Pikatwo.
If Pokémon Pokopia isn’t in my top five games of 2026 come December, we will have had an astonishing four months. At launch, this game had me in a chokehold and refused to let me go until I found myself weeping at its finale. It’s heartwarming and creative and immensely popular, so much so that a sequel feels inevitable. But I don’t know that I really want a ‘Pokopia 2’.
This is a thought that sprang to mind as I dove into the Bubbly Basin DLC last week. The expansion is excellent, tweaking some small niggles I had with the gameplay (storage doesn’t entirely drive me up the wall anymore) and throwing in an entirely new biome for me to enter with big dreams before inevitably abandoning my aspirations down the line after three hours of laying paths.
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