New Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon Trailer & Features Revealed

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As promised, a brand new trailer showing off new features and story elements of Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon has been released!

New Information:

  • Team Rainbow Rocket has assembled under Giovanni to bring together the biggest baddies of the last 20 years.

In Pokémon Ultra Sun and Pokémon Ultra Moon, the greatest villainous organization in history appears! It’s Team Rainbow Rocket—made up of the bosses from past titles in the Pokémon series!

The boss of Team Rainbow Rocket is none other than Giovanni, who was also the boss of the villainous organization known as Team Rocket in Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue, the first games in the Pokémon series.

But that’s not the worst of it—Giovanni has gathered into one group the bosses from the various past games in the Pokémon series! You and your allies will have to square off against what might be your greatest challenge yet!

What in the world could Giovanni and his allies be after, appearing in the Alola region so suddenly…?

  • New Battle Agency feature allows you to battle using rental teams!

When you don your sunglasses and become an “agent” at this facility, you can take part in Single Battles using rental Pokémon. You’ll have three such Pokémon to command as you try to defeat the three Pokémon in your opponent’s team. Try to win your way to being the best of all the agents! 

  • Totem Stickers seem to take the place of Zygarde Cells and can be found throughout Alola and ultimately redeemed for totem-like Pokémon!

With Pokémon Ultra Sun and Pokémon Ultra Moon,you’ll be able to collect stickers called Totem Stickers all around Alola. Totem Stickers glitter and shine in the field.

If you collect these Totem Stickers, you’ll be able to get a huge totem-like Pokémon for your team, based on how many stickers you’ve collected. It’ll surely shock your opponents to see you using these oversized totem-like Pokémon in battle!

The totem-like Pokémon that you can get as allies can differ based on whether you’re playing Pokémon Ultra Sun or Pokémon Ultra Moon. For example, you can get Lurantis as an ally in Pokémon Ultra Sun or Salazzle in Pokémon Ultra Moon. Search every corner of the Alola region and collect masses of Totem Stickers!

  • Catch lots of Legendary Pokémon depending on your game!
    • Pokémon Ultra Sun only: Ho-Oh, Raikou, Groudon, Latios, Dialga, Heatran, Reshiram, Tornadus, Xerneas.
    • Pokémon Ultra Moon only: Lugia, Entei, Kyogre, Latias, Palkia, Regigigas, Zekrom, Thundurus, Yveltal.
  • Island Scan feature returns with new Pokémon, including Charmander, Grovyle and Greninja!
  • Next batch of new Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon information will drop November 9th, 10pm PST (November 10th JST/5am UTC)

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  4. Am I the only who feels like Black and White’s story would have been better if Ghetsis had been removed altogether or at least altered to just be a destructive force in N’s personal life rather than evil mastermind? The whole point of that game is “opposing ideals,” but then all of that is sort of undermined when we find of *gasp* Ghetsis is evil and has been manipulating N for his own plans. So in the end it ends up not being opposing ideals at all…but good vs evil. Aka there is one right side and one wrong side. That’s not black and white at all. Like I think it would be better if the game made us actually think about what we think is right and wrong and had us make choices that affect the outcome. It came really close and it’s still a great story though. Thoughts?

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    • This is why B2W2’s story absolutely fails. Black and White entirely builds up this theme of different ideals (even down to the titles of the games) but it crashes down in the end. You can kind of forgive it though and BW is still fine but B2W2 entirely revolves around this

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      • Yeah I suppose B2W2 could’ve fixed this issue I had with it, if only N actually had a role in the story because he’s honestly the most important character. It’s his ideals that we’re supposed to be opposing, but after B/W we hear nothing from him until he swoops in and his legendary is forced to fuse.

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    • I think the same, the duality concept is very abstract in Gen 5.
      But I think all the plot is around the concept of Yin and Yang, that complements each other: the idea of the Pokemon to be free vs capture and train them, at the end none of the ideas are bad or good, it only depends on the persons.

      Anyway the main legendaries don’t fit at all with all that. More than ideals and Yin/Yang they always seemed to me more representative of energy sources: fire, electricity and cold fusion.

