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Pokemon: Let’s Go to be last director role for Junichi Masuda

<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="http://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/pokemon-lets-go-to-be-last-director-role-for-junichi-masuda.jpg" width="200" height="200" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p><a href="https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-news/meet-the-makers-of-pokemon-lets-go-pikachu-and-pokemon-lets-go-eevee/">According to an interview from Pokemon.com,</a> this month’s release of <em>Pokemon Let’s Go: Pikachu and Eevee</em> will be the final time Junichi Masuda directs games in the core <em>Pokemon </em>series. </p>
<p>Masuda, who’s been directing <em>Pokemon </em>games since <em>Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire</em> (and who did sound design on the original<em> Pokemon Red and Blue</em>) states in the interview that “it’s important to have the younger generation at Game Freak take over the development of <em>Pokemon </em>as a series,” seeming to indicate he’ll be staying at the company.</p>
<p>Masuda returned as game director for the <em>Let’s Go</em> games after spending time working on the global hit <em>Pokemon Go. </em></p>
<p>In the interview, he states that he chose to work on the <em>Let’s Go</em> titles because he “wanted to realize that goal by creating games that could connect with <em>Pokemon Go </em>and feel somewhat similar to it without feeling like we were copying it.” </p>
<p>For developers who are curious about the careful choices that define <em>Pokemon’s </em>game development, it may be worth <a href="https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-news/meet-the-makers-of-pokemon-lets-go-pikachu-and-pokemon-lets-go-eevee/">reading the full interview over</a> at the <em>Pokemon </em>website. Masuda’s joined by his collaborator Kensaku Nabana for a conversation that highlights some of the specific choices that have helped the <em>Pokemon </em>series evolve over the last two decades. </p>
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