TheGreatLugia
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I like how the character does a tripping animation if you mash B while moving.
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Pokemon Sun/Moon Special Demo Thread
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names2hard4you
Member
Just got to try the demo. Now THIS feels like a refreshing take on the Pokemon formula. I really enjoyed the presentation and little quality of life tweaks made on to stuff such as the attacks showing whether they are effective or not, amongst others. The game is very vibrant and colourful, which is great also.
I prefer using the stylus and even though it's a mild annoyance I would just like the option.
Besides the placement of the buttons, I do like HUD overall, and the addition of stat changes being shown on screen is a welcome change.
names2hard4you
Member
It's a shame that I got a midterm to study for. I kinda wanna play more LOL.
Man did this demo feel sooooo good. It already feels like so much care was put into this, whether it is the presentation, or the user friendly-ness. It definitely looks to be a nice step forward, even if the 3DS is really being pushed to the limits here, and comes with quite a bit of slowdowns.
DeployThatPizza
Member
Demo felt really good. Riding was pretty nice and the z-move introduction was cool.
Velcro Fly
Member
So like does the demo automatically save or what? Do I talk to someone specific to save?
DeployThatPizza
Member
It autosaves after certain events.
In addition, once you get the ability to play the trailer, you can play it and go back into the demo and it will save. It's not really useful at all, but it's a thing you can do.
Spiral Insanity
Banned
Is the full game going to be a bit more open? (Is the demo basically a tutorial?)
I stopped playing in a cave where I was forced to take snaps of monsters (the framerate goes to shit for some reason)
Also, buff doctor is weird
I stopped playing in a cave where I was forced to take snaps of monsters (the framerate goes to shit for some reason)
Also, buff doctor is weird
Geminosity
Member
After the demo is done, if you start it up again, he gives you his pager so you can call any time for a ride ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )
WiiRevolution1
Member
Well I played the demo. This may sound like a weird meltdown, but please allow me to meltdown:
Why in the almighty fuck can't I use the D-Pad to move. Its a fucking Pokemon game and I can't move with the D-Pad? WTF??
Circle Pad feels so wrong for Pokemon. Holy shit please let there be an option to change it.
/meltdown
Anywayz: Not much else to say about it. Its too short for much of anything. The skull dance is funny tho.
Btw: Is defeating the totem Pokemon all I need to do to transfer Ashnjnja or is there more? I know there is more to the demo but I don't wanna play it if I don't have too. Rather wait for the full game.
Also I remember someone saying you auto run now, which is a lie.
Why in the almighty fuck can't I use the D-Pad to move. Its a fucking Pokemon game and I can't move with the D-Pad? WTF??
Circle Pad feels so wrong for Pokemon. Holy shit please let there be an option to change it.
/meltdown
Anywayz: Not much else to say about it. Its too short for much of anything. The skull dance is funny tho.
Btw: Is defeating the totem Pokemon all I need to do to transfer Ashnjnja or is there more? I know there is more to the demo but I don't wanna play it if I don't have too. Rather wait for the full game.
Also I remember someone saying you auto run now, which is a lie.
ScientificPizza
Banned
is there anything to do after the pokemon collection challenge thing?
Geminosity
Member
If you beat the totem pokemon and got kicked to the title screen then you should have done enough to ensure your greninja :3
Seeing as the question of what you can do after the first play of the demo keeps coming up, I'll summarise and repost the ones I know of here:
Anytime activities:
Ten Carat Hill
* go right, smash the rock and talk to the old man to begin a capture quest. You can catch and use pokemon for the duration of the test but you'll be forced to release them all when it ends. You only need 3 captures to get the prize.
* defeat the 3 trainers and the ace trainer
Town
* talk to the lady at the end of the road near the crowd of slowpokes, she'll take you to a place where you break rocks and get presents from a creepy old man
Time Delayed Activities:
1 day - man standing outside the poke centre
5 days - woman standing on the street corner
12 days - guy in the city hall celebrating pikachu's birthday
18 days - police man on the docks
24 days - woman in the ferry port building
Also the cafe in the pokecentre mention the owner is away for a month, maybe that's a time thing too?
