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i've played like, 20 minutes of pokemon moon so far and i can already tell people that this is the best pokemon game to come out in probably 10+ years. not just because the setting is cool and unique and the alolan pokemon are awesome, but because there's SO many quality of life fixes that the game has been begging for since literally the first generation. things that turned me off the newer games because they were so outdated and clunky that it was pitiful

i can now check my pokemon's moves in combat without having to dig through 4 menus, so i can see the power and accuracy as well as exactly what they do with a simple two buttons
when you or the enemy pokemon are affected by attribute changes (like leer dropping your defense or smthn) there's an icon over your pokemon on the touch screen, and when you tap it, it shows you the changes you're affected by
you no longer have to back all the way out to the PC's main menu to switch between deposit and withdraw
when you catch a pokemon and your party is full you can choose to put the pokemon directly into your party instead of it being forced to go to the pc

literally my only complaint is that i can't move around with the d-pad but oh my god, this game feels SO MUCH BETTER than any of the new pokemon games since they moved into the 3D world with black and white, because of all these changes of systems that have been unchanged for 10+ years and were awkward and clunky even back then.