New Pikachu Spin-Off Announced

NHK has finished airing and revealed a mysterious new Pokémon game, starring Dr Watso Pikachu! This spin-off seems to be some creepy detective game. Not much is known, except that it will feature a Blue Pikachu that apparently can talk (must be due to Fukushima) and who is the villain. The developers used motion capture to give Pikachu better facial expressions, but I have no idea where they got the Pikachu to do that from. More details will likely be released in the following months/years.

Also mentioned was a Pokémon Trozei (Link) sequel, but it appears to be abandoned, or maybe it will see life as an eShop only title. Stay tuned for that too!

 

OLD: The teaser trailer released last week and has teased an all new game with Tsunekazu Ishihara appearing on the show sharing some details on the game that is currently in development. We’ll provide details ASAP!

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2,870 thoughts on “New Pikachu Spin-Off Announced”

  1. It’s almost time to go on my Ground Type journey in Kalos
    Only one problem… I only have Diggersby…
    Should I breed a Rhyhorn or a Gible for my Starter?

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  2. well I was fishing when mythbusters decided to make a sound effect that was very similar to the “you got a bite!” sound. this ended my chain at 135. i’ll try again tomorrow! 🙂

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  3. aw ;-; i feel really sad for the old lonely guy who asks for a young pokemon to take care of :c I just had to give him something! Did his wife die or something? or… well.. if it includes a spoiler, don’t tell me yet D:

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  4. My first shiny encounter was with a female nidoran in leaf green. It was purple, just like a male nidoran. I was very confused, so I caught it just in case it was something special, and it was.

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  5. The day Poké Transfer is released is the day I will go crazy with Breeding my future party members (three of them).

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  6. Has anyone bred a male Pokémon with a hidden ability with ditto? How difficult is it to get its offspring with a hidden ability?

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      • That’s a relief. I caught Bagon in Pinwheel Forest’s Hidden Grotto in W2 and plan on transferring him to Y and breeding him.

        Since he’s male, I’ll have to breed him with Ditto and hope I get a female Baogn with Hidden ability. Then Breed her with male Gabite with Dragon Rush so I can get baby Bagon w/ Hidden Ability w/ Dragon Rush.

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  7. Only in Japan would they give Pikachu realistic facial expressions. Can’t wait to see how creepy this game turns out to be. Japan, you crayzee.

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  8. was half asleep when i saw the greatest thing ever: shiny Galvantula in friend safari! it only got better from there. Timid nature, Compound Eyes, 31 SpA and Spe IVs. Second shiny of the day!!

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  9. Is it too early to be thinking about my team in the next game (possibly Hoenn remakes/sequels)? Because I already have 5/6 party members in my mind. 4 of them will be bred.

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  10. My hypothetical hoenn remake/sequel team:

    Sceptile/swampert (leaning more towards sceptile)
    Gardevoir
    ludicolo
    Swalot
    Camerupt
    Cradily

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  11. So in Korea they will be distributing a “secret pokemon” that will be either eevee, sylveon, mew two, genesect or sableye…. is it terrible of base to hope it’s sableye with it’s mega stone or eevee with a dragon evolution item ???

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  12. FML a pansage. one of my least favorite pokemon of all time. funny how my top 6 least favorites are from gen V. and no, I happen to love garbador and vanilluxe. well, never doing that again!

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    • I don’t hate it I just feel they did soooo much wrong with it. my least favorite was gen 2. but B2W2 saved gen 5 by fixing most of its mistakes.

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          • gen 3 was the s**** it had everything including TUCKER!!! lol! JK, but yes gen 3 had the best soundtracks and i actually completed the national pokedex! (which was hard having to use that purple link cable!!)

          • Best Soundtrack: Gen VI
            Best games overall: Gen VI
            Best Pokemon: Gen V
            Best story: Gen VI NO DOUBT
            Best gyms: Gen VI
            Hardest games: D/P/P

          • Well in gen VI im still at the 8th gym but its ok but it could of done 10x better if gyms 3-8 had more post qests, i wanted more gym interaction including with that fairy gym, OMG! i gave team magma the boot because team Flair was awesome! (they were the only good thing of the game) , beauty contests, NO MEGA_MILOTIc ( being the region that deals with beauty and fashion!) >:( what i dislike was that the team flair thing and stopping them happen so fast that i actually wanted a longer story, plus we battle the lab scientists only one freakin time! i wanted to battle them at least 3x since i thought they were like the team leaders! and what was the point of the fat guy (leader of team flair) ….. but its ok, it is my second favorite region/ pokemon game!

          • I find it strange how Milotic (and Feebas) aren’t catchable outside of Friend Safari (I think) in XY, and how Milotic didn’t get a Mega or be reclassified. Yet there are Milotic statues in
            Parfum Palace. Perhaps Milotic will get a Mega in the next game(s).

      • Mistakes as in what? I mean sure, there were pointless side things like the poke-stars studio and the musical but that’s no reason to dislike the game.

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        • they gave you next to no options on what pokemon to raise until about the 4th gym, the new experience system made it so you didn’t gain barely any exp. on anything that isn’t called audino, serperior, my favorite starter ever, has a godawful ingame movepool, Hydreigon evolves at lv 68, which gamefreak knew was ridiculous so they gave ghetsis an illegal one, the e4 was ridiculously easy, musicals were 5 minutes of not doing anything, I personally very much disliked the story but I know that’s just me.

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          • I did, but I never found it a problem. There are so many flaws and inconsistencies in Pokemon in general that it doesn’t bother me.

          • For me, BW is not a very good pokemon game, but B2W2 is awesome, it fixed all the problems thet BW once had and added the PWT

          • yes see this is what I mean. they gave you a lot of options throughout the whole game and made the trainers tougher! and they didn’t interrupt my champion battle with some weak storyline!

    • Gen V had amazing music.

      But of their “new”150+ pokemon, more the half of them we pokedex filler (i.e patrat, pidove, woobat, purloin, stunfisk, simi-trio, Audino, basculin etc). Unlike Kalos where there regional rodent and bird are actually unique and quite powerful (Talonflame gale wings + Diggersby huge power). Kalos had 70 pokemon but useful and strong ones. Unova had like 75 useful pokemon over 75 pokedex filler.

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