3) Pokémon Sun And Moon
I thought X and Y were going to offer this series sort of fresh revision it desperately needed after so many generations, but I couldn’t have been more wrong: the weak story and lack of truly new content left me in an unprecedented sort of Poké-fatigue. After taking a break from the series for a few years, there couldn’t have been a better re-introduction for me than Pokémon Sun and Moon.
With a Hawaii-inspired setting that feels more fleshed-out and exciting than anything the franchise has seen in decades, and a number of important revisions to the central gameplay mechanics, Sun and Moon are exactly the kind of refresh that Game Freak’s storied series needed — without sacrificing everything that made the games wonderful in the first place.