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hey everyone welcome back to the chibi trainer
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pokemon podcast where we talk all things pokemon
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from the games to the tcg and Thank you for returning.
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Hello again. Thank you so much for coming back.
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Thank you to the new subscribers as well. Thank
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you for all the new listens. It's been great
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to kind of see the podcast, kind of, even without
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the episodes going up, still see some. some listens,
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some downloads. We've seen a lot of activity.
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It was like plus 200 % like on normal, even without
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me putting out like weekly episodes during the
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move, during the break, during every like normal
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life kind of thing, which is really, really great.
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Actually, that was that was fantastic. So thank
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you so much for the support anyway. And yeah,
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thank you for joining me on the newer venture
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of this podcast. But now, today's episode is
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all about something that's been getting a lot
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of attention recently, from myself included.
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I am... I... I... I know I'm addicted to this,
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but it feels like there's so much we don't understand
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about it yet, and it is Pocopia. Now, Pocopia
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is the new game for the Nintendo Switch 2, and
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if you don't know, we'll go through that later
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on, but depending on how the game plays out...
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I think Pokopia might actually be one of the
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most important Pokemon releases we've seen for
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a long time. And I think it could really define
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what Pokemon looks like for the years to come.
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Now in this episode, we're going to break down
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what Pokopia actually is, what makes it different,
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and whether or not this could be a glimpse into
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the future of Pokemon games. I think there's
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a lot to unpack with Pokopia. I don't think it's
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something that is a standalone. It could be.
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But I think we've got a lot more to unpack here,
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so let's dive into today's episode, and subscribe
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if you aren't already, and let's dive in. All
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right, so before we dive into today's topic of
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Pokeopia, let's take a quick look at what's been
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happening in the Pokemon world. This is the Pokemon
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news for this week. So we've got a lot of little
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updates going on. We've got the next set for
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Pokemon TCG Pocket. Now, I love the Pokemon TCG
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Pocket app. It's probably next to Instagram,
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next to TikTok, probably my most used app. And
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I love the idea that you can kind of just enjoy
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the TCG, enjoy the art without actually spending
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any money. That's a great win. You can obviously
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spend money. I don't. I just enjoy the free version
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of everything when it comes to things like this.
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Just because, you know, it's an expensive hobby
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anyway, you know. But the article on Pokemon,
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the UK website, says, Get ready to battle with
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new Pokemon and support cards debuting in Pokemon
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Trading Card Game Pocket. The latest expansion,
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Pulsing Aura, launches on Monday, April 27th,
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2026 at 6pm PDT. So that is 2pm on the day of
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release in the UK. But this, I am recording this
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actually on the day of release, but it's not
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actually... We're past that time. It's not actually
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on the app yet, which is super bizarre. So they
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might be having a little bit of an issue. But
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look forward to the debut of Mega Lucario EX,
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Mega Sceptile EX and a variety of Pokemon known
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to train hard for those crucial moments in battle.
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New trainers known as such as Karina and Arena
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of Antiquity are coming through to give players
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the upper hand too. And it looks like some great
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cards. There's a Mega Lucario one. There's a
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Vaporeon EX as well that looks so, so good. There's
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a Kubfu illustration art, which looks absolutely
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adorable. There are also some new card styles
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with Aura Farming set of covers, backdrops featuring
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Mega Lucario, available Thursday, April the 30th.
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So there's some new stuff coming as well for
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the coming days. We've also got some new stuff
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with the release of Pulsing Aura. so this is
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starting with pulsing aura gold frames will be
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available as a type of flare for common like
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one diamond two diamond and three diamond clarity
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cards in each every each series you can automatically
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obtain a gold frame if you collect 10 of the
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same card and gold frames will be retroactively
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granted for cards that you already own 10 or
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more of so you can get this really cute like
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little gold and foil cover like frame thing it
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looks really really nice actually i always forget
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that flare is even a thing in this game so i
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don't kind of sit and retro retroactively kind
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of add that kind of stuff but it's great if you
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do it's a really nice little event new elite
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deck gift missions will be available from april
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to the end of july this new elite deck is a fire
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type deck featuring mega charizard y ex from
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queens and blaze and moltres ex from genetic
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apex we've also got some new events we've got
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a we've got like a good calendar actually of
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events which is really really cool there will
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be a myriad events that you can participate throughout
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april and may to help expand your collection
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so it says from late april to early may celebrate
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a year and a half of pokemon tcg pocket with
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the special event 2026 taken on special solo
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but take on special solo battles To obtain promo
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cards. And complete missions to get Zygarde EX.
