Arachnid
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I actually had a question about that. His post made me actively want to play animal crossing lmfao. I wanted a little stress.Anxiety?
Animal crossing?
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Pokémon Pokopia |OT| Nintendo: "Animal Crossing" Omega Force: "Ditto!"
DarkShadowXI
Gold Member
lol, there's no stress in Animal Crossing, unless you manufacture the stress yourself?
I get overwhelmed and stressed with Pokopia.
There is SO much to do, but they do give you some direction.
the playtest Nintendo had last year...that wasn't this game was it?
... because it also had a 'blocky' minecraft-esque environment.
It didn't have any references to pokemon. and the graphics were pretty abstract. But perhaps it was testing some aspect of this game? I doubt it but ...
... because it also had a 'blocky' minecraft-esque environment.
It didn't have any references to pokemon. and the graphics were pretty abstract. But perhaps it was testing some aspect of this game? I doubt it but ...
Arachnid
Member
Yeah, that's up my alley. Comfortable but with a huge amount of tasks I can prioritize/try to streamline sounds fun. Thanks again dude
Are you getting what you wanted out of it?
Deerock71
Very Poor Hoice of Wor
So the game sold 2.2 million units in the opening week-end, almost half of that in Japan alone.
News Release : Mar. 12, 2026 "Global Sales of Pokémon Pokopia for Nintendo Switch 2 Surpass 2.2 Million in First Four Days"
Press release of Nintendo Co., Ltd.www.nintendo.co.jp
Nintendoomed at its finest.
I mean...the world's going to end eventually, right?
DarkShadowXI
Gold Member
Happy to help!
If it had combat, then I would definitely get a lot more out of it. I'm a casual Pokemon fan and this hits that vibe well.
I feel like I'm finally starting to get the gameplay loop down, now that I understand how the Pokemon habitats work. You basically need to build a new home for Pokemon to free up the habitats (or make more habitats).
I play for maybe 30-60 minutes a day. It's good enough for me to poke around in, no pun intended lol
My wife will probably play it the rest of the year. I'd be surprised if I'm still playing next month, but I bounce around games a lot. I went into this being happy getting 10-20 hours out of it
Touch fuzZy. get BizZay
Member
Loving the game but somethings really bothering me. Sometimes you get data on the habitat of a rare pokemon. So you start collecting the things needed to create their rare habitat, planning where you'd like to set them up when you finally have all the pieces, that sort of thing. But then suddenly before you can acquire everything needed they just appear in a random tuft of grass. What's up with that? What's the point of these special habitats if they just show up eventually anyway?
andreacusi
Member
10 hours into the game, it's quite good. I would hover around an 8.5.
It's massive and does a lot of things well. It's lacking some fun mini-game mechanics in my opinion (or maybe they will arrive later?)
Some things are really bothering me tho:
1. The map doesn't show my storage boxes location. I swear to god i can not find the first storage box I've built and i've spent an hour looking for it.
2. You can not zoom into the map. All the information is just crumbled into one tiny mess.
3. You can not pinpoint specific locations you want to travel to, it's quite hard sometimes to find my way around levels.
4. Sometimes i place a construction site, fill the items, call in the Pokémons to build, only to have a message pop up saying "there's no space to build here". Why wouldn't it tell me that before ?
I hope they add some of these quality of life's improvements soon !
It's massive and does a lot of things well. It's lacking some fun mini-game mechanics in my opinion (or maybe they will arrive later?)
Some things are really bothering me tho:
1. The map doesn't show my storage boxes location. I swear to god i can not find the first storage box I've built and i've spent an hour looking for it.
2. You can not zoom into the map. All the information is just crumbled into one tiny mess.
3. You can not pinpoint specific locations you want to travel to, it's quite hard sometimes to find my way around levels.
4. Sometimes i place a construction site, fill the items, call in the Pokémons to build, only to have a message pop up saying "there's no space to build here". Why wouldn't it tell me that before ?
I hope they add some of these quality of life's improvements soon !
DarkShadowXI
Gold Member
This game definitely needs a lot of quality of life improvements! I'm playing 30 minutes a day because of it.
DarkShadowXI
Gold Member
Unfortunately, I haven't really figured out how to play coop, actually.
