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Pokopia Will Teach You to Love Pokémon Again

3/13/202650 min

Plenty of companies have torched their fortunes trying to smelt together a collection of hit games and genres, hoping to recreate others’ success. Understandably, many folks (ourselves included) approached Pokopia with a cold skepticism. A Pokémon, Animal Crossing, Minecraft, and Viva Piñata combination? It sounded too good to be  true.

Friends… they did it. Pokopia isn’t just a collection of great ideas; it’s also a wholly interesting and original thing. We can’t wait to tell you about this wonderful game. Plus, we look at Nintendo’s peculiar plan for the rest of 2026.

Get the full list of games (and other stuff) discussed at www.besties.fan. Want more episodes? Join us at patreon.com/thebesties for three bonus episodes each month!

Clips

Will Fans Hate Pokopia?
Pokemon Games Are Boring
Finally, The Game We Wanted
You Play As Ditto
Climate Collapse Subtext
Ditto’s Human Skinsuit Horror
Nintendo’s Hidden Release Slate
Sony’s Wait-And-See Strategy
Griffin’s New Book Drops

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Chris Plante· Host0:00

    Do you think Pikachu, uh, is a leader in the Madmax rebellion? Do you think he is ripping skulls out of necks? What is this Pikachu that we are now meeting- He has been- ... in the post-apocalypse ...

  2. Griffin McElroy· Host0:11

    thrown into a sphere that is used to power some of the bigger war machines.

  3. Chris Plante· Host0:18

    Huh.

  4. Griffin McElroy· Host0:18

    So he's basically just a big battery.

  5. Justin McElroy· Host0:20

    Yeah.

  6. Griffin McElroy· Host0:21

    They fight for, vie for like control of the chu.

  7. Justin McElroy· Host0:24

    Of the Pi- of the Pikachu 'Cause whoever has the chu has the power. Yeah.

  8. Chris Plante· Host0:28

    Yeah.

  9. Justin McElroy· Host0:28

    The chu's li- the chu is life.

  10. Chris Plante· Host0:30

    And how does Wa Buffett fit into this?

  11. Griffin McElroy· Host0:32

    I, I, I, I just wanna invite, uh, all the listeners in. We are in a post-apocalyptic scenario.

  12. Justin McElroy· Host0:38

    Yeah.

  13. Griffin McElroy· Host0:38

    There is a big assumption from the top- Yeah, mm-hmm ... that Pikachu is in the post-apocalypse now.

  14. Justin McElroy· Host0:45

    Yes.

  15. Griffin McElroy· Host0:45

    And so h- and so Wa Buffett is chairman of the Federal Reserve.

  16. Chris Plante· Host0:49

    Oh. Good for him.

  17. Griffin McElroy· Host0:50

    Yeah. Yeah. He's the chairperson of Berkshire Hathaway. Um, and he's still out there doing his thing, wobbling around, um- Shaking it. Shaking it For the money ... shaking his, shaking that dirty thing, and, um- That's where Pikachu's been all- Editorializing with the dirtiness.

  18. Justin McElroy· Host1:07

    And- Yeah.

  19. Chris Plante· Host1:08

    And Coughing is the head of the EPA.

  20. Justin McElroy· Host1:10

    Coughing.

  21. Griffin McElroy· Host1:11

    Coughing is head of EPA, um, and I've got salad for everybody. So it's like really on this kind of like s- sliding scale of apocalypses, I do think this one's not bad.

  22. Chris Plante· Host1:23

    It's kinda going okay, right?

  23. Griffin McElroy· Host1:24

    It's kinda going all right, 'cause you can get salad so fucking fast and easy. It's like not an issue.

  24. Justin McElroy· Host1:29

    Yeah. Salad's

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