Hands-On with the Pokémon Sun & Moon Demo [UPD]

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Hey everyone, the Japanese Pokémon Sun & Moon Demo is out now and I’ve begun playing! I’m going to be updating this post so please REFRESH to see new updates.

At the very beginning you’re asked to choose the language. Like before, this is not an option that can be changed later. The music is awesome.

You slowly zoom into the map and up to your house. As the door opens it switches you come out and check the mailbox. It’s a letter from someone asking about how their Greninja is doing… but they forgot to write their name. Who could it be??

Mom come out and reminds him that they need to go to City Hall to change their address. Apparently ‘alola’ means hello in Alola.

While they register that you’re a new arrival from the Kanto region you’re free to poke around the City Hall. If you try to exit, Hau will stop you. He agrees to show you around town.

Right outside, Team Skull will stop you (amazing music) and they’ve got some great hand gestures going on. You go right into a battle with one.

You face off with Greninja versus the grunt’s Yungoose. After being defeated they threaten to tell their ‘big sis’ (Plumeria).

Hau is then ready to show you the Pokémon Center. If you try to access the café, the woman behind the counter will tell you she’s just looking after the place and the owner will be back in “about a month” (haha).

After Greninja is back at full strength, Professor Kukui will greet you outside. He asks you if you’d like to try a trial and agrees to hold one at Ten Carat Hill.

Poking around town before I go; one NPC mentions a famous female Alolan golfer named Kahili who is traveling, but may return. Another mentions that you must be 11 to start the island challenge in Alola, older than in other regions. There’s an area to find wild Pokémon before the challenge, but you have no Pokéballs. I’ve seen Rockruff, Yungoos and Pikipek.

There is also a police station and malasada (dessert food) restaurant.

Kukui will meet you at Ten Carat hill, so you need to walk there to catch up. You’ll have to walk through grass, fending off wild Pokémon, as well as battle a trainer (if you’d like).

To start the trial you get the Pokéfinder (Rotom Dex). You must take a picture of Jangmo-o and its evolution. Sometimes the Pokémon can be startled and attack!

Once you’ve gotten all 3 pictures you exit the cave to find a Totem Pokémon: Hakamo-o. It seems that totem Pokémon receive a buff, in this case Hakamo-o’s Sp. Def was raised. During battle it called an ally Pokémon, Rockruff.

After defeating it, Kukui will run out and give you a Z-ring as well as Electrium Z. Hau brings Team Skull back to you and it’s time to face off with Plumeria using a Z-move!

That ends the demo, but if you start again from the title screen Kukui will give you the Poké Rider tool so that you can page Tauros.

Update: Alolan Dugtrio has been found within the demo! And some new prominent characters were shown in the trailer at the end of the demo (most likely Trial Captains)!

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        • lol Can’t afford to pay taxes.. Trump is total trash. Truely a morally bankrupt human being. But it’s so annoying listening to people who don’t understand how accounting and taxes work shit on wealthy people because they take large deductions. They still pay more taxes than you and I.

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          • Im so glad I live in canada so Im not 100% affected by the joke of a candidate they have, that being said if he gets in the world will collectively sigh

          • HELP US. WE HAVE A FRAT BOY WHO NEVER GREW UP AND A CHEATING GOLEM RUNNING. WE NEED TO GET BERNIE BACK. PLEASE SEND HELP TO DE-LEGITIMIZE THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY WHICH WAS UNDENIABLY RIGGED. DOES THE CANADIAN MEDIA TALK ABOUT THE WIKILEAKS?

          • I try not to say much more than that for my opinion on the elections you guys have, that being said its kinda your own countries fault bernie isn’t there is it not… in canada we have a 3 party system, you guys really need to do away with the two party BS

          • I KNOW RIGHT!? The fact that we have to pick the lesser of two evils every election makes no sense. Hopefully this election will make us wake up and realize the system needs reworking

          • I personally don’t think there is a lesser. She has no moral views on people’s lives she doesn’t know personally and he is a man without class and or respect for people other than ones like himself

          • I’m Hoping if Trump does win that the INSANE amount of pressure from the EU and the like cause him to be Impeached.

          • Weren’t they dropped because she Manipulated James Comey who from my understanding probably would have slammed the hammer on her for political reasons but didn’t and defended her by saying she’s too dumb to know the meaning of the word CLASSIFIED?

          • the Republican Party’s plans are the problem, because Trump would probably be run out of Office for Tanking Foreign Relations. Hillary’s Malleable enough that progressives can just cock block her from stuff like the TPP which she Says she’s against but we all know wants so Obama is Whoring himself to get it so she doesn’t.

          • Actually there is evidence that proves the DNC WHO ARE SUPPOSED TO BE NEUTRAL were working with Hillary, and Evidence showing that the poll results were modified for her since there was always deviation in Hillary’s favor

          • if thats true, which I try not to read to much into things like that, your country has some issues… little corrupt there

          • and the Media doesn’t give a damn. Has the Canadian Media Said anything about Wikileaks, or the Wikileaks War or Whatever is happening now?

