[UPD] Pokémon Sun & Moon Demo Pre-Release Hype

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The much anticipated Pokémon Sun & Moon demo is just around the corner, so it’s time for a little pre-release discussion about it! Within the last hour a European press release has revealed two brand-new screenshots of it and shown that we will face Team Skull’s Plumeria as well as get to use Pikachu and its Z-move.

While we don’t know what time the demo will be released on the Nintendo 3DS’ eShop for most areas, we do know that it will be released “late morning” for Europeans.

An important note regarding spoilers: Anything found within normal play of the demo will not be considered a spoiler, however should the game’s file be picked apart and new information/Pokémon/etc be discovered it will be posted behind a spoiler image. Don’t worry!

The paragraph below contains spoilers on the Sun & Moon demo. To read the spoilers please highlight the text.

UPD: A video of the first 15 minutes of the demo played in German has leaked online. For those interested here’s a quick summary of what it showed. Apologies, in advance for the little details regarding dialogue. I don’t speak German…but I can if you’d like:

The demo starts with you checking your mailbox to find a letter from Ash. In it Ash comments on the weather, asks how  your move to Alola went, and how the Greninja he gave you is doing. After reading it, your mom walks out of the house, talks to you, and you are then immediately transported to Town Hall in “Hauholi City”.

The cutscene continues with your mother talking to a clerk, and once she finishes you can finally start to move around on your own accord. When opening the menu you only have access to your Pokémon and your bag – as previously reported you only have the special Battle Bond Greninja on hand. There’s not much else to do in the building, so when you decide to leave Hau will enter.

The two of you leave the building together and are confronted by two Team Skull grunts. Hau and you then separately engage the two grunts in battle. You take on the grunt with a level 25 Yungoos (your Greninja is level 36). After the two of you defeat Team Skull, they run off and you’re able to explore the city a bit until you meet up with Hau again at the Pokémon Center.

Once inside Hau will talk to you about the Pokémon Center, and lets you explore the inside of it. Once you decide to leave Professor Kukui will intercept you and Hau. He talks to you, and once he finishes you’re able to either explore the city more or go north of the Pokémon Center where a man will block you. When approaching him he’ll ask to confirm whether or not you want to continue on to the next area. If you say yes you’ll be allowed to pass and enter a route-like area called “Tenkarat Hill”.

Prof. Kukui will explain something to you and then move on towards the end of the route without you. There is tall grass in this area and one trainer; the player encountered a Pikipek and a Rockruff in the wild, whereas the trainer had a level 20 Rockruff. After you beat the trainer you come to a cave. Upon entering you run into Professor Kukui and a Pikachu.

He talks some more, gives you the Rotom Pokédex and the Pikachu, and tasks you to use the PokéFinder to find some Pokémon. After he finishes talking to you the “Trial Start!” text animation is seen at the bottom of the screen, and you’re able walk around the cave, go to the holes in the wall, and use the PokéFinder to find Pokémon. The player looked through one hole, saw a Jangmo-o using the PokéFinder and defeated it. Before he was able to look through the second hole the video ends abruptly. 

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  4. Anyone else think the two pokemon might be a random starter + Pikachu? Battle Bond needs at least two enemy pokemon to be effective, and the trailer that announced it said you were given it. you might get it later on like Glalie (or Steelix) in the ORAS demo.

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  10. Honestly, I fear for the release of this demo. I hope GameFreak took the proper precautions to halt data-miners. That’s what ruined X/Y partially! I cannot wait to play the demo. I want to feel the new game and how it works!

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  12. Interesting about the late morning thing. I suppose that could make sense. If it releases “late morning” everywhere then that could help people from being spoiled. Let’s say “late morning” is anytime between 10- 11:59. That means that if it releases in the late morning for Japan as well it’ll be night time for much of the rest of the world. So instead of us all being able to see the demo all day today basically, there’d only be a couple of hours where people are usually awake for them to see it. And then in the morning there’d be a limited amount of time between people waking up and the release in their timezone. It’s actually quite genius if you ask me lol

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  15. I know there’s some people who want to be spoiled about the game, but please Game Freak don’t put everything about the Pokemon into the demo

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  16. Hope its a better demo than the oras one. But this lvl 40 pikachu against lvl 36 golbat looks like its gonna be another demo that you just one shot a few things and it ends. But i am excited to see ash greninja

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  17. On the first day of Hypemas GF gave to me! One demo, 2 broken thumbs, 300 pokemon, and a statisfied me! (Ok, it wasn’t elegant, nor did it rhyme, but meh) lol

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  19. I hope the datamine show starters split evos. The starters evo is the only spoiler I really want. Its awful to pick a starter aithout being sure of the final form

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      • No, we re really not sure. We know one of their final forms. But even the chinese ridler saod we dont know everything about the starters. And corocoro specifically said they shared a secret woth rockruff. And that they would reveal rockruff secret, wich was split evolutions. Its just a theory of course, but with pretty solid bases, enough to make people wonder

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        • No. Someone who speaks Japanese went over this and said it Only says they all have a secret.. Not that the secret is shared. So we already there was a secret because of coro. We are more sure they don’t have split evos because None of the rest do. Minus mega char. So saying split is wishful thinking at this point

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          • Up to this point every generation had gym leaders. And we thought every starter would have megas but they seem to have droped this. Im not saying they will have. But that they might. Saying they wont just doesnt make sense until the game come out and confirm it for a fact. And it would be really poor choice of word saying they all have a secret if its not something similar. Might be eelated to the story, might be the same secret rockruff has. No one nlknows for sure, so it doesnt make sense to say it wont happeb when its actially a 50-50 chance based on the oficial information we have

          • Quite positive it has also been said the secret is related to Z moves or forms. So, the secret won’t necessarily be the split evos people want it to be.

  21. I’m curious: how are you planning on regulating comment spoilers? At the very least you should alert people of how to tag spoilers.

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  22. I figured the Japanese demo would be delayed. I’d say rather than being “delayed” it is just scheduled for the time we have now. I imagine the maintenance part of the reason we have a “late morning” release

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