Most of the time, “Pokemon Go” players chase after the pocket monsters, but this time around, Nintendo brought the Pokemon to fans.

In the lead up to the Nov. 16 release of “Pokemon Let’s Go Eevee” and “Pokemon Let’s Go Pikachu,” the company has launched a promotional road trip to let players demo the Nintendo Switch release. The tour stopped in Los Angeles first before dropping by at the Embardcadero Center in San Francisco Oct. 6. According to Nintendo’s website, the event heads to Seattle’s Alderwood Mall on Oct. 13.

I had chance to play a short demo of “Pokemon: Let’s Go Eevee” and use the Poke Ball Plus controller. From the get-go, this chapter of “Pokemon” is different from others because it’s the first console title to be directly influenced by “Pokemon Go,” the popular mobile game. Instead of running into pocket monsters in random encounters, players see them in the environment and try to capture them. The process is console adaptation of the mobile game experience.

In this case, I wandered the Viridian Forest and ran into Pidgeys, Rattatas and Oddishes. Contacting these Pokemon switches the game to a catch screen and players throw a Pokeball to capture them. There’s no more battling wild Pokemon. The experience is similar but not exactly like “Pokemon Go.” Players can’t toss curve ball. They can either throw it underhanded or overhanded. The process takes some getting used to because I was always unsure of how hard to throw it. I had no muscle memory when it came to throwing a virtual ball at a TV screen.

The one notable element is that playing the game with the Poke Ball controller was comfortable. It has a wrist strap and a small ring that goes around your finger and it makes the ball fit snugly in the hand. Throwing a ball requires you to gesture throw, but not throw the controller itself. (That would end with a lot of broken TV screens and peripherals.) The Poke Ball itself feels hefty and the material has a surprisingly soft texture that helps with the grip.

The analog stick can click in and that counts as a press of the A button. A B button is tucked away in the red half of the Poke Ball. Those are the only two buttons you need to play the game.

The demo was so short — maybe 10 minutes at the most — that I didn’t have much time to explore the area or battle another trainer. What I did notice is that players can pick up experience points and berries with each catch. They can feed those berries to wild Pokemon (I assume it helps make catching easier.) or the pocket monster they take out of the ball. Some wild Pokemon in the game have a blue or red swirl around them. These indicate bigger and smaller sizes of the creature though it’s uncertain how that influences a Pokemon’s stats in the game.

The most interesting thing about the “Pokemon: Let’s Go” games is that there’s integration with “Pokemon Go.” Players can transfer their creatures from the mobile game to the console game, but once it is sent over, they can’t be shifted back. Another intriguing wrinkle is that Pokemon from “Let’s Go” games can be brought along inside the ball. They rattle around and make sounds just as though they were inside the ball. The added value comes in the connection to “Pokemon Go.” Players can use the device just like a Pokemon Go Plus, so they can catch Pokemon with having to take out their phone. It’s a great way to grind stardust to power up Pokemon.

Lastly, The Pokemon Company and Niantic announced another way “Pokemon Go” and the “Let’s Go” games integrate tightly. With the introduction of a new mythical Pokemon Meltan, “Pokemon Go” players have stumbled upon a new type of creature. By transferring “Pokemon Go” Pokemon to “Let’s Go,” they can obtain a Mystery Box that can be used to find Meltan in “Pokemon Go.” It seems as though Game Freak and Niantic will be exploring more ways to weave together these two world’s together.

A few other notes worth mentioning about the Pokemon Let’s Go Road Trip:

1. There is some cross promotional events with “Pokemon Go.” Niantic drops in a temporary Pokestop near the event. The research task I got from the event wasn’t anything special. The big draw would be the gifts that you can share with friends.

2. The event has some swag in the form of pins, paper hats and a foam Poke ball plushie.

The Pokemon Let’s Go Road Trip stops at the following cities:

Dallas at Klyde Warren Park on Oct. 20

Topkea, Kansas, on Oct. 27

Chicago at Millennium Park on Nov. 3

Boston on Nov. 10

New York at Nintendo NY on Nov. 15.