POKEMON POKOPIA
Next up, we have a brand new venture by the Pokemon company into other genres, and a very successful one at that. Pokopia is sorta like a fusion of Life Simulation games like Animal Crossing, with the blocky worldbuilding aspects of Minecraft, all blended together with Pokemon and a post-human dystopia story similar to Wall-E. It's a really weird blend, but at the end of the day, a really fun one.
You play as a Ditto left behind on Earth after all the humans mysteriously abandoned it. The Ditto takes on a blobby sort of form based on their old trainer and then proceeds to start rebuilding a new world with the help of other Pokemon around it, occasionally adopting abilities from other Pokemon to help it do its worldbuilding, including Water Gun, Leafage, Cut, Rock Smash, Rototiller, Camouflage, Surf, Strength, Rollout, Glide, Waterfall, Magnet Rise, as well as Headbutt, Stockpile, Spit Out, Jump, and a vacuuming ability, all of which the Ditto can just kinda do.
Though most of the other characters in the game are just regular Pokemon, we did get a handful of "character mons," which are mostly just the regular species but with some little aspect that makes them standout as an individual. These include Professor Tangrowth, a sickly pale Pikachu named Peakychu, a Snorlax that slept so long it became covered in moss named Mosslax, a paint-covered Smeargle named Smearguru, a Rotom in a boombox named DJ Rotom, a Greedent chef named Chef Dente, and a Tinkaton with a swiss-army hammer named Tinkmaster.
Locations in the world include the Withered Wastelands, Bleak Beach, Rocky Ridges, Sparkling Skylands, and Palette Town, as well as some new areas from the yesterday-revealed-and-released DLC pack, including Bubbly Basin, Dream Islands, and Cloud Islands.
Here's what we've got so far:
Characters:
All new Pokemon
Paxton/Harmony, also maybe Taunie/Urbain as echoes?
Pokopian Ditto
Trainer System:
Florian
Juliana
Paxton
Harmony
Nemona
Arven
Penny
Taunie
Urbain
Clavell
Professor Sada
Professor Turo
Jacq
Tyme
Salvatore
Raifort
Dendra
Saguaro
Hassel
Miriam
Lida
Naveen
Jett
Vinnie
Katy
Brassius
Iono
Kofu
Larry
Ryme
Tulip
Grusha
Rika
Poppy
Geeta
Tarragon
Canari
Gwynn
Ivor
Philippe
Corbeau
Lebanne
Jacinthe
Griselle
Grisham
Giacomo
Mela
Atticus
Ortega
Eri
Billy
O'Nare
Briar
Carmine
Kieran
Perrin
Cyrano
Crispin
Lacey
Amarys
Drayton
Ansha
Stages:
Naranja/Uva Academy
Area Zero
Other Paldean areas
Kitakami
Blueberry Academy
Pokemon Sleep stage?
Denis Mansion
Southern Ruins
Pokemon Protection Bureau
Bamboo Borough
Pokemon Unity Lab
TCG Pocket stage?
Lumiose City
Hotel Z
Quasartico Inc.
Prism Tower
Mega Dimension
Withered Wastelands
Bleak Beach
Rocky Ridges
Sparkling Skylands
Palette Town
Bubbly Basin
Dream Islands
Cloud Islands
Thanks for reading! Next up, we have one major game left, and then we can call ourselves the Champions of Gen IX!





