This is part of a price match on some Nintendo published games discounted at [Wal-Mart](https://www.walmart.com/browse/2636_7899038?cat_id=2636_7899038&facet=retailer:Walmart.com||video_game_platform:Nintendo Switch&max_price=44&min_price=42).

Here are the other games Amazon price matched:

Mario Tennis Aces ($38.94)
https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B078XYF9SV/

Pokemon: Let's Go, Eevee! ($42.94)
https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B01N7RE3HB/

Pokemon: Let's Go, Pikachu! ($42.94)
https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B01MT8AIBE/

Splatoon 2 ($38.94)
https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B01N9QVIRV/

Super Mario Maker 2 ($43.94)
https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07NQDG7RQ/

Super Mario Party ($38.94)
https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07DJY81FP/

Yoshi's Crafted World ($38.94)
https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B072JYTJCH/

As someone who didn’t like the game, let me try to explain why, and why my husband loved it.

For me, part of the heart and soul of Pokémon is the battling, catching, and training. It seemed inconsequential, but the loss of being able to weaken my target, put it to sleep, and ensure capture sapped some joy from the experience. This wasn’t an active burning joy, but more the quiet joy of a well traveled routine.

When it came down to it, I’d fell in love with the pattern and the experience. You find a good Pokémon that can put an opponent to sleep, that can bring its health low without killing it, and ideally still deal with the random Pokémon you don’t want to capture. Then you begin the hunt, which was little more than random scrounging through grass hoping the next battle would be the one. This has become one part of the core mechanics for me and I didn’t even entirely know why.

Training my Pokémon had become similarly routine and beloved. Find just the right spot with the right Pokémon for experience and effort values. Do a bit of research, and then click my way through the levels like an idle clicker game. The investment was slow, but one and done, and it paid off. Let’s Go, however, presented a new idea, feeding my Pokémon with Pokémon candy acquired by capturing more Pokémon. It doubled down on the capture aspect, but with a technique I found tedious and unengaging.

There is no guarantee of capture in Let’s Go. You can always flee before the third escape to ensure you don’t break a chain, but if you find a shiny and you miss three times it might run from you. You can’t stop it from running, and while this doesn’t stop you from getting an Abra, it can stop you getting that Abra. A minor distinction, but one that made the hunt feel like a random lottery in a very unpleasant way. Finding them became easy, capturing them became hard. I preferred it the other way, where finding them took time, but capture was a near certainty once you had.

Battling trainers was, of course, mostly the same. You’d send out a good counter and fight their Pokémon.

For me it became about agency. A course of action that I set out to complete was a success in either game. In the traditional games I control every variable except for what I find, in Let’s Go you control every variable except which one you find you end up capturing. Training became more of a capture stream than a well thought out strategy, simply park it and capture everything then feed candies to your favorites.

However, my husband loved the games. The removal of worrying about IVs too much, the casual approach to capturing, and the mostly unchanged battle mechanics against trainers, meant that the more casual take was exactly what he wanted. He didn’t care about catching a specific Abra, or that training was a much easier affair but with less planning. That’s not the gamer he is, and he just wanted an Alakazam, the fact that candies could be farmed to make it a good Alakazam regardless of IVs was ideal for him.

So:

• If you don’t care about how you catch Pokémon, and it’s OK to shift the control factor from 100% capture to 100% finding, you won’t necessarily be disappointed.
  
• If you don’t mind a more casual approach to training and battling, and that wild Pokémon are not battlable, you won’t necessarily be disappointed.
  
• If you’re looking for the depth of training, raising, and bonding with specific Pokémon, you may find this a positive or negative game.
  
  My husband loved this game. It was “Pokémon lite”. It was perfect because he didn’t have to struggle to find a Pokémon, he just had to be patient and chain it. I didn’t love it because I had to be patient and chain it instead of capture the one I found specifically.
  
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  As an aside, Pokemon Let's Go Eevee is on sale on Amazon for $36.80, and if you want a physical copy today then BestBuy locations will price match because it's sold and shipped by Amazon. If you're not sure, but think you want it, this is a very good price.

It's a 60 dollar game, or so says Amazon

The US version is also on sale by roughly $10.

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Currently $35. Might be a prime only deal.

https://www.amazon.com/Pokemon-Lets-Go-Eevee-Switch/dp/B01N7RE3HB

>2.

There's not a big difference between Let's Go Pikachu\Eevee other than the starter Pokemon. Sword\Shield isn't out yet, but it sounds like there will be significant differences in the gyms you battle.

If you're not familiar with Pokemon the Let's Go games will ease you in to the series. Just be aware that the Pokemon catching mechanics aren't what appears in the regular games. Normally you have to weaken a Pokemon before trying to catch it instead of just chucking balls until they stay in one.

I'd recommend starting out with Let's Go Eevee for two reasons. One, it's $30 right now. That's hard to beat and much easier to swallow if you aren't sure you're going to like the series. Two, Eevee gets access to a bunch of different types of attacks where Pikachu is pretty much all electrical. Eevee will help you learn type advantage better, which is important in the regular games.

https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B01N7RE3HB/ref=nosim/cheapassgam08-20

Pre-order for $59.99 on Amazon

The same release date, and $59.99 on Amazon US https://www.amazon.com/Pokemon-Lets-Go-Eevee-Switch/dp/B01N7RE3HB

Let’s Go - Eevee is $30

But it ain’t Pikachu that’s for sure - and not Digital. But good price nonetheless.

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mario or pokemon amiibos like this https://smile.amazon.com/Amiibo-Mario-Super-Odyssey-Nintendo-Switch/dp/B0721NP5XK/ref=mp_s_a_1_10?keywords=amibos&qid=1563327014&s=gateway&sr=8-10

If they own a switch this game is 30 and they might like it

https://smile.amazon.com/Pokemon-Lets-Go-Eevee-Switch/dp/B01N7RE3HB/ref=mp_s_a_1_27?keywords=switch+games&qid=1563327257&s=gateway&sr=8-27

https://www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/B01N7RE3HB/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&keywords=Pokemon%2BLets%2BGo%2BEevee&qid=1574509404&sr=8-1&th=1

MSRP here for Let's Go, Eevee! is literally 59.99.

https://www.amazon.com/Pokemon-Lets-Go-Eevee-Switch/dp/B01N7RE3HB/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=lets%2Bgo%2Bpokemon&qid=1573666838&sr=8-1&th=1