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Accessories and more. The Zygarde EX looks so
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so cool. From April to late July. So complete
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handy card collection missions. To obtain useful
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trainer cards. That can turn the tide of battles.
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Such as May, Cyprus and Giovanni. I bet the Giovanni
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card looks awesome. Early May we can. Let's see,
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during the Community Week event, missions will
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be available where you can trade and share cards
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to obtain trade hourglasses, special accessories
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and other rewards. Then we've got early to mid
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-May, battle in the Pulsing Aura Emblem event
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to earn emblems that you can set on your player
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profile and complete missions to earn useful
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items as well. Mid to late May, so the last set
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we've got is complete solo battles to earn B
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-Series Volume 8 promo packs. During the Mega
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Heracross EX drop event. And collect Trico and
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Galay promo cards. During a Wonder Pick event.
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We hope you enjoy this. Absolute haymaker of
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an expansion trainers. So I think they're going
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a lot harder with this one. They know how popular.
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They know how popular Lucario is. And I think
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they are fully aware. Of how popular that Pokemon
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is. And I love that Pokemon. I'm not going to
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lie. I think he's really really strong. One of
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my favorites in any game, I think, to be honest.
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So a lot going on for Pokemon Team. But we've
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also got some news for TCG Pocket as well, funnily
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enough. This one is Search for Treasure during
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Sableye's Gem Hunt in Pokemon Pocopia. This one
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was rumored and it looks absolutely spot on.
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It's exactly how they kind of rumored it. Pokemon
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Pocopia is all about making new friends and the
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Sableye Gem Hunt event. brings new pokemon pal
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to your town from april 29th at 5 a .m to may
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14th 2026 4 59 local time uh that's am sableye
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will appear near rebuilt pokemon centers and
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you can befriend it to receive a request to collect
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a red crystal fragments which you can find on
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the dream island so you can head to a dream island
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with any doll and collect as many red crystal
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fragments as you can find. When you return home,
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bring those fragments to Sableye at the Pokemon
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Center to exchange them for themed items, including
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furniture, build kits, and more. As the event
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is over, Sableye will stick around your town
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with your other Pokemon friends, so much like
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the Hoppeep and Jumpluff kind of event. So they'll
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be just in your Pokedex then. They'll be around
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your town. So it looks really, really cool. I
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have to say, there's a little screenshot of what
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the items are. There's a rebuild thing. There's
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like a build kit. And I really, really, I'm itching
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to know what that build kit is. There's gem fragments.
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There's a little backpack. A, like a camping
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chair kind of thing. A lantern. Some gems that
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float above the, like, a bit like string lights
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kind of thing. A sleeping bag. A lantern, which
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I cannot wait to put in my ghost type. uh island
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that looks so so good that's gonna look so good
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on my island a little map thing and a little
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camera as well so it's very like campy camping
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vibes so it's a little bit different to what
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i thought it would be but there's so many items
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i think will look so good in like different areas
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of my island so i'm really really excited to
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kind of get on with this event sableye is a ghost
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type pokemon so i cannot wait to have sableye
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all over my at palette town if anyone does follow
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me on instagram or tiktok i'm doing a ghost type
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series where i'm turning palette town into like
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a big ghost town and usually i have like a little
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ghost area in most pokemon games and i'm turning
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the whole town or palette town whole kind of
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map into a ghost type area so if you don't already
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check that out do go check it out it's really
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really cool uh but yeah there's a lot of there's
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a lot going on they've obviously got the 30th
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anniversary still going on as well But without
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any of that, we've already kind of touched on
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it now, but let's get into Pokopia. Because this
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is where things get really interesting and super
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cosy. So what actually is Pokopia before we dive
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any further? So from what we've seen so far,
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its platform is the Switch 2. It's an interactive
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social... experimental kind of game so it's not
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a traditional mainline game for the pokemon franchise
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or series of games a little bit like animal crossing
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meets pokemon and that's exactly the kind of
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best way to describe this game it's probably
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the coziest pokemon game you'll ever play and
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it's one where you'll go on to play five minutes
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and a full day has passed i feel like i've experienced
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that so many times but it's one that i think
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is one of the most addictive pokemon games ever
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if not i think this game this gives me the exact
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same vibe and it's the exact same kind of energy
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the animal crossing gave us years ago and that
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came out just before um the 2020 lockdowns so
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you know that was at peak time really everyone
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was stuck inside playing games but this one gives
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that same kind of vibe without the lockdown if
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you if you see what i mean And I think this is
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where Pokeopia kind of stands out. It's a lot
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more immersive than, not particularly more immersive
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than a normal Pokemon game, but I feel like it
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leans a lot closer to Pokemon Go, Animal Crossing,
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and it gives you that kind of vibe where actually
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we start to see our proper impact in the game
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immediately reflected. If we're building the
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habitats for these Pokemon, how happy are they?
