This library of games now includes Pokémon Sun and Moon which are the highest pre-selling Nintendo games in history.
Why? Well, the 3DS has an excellent library of games behind it that will continue to sell it. In fact, Nintendo has said that it doesn’t think that the Switch will impact on the 3DS at all, despite the fact that it’s also a handheld device. Nintendo has promised that the Nintendo 3DS isn't going anywhere, even with the Switch.
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This makes Sun and Moon feel like the most console-like instalments we’ve seen in the series so far. In my review of the game I said these changes had a cinematic effect, making the game more like the anime than any other instalment we’ve seen in the franchise so far. In Sun and Moon these angles have been refined and, though not perfected, they’ve vastly improved and would look completely at home on a larger screen. Since X and Y we’ve been seeing Game Freak developing the camera angles of the games to move away from the top-down view towards a three dimensional view. For the first time we get to see cut-scenes in a Pokémon game and they’re actually well done! Characters talk and react in them, and that includes your own character, though there’s no voice acting. Then there are the bigger changes that are more obviously console-like. The game world in terms of its environments and movement between events feels more seamless than ever before and an effort has absolutely been made to create a game that balances the depth of a console game’s world with the lightness of play and shorter play sessions of a handheld title. It’s a nice little detail that deserves, and is clearly intended for, a larger screen. When walking through a volcano location, for example, you can see steam rising from geysers in the distance. The long grass is more textured, jumping from ledges looks more realistic, and when you’re walking through locations distant backgrounds are animated rather than static.
This change makes it look like the Pokémon are actually taking part in a battle in the same location and their moves (which have vastly improved animations, by the way) actually interact with one another.Įven in the larger game world you can see more of an effort has been made to enhance details.
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If you're still playing the base games, check out all the free Pokemon and items you can get in Pokemon Sun and Moon right now.Each step your character makes actually looks like it has weight behind it when your character stands unmoving for a long period of time, they start to move or dust themselves off when they’re walking through tall grass, they raise their hands above it to make it look like they’re carefully picking their way through.īattles in Sun and Moon are now more reminiscent of Pokémon Stadium than the original games, making the game world the setting for the battle rather than placing opposing Pokémon on tiny islands. Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon launch for 3DS on November 17, featuring an "alternate" story and some new Pokemon. Elsewhere in our interview, Game Freak explained how Pokemon for Switch is helped by Ultra Sun and Moon, and stated which of those two you should buy. Game Freak is working on a "core RPG" Pokemon title for the console, though we know next to nothing about what game that might be. Nintendo Switch does have a Pokemon game in development, of course. That game may have subsequently become Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, and when pressed on whether those games could come to Switch later down the line, Ohmori stated simply that "there are no plans for that in particular." One of the reasons people were surprised at the lack of a Switch version was because a third version of Pokemon Sun and Moon-unofficially dubbed Pokemon Stars-was heavily rumored to be in development for the hybrid console. Now Playing: Pokémon Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon - New Z-Moves Revealed Trailer By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's