanted something easy and not really made for all those people that played all the old games.

I was initially gonna get it, but decided against it not because it was a Pokémon GO tie-in, but because the Sevii Islands weren't there. But now that I've seen this, I see I dodged a bullet.

4:40 - tbf, $40.00 USD in 2004 is the equivalent of $65.31 today because of inflation... so, more or less the same price

I’d rather play Let’s go over BdSp because at least let’s go is trying something

One thing that still irks me is the fact that Meltan and Melmetal are considered Gen 7 when they can't even be transferred to USUM.

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

What game are you showing at 12:28? Also, the S/V rival is VERY FRIENDLY.

11:04 exactly the reason why i don't regret buying Let's Go. The biggest flaw of the game for me was that it was too easy as I literally soloed the game with my Eevee. However, the visuals, the art style, the way we could interact with our pokemon and how we could even ride them was worth it. I see Let's Go as an incredibly cute remake for noobs cheers

As someone who's grown up w the franchise since RSE I prefer FR/LG yes it's a basic remake & it has its issues especially the dumb Force Evo cancels til Nat dex. But on the other Hand in retrospect Let's Go is a fun game, I've played every game in the series & they're 2 VERY different games meant for dif audiences. Let's just appreciate the games that are fully made & not buggy messes like BDSP/SV

Uh.... No? It didn't fail. It was a fun and cute game. And I never heard anything regarding it was a failure. What are you smoking?

Let’s go was good for what it was, but the exaction itself was a bit…😬😬

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.

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 liked let’s go I just didn’t like the only catching option you couldn’t battle the Pokémon you encountered but it was a great game and I started playing them when red first came out

I'm not gonna lie I'm just doing it to complete my national deck. As long as the game is playable and doesn't bore me to death I have no issues

The greatest remakes are obviously heartgold/soulsilver. I want a REMASTER of these remakes on switch. I do not trust them to re-remake gold/silver with the current formula. They'll just ruin it

I won't mind a 2nd gen remake like let's go Pikachu. But drop the go tactic of having to catch every pokemon for exp. But I wish a second Gen remake comes out soon.

Imagine if let's go had wild battles

While I vastly prefer the additions of Let's Go compared to FRLG, I can't deny that they are a little style over substance. (Except for the overworld encounters, those are a true game changer!)

this is a really high quality video, i honestly thought you had 200k subs lol

$39.99 in 2004 adjusted for inflation is $64.91 today. I still agree the remake kinda blows. But I guess about the same price now huh 😂

For how much Let's Go lacked in content compared to every previous remake (as well as doing scummy stuff like the cruel Game Corner tease and locking Mew behind a $50 accessory), these games should've been $20 at most. Also, LGPE should've been one version because Yellow was one version. I cannot overstate enough how greedy it was that they split a $30 single version Gameboy game into two-version $60 Switch games. The Rescue Team remake had the right idea turning Red and Blue Rescue Team into one definitive DX version. And despite LGPE's main goal of trying to draw players from Pokemon GO into the main series, it was two years too late because GO's popularity had declined significantly after its initial hype in 2016. So trying to cash in on GO's success at that point made LGPE doomed on arrival. It didn't help that they lacked a lot of the Pokemon that GO added in before LGPE even came out, and LGPE straight up couldn't connect to the other Gen 7 games at all, so Meltan and Melmetal couldn't be transferred over to either SM or USUM. This also meant that these games would be the first ones to implement the infamous "Dexit", making them look really bad in retrospect. Anyways, there are good things that LGPE does provide like the good 3D character models and the way Ride Pokemon were handled, but I have way too many problems with them to consider them acceptable by AAA Switch standards or even the standards set by every previous Pokemon remake. Regardless, I loved watching your video and you brought up a lot of good points. Great job and I would love to hear more of your opinions on other games in the future. Ciao! 👋

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. ☹️

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.

I really want a remake of Gen 1 that isn’t a super duper gimmick

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

I'm going to go out on a limb and say pokemon needs a drastic overhaul of the battle system, the "level" system, gyms, wild pokemon encounters, and trainer battles. I think pokemon shouldn't have "levels" any more, and should have master stars, from zero to five stars to show how well trained they are. The moves that pokemon use should have mastery stars corresponding to how many times the pokemon has used the move, starting with zero and going to five. Pokemon should unlock new moves by gaining master stars or by their moves gaining in mastery stars. For example, a pikachu learns thunderbolt when thundershock reaches 3 mastery stars, a pikachu learns quick attack when its tackle reaches 3 mastery stars, a pikachu learns "thunder tackle" when its quick attack and thunderbolt both are 3 mastery stars. I would also remove PP, and give pokemon "stamina", the moves they use reduce their stamina, stronger moves cost more stamina.

