By Hugh Langley
The weirdest announcement to come out of Japan so far this year has to be Detective Pikachu, the latest 3DS game from the Pokémon Company which portrays Pikachu as a tiny, coffee-swigging Sherlock Holmes.
The game is out now in Japan, and several YouTubers have already uploaded gameplay footage that reveals more about the game.
In the introduction video we discover that Pikachu was once happy, munching on apples and bouncing around without a care in the world. Then one day he was in a car accident which killed his owner, leaving the little yellow guy wandering the streets, catcalling at women and yelling at cars.
We suspect he’s hitting the bottle pretty hard at this point.
The memories of the crash clearly still haunt Pikachu, who finds companionship in a boy named Tim Goodman. Together the duo set out to solve cases, the first of which looks like this:
Don’t worry, it’s just tomato juice. But still.
Pikachu rolls over Aipom’s lifeless body. He doesn’t care about contaminating the crime scene. Pikachu doesn’t play by the rules, but he sure as hell gets results.
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Source:: techradar.com – Gaming