Pokémon Pokopia devs prove the Switch 2 game can take over the world

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.