Spiral Insanity
Banned
The Skull encounter in the beginning made me think of Jet Set Radio.
LincolnTunnel
Member
I'm pretty sure people were saying you could map PokeRide shortcuts to the D-Pad, which is probably why you can't move with it.
DarkLegion
Member
Mysterious Old Man is hilarious
WiiRevolution1
Member
Alright, thanks!
Yeah, I know since I did try that out. But thats the problem: You can't move with it.
Shocked at the amount of people here that don't like the demo. I love it. I'm still triggered by sitting being removed, but otherwise it was great. Taking pictures for a quest type thing was neat. This seems like the first game I won't just plow through to start playing online, it feels like I'll have legitimate fun during the main game. This is good shit.
Easily the best music since B/W! Love it - every bit. Sound design in general is brilliant. So many neat little details... you can tell GameFreak poured a lot of love into this game. I'm so excited!
I feel like he's testing me.
How many times until he doesn't do anything new?
I feel like he's testing me.
The base ideas are good but I'll admit that the implementation in the demo was pure tutorial, if you're an adult that isn't a Pokemon fan I can easily see it being a huge turn off.
Quite a few people in here dont seem to realise the demo is a completely seperate thing from the full game, these events will not take place in the full game, the first few hours of the full game will be entirely different than what is shown here. The idea is to show the vibrant art, the new controls, riding a tauros, heres some characters, you can take photos and theres new pokemon. Anyone thinking this is representative in terms of story/ general flow is way off.
Shadow Broker
Banned
In demo game events
Tomorrow - 5 days - 12 days - 18 days - 24 days
Tomorrow - 5 days - 12 days - 18 days - 24 days
So I just finished the demo first play through. My thoughts are wow this feels and looks very diffrent than any Pokemon game.
1st I love the graphics. It feel more polished and the npc look more real and the animation for the battle is amazing. The navigation through the town gave me a no no kuni, yo Kai watch feel. That whole here is homes here are buildings oh here are cars and you can walk around the homes to the back and get into stuff. I wonder if they will have secrets like those 2 games did but we shall see.
2nd music I loved it. It had this nice flare to it. It had this Pokemon music feel with some spice of hawaii even the poke center had this ukulele Hawaiian feel I digged it.
3rd The story is obviously not fully there or even really partly there because this is a demo but the whole beginning of you moving there and have this whole dad thing and a friend coming to show you around a little and this whole team skull character come in with their d generation x hand moves looking like they are in the wwf. I enjoyed it I see potential in the story.
Lastly it's nice of game freak to let us Pokemon fans get a Pokemon that we never new excisted and now it's here and we can use it.
1st I love the graphics. It feel more polished and the npc look more real and the animation for the battle is amazing. The navigation through the town gave me a no no kuni, yo Kai watch feel. That whole here is homes here are buildings oh here are cars and you can walk around the homes to the back and get into stuff. I wonder if they will have secrets like those 2 games did but we shall see.
2nd music I loved it. It had this nice flare to it. It had this Pokemon music feel with some spice of hawaii even the poke center had this ukulele Hawaiian feel I digged it.
3rd The story is obviously not fully there or even really partly there because this is a demo but the whole beginning of you moving there and have this whole dad thing and a friend coming to show you around a little and this whole team skull character come in with their d generation x hand moves looking like they are in the wwf. I enjoyed it I see potential in the story.
Lastly it's nice of game freak to let us Pokemon fans get a Pokemon that we never new excisted and now it's here and we can use it.
Yeah, I'm really happy with the demo overall, I think it works really well as a short tour of what to expect from the games. The world is evidently really well realized; as I mentioned earlier my only (not negative, more like neutral) comment is I hope the city in the full game is even more populated, but I think everything points towards that being the case. And of course I would've preferred stereoscopic 3D to be available at all times since I'm one of the few that has it on most of the time.
