So it's been a month since daylight saving time ended for me, yet I never made the connection that I'm only 1 hour ahead of Japan now, not 2, so I missed the video being uploaded hype or #oi hype :(
My first impression was that the starters looked really ugly in the video, I kinda hated them until I saw the actual art on the official site and now I really like them!
GatoDelFuego is my favourite and if I may speculate, I'm gonna say / hope for Fire / Fairy because another Fire / Dark would suck (especially since the other is a dog lol). I disliked the grass owl the most, but it looks cute AF in the art, and I think it has the most potential for a cool final evo design. Since the region is gonna have several volcanoes (I mean it's based on Hawaii...) I'm hoping that the regional dex has more Fire-types than previous generations. I basically pick the Fire-type starter by default in other games because there aren't any to choose from in the story mode, so hopefully I don't have to do that this time...
I'm a little disappointed in the limited amount we saw of the legendaries. Pyroar 2.0 looks kinda cool, but I was hoping that we'd get something a little more sun-like, kinda like a legendary Solrock-looking thing, instead of a literal lion. I can't really figure out what the moon legend is or looks like, I wish they had art for them on the official site like the starters so I could get a better look, coz like I said about the starters, the 3d model didn't really do it justice imo...
OMG those starters are so cute, I don't know which one to choose!
Solgaleo looks badass as fuck. Don't totally get Lunaala, but an Uber bat seems cool!
Also, really glad customization is back, I was worried gamefreak was gonna be dumb and not include it again!
Finally, I'm liking the look of the overworld a lot more in Sun and Moon. Not only is Hawaii a great setting, but the Alola looks a lot less... grid-like than Kalos!
The islands will all be in a grid-like shape and there will be terrible reasons made up by NPCs explaining why you can't go to the one you want, so you'll be forced to travel them in order. We thought Kalos wasn't gonna be linear and look what happened there lol.