With Pokémon being one of the
largest pop culture juggernauts since its introduction as a video game in 1996
in Japan, it's understandable that an IP that’s lasted this long would
eventually want to experiment with its formula. In 2016 (2018 in the West) came
Detective Pikachu, a somewhat obscure
3DS game that put the Pokémon Pikachu in a detective setting wherein it had to
team up with a human in order to solve a mystery. When the announcement of a
live-action film adaptation was announced, I was a little worried how it might
look considering the track record of live-action video game adaptations,
however the first trailer was enough to win me over. As some one who has some
experience with Pokémon, I found the
movie, Pokémon Detective Pikachu, to
be one of the best video game movies I had ever seen, possibly even the best one
made in live-action.
