"A spanish website interviewed Iwao and Ohmori too, here are the answers they got (contains a hint to a new feature)"

First of all sorry, my English it's not that polite as I would like, I will try to translate everything the best way possible.So Vandal (spanish website) was another one of the selected websites that had the chance to interview Kazumasa Iwao and Shigeru Ohmori in Nintendo Europe, located at Frankfurt.If you speak spanish, you can read the interview here.All the credits go to Vandal.Big PostBefore starting I would like to clarify that a good part of the questions that I am going to ask come from the doubts that I have seen in the forum of Vandal by users of the game. Having said that, I would like to know more about how Necrozma becomes Dusk Mane Necrozma or Dawn Wings NecrozmaKazumasa Iwao: In the video that you have seen, which takes place when the game is already in an advanced point of the story, Necrozma takes control of Solgaleo or Lunala, depending on the version you are playing, and it is as if absorbed them inside itself. I hope you like it.Is USUM an alternative story or complementary story to Sun and Moon?Iwao: It's more like a new story. There will be characters that appeared in Sun and Moon like Hau or Lillie, but this time the relationship with them will be different and we will see a different facet of these characters.Instead of Team Skull this time we have the Ultra Recon Squad, who are they?Iwao: The URS come from another world, where they confronted Necrozma and tried to control it, but something went wrong and their world became dark. A similar threat approaches now Alola, so they came to Alola to investigate what happens and thats what they are doing when they encounter player's character.Players liked the idea of the Trials and the Kahuna, but they wonder if the gyms will come backIwao: This time the traditional gyms won't be there and the Trials continue, that traditional form of the region of Alola for trainers to improve. But we made an extra effort to reinforce the Trias, in Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon we made some changes and added certain elements to improve its gameplay.Even if there won't be traditional gyms as such, [USUM] will have a new feature based on the same idea and we want the players to try it by themselves.Traditional players have played Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon but one of the goals you wanted to acomplish was attract new players, did you succeed?Shigeru Ohmori: The base of Pokémon Ultra Sun and Pokémon Ultra Moon is Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon, but you can enter in the series with USUM without problems. It is important for Pokémon to be accessible to everyone. We have been very careful so the entry level could allow you to start playing easily, but also has depth, the more you play, the more you discover and the more you enter into the game. So we've made sure it's for all-time players and also for a wide range of players who may not have played too much Pokémon in the past.The Ultra Beasts that appeared in Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon, what role will they have this time?Iwao: Part of the story is related to fusion of Necrozma with Solgaleo or Lunala and the power he obtains that allows him to open Ultra-Wormholes. Using these powers, more and more Ultra-Wormholes are opened in Alola, and with that new Ultra Beasts come to Alola and the story tells how they came from other worlds on the other side of the Ultra-Wormholes and how they can return to their world. When creating a whole new story that revolves around Necrozma it was important to go deeper into the idea of entering the Ultra-Wormholes and exploring the area, so it is something that came about naturally.What came first, the idea of taking the game to another dimension and put another setting or, otherwise, you were looking for a different setting and the idea of traveling through the Ultra-Wormholes??Iwao: Regarding the part of traveling through the Ultra-Wormholes, in Sun and Moon we already had the Ultra Beasts appearing at a moment of the history in front of the eyes of the player, and we thought that surely many had asked: "What is this stranger Pokémon-like creature coming out of that hole and what is that hole?".This time we want to go deeper into what the Ultra-Wormhole is and where it leads to know more about it. That is what we set ourselves.Until now the game had a world that could be associated with our real world, with scenarios that could be familiar to the player and in the last video revealed we have seen a futuristic city.Iwao: In the development we raised the idea of whether there are worlds connected with this one. The Ultra-Wormhole gives us this possibility, to think that there are other worlds beyond the Pokémon one, which may be something that we would never have imagined, or perhaps are very similar. We want people to explore the Ultra-Wormhole and discover all the possibilities they offer, to see the worlds we have created and that are going to be found throughout the game. We want them, as they play, to think, "There can be similar worlds out there." It would make us very happy to think such things.We have already seen that there will be new Z moves, is there anything new that will we find in this regard?Iwao: This time we have added