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Explore the Alola Region in Pokemon Sun and Moon Trailer

By the way, did anyone spot any frame drops in the trailer? I've watched it a few times and I don't see any, not even when the Legendaries are using their special moves.
 
Dusk Soldier said:
Dark type is actually "evil" type in Japanese. Japanese wouldn't really associate it with the moon. They would be more likely to pick psychic type or maybe rock or water type to represent a moon pokemon.
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And fairy type.

But umbreon is the moonlight Pokemon so we got at least one going here. Maybe umbreon is really the dark side of the moon.
 
ArchedThunder said:
By the way, did anyone spot any frame drops in the trailer? I've watched it a few times and I don't see any, not even when the Legendaries are using their special moves.
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New 3DS, baby.

You can use OS level hacks to enable N3DS-exclusive horsepower in all 3DS games, and from what I've read, that shit brings X/Y/ORAS up to a solid framerate that simply doesn't drop. Hordes don't drop that shit. Makes you wonder why these games haven't been patched.
 
Forkball said:
You can also add Pokemon to your Pokedex via QR codes.

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Only the basic data though, so yes you will have to go catch it yourself.
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sweet,a back door to access homebrew channel.
 
MegaManTrigger said:
Region map killed my interest. Looks like it'll be another boring linear-fest continuing from XY.
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What? I don't understand what you mean.

You've actually played X/Y? Or the Pokemon game before that?

You'd think you'd be excited to play a Pokemon game with an organic looking map after having played through two maps that just looped into themselves once.
 
ArchedThunder said:
I know what the game maps look like, but Alola looks like it has very few routes and the ones that are there mostly look tiny.
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I'm not seeing it. Did you look at the big version of the map? It looks like it's as populated with routes and towns as any other Pokemon game. Things just appear condensed because there's not miles and miles of empty forest filling the space between routes and towns.

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I kinda see what you're saying about the routes, I'm kind of assuming that there's tall patches of grass peppered throughout the whole game rather than the clear route-town dichotomy established in previous games
 
Huge Succeeded said:
I'm not seeing it. Did you look at the big version of the map? It looks like it's as populated with routes and towns as any other Pokemon game. Things just appear condensed because there's not miles and miles of empty forest filling the space between routes and towns.



I kinda see what you're saying about the routes, I'm kind of assuming that there's tall patches of grass peppered throughout the whole game rather than the clear route-town dichotomy established in previous games
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Only the bottom left seems like it has lots of non town stuff, the islands are mostly just towns with tiny patches between.
 
Huge Succeeded said:
What? I don't understand what you mean.

You've actually played X/Y? Or the Pokemon game before that?

You'd think you'd be excited to play a Pokemon game with an organic looking map after having played through two maps that just looped into themselves once.
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The islands don't look like they'll give the player room to explore, in fact, it looks like there's a pathway that can take you to the locations highlighted in the areas. This looks to continue what XY did where you went from area to area without taking your hand off the game's and allowing you to explore. And even when the game gave the player a chance to explore, the area itself was small and braindead.

And yes, I did play XY and that game was boring as all hell. I can at least forgive Unova's region design because of its gameplay and challenge.

ZiggyPalffyLA said:
Negative, baseless garbage posts like this always make me wonder if the people that post them know how to experience happiness in life.
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So experiencing happiness is always dumbing down and being 100% positive? Get a clue.

Azuran said:
He has Mega Man name and avatar. I think the answer to that it's pretty obvious
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Only in forums can you find inane posts like these, where you guess if the name and avatar matches a person's mood level IRL.
 
yoonshik said:
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Something to note about this map (that I'm speculating):

YOU CANNOT SURF THE OCEAN.

So don't be concerned with too much water. Notice how each island has a different shade of blue for surfable water, and how it's surrounded by rocks (to indicate you can't go beyond the rocks).

Also Notice how each island has ports for boats, which I'm guessing is how you'll get from island to island before getting the Fly HM.
 
Wait

Your friend says something gave them chicken skin (does anyone still say that instead of goosebumps?)

How does he know what a chicken is
 
ffdgh said:
And the moon legend has a 4x dark weakness...Tho that's explains why it got multiscale I suppose.
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Don't really see why a 4x weakness is a big deal. Rayquaza has a 4x Ice weakness, Ho-Oh has a 4x rock weakness.

As long as it's got the movepool to back it up that doesn't preclude it from being an absolute monster.
 
Berordn said:
Don't really see why a 4x weakness is a big deal. Rayquaza has a 4x Ice weakness, Ho-Oh has a 4x rock weakness.

