Pokemon: Team Rocket's motivation/philosophy

[Durkoala]

If you have it, I at least recommend giving it a shot. Different Pokémon are available in each area than the previous games (for example, Inkay can be found near the prof's lab). I also think they handle characterization better this time, though a warning that it's basically unrelated to the last games - Ultra Space and everything is all known about from the beginning (which I found rather jarring after the Moon Postgame), and sometimes characters seem to know things that Gamefreak assumes the players would already have figured out, but really shouldn't know in game. (Though, this was probably mostly an issue for me, because I went in blind, and so actually expected a sequel...)

But, yeah. The difficulty is definitely higher, and if you stick with the same team throughout, I guarantee you'll probably run into at least an handful of battles that give you trouble. (Especially if you have Set Battle on, rather than Shift.)

Do you need to have played Sun/Moon first or can you pick it up and play it without knowing them?

[DataNinja]

Do you need to have played Sun/Moon first or can you pick it up and play it without knowing them?

The game makes a couple assumptions on the part of the player having played the first games (mainly on the nature of Ultra Beasts and ultra Space, which are discussed openly as if the player would pretty much know what they are), but, on the whole, there is no need to play the first games. So, there might be a few little things, but it's essentially a completely self-contained thing.

[Peelee]

The game makes a couple assumptions on the part of the player having played the first games (mainly on the nature of Ultra Beasts and ultra Space, which are discussed openly as if the player would pretty much know what they are)

Frankly, I played through the first game and still don't really know what Ultra Beasts and Ultra Space is, so I think that's pretty safe. Didn't help that I'd kind of zoned out by that point, since I didn't expect to watch a full-length movie

[Rater202]

Frankly, I played through the first game and still don't really know what Ultra Beasts and Ultra Space is, so I think that's pretty safe. Didn't help that I'd kind of zoned out by that point, since I didn't expect to watch a full-length movie

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Pokemon from an AU world and the AU world, respectivly. One that has differant reality from the timelines the Pokemon Games have been in, resulting in Pokemon who really only tangenitally resemble the main realities Pokemon.

[McNum]

I like the take Saphroneth took in Ashes of the Past. (It's fanfic, but really, really good fanfic.) Basically, Giovanni does want to "protect the world from devastation," inasmuch as, in order to take control of the world, there needs to be one. So he sees part of the organization's goal as preventing major global threats, a serious concern when there are monster-gods roaming the planet and upheaving entire ecosystems. Here's a quote:



I like that interpretation, personally.

Like a lot of that story (and I VERY DEFINITELY second the recommendation), it's a really good idea.

Thanks for the recommendation. That's a pretty good fic. I mean, I started reading it when those posts there were new and just reached Hoenn 1. I would have stopped sooner if I didn't like it, I think.

Favorite moment so far: Ash finally meets an Absol. That poor, poor Absol.