Played this at launch and have done so a few more times since then. Enjoyed the game and love that you can hunt Shiny Pokémon easily in this version of the original Yellow Version. Seeing the Pokémon running in the wild and the animation style was cute and made the world more alive. The catching mechanics in this game are based on Pokémon GO and not the classic games, so all of your team gets EX from multiple catches or trainer battles. You still have 8 gyms and the Elite Four to defeat as you do in the classic games. Plus fighting Team Rocket and even Green in the post game.

Post game also allows you to challenge 153 Master Trainers, each one being a master of one Pokémon (including Mew, Meltan, and Melmetal). I beat a handful of these but ended up stopping due to boredom of grinding.

I have another run of this going that I haven't touched in a bit, but its a fun game to play once in a while.

LGPE reduce the depth of play without effectively contributing to greater accessibility, which has always been a typical factor of the Pokémon series.
The capture itself does not break the game, but goes to boredom after a while and could join the fight against the wild rather than replace it, and so the removal of the skill and attribution of the objects leaves a bit of a bitter taste in the mouth. Also because many choices that evolve the first original chapter have been introduced without hesitation, but some have not.

Baby's first Pokémon game.

If you're experienced with the rest of the series, this one's a snoozefest. It's Pokémon Yellow with a new coat of paint for the most part, with some - but not all - of the modern mechanics built in, along with new additions to make the ride as easy as possible for newcomers.

One of my main gripes with this one is that a lot of it kind of just feels phoned in? You'd expect a modern remake of Kanto to go all out, like ORAS did - remixed story, tons of new features, oozing style from decades of developing the series...but nah. It's just a Pokémon game.

Replay, first since 2018. Really good but somewhat dull but kinda really good??? I think it’s difficult to remake Gen 1 nowadays (saying that as someone who played the OGs as a kid) because they’re highly simplistic compared to where the franchise has gone since then. These remakes’ greatest strength is they quicken the pacing somewhat via EXP Share+overworld random encounters+streamlining the catching process via GO mechanics. The Pokemon following is really nice too, and on a Switch OLED I think Let’s Go is a pretty game as well (makes S/V look extra embarassing in some ways by comparison).

On the other hand, it’s Gen 1, so it’s a pretty small/linear map, not many Pokemon (in some ways a strength though) and the trainer encounters get somewhat dull. The forced motion controls are also a bit much. Still, nice nostalgia trip. Didn’t mind it!

Ok, esse jogo é surpreendentemente muito bom. Dos que eu joguei, essa é entrada 3D da franquia mais divertida desde 2013, os gráficos - dos pokémon de Nintendo Switch - são os mais lindos da franquia depois do Legend Arceus, sendo que, a decisão de colocar os pokémon no mapa e tirar os encontros aleatórios foi fantástica e principalmente o fato dos pokémon voltarem a te seguir depois de anos sem essa feature, é perfeito (principalmente com os Rides). Ao meu ver, o principal ponto negativo desse jogo é que ele te força a grindar, e grindar nesse jogo significa capturar um monte de bixo na sequencia, e isso ainda depende de como você pretende fazer isso. Se você optar por jogar da forma clássica, ainda tem como passar os desafios, mas vai ser muito custoso. Outro ponto - esse mais na visão de ex fã da franquia - é que essa foi a maior oportunidade perdida de atualizar a dex com as linhas evolutivas alteradas nas gerações seguintes (fora as mecânicas, como Breeding), é bisonho o jogo citar Sylveon (e outras evoluções da Eevee), Elekid, Crobat ou Magmortar e eles não estarem no jogo ou até mesmo em pleno século 2K23 (ou 2018 se for pelo lançamento) Nidoran Macho e Nidoran Fêmea serem espécies separadas só por causa do Gênero... Rejogando dessa vez, fica claro que a melhor (e pior) forma de se jogar esse jogo é fazendo Shiny Hunting e ganhar XP em massa com os Catch Combo - se você tiver buscando só os shinys e não grindar, dependendo da sua sorte e como vc busca, pode fazer com que você chegue no segundo ginásio com os bixo no nível 70 - o que torna a gameplay massante e cansativa, mas divertida. [Só pra anotar, essa foi a segunda vez que eu jogo esse jogo, e é o primeiro jogo da franquia que eu zerei com todos os pokémon da party na forma shiny, e graças aos Ride e pokémon fora da pokébola, tornou a minha experiência mais marcante que a primeira]

Review in progress:
Somehow even worse than the 3D Pokémon games that came before it.

We didn't need another Kanto remake. Kanto is still boring as hell. There's no difficulty whatsoever. The simplified battle mechanics are awful. Most of the combat depth has been taken out. The story is worse than the original.

There are forced motion controls. There's a $60 accessory that only works with this game and Mew is locked behind it. The graphics are underwhelming. Load times when entering/exiting a building are noticeably long. The remixed soundtrack is forgettable. Only having access to the original 151 Pokémon sucks.

Strips away just about everything that's fun about these games to appeal to the lowest-common denominator of Pokémon fans who would prefer dressing up their Pikachu to battling wild Pokémon. Holds your hand at every possible instance despite the fact that these games were the most simple things ever to begin with. Somehow runs poorly despite not being graphically-intensive in the least.

Even if you took out all the Go-inspired elements of the Let's Go games, I'd still have a problem with their existence as a second remake of the Generation I games was absolutely unnecessary. This was little more than a cashgrab and a poor first-impression for Game Freak's first console Pokémon outing.