The Time For Waiting Is Over - Give Me Let's Go Johto

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Every now and then someone in the Pokemon community pipes up about "why don't we have Let's Go Johto yet?" and today, that someone is me. Why don't we have Let's Go Johto yet? This time, though, there is a little bit more to it. It's not just that I want Let's Go Johto - I do - or that Let's Go Pikachu & Eevee were the best main series games since HeartGold & SoulSilver - they were - but that the stage seems to have been set in the time between the first Let's Go game and now. There has never been a better time for Let's Go Johto than right now.

First, let's look at the Pokemon games to have launched since Let's Go was released in 2018: Sword & Shield, Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl, and the upcoming Legends Arceus are the obvious ones. There are also the likes of Cafe Mix, Smile, New Pokemon Snap, Rumble, Masters, Mystery Dungeon, and Unite to consider. Most of them, in some way or another, have helped lay the groundwork for Let's Go Johto. Okay, maybe not Pokemon Smile.

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Sword & Shield gave us the Wild Area, an idea that itself builds off the roaming Pokemon of Let's Go. This, in turn, is built upon further by Legends Arceus. Now that having Pokemon in the wilderness is an established idea - BDSP's boring Grand Underground aside - Let's Go Johto should be able to explore the idea even further. The problem with BDSP is it felt like a step back. The Grand Underground was a worse Wild Area, but more than that, it showed how bored we are of those style Pokemon remakes. As a chibi game, it wasn't quite what people pictured as a Gen 4 remake, and it should have riffed off Platinum, but still - the point is despite everyone asking for a Gen 4 remake for oh