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Pokemon Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee! turned Kanto into a Switch onboarding ramp built to convert Pokemon GO momentum into console RPG sales.
Pokemon Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee! launched in 2018 on Nintendo Switch. It turned Kanto into a Switch onboarding ramp built to convert Pokemon GO momentum into console RPG sales. It sits on the canon-defining RPG backbone that decides regions, monsters, battle systems, and the assumptions every other Pokemon project eventually reacts to.
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Its 2018 release on Nintendo Switch immediately became part of the benchmark fans used to judge its whole generation.
Why it matters
Mainline Pokemon releases are the load-bearing beams of the franchise. If you want to understand why the rest of Pokemon looks the way it does, these are the games that set the rules.
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