If there's one big goal for Pokemon Champions, it's accessibility. The upcoming free-to-play PvP game is set to simplify Pokemon's high-level turn-based battling more than ever before, lowering the barrier to entry and inviting more players to try their hand at the Video Game Championships (VGC), something producer Masaaki Hoshino knows hasn't been easy in the past.
Speaking via interpreter during a group interview attended by GamesRadar+, Hoshino says that despite Pokemon battles being a key part of the series for 30 years now, "I really wanted to make these Pokemon battles, this element of the Pokemon series, something that sticks around forever, that we have going into the future." He acknowledges that not everyone has "really got into the PvP part – playing against other players – and with this product, our hope is to expand that accessibility, to make it something that anyone can jump in and enjoy."
