Launched on the Nintendo Switch in 2019, Pokémon Sword and Shield are currently the latest entries in the main series of Pokémon games. Of course, a lot of Sword and Shield players will have been franchising from the very beginning, and while the new games are a lot of fun in their own way, nostalgia means that the original Red and Blue on Game Boy will always be pretty special, too. .
What if you could somehow mix the two? Well, although it’s almost impossible for most of us, the Japanese YouTube user YouTube ヤ テ 京 雲 re has reimagined the new games in the style of the Game Boy classics. “We were listening to BGM from Sword & Shield [and] I wanted to listen to the Game Boy style! “, Say ハ ヤ テ 京 雲 寺.” I couldn’t find it when I looked for it, so I made it myself! “
Lots of work later and the video below was born. After a nice little introduction and a quick reimagining of the opening of the Red and Blue Pokémon, the video is thrown into Sword and Shield locations and songs, all in Game Boy style. You’ll notice familiar locations like Wedgehurst and Motostoke, all accompanied by chiptune versions of the songs in the new titles. These are impressive things.
Just a month or so ago I came across a great work by an artist named Pat Ackerman, who reinvented every new Pokémon from Sword and Shield in the form of Game Boy-style sprites. Maybe this is becoming a (very welcome) trend?