01-26-2016, 08:57 PM | #1 |
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The Great Detective Pikachu - New trailer and Japanese release date
The Great Detective Pikachu has finally been announced for a February 3rd release date in Japan. No word on a western release yet, so if you wanted to hear Pikachu with a thick British accent, you'll unfortunately have to wait! However, if you have ever wanted to see Pikachu daintily sip a cup of tea, then this is the game for you. |
01-26-2016, 08:58 PM | #2 |
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Bonus Vine parody (NSFW language)
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01-26-2016, 09:01 PM | #3 |
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Its really finally real?! This was a game talked about during the early launch-ish era of the 3DS! O.o Thought it was doomed ta be some vaporware/tech demo thing an nothing more (hello Meowths Party!). Will be keeping an
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01-26-2016, 10:19 PM | #5 |
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On the one hand, this looks really cute. On the other hand, this looks like little more than another entry into a niche market already cozily owned by Professor Layton.
In the same sense that additional Professor Layton games may not be a bad thing, additional pseudo-Layton games may not be a bad thing either. More fun to be had, more adorable stories to experience and mysteries to solve! But I don't know. It just ... I'm worried, that's all. This looks like if Hey You, Pikachu! and Professor Layton had a baby. In that case, I feel like the baby will prove to be genetically superior to one parent while inferior to the other. But if it's equally good to the better parent or even superior to both, then hey, who am I to complain? They've been working on this for so long, I really don't want it to fail. I wish the development team the best of luck. I wonder if we'll ever see this game in the West. I highly doubt it. This game seems like it's going to rely heavily on the Great Detective Pikachu talking to the player and on the player talking back to the detective in order to play the game. I don't see NoA re-recording all of Pikachu's lines in English, nor do I see them spending countless hours re-configuring the game to work with the English language. (Edit: Speculation on my part. All the trailer really shows us is that Pikachu will talk a lot. There's little here to suggest the player having to talk back. I just ... a, get Hey You, Pikachu! vibes and b, feel like the part where they show the zoom-in on the 3DS isn't just to showcase Pikachu's emotions but is because the player has to use the built-in microphone to talk. But we'll see.)
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01-26-2016, 10:28 PM | #6 |
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I would have said hire The Great Mouse Detective's Basil to voice Pikachu in English, but he died a little over a year ago.
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01-28-2016, 08:11 PM | #7 |
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What the flying fuck is this.
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01-28-2016, 08:15 PM | #8 |
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Oh. My. GOD. I'd unleash the good shit copypasta if the emojis would show, but alas, it is not to be.
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01-28-2016, 08:17 PM | #9 |
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Does the kid remind anyone else of Christopher Robin or is that just me
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02-12-2016, 12:46 PM | #11 |
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Just watched the opening cutscene. What it reveals is ...
Spoiler: show The game's already out in Japan. If the sales are strong, perhaps they'll bring it over here. One can only hope!
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