Game Freak focused on UI with Pokemon Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon, trying to improve and surprise players
The Verge is among the sites to have shared some comments from Game Freak about Pokemon Ultra Sun and Pokemon Ultra Moon. Director Kazumasa Iwao was interviewed, who spoke about how the team really focused on the user interface. He also discussed how Game Freak wanted to improve what was possible from last year’s titles while also surprising players.
Iwao said:
“One feature that we’ve put a lot of effort into is the [user interface], in order to make sure it’s something that players can pick up if they’ve never played a main series title before, so they can really get into the game and experience things at a deeper level.”
“As developers we do really want to see fans’ responses to the game, and we do pay attention to that. But we don’t just look at those and try to implement exactly what fans say they’d like to be added to the game. Instead, we focus on improving what we can improve, but also creating something new and interesting whenever we create a new game. We really want to add things that people haven’t thought of and things people will be surprised by.”
Game Freak also shared a couple of other tidbits. The idea for Pokemon Ultra Sun and Pokemon Ultra Moon started to form late in development on last year’s original 3DS games, when they were in beta. Also, you’ll be able to capture some of the stronger Pokemon much earlier in the game.
