From Hoenn, with love.
Pokémon Pokopia is a strange little concept. It’s a life sim set in the Pokémon world where you, a humanoid Ditto, set out to rebuild a fallen civilisation with the help of your pocket monster pals. Weird, right? Where could the inspiration for that possibly have stemmed from? Uhhh, the GBA’s Pokémon Ruby & Sapphire, it seems.
Game Freak’s Shigeru Ohmori sat down with VGC at a recent Pokopia preview event in Tokyo and spilled the beans about how the project started. “When I was working on Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, I was continuously looking for new possibilities for Pokémon,” he said. “It brought me back to when I started on Ruby and Sapphire, creating those habitats and meeting the Pokémon for the first time. That led me to create the prototype for this game.”
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