It’s an improvement 20 years in the making. They’re a blast to use, and eliminating the need for HMs allows for a new world in which you can have zero Flying-or Water-type Pokémon on your team and still be totally fine. Need to smash a small rock? Summon Tauros and ram through it! No longer do you need to teach something Rock Smash just for three caves in the first 20% of the game. No longer do you need to keep a move slot on a flying Pokémon reserved for Fly so you can travel around. It is both your new way to travel faster (who needs a bike?), and, more importantly, it is a complete replacement for HMs in previous games. One more way Sun makes the world feel alive is through the ability to ride Pokémon, a returning feature from X and Y, except now you can ride select Pokémon whenever you want (rather than doing it in extremely specific circumstances). It’s an awesome way to breathe new life into classic monsters, and makes Pokémon feel more like real wildlife this time around. Rattata became nocturnal as a means of protecting itself against new predators. Instead of regular Raichu, we have Alolan Raichu – a Psychic/Electric version of the famous Generation 1 Pokémon that rides on its tail like a surfboard because of changes in Pikachu’s diet (according to the Pokédex).
This is made abundantly clear through the introduction of Alolan Pokémon, variants of old creatures made explicitly for the Alola region. At the same time, there are almost no instances of Pokémon being stuffed into specific areas “just because.” Every Pokémon feels like it is where it should be. You will find more instances of one Pokémon showing up across multiple connected routes - in the same way animals don’t exist in one rigid location. Routes are commonly sprinkled with things like Pokémon Centers and motels. They each have their own unique personalities, cities, Pokémon habitats, cultures, and feels.Īnd compared to other regions, Alola feels less rigid and concrete. Rather than being just one consistent landmass like previous games, Alola is made up of four main islands that each feel like miniature regions of their own. The liveliness of Alola, the region the game takes place in, was clearly a primary focus of this game’s development. In fact, “life” is a word that describes this game pretty well. Sun and Moon does not fix all of these problems, unfortunately, but for what problems the game has, it makes up for with seemingly innumerable quality of life improvements and structural shakeups. X and Y especially brought with them tremendously low difficulty, a poor story, a deadly combination of fewer creature designs and worse ones, and a region barren of secrets to uncover. I was one of those Pokémon fans who really wasn’t all that fond of X and Y nor Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire in the grander scope of the Pokémon series. I never thought I would say any of these things about the new Pokémon game, but here I am Game Freak made a new way to play Pokémon. Pokémon Sun is surprising, weird, novel, different, and, most importantly, really, really good.
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