POKÉMON ULTRA SUN AND ULTRA MOON

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The seventh generation of Pokémon games are the last to come out for the 3DS system as the series shifts to the Switch, and as such, Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon represent the final hurrah.

For those that played Sun and Moon, much of the Ultra experience will be familiar to you as they aren’t true sequels (in the vein of Black and White 2) but are instead a refined twist on the original. This fine-tuning is certainly welcome, from the small improvements such as a clarified UI and menu system to more significant additions like entirely new Pokémon and mini-games.

A lot of the more meaningful changes will show up much later in the game, particularly those that relate to plot, and so it can be a bit of a chore progressing through the early sections of the game if you’ve finished Sun and Moon in recent months. For everyone else, these are the best

Pokémon titles yet and the closest you’ll get to ‘playing’ the anime series thanks to the rich characters and vibrant, living world of the Alola islands.