You know when I first saw the design for this... I was like Hookay, GameFreak is out of business. May as well declare Pokemon dead.

But reading the backstory and seeing the actual "theme" of Sun and Moon as very spirit oriented, and the island folk being very superstitious, I'm hoping the rest of the game follows that theme. It'd be really neat to see how the islanders perceive pokemon as more scary being, and actual monsters, rather than regarding pokemon and cutesy lovey dovey pets.

What would be really different is if the Island folk fear, and almost pray to pokemon to keep them at bay and ward them off. This goes back to the idea of old Japanese folk lore and spirits and paying respects to them, but more out being completely spooked. Also the idea of possesion and voodoo like religions would be really really cool, all surrounding myths about these pokemon. Anyone else agree?