I'm probably less hyped than I was for XY, though I don't really recall what my hype level was then. I had been feeling somewhat burnt out from Pokemon through the latter part of gen V, but I liked the idea of a 3DS Pokemon game. The thing that actually got me really hyped for XY was the availability of the Kanto starters early in the game. Nostalgia kicked in, and I got really excited about Blastoise returning to my team, especially after the no-old-Pokemon experience of BW. In the end, I was disappointed by the lack of new Pokemon, relatively speaking, and I thought the pacing on the game was poor, and wished there was more post game, yet somehow, I enjoyed it a lot more than I had enjoyed several previous generations.
I've been feeling pretty ambivalent about Sun and Moon until this week. I had been really excited about the RBY re-releases, but after playing through Red and starting on Blue, my energy started to fizzle a bit. I also started spending time contemplating getting a Wii U, and then looking into NX news, and feeling somewhat saddened by Nintendo's relatively poorer performance outside of Pokemon. I had spent a lot of time breeding on X, but with a new generation looming, I didn't really see the point anymore, as everything would be made obsolete anyway (and I also burnt myself out on breeding in December/January, when I agreed to way too large a trade for my own good, and it took tens of hours of my time to breed everything I needed thanks to bad luck). Mainly, I just wanted GSC re-releases on VC, and GF wasn't doing anything to make that come true. Plus, the fall seemed really far away, and I felt like I would never get there.
Now, though, I'm suddenly feeling a lot more psyched about Sun and Moon. I still worry about whether GF will "simplify" the games in a way that messes up the competitive scene, or simply makes the games feel more like cell phone games designed for people with an attention span of two minutes or less, but I'm happy with what I've seen so far. I don't dislike the starters, and I like the Hawaiian theme and the return of customization. (I just hope we'll be able to change more than shirt color, as I'm not that wild about the protagonist's current design; he seems a little too much like the Japanese kid in the trailer, with different hair colors.) I'm also happy with the November release date. While I might prefer October, I'm pleased it isn't December, as this way, I can play it over Thanksgiving, hopefully, and I'll have time to make some progress on it before my life gets too crazy in December. I think my hype will probably grow as I learn more about the games, and it's certainly grown a lot in the past couple of days, so we'll see if it passes my XY hype in the weeks to come.
