Pokémon Sun & Moon - 3DS - 2016

jiggles wrote:Great job with that automatic sleep mode preload, Nintendo. Worked a real treat. Well, by that I mean it didn't start the download until after midnight and it's now going to take a million years to finish.

I preloaded mine the other night. Did you make sure the eShop was closed?

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Mafro wrote:
jiggles wrote:Great job with that automatic sleep mode preload, Nintendo. Worked a real treat. Well, by that I mean it didn't start the download until after midnight and it's now going to take a million years to finish.

I preloaded mine the other night. Did you make sure the eShop was closed?

I had no idea what was running on my 3DS. I ordered it on the website. It just said to make sure it was in sleep mode, but sure enough, when I last used it (about a week ago) the last thing I was doing was browsing the shop.

Still, it's almost done now after 135 minutes. Maybe I'll get to play it tomorrow.

jiggles wrote:
Mafro wrote:
jiggles wrote:Great job with that automatic sleep mode preload, Nintendo. Worked a real treat. Well, by that I mean it didn't start the download until after midnight and it's now going to take a million years to finish.

I preloaded mine the other night. Did you make sure the eShop was closed?

I had no idea what was running on my 3DS. I ordered it on the website. It just said to make sure it was in sleep mode.

For sleep downloads to work you have to close the eshop app for some weird reason otherwise it won't work and it'll just stay at 0%.

Didn't realise there was no 3D at all in this. Online stuff seems quite scaled back compared to X/Y and it doesn't seem to support screenshots in Miiverse either. Wonder how hard it's pushing the system.

Is there a system similar to X/Y where you can tell when you have caught all the Pokemon on a specific route? You used to get a bronze, silver or gold crown appear on the map.

No Pokemons for me

Amazon still hasn't dispatched. Their lying status page still reads delivery will be made today, though. Bunch of liars.

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Btw as well as getting the Ash Greninja from the demo, there's also a Munchlax available from the Mystery Gift option on the main menu.

Mafro wrote:
Coconut Bob wrote:I'm tempted to get this - Amazon doing that extra £2 off for Prime members makes it £30 and I doubt it'll dip much below that anytime soon. Played and loved the demo and it would be great to be experiencing at the same time as other people.

The thing putting me off is that I have in the past year or two started Fire Red, Heart Gold, Black and X and all of them currently sit around half complete. Slightly concerned I may end up losing interest and abandoning half-way through again, although the reviews make it sound like that might not be the case.

What do we think Grcade?

I'd go for it. Might have less chance of losing interest since you're playing through at the same time as everyone else.

Completely forgot about that Amazon Prime discount. Tempted to get it from there now but I really want it digitally.

You're right, think I may pop an order down for it today. Think I'm going to go for Sun!

Pokemon Sun and Moon are the best-performing games for GameStop all year; preorders for the game were the highest for any game at GameStop in five years.

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/gamest ... 0-6445664/

Impressive.

Got my copy of Sun today from Amazon, not bad baring in mind I preordered at midnight on Monday.

That temptation of buying a brand new 3DS XL today is ever growing.

So far so good. Only just got Rotom but still enjoyable.

Amazon just delivered new 2DS with Moon pre-installed. Just charging it up to the max before squirrelling away for my lad's Xmas present!

Mafro wrote:Btw as well as getting the Ash Greninja from the demo, there's also a Munchlax available from the Mystery Gift option on the main menu.

The Munchlax is available until 11 January, also:

A special item called Snorlium Z will be available in your game after you receive Munchlax. By evolving Munchlax into Snorlax and having it hold the Snorlium Z, Snorlax becomes able to use a special Z-Move—Pulverizing Pancake.

Snorlax.

Really looking forward to this.

Got my copy of Moon. Hopefully start it at the weekend.

PostRe: Pokémon Sun & Moon - 3DS - 2016 by **Pedz** » Wed Nov 23, 2016 9:48 pm

strawberry float it, spent two full hours trying to catch Pichu, did any appear? Did they strawberry float.

Ah, new Pokemon. :wub:

Many of the complaints that crop up every new gen can be raised here. It's fundamentally the same principle game, though Alola as a region and the way it's structured certainly does break away from the formula that's been established over the last two decades. And truth be told? I don't want them to shake up the formula too drastically. Pokemon at its core has been a coming-of-age tale and exploring the wrld surrounding us, and early on Moon does that as well as any title has. If anything I would argue that the Pokemon series is my go-to example of worldbuilding and encouraging players to explore.

It's just so pleasant. There's no overarching doomsday device spurring events onwards, no tragic backstory that gives the player character 'depth' nor an overly convoluted reason for why the player is on an adventure. You move to a new place. It looks cool here. There's plenty to see and do. Go and do that.

It's lovely to get a game that's so enthusiastic and encouraging about adventure. This is why I keep coming back to the series.

As for the game itself? I really like the variety of Pokemon that can be caught so early on. I have a squad of six right now that could feasibly run through to the end of the game as they cover a lot of bases:

Growlet (grass starters 4 lyf)
Growlithe
Magnemite
Munchlax
Abra
Makuhita

That will obviously get rotated as the game goes on, but it's great to have variety and options presented within the opening hours of the game.

My copy of Sun (and 2DS) are on their way to me tonight :toot:

Courtesy of ShopTo and DPD.

Amazon let me down too, or rather their logistics. Shipped but they have no idea where it is.

BAKA wrote:Amazon let me down too, or rather their logistics. Shipped but they have no idea where it is.

Bloody hell :dread:

I seem to have gotten off lightly :fp:

Hope it gets sorted tomorrow.

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Came home for lunch and my copy of Sun has arrived, no time to play before work sadly but looking forward to getting stuck in tonight!

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