As long as it's got the movepool to back it up that doesn't preclude it from being an absolute monster.
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It's just weird that the moon legendary is weak to darkness since it's dark out at night.
 
MegaManTrigger said:
The islands don't look like they'll give the player room to explore, in fact, it looks like there's a pathway that can take you to the locations highlighted in the areas. This looks to continue what XY did where you went from area to area without taking your hand off the game's and allowing you to explore. And even when the game gave the player a chance to explore, the area itself was small and braindead.
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I'm not sure I follow. Is your complaint that the game is still linear? Were you expecting the series to just buck that trend? Because at the very least the world design seems a lot more organic and less grid-like here. And I don't see how you're convinced there's going to be less exploration, tbh. This region looks condensed in a way the others weren't, but that's just because each island seems to have all of its space available for the player to explore. That's not to say that there aren't places to step off the beaten path onto. At any rate, I think it's way too early to say whether or not this game will coddle players like X/Y did but I certainly do not understand how you could come to that conclusion based off what we've seen today.

edit; i'm looking over that huge version of the map and it looks like there's probably a fair amount of forest routes and mountain passes and things like that, that aren't immediately apparent upon first glance.
 
Kinsei said:
It's just weird that the moon legendary is weak to darkness since it's dark out at night.
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You can see the moon during the day!

(Admittedly I was hoping for a fairy type to go with the moon themes, but being the moon legendary means it's basically got to learn moonblast to keep those pesky darks away).
 
MajorMane said:
Some quick things to note after looking at the new map:
  • There are four major islands + the artificial one in the middle as the description of the region has said. BUT, there is an island to the top right of the region, barely obscured by clouds. Definitely another island to visit as I don't think it'd be there for show.
  • There are two conveniently placed clouds at the bottom of the screen, probably obscuring more islands. There are no other clouds in the rest of the region (just around it), so it's either late game or post game content.
  • There are boats heading between all of the major islands. Based on that we know the starting island is the top-left and the way the boats are heading, I think the order you visit them will be: Top-left, bottom-left, top-right, bottom-right. All four of these major islands has a dock which you can see, meaning we'll be able to travel by boat to all of these islands throughout the game.
  • The bottom-left island has a smaller island to its south, but this island seemingly can't be reached via boat or even surf if we go by past mechanics. (No dock, rocks blocking off the southern beach of the major island.) Of note, however, the shallow water color extends around this, so more than likely, you'll be able to surf from another part of the island.
  • If you count the four major islands (bottom-left including the smaller landmass to its south), the artificial one, the partially obscured on to the top-right, and assume two more islands under the clouds, you'd come to eight islands, like Hawaii.
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MajorMane said:
More speculation based on the map...


  • Tried to count the amount of Pokecenters visible on the map. I count 12 for sure, with another possible two on the top-right island. (Though, I believe only one is there, so 13 total.)
  • Based on that total count, with only one Pokecenter on the bottom left island, I revise my original ordering of islands. With only one Pokecenter and a lack of towns, I think the bottom left island will be the last one you visit, either housing Victory Road/Elite Four or the temple which houses the respective mascot legendary. (It does seem to house a castle/ruins within the plateau segments.) You probably go clockwise around the islands.
  • There's a neat walled off city on the bottom-right island. Interesting to note that the upcoming Pokemon movie seemingly also takes place in a walled-off city.
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Cross-posting my speculation from the other thread.
 
immewnity said:
Oh yes. Biggest region map image we've ever had, as a matter of fact.

If you want an easily zoomable version, but resized to 8000px wide, go here: http://extrazoom.com/image-60545.html

If you want the full thing, width 14192px, go here: http://www.pidgi.net/wiki/images/7/71/Alola_region_map_-_Pokemon_Sun_and_Moon.jpg
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Haha, I already got a pretty big map image but the easily zoomable version is very nice too, thanks. I'm guessing the full thing came from the press site. Nice too, but a bit TOO big for my tastes. :p
 
EmCeeGramr said:
Wait
Your friend says something gave them chicken skin (does anyone still say that instead of goosebumps?)
How does he know what a chicken is
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Animals exist in Pokemon. Early games especially often reference them, but even in recent games tons of Pokemon are classified after real animals. The Pokedex calls Torchic the Chick Pokemon and Pikachu the Mouse Pokemon, for example.
See also: relevant Bulbapedia article.
 
The more I explore that zoom in map, the more questions I have about everything on the map. But, I think the bottom-right island is my favorite.

Observatory:
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Walled off city:
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Castle:
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