If you've grown up watching the Pokemon anime series like me, chances are that in every Pokemon game you've pictured yourself as Ash Ketchum in some kind of way. Battling gyms, filling up your Pokedex and trying to live out your anime fantasies with a bunch of cute critters by your side – what more could a scrappy young trainer ask for? However, despite playing all the best Pokemon games throughout the years, I've only really gotten that feeling of partnership that we see Ash and Pikachu possess with the 2018 Switch games, Pokemon: Let's Go, Pikachu and Let's Go, Eevee. The problem is, all the best (and cutest) features from those games haven't returned since, and I've spent just under a decade crying about it like a depressed Sobble… That is, until I started playing Pokemon Legends: Z-A.
If you haven't experienced the joy that was Pokemon: Let's Go, Pikachu and Let's Go, Eevee (aka some of the best Switch games of all time), let me quickly explain what Game Freak gave us before cruelly tearing it away for Pokemon Sword and Shield, and Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. In Pokemon: Let's Go, Pikachu and Let's Go, Eevee players either have a Pikachu or Eevee as their main companions, depending on what version of the game you purchased. Your companion would sit on your shoulder while travelling, you could pet them, and even dress up in matching outfits.