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      • I think energy source has some kind of concept in there. Reshiram’s tail is more like olympic flame torch representing past, while Zekrom’s tail is more like high tech turbine, representing future. This juxtaposition was in the game itself, you know Black City White City, Opelucid etc. Black vs. white, truth vs. ideals, past vs. future. You can think truth as being past while ideals represent future.

        Also fire-electricity being energy source while Kyurem representing absolute zero: those three was in one body at first. Kyurem being the shell. So they are fusing with the shell itself. And the results are freaky creatures. They do not look normal. They look like chimeras. That was the intention of their design. Because the perfect fusion could be three of them fusing together and forming the original dragon. We never had a chance to see this. Maybe in future we can.

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      • To me, the two legendaries and what they look like are basically irrelevant. All that mattered was that they answered the summons for supporting N and the player’s ideals.

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    • I think the plot was pretty well done for the ideas it was trying to convey. Even at the end of the game, N agrees that the him and the player must agree to disagree about the way they view the world, and their relationships with Pokemon. That is a separate parallel plot to Ghetsis. Ghetsis is the clear evil, yet the games show how there can be ambiguity, contradiction and opposition within good too. Agreed, that they couldn’t leave it at a morally grey area and had to introduce a morally evil side in order to give perspective, but that’s pokemon for you folks. The game already made headway in exploring morality as opposed to all the previous games, so I’ll give it that. and it DID make me think. I mean, I’ve been playing Pokemon since 3rd gen, and the scene with Ghetsis and team plasma in Accumala town completely threw me off my game when he started rallying for the liberation of Pokemon. It actually still haunts me till today, how the games mechanics necessitate the “capturing” of these creatures in these devices, almost like we’re brainwashing them into submission. It was the first game that even dealt with the issue. Even Sun/Moon, during Lillie’s rant against Lusamine, asserted how Pokemon aren’t “Things” but more like trainers’ “children”, thereby slightly modifying the way I look at Pokemon. yet B/W will always be the first, shocking, jolt to my sensibilities.
      BUT YES I AGREE, B/W would have been absolutely perfect for a choice-based narrative with multiple endings… But i guess that’s not Pokemon. I hope they do it eventually. Maybe two generations down we might get a B/W remake? seems far’fetched but perhaps.

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      • I hope they do not make a “remake” to B/W but instead make something like BW3 when the time has come, to keep legacy going on. It would be hard to keep an interesting story going on from what was left but it would be epic if done right. I really liked the idea for choice based multiple-endings. It would be perfect for story-fueled game like BW. They kinda touched it, just a little little bit when the choices you made altered N’s speech at the end.

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        • I really hated all the pointless speech choices in S/M x) like wtf. Is it some new style of humor? cause it ain’t funny. Sometimes I’d take some time to consider the options because I wanted the most interesting story-dialogue and then they’d pop an answer that basically means, “WHATEVER YOU CHOSE TO SAY DOESN’T MATTER.”

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      • Hm, this is very nice input. The accumula town beginning (which was also great because it kicked the plot off immediately!) was pretty well done. Still a wonderful game, and I’m doubtful GF will ever produce a plot that good, but even the best games can be analyzed 🙂

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    • I see what you mean. Personally I like his inclusion as his psychotic personality approach is an interesting twist towards the end and shows the brutal nature of evil group leaders which I feel reflects well with N in his character as well as his past.
      Although you could say BW2 may not have been the WOW that BW was in story/plot I feel it didn’t have to be. BW set the pace and BW2 continued from where it left off.

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  5. It seems that a reboot is coming soon (for the Switch maybe) and that all about alternate dimensions is just an excuse to justify the reboot plus the movie I choose You…
    USUM seem goodbye games to me, to the formula they’ve been repeating over and over…
    I am happy, sad and scared at the same time.

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    • I wouldn’t expect Pokemon Switch to be all that different. I mean SM already changed things up with the terrible Trial system replacing gyms.

