Next up is the new freemium spin-off, Pok\u00e9mon Quest<\/strong>\u00a0for Switch (coming soon to your smartphone). It’s a game with delightful voxelly graphics where you let your Pok\u00e9mon run around and beat up other Pok\u00e9mon while gathering ingredients for cooking and crystals for powering up. It’s reminiscent of the Pok\u00e9mon Rumble<\/strong> series, but a little more hands-off. I’ve already put in about an hour of play, and I can’t say whether it will hold me for long, but at least it doesn’t seem too bad about microtransations (yet). But I will take this opportunity to mention that I still play Pok\u00e9mon Shuffle<\/strong> every single day, and I haven’t spend a single cent on it.<\/p>\n The big news is that the first major Pok\u00e9mon game for Switch is coming this November, and it’s the heavily rumoured Pok\u00e9mon Let’s Go Pikachu and Eevee<\/strong>. I didn’t have a lot of confidence in it, based on some of the rumours that it would integrate elements of Pok\u00e9mon GO, but now that I’ve watched the trailer about seventeen times, I cannot wait for it<\/em>.<\/p>\n Pok\u00e9mon Let’s Go is a sort of reimagining of Pok\u00e9mon Yellow Version, which is already a huge win in my book. An HD remake of Kanto? Sing me up! But the gameplay is significantly different, sort of a halfway point between Pok\u00e9mon GO and the traditional style. Most noticeably, random encounters are gone, and wild Pok\u00e9mon battles aren’t battles at all: you just chuck balls at the Pok\u00e9mon you run into and hope to capture them. But then trainer battles seem to boast the same battle system as usual, so that’s cool. I wasn’t sure how I felt about this at first, but in the end I think it’s a great change. Random encounters are annoying, and wild Pok\u00e9mon battles are mostly just there for grinding, so I’m okay with them being trimmed down.<\/p>\n The other massive part of this game is that it supports a ridiculous new peripheral: the Pok\u00e9ball Plus. Not only does this thing somehow function as a controller, but you can also transfer a Pok\u00e9mon into it and take it on a walk to earn experience, much like the Pok\u00e9walker that came with Pok\u00e9mon Heart Gold and Soul Silver<\/strong>. Unlike the Pok\u00e9walker, this thing is a separate $60 purchase with a battery life of only three hours. I honestly love how goofy the Pok\u00e9ball Plus is, but it’s way<\/em> too expensive and inefficient\/pointless for me to ever consider actually buying.<\/p>\n So the end of the story is that we’re getting a full Pok\u00e9mon game on Switch this year, even though it’s a little different than what most fans expected. I, personally, am 100% on board with it for now, at least until I hear about something that could be an actual deal-breaker. Besides, there was also a confirmation that a “real” Pok\u00e9mon game for Switch is also in the works, and that it’ll be released next year. So even if Pok\u00e9mon Let’s Go turns out to be a dud, at least we know that a more traditional Generation 8 is right around the corner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Tuesday night, The Pok\u00e9mon Company released a tidal wave of information on new Pok\u00e9mon games. I’d been waiting for this eagerly since some rumours had leaked earlier in the month, and I have to say that I am even more hyped than expected! 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