The franchise being liberated from the "grid-like map design" feels like a huge step up; we already weren't tied to d-pad movement in XY or ORAS but the map design evidently still was, and going from that to this is like night and day. It only makes sense that other parts of the formula would be changed and the glimpse of trials we got here has me real excited about them; after 6 gens of going through gyms I don't mind the changes even if it means less trainer battles and more "gimmicky" minigames like the photo stuff.
The UI works really well, with tons of QoL improvements, like being able to see the current effects of stats-modifying moves and even others like Identify, plus the effectiveness of each move, EVs on the Pokemon summary screen, etc. Even though the battle system stays pretty much the same from ORAS the improvements like being able to see the trainers and the more detailed environments are noticeable.
Music is good (that city night theme!), graphics look better than expected on my N3DS XL (I kept telling my gf I was gonna have to buy a regular N3DS like hers because I really like the better pixel density but now I don't think it's that bad), characters (even regular NPCs) are super expressive, and the whole thing just feels like a generational step up to me in nearly every aspect.
Hype stays at maximum levels for me.
The franchise being liberated from the "grid-like map design" feels like a huge step up; we already weren't tied to d-pad movement in XY or ORAS but the map design evidently still was, and going from that to this is like night and day. It only makes sense that other parts of the formula would be changed and the glimpse of trials we got here has me real excited about them; after 6 gens of going through gyms I don't mind the changes even if it means less trainer battles and more "gimmicky" minigames like the photo stuff.
The UI works really well, with tons of QoL improvements, like being able to see the current effects of stats-modifying moves and even others like Identify, plus the effectiveness of each move, EVs on the Pokemon summary screen, etc. Even though the battle system stays pretty much the same from ORAS the improvements like being able to see the trainers and the more detailed environments are noticeable.
Music is good (that city night theme!), graphics look better than expected on my N3DS XL (I kept telling my gf I was gonna have to buy a regular N3DS like hers because I really like the better pixel density but now I don't think it's that bad), characters (even regular NPCs) are super expressive, and the whole thing just feels like a generational step up to me in nearly every aspect.
Hype stays at maximum levels for me.
I just triggered it
. All I did was finish everything in the demo and then turned it off for a while. When I turned it back on I went back to the beach near the trial cave and she was there on the beach. Gives you the ability to zoom with the pokefinder tooSpiral Insanity
Banned
Not too fond of the faces/facial expressions, but damn the graphics are so good and charming. I think I wouldn't love its look as much if the textures were smooth. That small pixellation effect reminds me of Megaman Legends.
I wish the engine could handle the first person viewpoint for the camera moments though. 5-ish fps is just not acceptable.
Also, I guess a lot of people have said it, but the camera perspective in towns sucks.
(There's this girl that hints at a guy visiting the game in 5 days, I wonder if the game keeps track of the calendar?) Edit: Oh, I see people have already figured out how everything works. Cool to see how it uses the calendar and time.
I wish the engine could handle the first person viewpoint for the camera moments though. 5-ish fps is just not acceptable.
Also, I guess a lot of people have said it, but the camera perspective in towns sucks.
(There's this girl that hints at a guy visiting the game in 5 days, I wonder if the game keeps track of the calendar?) Edit: Oh, I see people have already figured out how everything works. Cool to see how it uses the calendar and time.
GiantBreadbug
Member
I can level up caught Pokémon during the catching challenge. Will they evolve?
Seeing as the question of what you can do after the first play of the demo keeps coming up, I'll summarise and repost the ones I know of here:
Anytime activities:
Ten Carat Hill
* go right, smash the rock and talk to the old man to begin a capture quest. You can catch and use pokemon for the duration of the test but you'll be forced to release them all when it ends. You only need 3 captures to get the prize.
