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Title: Detective Pikachu Game Revealed For 3DS eShop
Post by: Shaymin on January 26, 2016, 01:42:53 AM

"Clearly a murder most foul. This Marowak was wielding a Thick Club."

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/41840/detective-pikachu-game-revealed-for-3ds-eshop

A concept first shown by the Pokémon Company nearly two and a half years ago has become a 3DS eShop title in Japan.

Detective Pikachu ~Birth of a New Combination~ will release in the Japanese eShop next week for 1200 yen and can be preloaded now. The price will increase to 1500 yen on February 29. The story stars a Pikachu capable of human speech who is working with a young man named Tim Goodman to solve various mysteries around the city.

The game is described as a "cinematic adventure game" in the Nintendo Topics for the game. As of yet, there is no word of an international release.

Title: Re: Detective Pikachu Game Revealed For 3DS eShop
Post by: TOPHATANT123 on January 26, 2016, 10:41:05 AM

Weird... I wonder who's developing this, internal Game Freak?

Title: Re: Detective Pikachu Game Revealed For 3DS eShop
Post by: Lemonade on January 26, 2016, 07:59:57 PM

I doubt they will, but I really hope they release this outside of Japan.

Title: Re: Detective Pikachu Game Revealed For 3DS eShop
Post by: Wah on January 26, 2016, 09:22:52 PM

Detective Pikachu... srsly?...

Title: Re: Detective Pikachu Game Revealed For 3DS eShop
Post by: nickmitch on January 26, 2016, 10:05:05 PM

Quote from: Lucariofan99 on January 26, 2016, 09:22:52 PM

Detective Pikachu... srsly?...

Were you hoping for CSI: Lucario?

Title: Re: Detective Pikachu Game Revealed For 3DS eShop
Post by: Wah on January 27, 2016, 03:57:59 AM

CSI: Lucario: The Case of the Missing Mew
<Insert generic Pokemon Movie here>

Title: Re: Detective Pikachu Game Revealed For 3DS eShop
Post by: Mop it up on January 29, 2016, 05:31:04 PM

Seems like it could be the good kind of crazy.

Title: Re: Detective Pikachu Game Revealed For 3DS eShop
Post by: pokepal148 on January 30, 2016, 02:11:24 AM

Can we just have it be Meowth instead? This entire setup (especially if Pikachu isn't actually battling which I saw somewhere) just works better that way and besides, the world needs more Meowth in a trenchcoat.

(http://45.media.tumblr.com/c240b1588894a9d12b8e0f4a052e6be7/tumblr_n9yujtJ5wE1rwshs7o1_500.gif)

Title: Re: Detective Pikachu Game Revealed For 3DS eShop
Post by: ShyGuy on January 30, 2016, 01:47:11 PM

Man, Meowth was awesome.

Title: Re: Detective Pikachu Game Revealed For 3DS eShop
Post by: pokepal148 on January 31, 2016, 05:25:38 PM

Team Rocket in general, like if you do a filler episode focused on any of them it will almost always turn out well.

And then there's "A Poached Ego".

It's like Bye Bye Butterfree, only with Arbok and Weezing and an extra large dose of kick the dog courtesy of the writing staff.

Title: Re: Detective Pikachu Game Revealed For 3DS eShop
Post by: Oedo on January 31, 2016, 06:08:51 PM

Huh, Detective Meowth actually does sound a lot more interesting. I'm afraid all Detective Pikachu is going to be is "hey, look at how absurd this thing is."

Title: Re: Detective Pikachu Game Revealed For 3DS eShop
Post by: pokepal148 on January 31, 2016, 09:13:52 PM

It's the sidequests that really make this game's storytelling shine. While the Main story is essentially a predictable mess starring Emo Boy Lao the Sidequests are where the game really got me invested.

What's interesting is that in the Main Story your character kinda plays second fiddle to Elma and it's only really in the sidequests where your character really gets a chance to really make a name for themselves.