Pokemon Sun and Moon are literally like night and day!

(NOTE: I want to clarify that I misconstrued the effect of Happy Hour. I learned from other Pokemon fans that Happy Hour has an effect - if you use it in a trainer battle, you get double the money, as if the Pokemon has an Amulet Coin/Luck Incense equipped. This stacks with said equip items so it's great for getting rich off of trainer battles. Also, I found out the effect of Hold Back - it's just another name for False Swipe, it has the same effect; it doesn't kill a Pokemon outright, it only drops to them 1 HP. The difference is that Hold Back is a learned move which only certain Pokemon can learn.)

The site idioMeanings defines idioms that have existed since humans began communication, and one of the most common idioms is "Like night and day." It means that the two things before the idiom are total opposites to each other.

The term comes from the fact that everything looks completely different in the darkness of night than it does in the bright light of full daytime. But now Pokemon Sun and Pokemon Moon are about to take this idiom and turn it on its ear!

I sort of expected something like this considering that the games are named after the celestial bodies of the day and the night, but this still surprised me: Pokemon Moon's timeline is on a different time cycle than Pokemon Sun! That's right, if you set your time in Pokemon Moon game cart to 6 AM, it'll be 6 PM in the game, meaning that while you're playing in the real sunlight, your avatar will be taking a moonlit stroll on the beach or down a city street! Not only that, but the Pokemon that trainers have may be different. For example, we got a trailer about the Island Challenge, where you fight a totem Pokemon. In the Sun version, that fight will be with a Totem Gumshoos. In Moon version, it'll be against a Totem of the Alola Raticate, which was become a more hideous chipmunk-cheeked ugly rat which retains the Dark/Normal typing. Of course, by that time you should have a Fighting-type move which can easily one-shot it. (Quad weakness to fighting sucks.)

With Sun and Moon coming out in 2.5 months, it's expected that they'd start giving more information, but now we have more interesting stuff to learn. For example, we find out what that strange floating lab in the center of the island archipelago is - it's home to the Aether Foundation, a group dedicated to protecting Pokemon, especially those from other regions. They may be the key to transferring Pokemon from Pokemon X and Y to these versions. I bet that, if Game Freak isn't rebooting Pokemon, they are going to start introducing regional types of Pokemon that adapt to different climates like arctic tundrae, sandy desert lands, and more so that the old Pokemon we grew up with don't become stale and dull.

Also, the Aether Foundation are enemies to Team Skull (though considering the stories past, I bet they'll become friends at the end of the game to prevent a world-wide catastrophe 6_^). There are also two tourists who will help you in finding Zygarde by giving your character a cube which allows you to contain Zygarde Cells and Zygarde Cores. For those of you who haven't kept up with the anime or watched the recent movies, the Zygarde we saw in X and Y is only 50% of the real Zygarde, and it is very unstable. There are other Zygarde forms - a 10% which looks like a Great Dane wearing a scarf and a Perfect Zygarde(100%) which is a humanoid kaiju monster! We may never have gotten a third wheel to X and Y but these games are going to make Zygarde have a role in it, and the whole quest to collect Zygarde parts reminds me of the Zoni collection in Ratchet and Clank: A Crack in Time.

A couple of new Pokemon were revealed. One of them is called Type: Null and for a second I thought it was a new type of Pokemon, but it's the name of a Normal type Pokemon which looks like a Trojan Horse. There is also a cute little dragon with the very anime-like name of Jangmo-o, which has the abilities Bulletproof(protecting it from damage from multi-hit attacks) and Soundproof(negating any moves that have a sonic-quality to them like Supersonic and Sonic Boom). They also showed off a jellyfish Pokemon called "Ultra Beast: 01" without showing any type of abilities. This is a mysterious Pokemon which I am curious how it will play into the game.

Finally, for those of you who fondly remember Pokemon Snap, this game has a treat for you! You can take photos of Pokemon standing around in the games with your Poke-Finder(a part of you Pokedex) and send them to other players to be rated. I'm sure there are a lot of shutterbugs eager to start snapping away.

All in all, the new reveals have shown that Sun and Moon are not your ordinary Pokemon games and shake up the formula. I don't know what's coming after Sun and Moon - maybe a reboot of Pokemon Red and Blue in 3D? - but the future of Pokemon is looking bright... and twilit too! ;)