Developed by Creatures Inc. and published by The Pokémon Company, “Detective Pikachu Lightning Returns” released a new trailer and game content at the “Pokémon Presents” online conference today (8).
This work describes the city “Lyme City” where people and Pokémon coexist. Tim and Pikachu, the famous “detective partners” in Lyme City, are challenging various events that happened in the city while looking for Tim’s missing father Ha benefit. In the process, the “gem theft” happened. The duo will use this incident as an opportunity to set out to unravel the great mystery.
In the game, Tim and Pikachu challenge to solve the incident together, and need to collect testimony and evidence to complete the “reasoning notebook”. Investigate the scene of the incident, ask humans or Pokémon for information, and you can collect clues such as testimony or evidence that can help solve the incident, and solve the incidents that occurred one after another.
“Inquiring about intelligence” is the basic skill of investigation. Not only humans, but Pikachu can also collect information from Pokémon. Some Pokémon will use their specialties to help with investigations. For example, Katie can use its keen sense of smell to track smells.
Players don’t have to be afraid of getting stuck. The game is equipped with “Pikachu Tips” that can ask Pikachu for hints when the investigation is stuck in a bottleneck; during reasoning or on-site inspections, it will tell the player which one is the correct answer. The “Show Correct Answer” function etc., a variety of functions to assist reasoning or game progress.
Detective Pikachu Lightning Returns is expected to launch exclusively on Nintendo Switch on October 6.
