[DISCUSSION] Whats your thoughts on Sun and Moon?

[TessTales]

I'm honestly very happy with the games overall. I like the fact that HMs have been made obsolete in favor of Ride Pokemon. Of course, now I have a slot in my team where I can put a productive member and that's going to take some getting used to. Not only that though, but it gives us something we have all been really wanting (and were let down by in XY with the gogoats)

Since I haven't started IV and Shiny hunting yet, S.O.S battles can get a bit annoying when you want to catch something for a dex entry. From all the glowing responses to it though, I'm sure I will come to love that in a few days.

I love that we now only have one fishing rod, rather than three. Though I guess I don't see the sense in limiting us to specific spots for fishing. Being able to fish up pearls and such is nice.

I wish there were more islands though. While I liked the departure from the gym system where I go to town, enter gym beat the gym trainers then onto the Leader, the islands themselves felt like more interactive gyms if you will. So the lack of islands made me feel a bit cheated.

I'm putting this last one under a spoiler tag since it is a bit spoilery.

The "E4". They reused three Kahunas as E4 members and I really wish they would have pulled some more "island victors" rather than reusing them. But on that same topic, I'm glad that each consecutive time we beat them we are playing as the defending champ, rather than as a challenger. I also like that the challengers are different, rather than fighting say, Hau every time.