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Pokopia is Pokemon’s own cozy game. It follows the likes of Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley, letting you set up an idyllic little town for your Pokemon, by building various structures, farms, activity centres, and anything else a town filled with ‘Mons would need. However, fans have a dark conspiracy theory about it.
The reveal trailer heavily hinted that humans have been missing for a while. Ditto opens up its own Pokeball in what looked like an abandoned house and finds the owner’s old Pokedex. Other Pokemon also showed signs of the passage of time, with moss and overgrowth everywhere. This led to theories that Pokopia is set in a post-apocalyptic world where humans may be long gone. However, a recent leak may have just confirmed this.
Pokopia Is Set In Post-Apocalyptic Kanto
As spotted by Kotaku, a leaked map of Pokopia has revealed that it’s set in the Kanto region, but it has been overrun by the elements. The leak was translated by reliable source Centro Leaks, revealing the status of each area in Kano, and they’ve all been affected with things you usually see in post-apocalyptic settings.
Pokemon Pokopia seems like an easy slam dunk for Nintendo, so why has it taken them so long to make a game like it?
For instance, the Fuscha area is a “Dried up and unfertilized fieldland”, while the Vermillion area has “Constant raining electrical harbor”. However, the most damning of these is the Saffron area, which features a “Bunch of buildings covered with plants.” Things get even worse in the DLC areas, as they include “A flooded city that has hidden treasure” and a “Rotten tower that reaches heaven.”
Add all this to the fact that there’s no human in sight and it feels like some terrible tragedy occurred in Kanto that either forced them all to leave, or much worse. Of course, the trailer for the game doesn’t say anything about this at all, keeping the tone as happy and jovial as always. Perhaps Pokopia will feature lore items that will tell us what exactly happened to the world.
One thing’s for certain though, once the humans are gone, Pokemon will rule the world.
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