10 Changes All Future Pokémon Games Need To Make

Pokémon is famous for its simple formula that has been present in every game until the release of Sun & Moon: Travel from city to city, challenge Pokémon gyms and defeat their leaders.

In the new games, the cities were changed to islands and the gyms to trials. It's commendable that they went to the effort of developing unique trials instead of repeating gyms, but it really takes away from the game on second consideration.

For something that sounds so small, changing the format is actually a massive change, since this is the first time that the main games had their primary plot altered.

Despite the ambition behind the idea, the change wasn't truly warranted. No one was growing tired of the regular gameplay, and the only people who might have complained that Pokémon has not changed since its inception are people who wouldn't have bought the games anyway.

It just feels like changing the formula just to change it and take away from the method that had served the franchise for two decades. In addition, making each trial a different task turns the entire game off-kilter. Hopefully, in future installments, they'll return to the roots of what made the series successful.