Pokemon Sun and Moon review: a new dawn for the long-running series

By Tim Biggs
Updated December 5 2016 - 2:08pm, first published 1:40pm
The new Alola region is brimming with new kinds of Pokemon, and surprising takes on older ones.
The new Alola region is brimming with new kinds of Pokemon, and surprising takes on older ones.
Clockwise from top left: Meeting new water Pokemon Popplio; a powerful Totem version of Alolan Raticate; exploring a forest; petting an Eevee in Pokemon Refresh mode.
Clockwise from top left: Meeting new water Pokemon Popplio; a powerful Totem version of Alolan Raticate; exploring a forest; petting an Eevee in Pokemon Refresh mode.

Pokemon is a huge franchise that takes many forms, but at the very heart of it all are the generational video games — released every three to four years — which introduce new creatures and locations to the cross-media juggernaut. The latest games, Pokemon Sun and Pokemon Moon, in many ways represent the biggest shakeup yet to the famously slow-evolving 20-year-old series. Not all the new ideas land perfectly, but it's enough to breath a lot of life into a franchise which was becoming stale.

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