          • Canada follows everything you guys do but canada as a whole hates trump more, even my crazy father who always thinks the most outrageous candidate thinks trump will pretty much destroy the world. But as for wikileaks pretty sure those have been confirmed false. Canada doesn’t get into the secret politics of it all if there is any, but trump is upfront about all his awful stuff so its hard to ignore

          • Them being Russian leaks is what sounds false, WTF does russia have against her, they can mold her just as well if not better than trump since she’s Stable. the Emails are Likely Real as the Clinton Campaign isn’t actually Denying them as far as I know, only Paying the Media to Ignore them.

          • lol Not trying to turn this into a pissing contest, but I wouldn’t move to Canada even if Trump did magically become president. I value economic freedom quite a bit and by the website I go by for that scale still ranks us higher than Canada. Also, except for people getting caught up in the hype, everyone and their mom knows Trump won’t win. He’s entire movement is counter-culture so by definition he isn’t the norm. He was able to get the GOP nomination because the voting base was split. But look at Bernie’s counter-culture appeal in a primary with only 2 choices. He lost. Same will happen with Trump. In a two party system a counter-culture candidate will never win, for better or for worse.

          • no, he lost because someone manipulated Electronic voting machines which could mean he won despite the superdelegates.

          • He wouldn’t have won even if the super delegates weren’t a thing. Hilary still had more normal delegates. lol But I guess that’s the cool thing for the counter-culture candidates and supporters to shout about right now. “It’s rigged I tell ya! Rigged!”

          • I just wish people in politics were honest and good people. The truth is people like that don’t survive in that world. It’s sad but true. I almost wish I was English. Their people Atleast have some say in national decisions. We have none over here it feels like anymore.

          • did you see the Statistics? ACTUAL STATISTICIANS SAID THAT THE DEVIATIONS WERE ABNORMAL AND COULDN’T BE ERROR DUE TO THEM ALWAYS BEING IN HER FAVOR, AND ONLY WHEN ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES WERE USED, AND THERE WAS SUPPRESSION OF PEOPLE ABLE TO VOTE.

          • You do realize that almost all media sides with the Democratic Party so believing any news station is pointless as they are almost always highly biased towards one party or the other.

          • I don’t watch or read anything from any specific news site/station. I typically wait a long time before commenting on news as I try to wait and get as big a picture as possible. I’m neither liberal nor conservative so most places’ biases work against my own 50% of the time so I’m always very aware of that.

          • must be hard not actually getting real news down there, I cant even imagine. That being said… everyone knows fox news are just plain mean

          • I’d move to New Zealand or Singapore if I ever moved. But USA would have to drop out of the top 20 freest countries before I do that. Right now we’re 11.

          • It’s in the top 5 freeist places in the world. 🙂 Sadly I have too many relationships and opportunity here to just start from scratch on the other side of the world. Also I hear their internet sucks. xD But by golly I’m gonna visit one day at least.

          • Well as a white male who has had every social freedom he could ever really want afforded to him, I focus primarily on economic freedom which is important for human kind’s development. But people are too invested in the status quo. People fear change and capitalism’s creative destruction isn’t always taken to well because it actually expects people to evolve and change and try.

          • well technically he lost so much money that he doesn’t have to… and that caused Bernie to draw up something to Fix that Dumbass Loophole … Vote Hillary, then just plaster her government with progressives so she can’t do anything or wait until some Crazy takes a pot shot at her.

          • I would prefer Kim Kardashian and I hate her. He is a pig and she has a long history of her friends committing suicide once they get involved in court cases involving her. Xd

  6. The biggest news so far to me (I know it’s weird), WATER SHURIKEN IS NOW SPECIAL! ^_^ Wtf were they thinking before in Gen VI?

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    • I was thinking Water Shuriken Night Slash Acrobatics and Ice Beam/ some physical ice move with a Flying Gem that never came to pass because gems didn’t come back.

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  7. ok so about the ghost trial captain The purple haired ghost girl is very clearly the ghost trail captain, her bracelet must be her trail emblem thing. She appears to be in a weird luminescent cave or dome place with a structure made of bones behind her maybe she is located near the graveyard on the 3rd island

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  10. From 4chan. Apparently people have tried datamining, but anything not revealed in the demo was replaced by Pikachu and it’s stats! I hope this is true! It would seriously stop data miners from making some major leaks. We can thank Pikachu for keeping S/M special.

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      • exactly. I like knowing all the mons in advance to plan my team, but the experiences we go through together need to be a surprise.

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    • We know that Apparently the Aether Foundation Made a Clone of God, Eldrazi are Invading Hawaii, and Guzma’s Angry he Couldn’t be a Trial Captain or Something and is taking it out on everyone.

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