This feels very much like a redo of sun/moon structurally, and it both improves and worsens what those games did. Wild area is much more fun to explore than any of the Alola routes, despite the big stink made before release this game looks fantastic when it wants to, and the changes to the gym challenge make it much more exciting than the trials Alola had. However, the biggest failing in comparison to gen 7 is the story, where I simply could not bring myself to care about what happened here past a certain point. Overall I would say I preferred this to moon but it's very close.