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The atmosphere and setting, especially since we brought back Day and Night music.
The feel of the island challenge worked, the characters being more expressive and active than simply 1 time gym leaders who only talk when you reach them.
Totem Fights in general felt really fresh.
Team Skull essentially feeling a lot more natural in this game and matches very well, much better executed pseudo villain team.
The weird funky ultra space stuff clashes with alola’s calm and simple lifestyle just right to the point where it becomes more appealing.
Also Ride Pokémon is contextually the best replacement for HM’s.
I replayed Gen 7 recently and I notice that Gen 8 ruined a lot of concepts that more or less were much better in Alola.
