Pokemon trainers can look forward to taking portraits with their favorite pocket monsters and other features in November’s Pokemon Ultra Sun and Moon.
The new mode, called the Alola Photo Club, was revealed in a Game Informer exclusive. Kazumasa Iwao, director of the upcoming games, detailed the mode’s offerings, such as the playable characters posing with Pokemon, stickers and outfits to dress up with.
Unlike past games that offered photo spots, players will have more control over each photo’s composition, camera angle and distance between subjects.
Other additions for the next chapter of the Alola region are new character outfits, Pokemon forms and moves.
This time around, the playable characters sport more beach-ready attire, with male trainers in a tank top, swim trunks and bucket hat. Female trainers start out with a flowery top, shorts and a hibiscus-adorned straw hat. Both characters’ new looks can be seen below.
A new form of Lycanroc is also shown after the playable characters’ reveal. Lycanroc’s Dusk Form can learn Accelerock and Counter, moves that differentiated the Midday and Midnight forms besides their appearances in Sun and Moon. This form can only be obtained by downloading a special Rockruff from the Nintendo Network at the game’s release.
Ultra Sun and Moon‘s mascot legendary Pokemon, Solgaleo and Lunala, also have new appearances with features similar to Necrozma, the legendary Prism Pokemon.
Z-Moves, which debuted in Sun and Moon, return with more powerful Pokemon-specific attacks. The first new Z-move belongs to Kommo-o, the Dragon/Fighting type introduced in the first Alola adventure. Kommo-o’s signature Clanging Scales move can transform into Clangorous Soulblaze if it holds the Kommonium Z item.
Kommo-o’s upgraded signature move raises the Pokemon’s Attack, Defense, Special Attack and Special Defense stats by one stage. This Z-Move is also the first to attack all opposing Pokemon.
Pokemon Ultra Sun and Moon will release on Nov. 17.