It’s a nice little detail that deserves, and is clearly intended for, a larger screen. When walking through a volcano location, for example, you can see steam rising from geysers in the distance.
The long grass is more textured, jumping from ledges looks more realistic, and when you’re walking through locations distant backgrounds are animated rather than static.
This change makes it look like the Pokémon are actually taking part in a battle in the same location and their moves (which have vastly improved animations, by the way) actually interact with one another.Įven in the larger game world you can see more of an effort has been made to enhance details. Each step your character makes actually looks like it has weight behind it when your character stands unmoving for a long period of time, they start to move or dust themselves off when they’re walking through tall grass, they raise their hands above it to make it look like they’re carefully picking their way through.īattles in Sun and Moon are now more reminiscent of Pokémon Stadium than the original games, making the game world the setting for the battle rather than placing opposing Pokémon on tiny islands.
