What do you get when you combine the crunchiest bits from a mainstream game like Minecraft, the social virility of a series like Animal Crossing, and the cultural heft of a franchise like Pokémon? A video game poised to take over the world, at least on paper. Sure, Pokémon Pokopia has been reviewed extremely well prior to release, with a Metacritic score that technically deems it the highest-rated Pokémon game of all time. It’s one thing to read about what makes Pokopia so good, though, another to see it in action. Few are equipped to highlight that gap like the developers of Pokémon Pokopia, who recently uploaded footage of the bases they built in the life sim.
The video features four developers from the multiple entities that made Pokopia possible: Kanako Murata from The Pokémon Company, Takuto Edagawa from Koei Tecmo, Shigeru Ohmori from Game Freak, and Marina Ayano from Koei Tecmo. The first section begins humbly enough, with a tour from Ayano through her Pokémon gym-themed area. Here we get a quick glimpse of some of the social mechanics, like emotes and special animations that happen when players run around with one another.
