Moon does now warn you when a specific move is effective or not, but we were perfectly fine with this as most hardcore fans will have memorised the effects long ago, and we found it a useful reminder.
Maybe we’re just out of practice but we only just won a number of our early battles, and had to resort to using potions a lot earlier than we would in previous games. But given how complicated things can get if you dig down into the stats and special abilities of each critter we had worried that maybe Moon would try to dumb down the gameplay or combat, for what would be perceived as a wider audience. Instead we ended up at a local school, where there were more tutorial-like antics to be had and a series of pokémon battles with some fairly competent trainers.Īlthough it’s not a part of Pokémon GO at all, training and battling pokémon has always been the heart of the mainline games. These seem to perform the same structural purpose as gyms, and even grant you a similar kind of medal if you beat them – although not that we had time to get that far.
Where Moon does start to deviate from the usual Pokémon formula though is that there seems to be no gyms, but instead a series of trials that you’re invited to complete. All of this is very familiar, and enjoyably so as we wander through the night looking for pokémon in the long grass and hearing their calls shriek out around us.
We also enjoyed getting roped into the usual tutorial style intro, where we meet the local professor (our cousin, apparently), his helper (a strange girl with something mysterious hidden in her bag), and your soon-to-be rival.Įven a Pokémon GO player will be familiar with the very basics of the game as we’re given a starter pokémon (we chose the fire type Litten, who’s an angry looking little kitten), a few pokéballs, and told to go out into the world and fill up our pokédex (which is now inhabited by a variant of an existing pokémon called Rotom, which means it can talk back to you). Although we were charmed to hear that the old sound effects, such as moving between rooms, haven’t changed at all. The game proper begins, as always, in your bedroom, except now you get to view it up close and with surprisingly good graphics.
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