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Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon Special Demo Version ポケットモンスター サン・ムーン 特別体験版
English title screen
Basic info
Platform:	Nintendo 3DS (digital)
Category:	RPG demo
Players:	1 player
Connectivity:	Nintendo Network
Developer:	Game Freak
Publisher:	Nintendo/The Pokémon Company
Part of:	Generation VII
Ratings
CERO:	A
ESRB:	E
ACB:	PG
OFLC:	PG
PEGI:	7
GRAC:	ALL
GSRR:	6+
Release dates
Japan:	October 18, 2016
North America:	October 18, 2016
Australia:	October 18, 2016
Europe:	October 18, 2016
South Korea:	October 18, 2016
Hong Kong:	October 18, 2016
Taiwan:	October 18, 2016
Websites
Japanese:	Official Japanese sub-page Nintendo.co.jp
English:	Official English sub-page Nintendo.com
Japanese boxart Japanese title screen

The Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon Special Demo Version (Japanese: ポケットモンスター サン・ムーン 特別体験版 Pocket Monsters Sun and Moon Special Demo Version) is a special, expanded demo edition of Pokémon Sun and Moon. It was released worldwide on October 18, 2016, in promotion of its parent game, which will release the following month. Unlike its predecessor, the Special Demo Version for Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, this demo was immediately available to download to the public via Nintendo's eShop or through their homepage.

Gameplay

In the Demo Version, the player steps into the shoes of the protagonist Sun (Japanese: サン Sun), who shares the appearance of the male player character in Pokémon Sun and Moon. The Demo is set on Melemele Island and mainly centers on Hau'oli City. During the initial adventure, the player is introduced to trials and Z-Moves and battles with Team Skull. After this adventure is completed the game saves, and thereafter the player is mainly left to explore Hau'oli City and the surrounding areas, with a few simple challenges available, a few NPCs who will do special things after a certain number of days, and a few special encounters with special NPCs on certain days of the week.

During gameplay, the player can only access the Pokémon and Bag menu options. When the menu is not open, if the player has received the Rotom Pokédex, it occupies the lower screen, with links to a promotional video and the eShop pages for the Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon games in the middle. The Ride Pager can also be opened with the Y button after the initial adventure is completed. After the initial adventure, the Demo only saves when the player receives a transferable reward or after talking to the "mysterious man" on Mahalo Trail.

After the initial adventure, the player will always have a Greninja at exactly level 37 in their party and the Z-Ring and Electrium Z in their Bag. The game can also set the time of day to either the day or the night. This depends on the time when the game loads, alternating every minute, but once the game is loaded, the time will not change.

The game's save data can be erased by pressing the Up, B, and X buttons simultaneously on the Demo's title screen.

Initial adventure

When the Demo is first started, the player opens his mailbox to find a letter written by an unknown sender, noting that they left a Greninja (who used to belong to Ash) for the player to take care of.

	Types: Water Dark Ability: Battle Bond Held item: None
Greninja♂ Lv.36
Water Shuriken Water Special   --       Aerial Ace Flying Physical   --       Double Team Normal Status   --       Night Slash Dark Physical   --

After reading the letter, Sun heads to Hau'oli City Hall with his mother to register their new address. When the player tries to leave, they will run into Hau, who will introduce himself. At the suggestion of the player's mom, Hau offers to show the player around the city's shopping district. Before that happens however, they run into two Team Skull Grunts, who pick a fight with the player and Hau. After defeating one of them in battle, the grunts retreat, and the game instructs the player to go to the Pokémon Center, where inside, Hau give the player a Super Potion.

Once the player has healed their Greninja and exited the Pokémon Center, they will meet Professor Kukui. Kukui introduces the player to the Trials, inviting them to Ten Carat Hill. From this point, the player is allowed to explore the the city, and can talk to a man north of the Pokémon Center when they are ready to continue.

At Ten Carat Hill, the player will progress up a road towards the trial site, inside a cave. There Kukui will explain the rules of the trial. The player is to seek out two Jangmo-o and two Hakamo-o and photograph them. To do this, the player is given a Poké Finder. Kukui also loans the player his Pikachu.

