Kai_Mao said:
Technically, Ishihara of the Pokemon Company said Let’s Go is a mainline core RPG Pokemon title. You can watch the press conference, it’s right after the trailer where he said it. It’s not the mainline title hardcore fans are looking for (that will be in 2019), but it’s considered a mainline title. |
Well, about that. Sure they said it is a core-RPG of the series. But still the next gen core-RPG is coming next year. So you have following facts to consider:
- the game has the qualifier "Let's Go" to it, instead of just being Pokemon
- it is gen 1, not gen 8
- a new classical core-RPG is already announced
I think Gamefreak isn't sure themself. If they were this was the way to go, Let's Go would be without qualifier the next Pokemon RPG with gen 8. It is not. It is a new series. But Gamefreak also expects it might have potential. I personally think, the Let's Go series (and I expect a series, if they start with Gen 1) has the potential to be the same to Pokemon, that Persona was for SMT. Still, in that relation Persona is the spinoff, only a very successful spinoff, that made a name of it's own.