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do they need other stuff do they need more stuff
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to become super happy you know their happiness
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and their their life is essentially in your hands
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without being super dramatic but their hand their
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life is in your hands as a Pokemon trainer or
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as a as the player I don't get too much away
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if you've not played it yet but if you've not
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played it yet um I'm not going to give anything
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away but there is a storyline you know Animal
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Crossing doesn't particularly have a main storyline
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which is where pokemon pokopio does differ we
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have a pokemon storyline there is a quite a heartfelt
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emotional storyline to this game which i was
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really surprised that i have to be honest i did
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not think this game would have anything like
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the storyline that it does but that's a really
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nice surprise to be honest it's a really nice
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surprise to kind of have that undercurrent of
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This character's here for this reason. This character's
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here for this reason. And you're doing this because
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of this. You know, there's a really nice edge
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to it and a really nice idea to it. I think there's
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something super interesting with Pokopio. We've
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seen a lot of events. This is the second event
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that we've mentioned, which is the Sableye event.
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And it comes actually not long after the Jumpluff
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event. I think that's... interesting are we going
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to see like an event a month potentially that
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could be really cool i like the idea of an event
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a month i think that would be really cool right
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now there's a little event for um the jump rope
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event for bulbasaur so you can earn like a little
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trophy you can earn some little berries things
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like that it kind of keeps it fresh it's been
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out two months nearly now and You know, I think
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Pokemon know that sometimes games can get a little
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bit of, a little bit either intimidating or they
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can get a little bit, okay, I'm done now. I'm
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kind of done. I've got no other kind of aim now.
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But I think with these events, it's immediately
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going to bring you back. You kind of need to
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come back to get Sableye. You have to do this
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timed event and then you'll kind of get more
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addicted to it because you're doing stuff. You
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know, they know what they're doing. They know
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exactly what to do. They know what they're doing
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with us. But I also wonder, how does Pokemon
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evolve this? If you pardon the pun, how do they
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evolve this game even further? We've got the
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base of the game. It's based in Kanto. And we've
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got a mix of generational Pokemon. We've got
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a real mix of Pokemon. It's based in Kanto, essentially.
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But it's not actually... only Kanto Pokemon,
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and I'm really happy for that, you know, I, don't
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get me wrong, I love the Kanto Pokemon, they're
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iconic, you know, they're what started the whole
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franchise, but I love further generations more,
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you know, Gen 5 is my favourite one, so I was
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so, so happy to see a lot of Gen 5 Pokemon in
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this game, there's so many of them, and it's
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fantastic to see so many generations shown and
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celebrated in this game, but I wonder how far
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does that go how far are they going to make it
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go we've got these events and it seems like these
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events were running pretty commonly to be honest
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it looks like they'll be getting a lot of events
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here or there going forward going on pretty regularly
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throughout the calendar we've got a lot going
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on we just had the jump fluff we're having the
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bulbsaw one right now with the jump row and one
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of a mini event and then we've got a sableye
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event coming up as well at the end of april and
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i wonder how quickly Are they going to run these?
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But also, how do they expand it? There's a lot
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of areas in the game where you kind of, if you
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go a little bit further, the map will kind of
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cloud it out. And I wonder, now I wonder if there'll
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be an area where they'll make these available
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suddenly in an expansion. Maybe a DLC, maybe
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just available anyway. But I wonder if they'll
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do more of a... Like a Johto version of Pokopia.
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A Unova version of Pokopia. I wonder how many
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generations of islands and areas could they do
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of this game. I think there's so much potential.