	Type: Electric Unknown Ability: Static Held item: None
Pikachu♂ Lv.40
Thunderbolt Electric Special   --       Slam Normal Physical   --       Growl Normal Status   --       Iron Tail Steel Physical   --

After receiving Pikachu, the trial begins. When the player takes pictures of the Pokémon, the snapshot startles the Pokémon, causing it to attack. After taking photos of the two Jangmo-o and one Hakamo-o the player will hear another Hakamo-o from the other end of the cave. The cave opens to a clearing, where the last Hakamo-o is located. Upon taking a photo of this Hakamo-o, it is revealed to be a Totem Pokémon. Defeating the Totem Hakamo-o and its ally, Rockruff, completes the trial. Kukui rewards the player with a Z-Ring and an Electrium Z, which is automatically equipped to Pikachu, allowing it to use the Z-Move Gigavolt Havoc.

At this time, Hau runs in pursued by the Team Skull Grunts from before, this time accompanied by Plumeria. After some consideration, Plumeria decides to avenge her underlings, but is defeated by the player. Team Skull leaves, but not before telling the player they haven't seen the last of them. Afterwards, Pikachu returns to the professor, with the Electrium Z returning to the player, and the demo ends.

Post-trial

When the player resumes the Demo for the first time after finishing the initial adventure, Professor Kukui will give them the Ride Pager and the ability to use the Ride Pokémon Tauros. The professor then leaves the player to their own devices. From there, the player can complete a few challenges or simply explore the city. Tauros will allow the player to explore more of Ten Carat Hill and a new woman will appear by the line of Slowpoke at the east end of Hau'oli City to guide the player to a new area, Mahalo Trail. On certain days, special NPCs may appear, and after certain numbers of days have passed, some NPCs in Hau'oli City will activate special events for the player.

Challenges

If the player talks to the woman at the end of the road east of the Pokémon Center, they can travel to Mahalo Trail. There, the player can use the Ride Pokémon Tauros to smash through the rocks blocking the path and ascend the trail. At the top, the player will find a self-styled "mysterious old man" who will give them three Stardusts to transfer to the full game.

At Ten Carat Hill, three new Trainers have appeared, one an Ace Trainer near the hill's entrance point. If the player defeats the other three Trainers around the area (including Youngster Honus, who can be battled during the initial adventure), they can then challenge the Ace Trainer, and if they defeat her, she will give the player a transferable Star Piece.

The player can also smash through a large rock near Ten Carat Hill's entrance point with Tauros to access a Pokémon-catching challenge. In the challenge, the player is given 16 Poké Balls, 3 Heal Balls, and 1 Great Ball to catch as many wild Pokémon as they can. The first time the player catches at least three Pokémon, the man running the challenge will reward the player with a transferable Nugget. If the player catches a Pokémon while their party is full, either the new Pokémon or one of their current party members must be released. When the player decides to finish the challenge, all of the Pokémon they caught will be released and all Poké Balls will be removed from the player's Bag or from being held. If the player manages to catch 20 Pokémon—one with every Poké Ball they were given—the man at the entrance will be sleeping; if the player wakes him up, he will congratulate the player on their achievement.

Weekly NPCs

Several special NPCs will appear around Hau'oli City depending on the day of the week and possibly the time of day. Even if the player has already met them before, these NPCs will appear exactly the same way in subsequent weeks as well.

On Tuesdays, during the day, the player's mom can be found coming out of the apparel shop east of the Pokémon Center. On Fridays, Lillie will appear on the road running along the side of the Pokémon Center. On Sundays, during the night, Hau will show up if the player approaches the malasada restaurant east of the City Hall.

Countdown NPCs

Several NPCs in various parts of Hau'oli City will request that the player visit them a specific number of days after the initial adventure was completed. Upon doing so, the player may receive transferable items from some of them.

A man standing in front of the Pokémon Center will ask to meet the player the day after the game was first saved. If the player does so, he will give them ten transferable Pretty Wings. If the player does not visit him until the second day or later, he will not give them anything.

A woman standing at the corner of the road near the City Hall will ask to meet the player five days after the game was first saved. If the player does so, she will introduce them to a Machamp that helped her out when she sprained her ankle.

A man inside the City Hall will ask to meet the player 12 days after the game was first saved.

A policeman at the Hau'oli City Marina will ask to meet the player 18 days after the game was first saved.

A woman in the Ferry Terminal will ask to meet the player 24 days after the game was first saved.

