Games Database
3DS/2DS
Adventure: Role Playing
| Viewed: | 3D Third-person, over the shoulder | Genre: | Adventure: Role Playing |
| Media: | Cartridge | Arcade origin: | No |
| Developer: | Game Freak | Soft. Co.: | The Pokémon Company |
| Publishers: | Nintendo
(GB/GB) |
Released: | 17 Nov 2017
(GB) |
| Ratings: | PEGI 7+ | ||
| Connectivity: | Local Play, Internet | ||
Summary
Pokemon has never exactly been lacking in fans. Having lived in the hearts and minds of gamers for more than 20 years now, the series has racked up a whopping 380 million sales across its lifespan. Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto eat your heart out. That said, coming off the back of the phenomenal hit that was Pokemon Go, it's bigger than ever and has picked up a whole influx of new fans.
Like their smartphone cousin, the core Pokemon titles are still about catching 'em all. Unlike Go, there's a lot more depth under the hood. The series has always been about pretty open role-playing in which players capture and train different pokemon and set them against each other. Moon and Sun are, in essence, the same game with slightly different sets of pokemon to encourage trading between players.
These latest games whisk the player off to the Alola region, a series of islands based loosely on Hawaii with some exotic pokemon not found anywhere else. Each pokemon has an elemental type (ranging from 'grass' to 'ghost') and can learn at least four moves at a time to learn in battle. Between these different types, attacks and their side effects, there's a lot of subtlety to pokemon combat and breeding and training them can quickly become an obsession, if you care to let it!
It's not all about combat, though, and there's plenty to discover as you range around the islands and take on their head kahunas.
Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon follow in the grand tradition of the likes of Pokemon Yellow, offering an enhanced version of the original Moon and Sun with a modified story and the introduction of several pokemon players of the original won't have seen!
Longtime fans will be pleased to know that Sun and Moon haven't been dumbed down for new fans, but Pokemon Go converts will still find an accessible game waiting for them.
Like their smartphone cousin, the core Pokemon titles are still about catching 'em all. Unlike Go, there's a lot more depth under the hood. The series has always been about pretty open role-playing in which players capture and train different pokemon and set them against each other. Moon and Sun are, in essence, the same game with slightly different sets of pokemon to encourage trading between players.
These latest games whisk the player off to the Alola region, a series of islands based loosely on Hawaii with some exotic pokemon not found anywhere else. Each pokemon has an elemental type (ranging from 'grass' to 'ghost') and can learn at least four moves at a time to learn in battle. Between these different types, attacks and their side effects, there's a lot of subtlety to pokemon combat and breeding and training them can quickly become an obsession, if you care to let it!
It's not all about combat, though, and there's plenty to discover as you range around the islands and take on their head kahunas.
Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon follow in the grand tradition of the likes of Pokemon Yellow, offering an enhanced version of the original Moon and Sun with a modified story and the introduction of several pokemon players of the original won't have seen!
Longtime fans will be pleased to know that Sun and Moon haven't been dumbed down for new fans, but Pokemon Go converts will still find an accessible game waiting for them.
