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[Pokemon Trainer Sarah]

Despite the opinions of most of my friends and it seems most of the forum, yes I really do want to play through Alola again! I really did enjoy these games! The unique flavor it had was really enjoyable for me so I'm ready to go, especially if it's a new and unique story.

If I had to guess they're doing kinda what they did with BW2. BW2 they had two versions because obviously since it took 3 years later both Reshiram and Zekrom had been caught and so when you came along 3 years later, for it to be a direct sequel it had to coincide with the predecessor as to what dragon N had. It's purely speculation at this point but I'm thinking that this has something to do with the ultra wormholes, more specifically, the alternate world that you can catch cosmog in. If so, then it would make sense that there would need to be two games, because then technically, Solgaleo/Lunala would have already been caught by your protagonist in SuMo, and it appears that only one cosmog can be obtained per game otherwise.

I get your point but I don't think this means they HAD to make 2 whole games just for one little difference. They could easily have a choice at the start where you pick whether you played Sun or Moon previously if it's that important to the story. (Besides I would probably choose to play Ultra Moon even though I played Sun, for something different) I just feel like it's a bit of a cashgrab when they do stuff like this where one game would have sufficed. xD