Corpse Run 664: Sub-suburban
I’ve got to admit, Pokemon Sun and Moon has been an absolute blast so far.
Largely, it is basically the same game as every other Pokemon adventure since Red and Blue, but the flavor is slightly different: instead of Gym Trainers, there are Trial Challenges, instead of Gym Leaders, there are Kahunas or whatever.
That said, they’ve mixed it up enough where it doesn’t feel like I’m slogging my way through the same swamp again, even if I notice that my shoes and socks got wet along the way.
The major reason Sun and Moon feels great? It’s infinitely more streamlined. Gone are the absolutely horrid HMs. This means a few things: first off, no more wasting a Pokemon slot on an HM slave; second, reduced button presses. In the past, you’d get to a rock or whatever that you need to use an HM to push/destroy/etc and would need to do the following:
- Open menu
- Select “Pokemon”
- Go to desired Pokemon
- Activate HM
Now when you get to that rock, you just push Y and can call whatever Pokemon you need (these are separate from your party) and can ride it to complete the action.
Boom, done.
I’ve only just finished the first island, but so far so good!
It’s hard to believe you’re poor, considering how much ‘pocket change’ she gives you…
There are other things that are much streamlined in Sun and Moon as well. When learning a new move before, once you’d selected which move to replace, it would ask if you’re sure, now it just does once you’ve selected it (And if you check your moves but change your mind, pressing B would make go through the “x is trying to learn [move]” all over again, now it too is stripped down).
Two other nice changes are the box system (which just goes straight to box management with eveything all there instead of locking different things behind “Withdraw pokemon”, “deposit pokemon”, “move items” like before), and button shortcuts, most notably for organising your pparty and their hold items, and using pokeballs in wild battles, SOO much quicker
Not to mention that you can instantly swap in a new catch to your party.
Alex, in case you did not know, you can assign the HM Pokemon to the D-pad. Makes it a little more convenient then pressing Y every time.
Actually, since somewhere around Ruby/sapphire, the process has been:
Walk up to the rock
Press the “A” button
“Do you want to use strength/cut/surf/waterfall?”
Pick “yes”
If anything, I feel like the new process takes longer because you’ve got to summon the monster, then hit B, then move around
Do you member Pallet Town ? Oh yeah, I member Pallet Town…
It was as lame as now.
Oh, a South Park reference. How delightfully pedestrian. Do you member Chinpokomon? Oh yeah, I member that.
I got Shoe.