* defeat the 3 trainers and the ace trainer
Town
* talk to the lady at the end of the road near the crowd of slowpokes, she'll take you to a place where you break rocks and get presents from a creepy old man
Time Delayed Activities:
1 day - man standing outside the poke centre
5 days - woman standing on the street corner
12 days - guy in the city hall celebrating pikachu's birthday
18 days - police man on the docks
24 days - woman in the ferry port building
Also the cafe in the pokecentre mention the owner is away for a month, maybe that's a time thing too?
Game comes out in a month. Then you can use the cafe in the actual game
Shadow Broker
Banned
Sounds like every Pokemon game honestly
It does look nice though, especially because Gen 5 and 6 weren't lookers imo
CharminUltra
Member
I gotta be honest with you, PokeGAF. I've been playing the demo and....... IT'S FRICKIN AWESOME
I haven't been this excited for a Pokemon game since G/S.
I haven't been this excited for a Pokemon game since G/S.
Try to play once every few days for all those NPC events that are happening in coming days/weeks!
-sdp
Member
I played the first part of the Demo and I was surprised at how much I liked it, it does feel like a new game with the new engine. The game reminded me a lot of a very nice PS1 game and PKMN Colosseum, color me hyped. I'm still unsure which version I'll go for but I think I'll go with Sun, do we know any differences besides Pokemon at this point?
Spiral Insanity
Banned
I just love how there is NO DESCRIPTION of what is different between SUN and MOON on the ESHOP. Good job Nintendo?
Crimson_Echidna
Banned
Moon is nighttime when it's day IRL.
The only thing I wish is they'd find a way to not make me so sick of wild pokemon encounters in these games: As long as they're random encounters and turn based (after PGO both these things honestly feel stale) they should be much quicker than they are. Just snappy, in and out. Maybe give you a reason to catch more than one of the same pokemon species.
At least they made it faster to use pokeballs but they could go even further with it.
But otherwise this game feels like a big step forward in a lot of ways and I could see it being somewhat of a new beginning for the series.
At least they made it faster to use pokeballs but they could go even further with it.
But otherwise this game feels like a big step forward in a lot of ways and I could see it being somewhat of a new beginning for the series.
Dimitri LH
Member
Got 10 Pretty wings from the dude in front of the Pokemon Center. (12:19AM here now)
Wonder if anything else has changed this day? Also I just noticed that the mysterious man has something different to say each time you visit him. kinda funny.
Wonder if anything else has changed this day? Also I just noticed that the mysterious man has something different to say each time you visit him. kinda funny.
Me too. There's timers for everything. I tried messing with the date on my other 3DS, and it knows better.
Played some of Y after. Jerks you around more. Controls are 4 directions and feels off when using circle pad. Art is kind of bland and npcs have tiny odd looking bodies. Sun and Moon is full of life and detail. To be honest, up until now, all Pokemon games felt like cash grabs banking on the Catch Em All gimmick.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlqYDm10p4upC_i0xEyVe_4PLmb97w50h
This is the most complete one I've found.
I feel like in the full game surely we cam put a map on the bottom screen, similar to the Hoenn map in ORAS. Then again, this is Game Freak here, so maybe not.
You serious? Cool if so
Also, someone mentIoned this feeling like Yokai Watch, and they're right. The city layout and the Pokemon Snap camera both are pretty similar. Hope Game Freak wasn't too inspired by it.
Some thoughts:
I'm fine with Trials/Totem battles for a change. They felt pointless in the demo, because Greninia is so OP. The main game will hopefully be better balanced, and have more enjoyable missions. Otherwise I'll miss gyms. I miss the optional 2D grid D-pad usage, but just like how I missed sprites back in Gen 6, I have years of old Pokemon games that do have those features that I can go back to, and evolution (hah!) is good for the series.
Looking forward to the full game, as it seems like gamefreak may have noticed the faults of X/Y. If post game isn't nonexistent, then this game may becomr a 10/10 for me. Don't disappoint us after the Battle Frontier fiasco Game Freak!