Current Events > I bought Pokemon Ultra Sun recently, and just started last night

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It's been roughly six years since my last Pokemon game, with Y, and honestly? I'm having a blast. I was definitely ready for a new Pokemon adventure, and even though I'm still on the first island and haven't even challenged any of the captains, let alone the first Kahuna, I'm really enjoying all the new features and culture.

I'm so glad I made the purchase when I did. Anybody got any tips? :o

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I went from X to Sword skipped the ones on between

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El Mexicano Texano posted...

I went from X to Sword skipped the ones on between

I actually am getting Sword for Christmas as a gift, and I'm pretty excited for that one too! Is it any good?

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Catch lots of pokemon as you go; you're gonna need more than a few in your PC to unlock full Poke Pelago functionality. Catching PC fodder as you go will mean less grinding later.

Also, play the Mystery Dungeon spinoffs. Every Pokemon fan should play those games tbh.

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Kircheis posted...

Catch lots of pokemon as you go; you're gonna need more than a few in your PC to unlock full Poke Pelago functionality. Catching PC fodder as you go will mean less grinding later.

Also, play the Mystery Dungeon spinoffs. Every Pokemon fan should play those games tbh.

Thanks, and I would like to do so. Which of the Dungeon spin-offs would you say is the best?

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EverDownward posted...

Thanks, and I would like to do so. Which of the Dungeon spin-offs would you say is the best?

Just my personal opinion of course, but storywise:

Explorers of Sky>Gates to Infinity>Super>Rescue Team

EoS has my favorite overall story, but I think Gates has (for the most part) better written characters. Super starts off kinda slow, then the second half is kinda rushed, but I still prefer the story of this game over Rescue Team's. Rescue Team doesn't have a bad plot by any means, it's just...not as refined. As far as actually playing them though, I kinda prefer Super. Each of the previous games had a few starter combinations that would just make the entire game easy mode, but in Super you're encouraged to rely on items and strategy more than just brute forcing everything. This is most exemplified by the fact that Blast Seeds outdamage your individual party members for most of the story, and an early game sidequest has you facing off against a Salamence of all things, and if you try to brute force that battle it's just gonna show you a bad time.

Got a little sidetracked, anyway, TLDR: Explorers has the best story, Gates is underrated, Super has the best gameplay.

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Cool! I'll probably get all three at some point, but I think I'll try to get Explorers and Super first. Thanks!

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Something to keep in mind is that Super makes references to past games, and half the fun of those references is actually being familiar with where they're from. They're all worth playing at some point tbh. With Rescue Team, half the fun is seeing just how much you can break the difficulty curve. Being able to have duplicate moves (combine this with multi-hitting moves, and then link said moves to really subject enemies to multi-hitting hell), completely shutting down single enemies with Skitty (because only the main character has a gender in this game), the works. GtI has Axew as a starter, and that's always fun. Just casually spam Dragon Dance and Dual Chop like it's going out of style. Explorers (and Rescue Team) has Smokescreen and Mirror Move shenanigans, Explorers of Sky has Vulpix with a roided out version of Imprison...and I'm digressing again. Point is, Pre-Super games had some wacky balancing decisions, so have fun with that!

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EverDownward posted...

Is it any good?

The campaign is fine, but it has next to no exploration in the postgame if that's your jam. No legendaries, no extra areas, nothing.
You have the battle tower like every game, and max raids in the wild area. That's your postgame.

So yeah, they're good but very lacking in content, not worth $60 IMO.

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Azardea posted...

The campaign is fine, but it has next to no exploration in the postgame if that's your jam. No legendaries, no extra areas, nothing.
You have the battle tower like every game, and max raids in the wild area. That's your postgame.

So yeah, they're good but very lacking in content, not worth $60 IMO.

Ah. Well, it sounds like Pokemon then. Release a new entry in the series, and then release a fuller, more content packed version a year or two later.

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EverDownward posted...

Ah. Well, it sounds like Pokemon then. Release a new entry in the series, and then release a fuller, more content packed version a year or two later.

That basically describes what Explorers of Sky is to Time and Darkness, just FYI. So try to spring for EoS if you want to get the most out of that PMD installment.

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Kircheis posted...

That basically describes what Explorers of Sky is to Time and Darkness, just FYI. So try to spring for EoS if you want to get the most out of that PMD installment.

Yup, that was the plan. Unfortunately, it's pretty expensive on amazon so I guess I'll have to buy from gamestop.

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EverDownward posted...

Ah. Well, it sounds like Pokemon then. Release a new entry in the series, and then release a fuller, more content packed version a year or two later.

It's even worse than usual. I feel like Sun and Moon had quite a bit more content than these.
Also there's dexit or whatever you'd call it, you can't transfer Pokemon that don't appear in the Pokedex, unlike every other game since gen 3.

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