sundrop island

Pro tip: once you've completed the SS zone? Use Tink in all further building projects. "It will be done tomorrow" becomes "one hour, no prablem" and "fifteen minutes" becomes "five minutes, easy peasy".

My favorite thing about pokopia is that sometimes the pokemon are so dumb the narrator needs to interject and clarify just how dumb what theyre saying is

I'm twoish hours into Pokopia and I'm having a lot of feelings about your trainer having a Ditto sticker on their Pokedex.

It's sad and hilarious that the answer to the central mystery of Pokopia is laid out plain and clear in writing in the text of the game, but the protagonist is illiterate

Idk it's just there was a kid who loved this ditto so much even though it couldn't transform properly like the one thing dittos are supposed to do that when it woke up alone somewhere completely unfamiliar it immediately transformed into them. It helped rebuild Kanto like how humans would have. We don't know what happened to this kid for all we know they're long dead but their love meant so much to Ditto that it became the reason humans and pokemon might one day find each other again. Does that not make anybody else fucking ill

I keep losing my mind over Pokopia as a story of grief. Your trainer lives on in you & your chosen appearance. Professor Tangrowth wears the glasses of his professor. We adapt to the technology of our trainers who are long gone. We survive without them, but their history lives on in how we rebuild the world.

pokopia has really been making me realize just how *good* post-apocalyptic stories can be if done right. so many go for this hyperviolent doom and gloom kinda vibe, which is not inherently a bad thing and has its own place, but i really like the kind of... peaceful post-apocalypse that pokopia has. there were people here, once, but it's been so long and they're not coming back. all of the pokemon in this game keep talking about how if they just make the world a little better, if they just rebuild the houses and replant the flowers maybe the people they love will come back and they'll see them again. but they won't. (well, i haven't finished the game yet, but it's not really my belief that they *will*.) at one point, yes, the volcano buried pewter city in ash, and floods wiped out viridian city, but now there's nothing but ruins and cleanup and hope that things will be better, eventually. and bit by bit you make them better. idk i really like this game guys

Shower thought: The possibility that Pokopia is a prequel to PMD creates a fantastic parallel between PMD's protag being a human transformed into a Pokemon and Pokopia's protag being a Pokemon transformed into a human

I think it’s very funny that legends arceus had the premise of “we’re hundreds of years in the past and people are JUST starting to learn how to live alongside pokemon” and then legends za is current day or future and people are still trying to figure out how to live alongside pokemon. Yeah, some are just AROUND the city but the majority have to be kept in fenced areas. And then pokopia comes along like “yeah…..the humans are gone. We don’t know what happened. The whole region is in ruins, and we’re putting this ditto in charge of building everything back up.” Guess we didn’t figure it out.

I think one of my favorite things about Pokopia is how well it uses everyone's familiarity with Kanto to just have really effective moments through just exploring Like just going around and suddenly realizing you're in the Psychic type gym or the Pokémon Fan Club and just wondering what happened... Like It just hits really hard and I like it a lot