Either way good video u were fair and to the point which is great

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.

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

5:30 Minor gripe, but did you just call Mega Evolution, something introduced in **Pokemon X & Y**, a “Gen 7 mechanic”?

I liked let's go but what ruined it was their stat mechanic

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.

1st problem of let's go. It's a remake of yellow edition. Not a remake of fire red They cut the sevii islands and the gambling In terms of gaming nowadays. It looked like a demo. It was a way to advertise the switch. 2nd problem was the catching mechanism. Which I personally like very much. It was refreshing and I felt I didn't have to grind so much as I used to. Believe me I love the old style more than anything, but it wasn't that bad. They could remake it like pokemon legends arceus. This is the way to go.

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

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.

Let’s Go is an amazing game. It absolutely didn’t fail. Lmao.

they made let's go kid friendlier

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

Tbh there's a Scarlet and Violet Event rn that's for Mew-

BDSP failed waaaay more in my eyes, Lets go has a ton of charm

Controversial opinion but let's go is very mid... It's basically just DLC for Pokemon GO

Even though they failed to remake. in my opinion its the best pokemon game on switch

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

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

The point of lets go is to be a cashgrab so that pokemon go players can get meltan and melmetal

i havent played BDSP or LGPE cause when they came out i concidered both of em boring cause one was a remake with pokemon go mechanics ( which is in no way a bad thing) and the other was basically a reskin of my beloved gen 4 pokemon game (which again not a bad thing its a remaster for new audiance) 5 and 2 years later after their reasleses i concider playing both of them for the sole reason that pokemon is my comfort game now days and i dont strive to be a critic anymore. Yes they could have been better in many ways especially BDSPs content for LGPE it seems that the game itself was meant to be simplistic concidering that it doesent have EVs as part of the battle mechanic. i watched a ton of reviews for both games while trying to find out which one i want to play first. Opinions range for diffrent reasons all together. conclusion play what you think feels right for you i concider both of em to be fun and chilly games but there is no reason to argue which is worse or better just try to have fun if you dont like either just dont buy them. i leave this here for those who argue about which is worse "remake" cause i got bored watching them in the end its just a pokemon games in a limited console it cant be witcher or elden ring. (and remember some communities have it worse really *cough *couch digimon and im sadly part of thay community too)

Technically Abilities weren't a thing in gen one to be fair

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

It's definitely nothing like the traditional Pokemon games but I really like the idea and may buy it yet. The Pokemon being in the wild and not all being immediately hostile is pretty on point as far as I know canonically Too bad the game and accessory is about $150

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.

But at least is a much clean and playable Switch game that the abomibation BDSP was.

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

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.

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.

Pokemon Let's Go was literally just a cheap, barebones cash-grab to attract Pokemon Go players and to see what's the bare minimum they could charge full price with, on a Switch console. The game sucks as a remake and is really nothing more than a Remaster to entice Go players, and people bought it by the millions. I don't like the concept of the game at all, ir the fact you can't even play as Red in it, but it sold lots of copies, even mainline players bought it, and they put absolutely zero effort into the game beyond the art style. So I wouldn't call it a failure of a remake, but I do agree it's not a good one (and yet ironically, is still probably the best Pokemon Switch title; maybe tied with the over-hyped Legends Arceus.)

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.

this is why fire red leaf green are superior

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

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.

I actually liked Let’s go

for me the lets go games are the best retreads of gen 1 really only bad thing i can about the lets go games is no pro controller support and for me they are the best all around remakes didnt bother with bdsp because i despise gen 4-7 orsa was utter trash and frlg and sshg where both ok to good while lets go where fantastic so yeah to me they didnt fail they where amazing remakes to my second favorite generation after gen 3

So I just save my money for orderering Pokemon sword instead of this.

I see ilca putting heartgold soulsilver in hd

I disagree but you're completely right! Edit: erica will actually accept all pokemon and think the pokemon is cute because i showed a melmetal and charizard on my other Playtrough

I think the integration of Pokemon GO was a silly idea

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

wait!!! waiit!!! what if there was complete old pokemon games on the machines on the casino? 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!!

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 😡

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.