This game is looking pretty neat! I like the setting and a fair amount of the Pokemon shown so far and battle royal mode looks neat.

Hey now, where's the Moon thread!?

I wonder what the differences between the two versions will be besides just Pokémon availability.

I am loving everything I have seen on Sun and Moon so far except...for the new Pokemon. Really not liking some of the new designs.

I'm so glad you can check stats and see strengths/weaknesses in the battle menu instead of trying to memorize everything.

A Meowth wouldn't let me flee a random encounter I had with it so I decided to Catch it and make it do my bidding. It certainly proved useful in the school area so it's part in my team may be more permanent then I thought.

Have you seen its new evolved form? It left me speechless.

@Hero_Of_Hyrule

The Alola Persian? I'm curious as to how it looks now... can't wait to start this Monday.

So who did everyone choose as their starter?

@GameDadGrant

I'm about to go with Litten. Fire cats... Gotta do it though. Historically I've gone with Grass types.

I'm really digging this game. In a lot of ways, it's comparable to A Link Between Worlds in that it kind of subverts franchise tradition. And it's got a lovely tropical setting baybee!

@DrFinkelstein

Don't ruin it for yourself. Just dive in and see for yourself.

@GameDadGrant

I went with the grass owl. After being burned by leaving the final form of Y's grass starter a surprise, I was highly dissappointed, so I looked ahead this time and chose my favorite. Other than that I'm pretty much going into this game blind.

I probably would have chosen popplio, but I left the water type spot on my team open in anticipation of seeing a bunch of rad new fish Pokemon. To my surprise, there aren't many new water types in this region, so I've just gone with Wishcash.

@Hero_Of_Hyrule I'm using Wishiwashi myself.

@GameDadGrant I don't have a game, but I'd choose Litten, mostly because I always go with the fire type. To represent my burning passion, I s'pose.

@Mop it up

Litten has been a treat so far. Knows Ember of course but learns Lick early on which is a nice touch.

In a strange turn of events, I chose Rowlett for my starter. I usually pick the Water starter, but this time I had to go with Grass. Mostly because I think it's final form is cool-looking (it's Green Arrow!) but also because I'll get the Ash-Greninja from the demo so I'll have my Water-type "starter" covered anyway.

Of course, I'll end up getting all three starters soon, I own both Sun and Moon. Thanks to the dual-pack from Amazon.

@pokepal148

Have you found it useful? I've been making due with a Barbaroach and am about to make the switch to a wimpod.

So what do you guys think of the Festival Plaza?

I've never really cared about the side gimmicks in more recent Pokémon games and this is no exception. I think having to go through a separate loading screen and exit the game world to access any of the multiplayer functions is an absolute downgrade from gen 6, but I don't really care too much.

@Hero_Of_Hyrule

Yeah, I get that. On the plus side, there is a bunch of extra content available as well, most of which is beneficial to the main adventure. Accessible anywhere! Not stranded to a single town or area or PokéCenter or whatever. So that's kinda nice, I think.

Apparently there's a save glitch if you save in a pokemon center so don't do that.

@pokepal148

Thanks for the heads up!