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Pokémon Sun Version/Moon Version Review Thread
- Thread starter BY2K
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Then get Moon and trade for Vulpix.
The time is shifted 12 hours in Moon, so 1 PM in Sun would be 1 AM in Moon.
UberTag
Member
We were able to confirm yesterday that all 4 of these lines are available in both games (along with the Vanilluxe and Gigalith lines).
The pre-evos for Goodra, Garchomp and Vanilluxe all show up as additional SOS encounters that are randomly tapped for certain routes in place of the allies that are normally called. This data was excluded from the original encounter dump which led to confusion that more pokemon were exclusive than actually are.
Those 10 per game (technically, 15 counting pre-evos) are locked-in exclusives and cannot be obtained without trading.
Hmm, don't like that at all haha. Looks like I have a system clock to fuck with.
Apparently,GF already knows IGN's final score for the game
Spoiler btw,not story spoiler of course.
http://i.imgur.com/bdfj8UZ.jpg
Sorry,forgot to edit that.
HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
Thanks for spoiling the fun. :/
Charlie0108
Member
Ah ok, I guess I missed that. Thanks for clarifying!
Sorry,forgot to edit that.
my amazon preorder won't be delivered until next week
not sure if it is really worth it to pay $10 more to get it from a store
You can either spend the $10 more, fight a store crowd, and get it day of, or you could spend less, not fight a crowd, but get it 5 days later. I'm doing the latter because this is also Nintendo'a most preordered game ever, let alone a new Pokemon game. Going to a store will be a nightmare.
SpiceMelange
Member
I don't use the exp share and switch my team around as I find new pokemons. I'm slightly underleveled compared to totem pokemons. I have used more X battle items like X Defense than I ever did in any other pokemon game combined.
I imagine if you use the exp share the game becomes the sweep fest most pokemon games are.
TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared
Member
Does GameStop charge you the moment you put a preorder down, or when you get it?
You generally have to put down $5 up front and pay the rest when you get it.
Crimson_Echidna
Banned
You have to put down a minimum of $5 for a video game if you're preordering. $25 if you are preordering a console.
SpiceMelange
Member
There is, at least in the story where you see the trainers at the same time as the pokemons. Maybe not online though.
Aaronrules380
Member
The places I heard from suggested this is only true for regular 3ds, not new 3ds
TheGreatLugia
Banned
It's good to hear that most reviewers seem to be praising the story.
Askherserenity
Member
Zeyphersan
Banned
Should I get Sun or Moon? Or both?
SciencePilot
Member
Get one and trade for the Pokemon you like in the other. If you don't have friends who get the other version then you can trade GAF.
DR2K
Banned
I want to be able to catch it myself.
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Deleted member 231381
Unconfirmed Member
From a gameplay perspective and considering only the design of the region's routes and visuals rather than anything else associated with the game, I think Hoenn is fairly clearly the worst. The back half of the game is an absolutely painful slog involving far too much Surfing. All of those routes look almost identical because, well, you're out at sea, and they all have almost identical encounter tables. There's only so many Wingull and Tentacool you can cope with. It's a shame because I think the first half is quite strong, but everything after Winona is a sharp downhill slide.
Kanto and Johto are certainly a great deal plainer than the others, probably because of the graphical limitations of the time. They're similar but have slightly different problems. Kanto's problem is that because it had the luxury of being first, it didn't really do anything to capture a coherent theme to define itself. It's just... a series of nondescript paths and towns. There are a few stand-out points - Lavender Town, for example - but it's a rather plain affair. The one great strength it has is relative non-linearity, a big weakness of a lot of the other regions. Johto is interesting because it sort of makes Kanto's theme clearer by contrast: Kanto is suburban Japan, Johto is rural Japan, with more of the traditions and iconography of Japanese history. But precisely because they feature together, Johto ends up rather on the small side. I don't think that's necessarily a problem insofar as it means Johto is worse, but I felt it had more to give.
Sinnoh, I think, is the best region. I'm not a fan of Kalos, and I don't think I'm a fan of Alola. Both feel a little bit too much like caricatures. They overexaggerate their thematic bases - everything in Kalos screams 'France' with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer to the face. Sinnoh manages to do a good job of subtly differentiating itself from the previous three generations, especially in Platinum where the colder side is played up (and I think it is fairest to judge Sinnoh on Platinum). It's still quite linear, but the sprawling and winding nature of the map 'hides' that much better than the later generations starting from Unova, which are dull A to B affairs. The locales are all reasonably interesting and they all contribute to the world-building, something much more strongly present in Sinnoh than any of the other titles.
