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Get to know different Pokémon and learn their moves to create a cozy home in Pokémon Pokopia. Read on to learn how it plays, what it's about, and everything else we know so far.
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Pokémon Pokopia Gameplay
Pokémon Pokopia is a cozy life-simulation game featuring Pokémon in various shapes and sizes. Players control a Ditto, a Pokémon that can transform and imitate the moves of its peers, which uses its powers to build, terraform, farm, and cook on the island. Moreover, it can also craft items and furniture to place in the environment or inside a home.
Creating Habitats
Using Ditto’s powers, players can help shape up the island’s environment and decorate or place items to make it habitable to certain Pokémon. For example, placing a fishing rod and a chair by the seashore will spawn a Magikarp. The console’s time can also affect when Pokémon may appear, so players can check which part of the day it is likely to spawn.
Learning Moves
As Ditto encounters more Pokémon, they’ll be more than willing to teach it their moves. With the move Water Gun, players can revitalize dried-up ground, shrubs, and tree trunks to restore greenery to an area. They can also use other moves to make tall grass, punch through terrain, till fields, grow crops, cut through wood, and create more materials.
Navigation Moves
Each Pokémon can teach Ditto special moves to traverse around the world faster and reach farther places. Lapras will teach it how to swim across bodies of water, while Dragonite will teach it how to fly around.
Follow Me and Build
Pokémon can also help Ditto with other duties, like watering plants, helping crops grow, or lighting up street lamps. Ditto can also request a number of Pokémon to follow it around when certain buildings need to be built. Players can also work with several Pokémon to construct structures like houses and fountains.
Crafting Items
Using a workbench, players can craft items using materials they gathered. With this crafting system, it is possible to create various furniture, decorations, streetlights, and even roads.
Dialogue and Quests
Pokémon will have various requests, with some asking the player to build certain things, like roads and Pokémon Centers, or helping them out of sticky situations that require clearing a path. Doing so can help increase the Pokémon’s happiness and comfort on the island.
Players may see a speech bubble above a Pokémon, and by talking to each of them, you can help Ditto discover new things, though certain requests may require the assistance of other Pokémon as well.
Player Co-op
In Pokopia, players can also experience either solo or co-op game modes. The main host can hold a session and invite their friends to join their island for some crafting and decorating. It is important to note that anything crafted during this period will be obtained by the host.
Photo Mode
Players can take pictures at any time, whether to commemorate newly completed buildings or to snap a selfie with other Pokémon. It seems that both players and Pokémon can select different expressions to make when taking a picture.
Player Customization
Ditto’s appearance can also be customized, with options for hairstyles and hair color, as well as different apparel, all of which can be mixed and matched. Certain outfits and hairstyles that hark back to characters from previous Pokémon games can also be found in the game, such as player characters, rivals, gym leaders, and trainer classes.
Home Decoration
Players can decorate their homes with furniture and items, as well as move them around. Different wallpaper and flooring can also be used to change the aesthetic of the house.
Pokémon Pokopia Story Plot
Pokémon Pokopia Story
After what seems to be a long period of time, a Ditto decided to finally come out of its Pokéball, only to find itself alone in a cave. After finding an, albeit partially obscured, picture of its trainer, it transformed into them and made its way out.
It meets Professor Tangrowth, who has not seen a single human or Pokémon for forever. Agreeing to help the professor, the Ditto determined to restore the island to the former Pokémon paradise it used to be.
Pokémon Pokopia features a story campaign that unfolds through progress on top of its sandbox gameplay. Various scenarios will be delivered via requests from Pokémon, like rebuilding structures like Pokémon Centers or making more roads. It was confirmed that the campaign will last 20-40 hours, but more gameplay content will continue to be introduced even after players see the end credits sequence.
Pokémon Pokopia Setting
Pokopia is set on a desolate island long abandoned by humans and Pokémon. It has not been confirmed where the island is located, though there are several callbacks to the region Kanto, such as the reuse of the first-generation Pokédex design, the road pattern from Fuschia City, or remixes of the soundtrack used in Pokémon Red, Blue, Green, and Yellow, which took place in this region.
Pokémon Pokopia Characters
Ditto
At the heart of the game is the player as Ditto, who dons the appearance of its former Trainer and can use human tools. It uses its powers to restore and revitalize a desolate land, transforming it into a cozy utopia for Pokémon. Abilities include imitating the moves of other Pokémon, as well as inhaling objects and storing them in its body for later use.
Professor Tangrowth
Professor Tangrowth was the only remaining Pokémon before Ditto arrived. He serves as the player's primary guide, akin to the human professors in other Pokémon games. His elderly, scholarly appearance sets him apart from other Tangrowth.
Peakychu
Peakychu is a Pikachu variant who sacrificed her electricity to help her sick friends, leaving her pale and drained of her spark.
Mosslax
Mosslax is another Pokémon unique to the game, a variant of Snorlax. After losing a fight, it tried to sleep off its bad mood, but during its prolonged slumber, moss gradually grew all over its body.
Smearguru
Smearguru is a Smeargle covered in red, blue, green, and yellow paint. Its role in the game is to repaint furniture with new colors or designs.
DJ Rotom
DJ Rotom is a Rotom who entered a stereo system and chose to remain there after being inspired by the synth-pop CD left inside. Its new typings are Normal and Electric, compared to the original Rotom's Electric and Ghost.
Chef Dente
Chef Dente is a special Greedent in Pokémon Pokopia. It teaches the player new cooking recipes, which can be consumed to enhance move potency or offered as gifts to other Pokémon.
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