Played this after having not played Alola games in 7 years, given how I played the original Moon back in 2016 when it first launched. Couldn't really find what made this game so "ultra" compared to it either, but it's still fun nonetheless.

If I recall correctly, this game (and its counterpart) was marketed as an "alternate" story to the original games, which just really isn't the case for the first 90% of the game. After that, towards the end of the game you see the villain from the base games become more of a non-character in place of having a Pokémon as the main baddie for this game. That's really about it with the differences for this game, other than a few minor tweaks here and there.

There were definitely tiny gameplay adjustments, however, and other just fun side stuff that weren't present in the original games. I really liked having to collect the Totem stickers, as there were more tangible and usable rewards instead of Zygarde forms like the original games.

Solid game, just almost the exact same hand-holding tutorial of a game from 2016. :)

Backloggd is dumb once again and won't let me rank quarters of stars to pretend this is a 3.25/5.