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But then it could get tired pretty quick. There's
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a risk there. There's so many legendaries we
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could meet. If they bring the different legendaries
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for different areas. That would be so good. They
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could do Reshiram and Zekrom coming over because
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of something. N could have like his, you know,
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there's so many items we could pick up from them,
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potential relics from them. Oh, honestly, there
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is so much potential for Pokopia. I would love,
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love a Unova version because Unova was known
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a lot more cityscaped. It was a lot more built
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up. There's so much going on with Unova, so unique.
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That I think a universe version of Pokopia. Would
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be my ultimate ideal. There would be so much
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to unpack. But I wonder how. How are they going
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to expand it. They've seen how popular this game
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is. And there is no secret. In how popular this
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game is. It is everywhere. It is literally everywhere.
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and I think it's been more popular than potentially
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they even thought it would be themselves I think
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they know it's going to be popular when they
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kind of produce this it took five years apparently
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to produce this game they started it out as something
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a lot more simple but they turned into something
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that we see today which is a lot more in depth
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a lot more substantial a lot more hands -on than
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I think they originally counted it to be and
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I wonder it's going to be Could it be even more
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community driven? Is it going to be a lot more
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social? Could it be a have like a. An always
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online kind of style direction as well. There's
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so much they could do. I've got so many ideas
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kind of spinning. And I'm kind of. I'm interested
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to see what you guys have as well. And what you
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guys think. That Pokemon. So many P's. Pokemon
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Pocopia. Could be in the future. I think there's
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so much. They could do with this. I don't want
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it to become one of those games where if you
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pay, you get this. If you pay this, you get this.
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I hate things like that. But I wonder, you know,
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these events are free and you've already bought
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the game and you've bought the game on a localised
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system of the Nintendo 2, the Switch 2. You know,
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that console alone is a hefty amount. It's not
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cheap and I think... They took a risk only releasing
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it on the Switch 2. And luckily, I think that
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risk has paid off. You know, if you can't afford
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one, unfortunately, you know, it does run that
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risk. You know, it's kind of crap from that perspective.
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But I think it's paid off for them in the long
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run. I think people have done what they had to
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do to get the game. But let's dive into Trainer
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Diary. I've spouted what I needed to. But on
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to other theories about Pokemon Pokeopia, and
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I think this comes from more of what we're seeing
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with Legend CA and how the TCG is really starting
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to kind of merge the games with the actual TCG
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in a more kind of on -the -nose way. We've seen
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some cards revealed where we see quite literally
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the game environment in the background. Two new
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cards have been revealed for... The Chaos Rising
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set. Where we see Watchog with Prism Tower. We
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see Emolga. And we see the kind of the borders.
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Of the. Of the wild zones. Like the green lighting.
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It's so on the nose. Where it's obviously the
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ZA game. In the background. And I wonder whether
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we'll see. A Pokemon Pocopia TCG set. I think
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that could be awesome. I wonder if they've. I'm
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surprised actually. They haven't done something
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like it for Pokemon TCG Pocket because it's digital
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anyway. I wonder if they would have maybe used
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that to kind of see how many people open it.
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Do they go for this kind of thing? But I think
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they know that we will. I think they know we
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will anyway. But I wonder, could the Pokopio
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game influence the digital and the physical TCG?
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I know for a fact that I don't collect every
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set. Right now, I'm collecting the Mega Evolution
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Series 1, the Mega Evolution Series 3, so Mega
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Evolution and Mega Evolution Perfect Order. I'm
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finishing my Master Sets for Scarlet and Violet
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9, which is Journey Together, and Black Bolt
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and White Flare. So I've got a couple of Master
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Sets going on at the minute, and I know I'll
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have them for a while to be able to Master them,
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but I would. I would go for a Pokemon Pokeopia
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set, I think. It would be so cosy and so cute.
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That it'd be rude not to. I do think it'd be
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so rude not to collect that one. It'd be so so
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cute. I don't know if it'd be a big set. Maybe
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more of a small set. Maybe just like a celebration
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holiday kind of set. Just to kind of commemorate
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the game. I think potentially we may see that
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in a year's time. To kind of celebrate the one
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year anniversary of Pokopio. I wonder if it'll
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take a while to create it. You know the art wouldn't
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exist for that. already you know that's not like
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pokemon tcg pocket that kind of reuses the art
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of the tcg anyway so i wonder if we'll see something
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like that in a year's time where the artists
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that do work with pokemon have made these arts
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for the cards where we've got a pokemon um a
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pokemon set for pokopia i don't know how that
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would fit into the sets you know would it be
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a mega evolution set there's no mega evolution
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in in um pokopio oh but could that be a thing
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could also that be a thing that's another theory
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for you to kind of mull over to noron could that
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be a thing as well who knows again don't know
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how that'd work but could you have like if you've
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got an ability could you learn a if you're holding
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like a megastone Could your leafage be even more
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powerful? You know, could, if you got a, let's
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see, a Blastoise Mega Stone, could your water
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gun be so much stronger? There's so much they
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could do, actually, with that. So it could be
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part of Mega Evolution if they did that. I'm
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not sure if they will. It's going to be in a
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year's time. So, we could see another set kind
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of go on. With that, you know, we've seen Scarlet
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and Violet. We're in the Mega Evolution right
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now. There could be something else following
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that. But I think by that time, we'll be starting
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to get into Gen 10 territory. So, who knows?
