This text incorporates gentle location and story spoilers from Pokémon Pokopia. If you wish to benefit from the sport utterly recent, it’s possible you’ll wish to simply learn our assessment.
As an enormous fan of post-apocalyptic media and catastrophe motion pictures, I’ve at all times yearned for a sport, TV present or film that reveals you what occurs after all of the unhealthy stuff occurs. Fallout is shut, however it’s set in another future and so they’re clearly by no means getting their shit collectively. The Final of Us? Properly, that’s clear they’re additionally not likely going again both. Then there’s motion pictures, all the good things both reveals the catastrophe, which rising up within the 90s there was no scarcity of to get pleasure from, however the film at all times ends when the White Home begins getting rebuilt or there’s an enormous track over the credit and “we’ll rebuild”.
Yeah, that’s the half I wish to see and do!
Now I’m certain there’s some media on the market that does this, I haven’t watched each film or TV present ever, however nothing I’ve discovered up to now has come near scratching that itch as a lot as Pokémon Pokopia.
A sport that after I first noticed it, I truthfully didn’t give it some thought a lot, however the extra we realized about it, and the extra I’ve performed it, that is the sport I’ve been on the lookout for presumably all my life.
Pokémon Pokopia, like hundreds of thousands of others, has hooked me in, and perhaps not simply for a similar causes as everybody else. There’s the addictive gameplay loop, the cute characters and writing, and there’s the entire with the ability to play one thing with my daughter with no fight in it.
However I feel it’s the sport being set within the post-apocalyptic area of Kanto that’s doing it for me. It’s not one thing that’s spelled out on the field, it’s not within the sport till hours in, and till you begin piecing it collectively, till you see that rotting SS Anne in what stays of Vermilion Metropolis, that all of it hyperlinks up. Seeing the Pokémon Fan Membership in ruins, with the Pokédolls nonetheless there, as effectively, that was a second.
The sport makes it apparent early on that the people have left, however it’s not clear instantly precisely the place you’re or that you simply’ve been right here earlier than. The sport’s maps are primarily based round cities and areas from Kanto, and the sport hides that for some time. Ultimately you begin studying extra about what’s happening, and I gained’t spoil that, however the extra you play the extra you see what went down, and that’s how the sport has bought me. I have to know what occurred, and you realize what, if the silly people gained’t come again then me, Ditto, goes to rebuild the world of their picture, however higher.
For 30 years we’ve been utilizing Pokémon in battles and trades, however right here on their very own they’re their very own folks, and like when your mother and father get outdated, it’s time to take care of them.
I haven’t completed the sport but, with a wholesome schedule of different video games to assessment and life typically, it’d take me some time to complete the story, however I feel I can piece it collectively, and even since beginning this text I’ve come throughout many extra “oh crap, it’s that” moments.
I by no means thought a Pokémon sport can be the piece of media to lastly give me the sensation of rebuilding a post-apocalyptic world. However right here we’re.
