Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! are role-playing video games developed by Game Freak and published by The Pokémon Company and Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch. The games are the first main series Pokémon entries for the Switch, and the first main titles to be released on a home console. They are enhanced remakes of the 1996 video games Pokémon Red and Blue, and the 1998 video game Pokemon Yellow. The games also feature integration with the mobile game Pokémon Go and support a new optional controller, the Poké Ball Plus.
The games’ control scheme is designed to only require one Joy-Con per player, and the games support cooperative multiplayer. If another player shakes a second Joy-Con, they join the current player and are able to participate in battles with Pokémon Trainers and wild Pokémon encounters, allowing them to aid the catching of wild Pokémon. When playing multiplayer, Trainer battles become battles of two Pokémon against one, and in wild encounters, there is the possibility for each player to throw a Poké Ball at the same time, doubling the chances of capturing the Pokémon.
One notable feature in Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Let’s Go, Eevee! is that wild Pokémon show up in the overworld, rather than as random encounters in grass or caves like in previous main-series Pokémon RPGs. To start a battle, the player has to simply interact with a Pokémon in the environment. The battle screen is reminiscent of Pokémon Go, with the use of berries to pacify a Pokémon and the toss of a Poké Ball to capture
