![]() If they were hit with something that affects their status, like Sand Attack or Paralysis, you'll open the care drawer and dab them with a cotton swab, dry them off with a blow dryer our brush out dirt with a brush. There, you'll have a shot of the Pokémon you just used in battle. Seeing the old familiars radically changed with Alolan Forms is amazing to me, and the chuckle some of these guys illicit is a large source of the fun I had while discovering Pokémon in Sun and Moon. You have to realize that I've been catching the same Pokémon with new monsters peppered in for like 20 years now. The Alola region includes Alolan Forms of classic Pokémon, and the results vary in quality, but they'll almost always make you laugh. Exeggutor might not be a stout palm tree-like shrub no, now he's a ridiculous blend of a tall palm tree and brontosaurus. He's a goofy looking Pokémon complete with an awesome mustache. Alolan Forms and Z-Moves are great, caring for Pokémon isn't.Ī Rattata ain't just a Rattata anymore, folks. It's not too bad if you have a tough Pokémon in your party with an attack that will deal damage to both opposing Pokémon, but it can get super annoying. I had one such encounter that lasted 20 minutes. Guess what? Raticate calls for help again. Can you catch the one you've been working on? No, you can only catch the Pokémon when it's alone. You'll whittle him down to the red in his health pool and he'll call for help. Yes, you'll try to catch that tough Raticate in a Trial. The first time this happened to me was in the first Trial, and from there it happens in the Wild as well. It's not so great because of a Pokémon's new ability to call for help. This is great because the Trial areas sometimes boast strong Pokémon. ![]() Once you move through the Trial, you'll be able to go back and actually catch the Pokémon that attack you. Seeing, for instance, the "Totem Pokémon" of the first trial is a giant, glowing Raticate is rather hilarious for a long time Pokémon fan. The Trials are awesome in that they bring on some pretty fun stuff. ![]() We always yell about changing the game up, and Trials do that. Gyms have become quite standard over the years, and I can't even tell you how many times I've gotten to a Gym only to find the Leader is off doing something and I can't take it on until they get back.Īny long-time Pokémon fan knows the cliches and generic procedures that come from Gyms. Game Freak has decided that, at least for this game, Gyms aren't the way to go at all. Mentally coming into Sun and Moon, and I still find myself doing it, I considered Trials to be just the Alolan form of Gyms. Consider these your Gym trainers and Gym leader, sort of. Trials also feature captains, and each island features a kahuna. Sure, there are some puzzle elements to get to these Pokémon, but those are present throughout the game in other areas too. They house some particularly strong Pokémon and typically an objective, like defeat a given number in a given area. Trials are spread around the Alola region on each island. Trials are still a strong haven for experience, but not in the way Gyms were. You won't earn badges, though you will earn Z-Crystals, and you won't battle rows of trainers for huge experience boosts. Some are boiled down and specific, sort of like Gyms, and some are more general. Now we have Trials to conquer, each in its own locale with its own themes. Game Freak aims to change Pokémon without changing the way it works, and the best they've done with that to-date is with Sun and Moon Over the years, there's regulation changes or rule changes to those games, but the core gameplay doesn't really change for those, and that's how we kind of feel about Pokémon as well." The core gameplay of those - the core of how you play basketball and soccer - hasn't really changed. But when you think about games, just like playing, for example, soccer and basketball, they're games that have been around for a very long time. "Finding that balance every time is very difficult. This comes from Gamasutra back in 2012, and the quote's stuck with me since then. He compares the core formula of the franchise to soccer. There's a quote out there from Pokémon Director Junichi Masuda. I honestly applaud Game Freak for doing this. This isn't just one big change like Mega Evolutions, it's several, and not all of them work out. Sun and Moon represent the biggest changes for the Pokémon series since the transition to 3D. First, folks often complain about how these things are the same every time. There are two big complaints I always read when it comes to Pokémon games, and I appreciate both of them. It's rife with changes that I'll address here, but the main prospect of going out, hunting for Pokémon, taking on trainers and conquering a region is still there. At its core, Pokémon Sun and Moon is still Pokémon.
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