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Early version of the Z-Crystals dated back to July 2015
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"the scrapped porygon glitch animation for Pokemon DP looks so fucking cool and sucks they dropped it. reconstructed how it would look in the final game"
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One of the big ways GameFreak planned to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the games was by making Pokémon Sun and Moon's bottom screen completely customizable, per development documents.
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Details on the Scrapped Mini Pokémon Feature meant for Sun & Moon. They would've bestowed players O-Powers, and were originally intended to have been uncatchable unique pokémon before getting reworked into 8 existing mini-Pokémon species.
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Details on the scrapped Gym Leader Building Feature meant for Pokémon Sun and Moon's Postgame
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Z-Moves were known as "Aura Boost" at one point in Gen 7's development. Aura Brace and Aura Prisms was the name of the Z-Ring and Z-Crystals respectively, and instead of Z-Power, energy from the trainers would've been transferred to the mons.
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Per internal documents, Pokémon Sun and Moon was intended to be the first pair of Pokémon games with DLC in order to take advantage of being 20th anniversary titles.
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Rotom Re-sprite
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Early concept art of the Alola League
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Fully translated Sun & Moon concept planning doc
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(Sun/Moon) Cut Gen 7 pokemon & scrapped concepts: Flying-type Eevee evolution, and early versions of Celesteela & Xurkitree respectively
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(Sun/Moon) Cut Gen 7 pokemon: Bruxish pre-evo, a Potato root vegetable, 2 fossils, a Cosmog form, and a Butterfly
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(Sun/Moon) Cut Gen 7 pokemon: a Chicken, blue and pink Sea Slugs, and Turtonator’s pre-evos
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Completed Sinnoh map artwork with New Moon Island and Seabreak Path/Flower Paradise, found in the Teraleak's files
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Castelia Sewers was intended for Black and White 1. It was first added around January 2010 before getting cut later on in development.
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(Sun/Moon) More details on the scrapped Gen 7 Grass type “Basilisk lizard” pokemon was cut during development. Was it because of its resemblance with Salazzle?
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A fully translated version of the pokemon design progress management doc for Sun & Moon (with reference images included)
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Details of the Original Draft of the Team Rainbow Rocket Subplot, back when it was Intended for Pokémon Sun and Moon.
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A version of the Battle Frontier was intended to return for Sun & Moon. It would've been called "The Battle Cruise", allowed you to fight strong trainers & champions from different regions as it travelled across the world.
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The Throwing Styles feature introduced in Sun and Moon was originally planned for Pokémon X and Y. Some styles were even considered to be event exclusive and distributed through Wi-Fi.
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