New Pokemon Sun and Moon Video Teases Big Changes to Pokemon Game

In addition to the trailer released earlier today, Nintendo also released a video for Pokemon Sun and Moon, giving fans a brief tour of the new Alola region. The video is only 13 seconds long, but teases some very big changes for the next Pokemon game.

As shown in the video, the Alola region consists of four large natural islands as well as an artificial island and is based off of the Hawaiian island chain. With beautiful beaches, volcanoes and lush, thick forests, the Alola region allegedly contains "many" new Pokemon never seen before in a Pokemon game. However, the scenery isn't the only thing featured in the video, it also showcases a much more realistic in-game perspective for the video game. In Pokemon X/Y, Nintendo radically changed the Pokemon franchise by replacing the franchise's traditional pixel map and graphics with 3D graphic more in line with modern games. However, the game still had a cartoonish look to it as, with the exception of a few locations, the player and other human characters were disproportionately sized to the world around them.

As showcased in this new video, Pokemon Sun and Moon uses a strikingly different perspective from Pokemon X/Y, and places the player in a world designed to mimic the real world. Instead of the player looking like they are half the size of a normal building, the world of Pokemon Sun and Moon is proportioned much differently. For instance, here's a comparison of the player standing in front of a Pokemon Center in Pokemon X/Y and Pokemon Sun/Moon:

Not only does Pokemon Sun/Moon do away with Pokemon X/Y's chibi-like oversized heads, the entire world looks much larger in comparison to the player. So what does this mean for Pokemon Sun/Moon? Well, players probably don't need to worry about the Alola Region only consisting of four islands. These islands look massive in comparison to the player, and each will probably take hours to properly explore. However, this doesn't mean that traditional mechanics like catching Pokemon in tall grass is going away. While some fans were worried about a lack of tall grass in early trailers, the video above does show a glimpse of the familiar underbrush that players have traveled through while catching Pokemon for 20 years.

Pokemon Sun and Moon comes out November 18th.