Il CEO di Pokémon Company, Tsunekazu Ishihara, ha parlato delle ragioni per cui per Pokémon Let’s Go Pikachu e Pokémon Let’s Go Eevee si sia deciso di basarsi proprio su Pokémon Giallo, storico capitolo della saga uscito oltre 20 anni fa su Game Boy.
Durante un’intervista fatta ai microfoni di Famitsu, Ishihara ha menzionato la volontà di realizzare un gioco che ci permettesse di avere l’idea di andare in giro con i nostri amici Pokémon proprio come avviene in Pokémon GO ma soprattutto un qualcosa molto simile a ciò che avviene tra Ash e Pikachu all’interno dell’anime:
“In Pokemon GO, you can bring a partner Pokemon with you and walk around with it, but if we go back to where that originated from, we arrive at Pokemon Yellow. In Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu and Pokemon: Let’s Go, Eevee we wanted to expand this component even further. Pikachu is always following Ash around in the anime, and Eevee is popular as well thanks to its ability to involve into many different forms. And as I mentioned before, we want this to be the game that people play after Pokemon GO so since the Pokemon from Pokemon Red, Blue, Green, and Yellow appear in Pokemon GO as well this seemed like a good choice. Based on those things, we decided that Pokemon Yellow would be the perfect choice.”
Nella stessa intervista è stato trattato anche l’argomento della perdita di identità del brand per via di questi due spin-off:
“Amongst those who have played the game, there may be some who feel like it has changed. However, we’ve actually been continuously changing the formula for the games since the beginning, and in the end the players have accepted those changes.
Along those lines, this time we are also changing things around, but that’s part of the longstanding tradition of Game Freak and the Pokemon series. We won’t make mistakes with the basics, so please trust us.”
Pokemon Let’s Go Pikachu e Pokemon Let’s Go Eevee sono previsti in esclusiva per Nintendo Switch ed in uscita il prossimo 16 novembre 2018.
Via: Nintendo Everything