My stubborn wife is still watering the entire world, even though I told her it's going to rain
She doesn't even have a Pokecenter built yet, so we're nowhere close to playing coop yet. I'll be moved onto other games by then.
I can relate to this. Like isnt nintendo aimed at children? Meanwhile a 35 year old that has played tons of games all it's life had to google how to play coop in animal crossing.
Start the game, create your island, close the game, change profile, open the game solo with saod profile, move to same island. Now you can play together.
Even then i had to google it again. I mean it's fine to have your menus be thematic like the call resident being the invite option, but at first glance grabbing your game phone to call someone sounds like some sort of chat feature, or something for online coop. Not like the join local game option.
DarkShadowXI
Gold Member
Oh yeah, for sure. I tried playing Animal Crossing with my wife a few times and it was annoying enough to where I was like "naaah"
Arachnid
Member
This game has been consuming my time like crazy.
No one told me it was a stand type game.
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DarkShadowXI
for some reason it's not letting me quote you. I'm in the same boat. I know I'll play the living hell out of it this month but probably not so much next month. I'm tearing through and I'm in the 4th habitat right now. All said and done, I think I'll get around 60-70 hours out of it, but I doubt I'll come back to it unless theres an xpac or combat update. It was definitely worth it.
No one told me it was a stand type game.
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DarkShadowXI
for some reason it's not letting me quote you. I'm in the same boat. I know I'll play the living hell out of it this month but probably not so much next month. I'm tearing through and I'm in the 4th habitat right now. All said and done, I think I'll get around 60-70 hours out of it, but I doubt I'll come back to it unless theres an xpac or combat update. It was definitely worth it.
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mrpants
Member
Welcome to the same boat club!This game has been consuming my time like crazy.
No one told me it was a stand type game.
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touchfuzzy
Gold Member
This has reignited my almost completely dead interest in Pokemon and I ordered Legends Arceus today due to it being on sale.
RaptorGTA
Member
This
It def made me wanna go and play the previous titles. Make me interested in the next coming game.
idk about anyone..but that peakychu mission for the utility poles and light took me way longer to do then it should have.
LyricalShrike
Member
I "beat" the game. I didn't realize there was going to be an ending with credits and all.
IDKFA
I am Become Bilbo Baggins
Is that after the credits? Back to title screen and forced to start a new game, or can you carry on with your world?
LyricalShrike
Member
Carry on after the credits with a neat little final discovery.
calistan
Member
This is great! I was going to skip it because I prefer to buy Nintendo games on cartridge, and this being a key card, etc, but it's the first game that makes me glad I got a Switch 2.
Minor criticisms:
1. It's a big miss not to have Animal Crossing-style multiplayer in this.
2. The limited inventory is annoying. I have storage boxes full of crap, and have to check them all to see if I have a particular resource. When I collect a resource it should be added to an infinite crafting pool, not stored as if it was a physical thing (which makes no sense anyway - one item takes as much space as 99 of them).
Minor criticisms:
1. It's a big miss not to have Animal Crossing-style multiplayer in this.
2. The limited inventory is annoying. I have storage boxes full of crap, and have to check them all to see if I have a particular resource. When I collect a resource it should be added to an infinite crafting pool, not stored as if it was a physical thing (which makes no sense anyway - one item takes as much space as 99 of them).
DarkShadowXI
Gold Member
Just saw the end credits. About 40 hours in.
What a fantastic game! I don't usually like games like this, but it was an awesome journey and the ending made me tear up a bit.
What a fantastic game! I don't usually like games like this, but it was an awesome journey and the ending made me tear up a bit.
Darko
Member
I thought there was only one large area in this game to manage.. boy was i wrong.... i haven't been to withered wasteland in days and ive played it allot lol
would be cool if it was infinite tho
I just buy the bag upgrades
would be cool if it was infinite tho
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calistan
Member
The best solution I've found to the limited inventory space is to have only one crafting station in each area, and surround it with large storage boxes, which you fill with all your crap. Anything in the boxes is available at that workbench, as long as they're touching it.I just buy the bag upgrades
Still doesn't solve the problem of needing bricks, finding the resource, finding a Pokemon that can make them (slowly), and later finding that you had 100s of them in a box from 20 hours ago.
The final upgrade makes building and replicating items very simple. Took me 55 hours to get there, though.
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