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        • At least we FINALLY got a *prominent* dark type user (basically our first dark type gym leader) that isn’t “evil.” Bless Nanu. Gives me hope for a real dark gym leader for whenever we go back to the gym system.

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          • What else could they really do? I mean trials mixed up the formula, but really they function almost exactly like gyms. I’m not confident it’s something they’ll ever truly abandon

          • They could do some other equally garbage replacement just not called trials. I want them to just go back to gyms because nothing will be as good as them.

          • Forreal…the trials are not detailed or thought out enough to be a good replacement. Seriously the electric trial is a joke

          • If they go back to gyms I hope they make them as challenging as trials were. And try to add some freshness to the gym challenge.

          • Uh no they were actually way more challenging than the gym leaders at least going by 6th generation standards.
            I can’t understand how one would think otherwise.

      • I think the trials were an alola exclusive, since even their themes, back story (connected to the Tapus), the totem Pokemon etc are all so intricately tied to the mythology of Hawa- erm *cough* Alola. So I’m pretty sure the next games will either have gyms or their own regional iterations of them.

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        • I know they are exclusive but I am just saying I wouldn’t expect big changes beyond that. You will always be facing an evil team, have a rival, be trying to complete the Pokedex, catching Pokemon, exploring a region, beat the elite 4 and become champion, turn based rpg, etc. It will never be open world. People need to just stop being f*cking stupid.

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          • Well, maybe people just need to open up their definition of open-world. For one, I really hope it’s non-linear, cause honestly Pokemon’s format is perfect for non-linear play and I’m apalled why they haven’t done it yet. (Except for that brief period in D/P where the order of Pastoria gym and Veilstone gym doesn’t matter). They also need to greatly increase the space between towns. Melemele Island for example, felt really cramped and not like an island at all. I think they can do wonders with just making for example, three gyms accessible at a time instead of one, and the plot events surrounding these cities also non-linear. I mean, consider BOTW, the stories around each divine beast were beautiful in their own individual right, and doing them in any order besides some prescribed order (basically what Impa tells you to do) does not take anything away from the experience. They also had a great method of exposing the “100 years ago story) through location-based memories. If Pokemon did that, i.e unlock story content by visiting specific areas, then I’d say they pretty much can attain an Open-world feel on a smaller scale of world. With the Switch’s power, they can eliminate the need for separate areas and loading screens and make most visible areas explorable.

          • It kinda has to. I mean, how do you see the current format being ported to the switch? I think at least some of that will

          • Because GameFreak is lazy as hell? Expect Sun/Moon but prettier and without trials and hopefully one main landmass again.

  7. I decided to stop with 777 Moons today in Odyssey (just for the lucky 7’s). For anyone who is looking to play the game, which should be everyone on Earth, know that it can take some energy and dedication to push much further than this. Still, somehow, I turned on the game and ended up getting 75 more Moons while I previously felt stuck. It’s awesome. Hmm, something Pokémon-related to make this post at all valid…the New 2DS XL Pokeball Edition launches tomorrow, yay!!!

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  15. PSA: Just saw this on another forum.

    “According to Japanese site Pokemon Matome, a Taiwanese shop is already selling USUM.
    The source is from Latios Shih, a famous Taiwanese fan.”

    Some of you that want to remain blind to the game might want to prepare to leave the internet. I am not sure about the veracity of this statement so if there is someone that knows how to and is able to double-check this, please be my guest!

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  17. Well I guess I’m moving out of the Internet until I beat USUM (or more accurately until I need someone’s help with trading a mon from Sun to UM)…

    Or not I dunno yet

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  20. Huh….so weird. I didn’t realize that XY got leaked a total of 18 days before the games came out…..I suppose we COULD get something any time now…….

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      • We shall see. I doubt these games will THAT early, but it’s pretty much inevitable that early copies will get out. Just a matter of time really. Hopefully they don’t leak early and ruin the surprise for next Friday

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  23. Why do people think the games can leak? Like, have you never seen the people who’ve said that cracking it would take insane luck, or years and years after the full game releases? SuMo was datamined due to the demo and early releases

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