I feel this game relies too much on gimmicks. The way you catch Pokémon is weird and the game restricts you to using only a single Joy-Con if you're playing single player, for some reason you can't use both Joy-Cons unless you want to control two trainers and you can't use a Pro Controller at all. I can respect it for pretty much abolishing random encounters (not that those were bad I just find it intriguingly bold), letting you store Pokémon in the PC whenever, and bringing back rideable Pokémon, those were fun quality of life features. I feel we really didn't need another remake of the Kanto games, honestly; FireRed and LeafGreen already did a great job of fixing the problems with those games, and I know those came out several years ago but I feel they should've just got a port or a remaster instead of this game being made. Perhaps my biggest complaint about Pokémon Let's Go Eevee is that it's ridiculously easy. I know I'm saying that about a Pokémon game, but this game was straight up effortless to beat, even easier than any other Pokémon game I've played. All you need is your Eevee, which you can teach moves of several different types, and you can stomp the gyms easy since they still use exclusively one type. You could probably get some challenge if you deliberately refrain from using your Eevee, but if you do use it this game is such a straight road to victory.

Overall, I respect it for trying to mix up the gameplay despite being a remake of the Kanto games, but it leans too hard into gimmicky territory and it just wasn't very fun. It isn't a bad game, but it is bland and much too easy (even for Pokémon standards). I will say that this definitely was not worth $60, I regret having paid full price for such a "meh" experience. Because of everything I've laid out here, I'm giving it two stars, which is looking to be the default score I give Switch games that I find bland but not necessarily bad.