some new Z-Moves for players to try out. In those that already existed we have not made any changes, and one of the reasons why we have done so is that we did not want to break the balance that existed in the game that the players are used to in Sun and Moon, because we wanted a kind of continuity between the two games. That's why we have not changed the existing Z-Moves and the changes that have been in comparision with Sun and Moon have been details like the design of the RotomDex, which has been adjusted and improved to make it more beautiful.I remember seeing an interview some time ago in which the people responsible for Sun and Moon said that with the Z-Mode and Poké Finder they wanted to strengthen the union between the player and their Pokémon. Is that the reason that they have now improved the Poké Finder in Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon?Iwao: Yes. As you say, now players can take a photo with the Pokémon they are with, convert the photos into some type of ornament and exchange them with other players in the Festi Plaza with the Alola Photo Club options. The idea is to transform the link that the player has established with the Pokémon that accompanies them and turn it into something tangible, that can be seen in the game and that you can experience directly.It is not only for new Pokémon, you can also use some that you have been living adventures for years, you can also do it with some that you have from some game of ten years ago and that you have brought from the Pokémon Bank and turn it into a tangible memory somehow in the game. It is about establishing a link with a particular Pokémon that you have trained for a long time or a kind of Pokémon that you like especially. Convert that player link with some Pokémon into something physical that is in the game.Is there any way to take that photo out of the console to print it?Ohmori: We have not implemented anything similar on this occasion. Maybe you mean that if there is something similar to Pokémon Snap, but nowadays it is more common to share this kind of thing in social networks.Iwao: When proposing the generational change, for us it made more sense to have this mobile feature of taking the photo and sharing on the networks and in the Festi Plaza rather than printing a real physical photo, that's not how photos are shared nowadays.Alola was a big world. Could the next step in the series be an open world?Ohmori: The future has many different possibilities for Pokémon and you never know what is going to happen. What we are going to do is analyze the different generations, the different technologies and possibilities. Our developers look at the Wi-Fi possibilities, the scenarios, the spread of Internet connectivity and the development of various technologies and we want to be at the forefront of all this so that Pokémon continues to grow. Of course we would like an open world, but we have that in which the Pokémon series develops with technology that people like.Older players complained that Sun and Moon was too easy, are Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon going to be more difficult?Iwao: We always go around the difficulty settings. In Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon in particular the base is certainly Sun and Moon but, without doubt, it can be said that Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon is a bit harder and players will see that it is a bigger challenge. But it is not about simply increase the difficulty; we have to ensure that it is accessible to players that start the game for the first time and everyone who enters the game has fun. We do not want it to be so difficult that people can not get into it and have fun if they are newbies. We have put a lot of effort into adjusting the difficulty and balancing it so that everyone can enjoy it.I had doubts before today about whether or not the games had enough new content and now that I have seen that yes, can you say that it is a totally new game?Iwao: If we compare it with the previous games of the series we could say that these ones looks more like Emerald or Platinum, we call them the superior versions. But we do not want to reproduce the patterns of the past; the idea to create new experiences for our players has guided us, so this time we made many changes in the story, changed other things and added elements of action, so we want players to enjoy it as if it were a new game rather than as a new version. We have worked hard so there is so much content that players enjoy it as a new game.I have to ask this question, do we know anything about the version of Switch?[There are murmurs, smiles and open laughts, since it is the question that everyone asks]Ohmori: The first thing I ask people is to play Pokémon Ultra Sun and Pokémon Ultra Moon and enjoy them and then, calmly, there will come a time where more games will come out. But we can tell you as new information that Pokémon will appear and you can capture them with PokéBalls.Will there be connection with Pokémon GO?Ohmori: We are always thinking about the different possibilities to make Pokémon advance, we are always thinking about it and studying all the options.So this is it, something that I would highlight about this interview is the gym-like feature, and that URS tried to control Necrozma. via /r/pokemon http://ift.tt/2xVKSxE