Do you think Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon are gonna keep the Island Challenge or replace them with gyms?
Personally, I think they're gonna keep the trials, it was uniquely built for the region and the entire game revolves around them.
Whole routes are designed around the trial sites, half the random npcs talk about their own time taking on the trials, Hau's entire character arc depends on them since he wants to outgrow the shadow of being the Kahunas grandson, and Kukui's goal throughout the game and his motivation for building the League is for Alola's traditions to be recognized all over the world
I do think we are getting gyms but in the postgame, perhaps we'll build them ourselves and assign the trial captains to them like a secret base system
>>32882674
>this pasta
>thinking trials will only be in a single game set when the generation has two sets
They'll probably remove trials in Gen 8, but there's no way they aren't in USM.
>>32882680
I hope they keep the system in Gen 8 but theme it around the region
Like if it's based of Greece call it the Heroes Labors or if its based of Brazil call them Jungle Expiditions or something like that, even if the game mechanic itself is literally just gyms
It adds so much flavor
USUM will just painfully crush everything SM did in its story to guilt trip the "I'll skip the beta just play the final release" folk with literally everyone being worse off for the MC not being there for the original SM story