>>44228233I enjoyed it for being a non traditional pokemon game remaking the pokemon yellow experience. I do wish that you could still battle wild pokemon outside of the static encounters, but i don't hate the capture mechanic. I wish there were more to the capture though like pokemon go has curve balls, i wish there were different skill based "trick throws" to at least diversify it somewhat.
They made a lot of cool references but also missed a lot of great opportunities. For example; Archer makes an appearance, but Silver isn't even alluded to. Koga mentions considering trying out for the elite 4 but Janine is completely absent. Red and Blue (and Green) are kids and a younger Mina makes an appearance but no other characters from any other region make an appearance when it probably wouldn't be too difficult to shoehorn in a cameo even if you don't battle them.
I enjoyed the fan service they put in but wish there was more. I liked that every Pokemon became available in the wild and in areas that made a good amount of sense like Bulbasaur being in Viridian Forest but being rare. Catch combos making rare pokemon spawn more commonly is great too. I do wish they could have tried to do this style of game with all of the pokemon though but they'd need a more diverse region than Kanto. Rather than Let's Go Johto remakes I wouldn't mind them making a wholly unique region with the existing pokemon that uses these mechanics as a spinoff series. I wouldn't need to be all that plot heavy just let's go legpiss not in kanto plus all of the pokemon, maybe add fun cameos of popular characters from the main line games. Something like Let's Go+Go+maybe Masters' way of handling so many characters and character interactions and don't try to present it like a mainline game have it be a spin off
