While many of us have enjoyed our foray back into Alola in Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon on the Nintendo 3DS which was released just days ago, not all fans have been happy with their purchase. Japanese gamers who expected more than an end-game scenario and expanded regional Pokédex have taken to Amazon to vent their feelings.
Over 50% of the games’ ratings are currently one–star with many reviewers complaining about the overt similarity between the new releases and the original titles Pokémon Sun & Moon. Games, anime and manga are often taken very seriously by Japanese fans (and not just when there are micro-transactions involved) and missteps by publishers and designers can sometimes prove disastrous. We will monitor the situation and watch if GameFreak offers commentary or an apology (the latter is a very common step to take by Japanese companies).
English-speaking players have also used Amazon to voice their frustrations, but on the US site Pokémon Ultra Sun remains fairly well rated with half of players giving it 5 out of 5 stars.
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I am one of those unhappy trainers and I got the dual pack. Yay.
I expected the main story to be a copy of SM with tiny differences true, but I also expected to have a big postgame and not this… I am very deceived. It has been done to content the veteran fans but the plot lacks of substance and had the opposite effect, at least on me, because of the lack of a deeper plot in the postgame. It’s even shorter than the S/M one (without considering catching all legends and UBs).
I won’t say anything about Ultra Megalopolis, because yeah, sadly there’s nothing good to say about it. I thought we would have a complete new world to explore there. But huh, well the artworks were very nice.
Conclusion, It is like playing Sun and Moon with minor changes and some new forms and Pokemon, as usual, but nothing very original apart from the plot revealing the secrets of Sun and Moon.
It feels like Game Freak was very lazy doing this game or they did just what they could, anyway I would have waited until the Switch games, that I hope they get much better without so much limitations (like 4GB per game or the removal of triple battles just because of the big framerate drops).
I also don’t get why we catch the legends in the ultra space and we don’t warp in their original regions… like warping in Johto in the Burned Tower just before it burns to rescue the legendary dogs. That would have been amazing..
and with the Team RR episode: you just defeat them and that’s it, really?? you even don’t need to move from the same building. That’s a lame and lazily done plot.
I got to say this. I called it so much and yet I get called out for being the negative nancy for the generation. I hated the generation since I said that the 7th gen is the Movie and Smogon generation and by flipping Arceus… I so called it!
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Knowing that Pokemon is no longer safe for my child family members was the deciding factor in why I did not buy Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon. I was a long time fan, but I have given up the series (this was the final straw after much struggling)
I’ll just ask, what was it that really did it for you? The gameplay, the storyline, the interactivity, or something else?
Mainly that pokemon was becoming less innocent, more dark pokedex entries, etc. for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJBt75axQB8
I know this kinda thing has always been in pokemon, but Sun and Moon just kicked it up by a huge notch I could hardly stand it… the only possible saving grace would’ve been infinite love balls… but no… ?
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/aa4988d809bcfb0f64c0d6fbda1b35df00e88b9750d5b98f70af5999ca07c906.jpg Another example… this is basically gore in text form and I don’t think it’s kid friendly, making it’s “E” rating a lie. This really spoiled the happy moment of my Eevee evolving, too. ?
The lore of the games can be mixed (1 reason I am iffy of listening to Pokedexes) and people wanted the games to get dark….how funny that we are getting it in ways not wanted in some ways. Then again I’ll say that also it’s a bit sour seeing the Mega evolutions are getting blasted and treated as something really evil when they are better gameplay machanically for improving Pokemon of the past than Z-emergency moves.
EHM! Mega Rayquaza?