It’s barely been a month, and Pokémon Pokopia fans have begun making some truly impressive creations, showcasing why the game has sold so well.
Given its similarities to Minecraft, Pokémon Pokopia was bound to get players’ creative juices flowing once it launched. Almost a whole month has passed since then and while we expected plenty of detailed structures, fans have gone above and beyond even that.
One fan on Reddit was able to build an underwater tunnel, which we didn’t realise was even possible, although they confess that the process saw them drown multiple times.
Others, however, have gone to the effort of constructing entire cities, including recreations of ones from completely different games.
This week, Ennoki on YouTube revealed he built Raccoon City, the setting of Resident Evil 2, which returned, in a ruined state, in Resident Evil Requiem.
At first, we thought Ennoki’s effort just looked like a spooky city, but there’s actually very detailed recreations of the police station and the railway system.
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They even built an underground lab but rather than horrible zombie experiments, Ennoki has just trapped Hitmonlee in a glass prison to play with a slide and toy blocks.
In another twist, the deepest part of the lab contains a pink, girlish bedroom that’s populated by cute, feminine pokémon like Gardevoir and Meowscarada… although it takes on a different connotation if you’re familiar with those pokémon’s reputation in certain corners of the internet.
Another Youtuber, moyashi, went to the effort of recreating Rito Village from The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild, complete with the giant rocky structure on top and a replica of the divine beast Vah Medoh, which floats above it in the sky.
No doubt they used the Magnemite transformation to do this, since you can fly and still place down blocks in that form. Fittingly, they’ve populated the village with bird pokémon such as Dartrix and Pidgeotto.
PhallusDei on Reddit has decided to keep things much closer to home and has tried rebuilding the entire landscape to how it must’ve looked before the events of Pokémon Pokopia left it a barren wasteland, showing off incredibly detailed cities that likely took hours to make.
Their work has been met with adulation, particularly from those who had the same idea, with PhallusDei offering advice and explaining how they went about it.
When one Redditor asked how they approached reconstructing the destroyed buildings, for example, PhallusDei explained, ‘The only difference is the height of the buildings, collapsed top floors made it impossible to determine how tall the building was. I did my best to restore everything to its original state.’
It’s this sort of creativity that goes to show precisely why Pokémon Pokopia has been so popular, with Nintendo announcing it had sold 2.2 million copies in its first four days.
Not only that, but it’s reportedly encouraged more people into buying a Nintendo Switch 2, although we won’t hear of any official figures until Nintendo’s next financial report.
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