Transferable rewards

After the game is saved for the first time and the player receives the Ride Pager, they may speak to Professor Kukui inside the Pokémon Center to transfer any transferable rewards to a full version of Pokémon Sun and Moon. Each reward can only be transferred to a given game once, but the same reward can be sent to any number of different games.

Item		Location	Games
	Ash's Greninja	After the game saves after completing Professor Kukui's trial and battling Plumeria	S  M
	Stardust ×3	From a man at the end of Mahalo Trail	S  M
	Star Piece	From Ace Trainer Sheri at Ten Carat Hill after defeating her	S  M
	Nugget	A reward for catching three or more Pokémon in the Pokémon-catching challenge at Ten Carat Hill for the first time	S  M
	Pretty Wing ×10	From the man in front of the Hau'oli City Pokémon Center on the day after the game was first saved	S  M

Trainers

Hau'oli City

Trainer	Pokémon
Team Skull Grunt Reward: $800	Yungoos♂ Lv.25 No item

Ten Carat Hill

Trainer	Pokémon
Youngster Honus リョウタ Ryota Reward: $560	Rockruff Rockruff♂ Lv.28 No item
Appearing after Plumeria is battled
Lass Ellie エリー Ellie Reward: $864	Pikipek Pikipek♀ Lv.36 No item
	Rockruff Rockruff♀ Lv.38 No item
Rising Star Ikaika ヒロユキ Hiroyuki Reward: $1,824	Pikipek Pikipek♂ Lv.36 No item
	Yungoos Yungoos♂ Lv.38 No item
Ace Trainer Sheri ミユキ Miyuki Reward: $2,856	Jangmo-o Jangmo-o♀ Lv.38 No item
	Pikachu♀ Lv.42 No item

Plumeria

Team Skull Admin Plumeria Ten Carat Hill SM Special Demo Version Reward: $4,320
Types: Poison Flying Ability: Inner Focus Held item: None Golbat♀ Lv.36 Air Cutter Flying Special   --       Curse Unknown Status   --       Curse Unknown Status   --       Curse Unknown Status   --

Totem Pokémon

Totem Hakamo-o Aura: +Sp. Def	Ally Rockruff
Types: Dragon Fighting Ability: Bulletproof Held item: None Hakamo-o♀ Lv.36 Autotomize Steel Status   --       Headbutt Normal Physical   --       Curse Unknown Status   --       Curse Unknown Status   --	Type: Rock Unknown Ability: Keen Eye or Vital Spirit Held item: None Rockruff♂/♀ Lv.30 Odor Sleuth Normal Status   --       Howl Normal Status   --       Curse Unknown Status   --       Curse Unknown Status   --

Gallery

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  Sun holding Greninja's Poké Ball in the opening cutscene of the Demo Version

Trivia

• Greninja's date met is set to October 17, 2013, the same date Lumiose City Pursuit!, the episode where Ash added Froakie to his party, debuted in Japan.

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 精靈寶可夢 太陽／月亮 特別體驗版 Jēnglìhng Bóuhómuhng Taaiyèuhng / Yuhtleuhng Dahkbihttáiyihmbáan * 寶可夢 太陽／月亮 特別體驗版 Bóuhómuhng Taaiyèuhng / Yuhtleuhng Dahkbihttáiyihmbáan * Mandarin 精靈寶可夢 太陽／月亮 特別體驗版 / 精灵宝可梦 太阳／月亮 特别体验版 Jīnglíng Bǎokěmèng Tàiyáng / Yuèliàng Tèbiétǐyànbǎn * 寶可夢 太陽／月亮 特別體驗版 / 宝可梦 太阳／月亮 特别体验版 Bǎokěmèng Tàiyáng / Yuèliàng Tèbiétǐyànbǎn * French Pokémon Soleil et Pokémon Lune : Version démo spéciale German Pokémon Sonne und Pokémon Mond: Spezial-Demoversion Hungarian Pokémon Sun és Pokémon Moon Különleges Demó Verzió Italian Pokémon Sole e Pokémon Luna: Versione demo speciale Korean 포켓몬스터썬・문 특별체험판 Pocket Monsters Sun and Moon Special Demo Version Russian Демо-версия игр Pokémon Sun и Pokémon Moon Spanish Demo especial de Pokémon Sol y Pokémon Luna

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