Where to buy
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Is it still worth playing?
A 2016 Pokémon game for the 3DS, sold alongside Sun, set in Alola, a tropical archipelago where the gyms are gone. In their place each island sets trials that end against a powered up Totem Pokémon, and then its kahuna has to be beaten. Extra tasks keep each trial unpredictable, and grid movement is gone. Several old ideas are replaced. Z-Moves, once a battle attacks of great force that come with a dance, take the place of Mega Evolution, and a Pokémon called up to carry you replaces hidden moves. The islands have their own versions of old Pokémon, such as a Vulpix of ice and a Raichu that is electric and psychic, and Ultra Beasts come through from another dimension. On this version, the clock runs twelve hours ahead of the system's, and Lunala is the legendary. Trials in place of gym badges still give the islands a different shape today.