So I think we all know that GameFreak has revisited Kanto way too many times. In 2nd gen, it was a joyous post-game reward. By the third gen, we got decent remakes of Red and Blue in the form of FireRed and LeafGreen. In the 4th gen, we got what was still consider by many as a joyous post-game reward by many in HGSS. Around the time when 7th gen was released, we got Virtual Console gamse of Pokemon Red, Blue and Yellow where people could re-experience the experimental Pokemon 1st generation and transport their 1st gen Pokemon with exciting hidden abilities for Pokemon Sun and Moon. Thinking about it, revisiting Kanto a lot has not actually been a tiring experience for me. In fact I haven't revisited Kanto in a while now that I think about it and there are huge year-gaps in-between that add to it. It's actually been quite a fun adventure revisiting Kanto and honestly... I am really excited to revisit Kanto again in this huge remake full of so many details that remakes, FireRed and LeafGreen, just lacked and understandably so. Are you guys intrigued by this new much more detailed and cinematic take on Kanto that arguably and possibly makes Kanto feel more like it's own character, something Gen 5's Unova excelled in highly.
The rest of this is just my opinion, and yes, huge remake at least for me personally. If you seen the trailers by now, you've notice that many many locations, character, and even in general the flow of the story has gotten a huge makeover. Lavender Town for example looks like a haunted yet strangely beautiful town full of purple. Fuschia City looks more like a city full of East-Asian style culture. If you know me, you know this is a huge deal for me. I've always said Kanto was the weakest region and one of the huge, and arguably important, reasons was it strongly lacked diversity in it's locations, something that Gen 5's Unova greatly excels in. In Unova every city, route and even caves felt like it's own unique environment with it's own unique atmosphere. Kanto doesn't really have a lot of that to begin with, in fact you can see just how bare-bones it can be in the remakes, FireRed and LeafGreen. Seeing these huge revamped makeovers to the cities in the Let's Go titles give Kanto more life and personality for me. Not just that but also the characters themselves and the locations within those locations seem to have more personality thanks to new 3D animations and visuals, like the S.S Anne of Vermillion City or Misty's Gym of Cerulean City. I've noticed that Cerulean Cave has especially had a huge makeover, being modeled after the crysallized-version in Pokemon Origins in great detail. On a closer look for characters, you can also see Brock having that gruff look on his face, Misty smiling at you for the first time, Surge having that cocky grin on his face, something that the original Red and Blue and it's remake counterparts lacked due to the heavy limitations of 2D graphics at the time, with the exception of Gen V. The new look for the Let's Go titles look gorgeous, not just because of the new revamp in graphics and artwork but because of the cinematic camera angles making these locations feel more impressive than it actually is. I haven't seen this kind of cinematic visuals since Gen V, yes Gen V. Gen V has always been my favorite generation because it represented the idea, to me at least, of what a great Pokemon generation should be and one way it did so was telling the story of not just you, the player's story, but telling the story of the world of Pokemon through amazing camera angles, like the first time you step onto a bridge towards Castelia City, you see trucks, roads, a vast city sky-line on the horizon or how you find yourself standing on top of a hill early on in BW2, not through some boring usual intro featuring the professor showing you a Pokemon, asking your name and gender, but in-game where you, as the character, stand next to the Professor as your about to get your first Pokemon in the calm serene morning on top of a hill, seeing the breathtaking visuals of the vast forests, hills and mountains that say, "Welcome to the world of Pokemon." The cinematic scene in the Let's Go trailers where you, the player, meets Professor Oak in Route 1 and later you meet your first Pokemon at the lab, looking at you, the main character, with a big smile reminds me of that moment. Sun and Moon also has this too but nowhere as grand and impressive as Black and White's, and it's a 2D DS game, which not only showcased a personal story, like SM, but also told the story of one other character, Unova the region and that's what it feels like for me when I'm seeing the cutscenes brought in by Let's Go Eevee and Pikachu. Kanto, the region, feels like an actual character in those trailers rather than the boring bare-bones region I knew from the remakes and original Red and Blue. It feels like Kanto is giving more character and personality as a whole which is why it's because of this re-exploring Kanto probably won't feel like revisiting an old bare-bones region with the same generic locations but instead revisiting a refreshing take on the Kanto region that tells you that hey, the Kanto region is a character all on it's own. Don't get me wrong though, I am disappointed that it won't have the Sevii Isles, that it's limited to the original 151 Pokemon, that the simplification of catching mechanics and competitive can make things boring but honestly I'm going to get Pokemon Let's Go Eevee and Let's Go Pikachu as an adventure title, similar to Pokemon Ranger or Mystery Dungeon, as a fresh HD 3D Cinematic remake of Pokemon Red and Blue, throughout this new take on Kanto rather than expecting a full traditional experience with the dedicated post-game content and multiplayer.