In a brief trailer released this morning, Nintendo gave eager Pokémon masters some important details on the forthcoming
Pokémon Sun and
Pokémon Moon:
the games will launch on November 18th; as usual, each game will
include a new as-yet-unnamed legendary mascot and new grass-, fire-, and
water-type starter Pokémon.
The starters include Popplio, a water-type seal; Litten, a fire-type
disinterested-looking cat (so, a cat); and Rowlet, a grass- and
flying-type owl with an adorable little leafy bow tie (clearly the best
of the three).
Pokémon Sun's story will presumably revolve around the big sunny lion on the cover, where
Moon will feature a big crescent-shaped bat.
The trailer also showed off snippets of the game's graphics, which are similar to those used in
X and
Y (they're launching on the same system, after all). The main
Pokémon RPGs have always been conservative in the graphics department—
Pokémon X and
Y
were the first in the franchise's then-17-year history to use 3D models
for all people and Pokémon both inside and outside of battle.
Sun and
Moon's setting,
the
Hawaii-esque Alola region, appears to use larger maps with a
greater sense of scale than in past games, and the region is shown off
using more diverse and dynamic camera angles. The game's worlds have all
been rendered in 3D since
Pokémon Diamond and
Pearl hit the DS back in 2006, but even
X and
Y mostly stuck to the top-down camera view the series has used since
Red and
Blue on the original Game Boy.
Read more information and details on the
Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon rom blog!