If forced to rank, I think I'd tentatively say that Sinnoh > Johto/Kanto > Unova > Kalos > Hoenn. From what I've seen of Alola, it probably slots in between Unova and Kalos.
NipplesAndToes23
Member
It ain't that big of a deal.
MannyToons
Member
Uh, it kinda is for me.
The Pokemon won't share your OT name, meaning you can't nickname it, it will disobey you in the early moments of the game (VERY annoying when you're trying to replace your starter), it'll get more experience points than the rest of your team, meaning it easily becomes overpowered in comparison to the rest of them, and using a traded 'mon has always taken the personal experience away from raising it (again, for me).
I just don't get why people seem so confused by someone wanting to use a Pokemon that's theirs.
SpiceMelange
Member
Speaking from hands on experience.
MissDeviling
Member
You could breed it.
MannyToons
Member
Doesn't solve my personal gripe of wanting to catch my own. I only breed for starter replacements. Again, this is just my own issue. I'm SUPER picky with Pokemon.
pizzaparty
Member
Ask for a female and breed your own.
DR2K
Banned
Doesn't solve my personal gripe of wanting to catch my own. I only breed for starter replacements. Again, this is just my own issue. I'm SUPER picky with Pokemon.
Agreed. This is my stance on this. I like the personal flair to catching my Pokémon.
MasterSheen
Member
Well you don't really have a choice in that case lol. Either pick Sun for Vulpix or Moon for everything else it has. It sounds like you want Moon more anywayDoesn't solve my personal gripe of wanting to catch my own. I only breed for starter replacements. Again, this is just my own issue. I'm SUPER picky with Pokemon.
Or just buy both
Hellshingu
Member
Had to switch the address for my amazon preorder and got my delivery pushed to the 22nd
Thanks Amazon Prime.
Thanks Amazon Prime.
It's been said a few times already, but GameFreak has managed to do it again with Pokemon Sun/Moon. It's absolutely the best Pokemon game yet.
http://press-start.com.au/reviews/3ds-reviews/2016/11/16/pokemon-sun-moon-review-best-pokemon-yet/
http://press-start.com.au/reviews/3ds-reviews/2016/11/16/pokemon-sun-moon-review-best-pokemon-yet/
BudokaiMR2
Member
I am planning to pre-order it tonight at the largest Pokemon Center in the area and pick it up after work the day of release.
Wish me luck. lol
That depends on what you're aiming to get via breeding. You could look at this for a start.
There are dozens of mechanics involved in breeding, though none of them are very complicated. If you want better odds of a shiny Pokemon, just breed two Pokemon that were caught by players using a different language. If you want to keep a parent's nature, just make them hold an everstone. If you want to get egg moves, just make sure one of the parents knows the move you need.
It only gets hard when you want to control all of the above, really.
Hmm... I'm more interested in how the game runs generally. 20 seconds every time I start up the game is really not that much. Slowdown in battles with more than two Pokemon is a much bigger worry for me.
Starwolf_UK
Member
The impression I'm getting is there are two separate problems. Frame rate drops which everyone gets but the game sitting around doing nothing after you've selected attacks is o3DS only?
I know in Gen VI hordes had a similar issue (you would hit run then about 5 seconds later the game would tell you if you got away safely or not). Shame its been added to doubles. As for why...the pause is probably loading of some sort due to having to unload things (Sun/Moon use extra RAM like SSB did on o3DS but maybe this was not quite enough speaking of which...).
I wonder if turning move animations off could help (if it is move animations being loaded in them being disabled should stop them needing to load).
It's like SSB for 3DS. The system effectively reboots to free up some RAM on o3DS that was used for things like the web browser (so those no longer work).
wow,that's huge.
but i really wish the game get some N3DS power,i am really afraid of the battle royal,i saw some videos and it's really laggy.
Same thing happens with SSB and Badge Arcade. The extra N3DS hardware is not really pushed in most games, but the start up time and general loading is something that is easily noticeable.