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Detective Pikachu Returns

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Title Screen

Detective Pikachu Returns

Developer: Creatures
Publishers: The Pokémon Company (JP), Nintendo (INT)
Platform: Nintendo Switch
Released internationally: October 6, 2023


GraphicsIcon.png This game has unused graphics.
ModelsIcon.png This game has unused models.
MusicIcon.png This game has unused music.


Detective Pikachu Returns again on a new mystery to solve, in which the story itself is very similar to the Detective Pikachu movie.

Unused Graphics

Some character models contain two each of some unused lines of colors, stored as texture files. They vary in size for its width and it varies from each character.

Howard Myers

DetectivePikachuReturns-Howard Wait01NorTex.png DetectivePikachuReturns-Howard Wait01PosTex.png

Jessica Miller

DetectivePikachuReturns-JessicaVatTest Jessica Wait01NormTex.png DetectivePikachuReturns-JessicaVatTest Jessica Wait01PosTex.png

Larry Turner

DetectivePikachuReturns-Turner Wait01NorTex.png DetectivePikachuReturns-Turner Wait01PosTex.png

Pablo Millan

DetectivePikachuReturns-Pablo Wait01NorTex.png DetectivePikachuReturns-Pablo Wait01PosTex.png

Hidden Model

Hmmm...
To do:
There's a few characters that have a pre-posed model that's also not seen normally. Document them.

Most character models have a hidden capsule model that cannot be seen normally in-game; this is likely left over from development to test character movement.

DetectivePikachuReturns-CapsuleModel.png

Unused Music

PLAY_BGM_NEW_BASE_01

Unused BGM for some sort of area the player would visit.

PLAY_BGM_EP0_HOWARD_OFFICE_01

Music that would play in Mayor Myers office as per its filename, however, the player does not ever see or visit his office in the game.

PLAY_BGM_DETECTIVE_MODE_01

Unused BGM for the chapter of The Missing Jewel.

PLAY_BGM_DETECTIVE_MODE_02

Unused BGM for the chapter of The Missing Jewel.

PLAY_BGM_DETECTIVE_MODE_03

Unused BGM for the chapter of The Missing Jewel.

Internal Project Name

The internal name for the game is "Cornet".