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They could break the system and they could go
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for a full standalone set. Like, on its own,
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this one for PocoPio. That's it. so they could
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do something like that, you know, I'm sure it
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wouldn't be the first time, the lack of researching
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right now, but I think that could be something,
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I think that could be something really interesting,
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I think, I think I'd be really into that, if
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I'm honest, I'd be really into a little Pokopio
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set, because, yeah, it'd be so cute, so, so cute,
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but it feels like Pokemon. Is slowly connecting
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everything together. With it's kind of world.
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As a whole. This is the first time we've interacted.
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Solely. Really. With the world around Pokemon.
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Not just going. Travelling through them. You
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know. They're not just spaces where. We travel
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through them. We go to the gym. We catch the
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Pokemon. We level up. And we move on to the next
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area. These are now areas. Where we are solely
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responsible. For building the areas. And making
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them what we. choose to see fit you know i'm
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i'm interested to see how how pokemon text that
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you know there is a bit of information gathering
00:24:05.900 --> 00:24:08.059
there as well you know they can see what what
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kinds of areas do do pokemon players create what
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do we make as as trainers i think that's something
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super interesting as like a social experiment
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there you know without getting too weird with
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it i think there's something super interesting
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of what do we build if we're left to our own
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devices? What kind of regions do we build? What
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kind of areas? I'm a ghost -type trainer. I love
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ghost -type Pokemon. I love all things spooky,
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you know? So I'm building more horror, spooky
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vibes in all of mine. You know, I've got the
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little nods to horror movies throughout the kind
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of island that I'm building, and I wonder how
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that kind of translates into... inspiration for
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them they're obviously obviously not gonna just
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um they're obviously not just gonna kind of take
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the idea and make it into a new series but i
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think they're there's something that they can
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take from us because you know they're there because
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of us you know i'm pokemon is only as popular
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as it is because we love it because we do stuff
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you know we are as as loving and committed as
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we are as fans you know i don't think there's
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an As much as a committed fanbase. As there is
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for anything else. As there is for Pokemon. So
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I wonder how that will develop. I wonder. I've
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gone on a right tangent. And I wonder. How does
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it develop? Is what I'm trying to say. There's
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so many areas. There's the TCG they could do.
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There's the events they're already doing. There's
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new games that are already in the making. Like
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Gen 10. That I wonder. how does that happen when
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we see gen 10 release pokemon pokopio will obviously
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still be a thing so i wonder will there be an
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event where you can get the gen 10 pokemon at
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the week of release of winds and waves you know
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how does that become a thing what if they do
00:26:03.259 --> 00:26:06.819
limited islands you know we've seen ikea the
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collaboration with ikea um which makes sense
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actually it's kind of weird um But I wonder if
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we'll see something like that in the future as
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well. I've gone back essentially. This was going
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to be like the TCG zone. And I've gone straight
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back into like the main topic of the podcast.
00:26:24.980 --> 00:26:28.059
So I apologize for that. But I've, I've, I've.
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I like the live reactions, you know. But I wonder
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if we'll get like live, like limited availability
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to the islands. Where we can go gather as much
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stuff as you can. come back before the event
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runs out. Limited islands could be a very, very
00:26:47.319 --> 00:26:50.960
cool thing. Even that could be something for
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the region, you know? I'm not going to keep going
00:26:53.359 --> 00:26:57.480
on, but Pokemon TCG, cards for Pokeopia, would
00:26:57.480 --> 00:26:59.839
you be into it? But let's dive into the hidden
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ability. Let's start the close -up. So this episode
00:27:05.880 --> 00:27:11.900
has been full of tangents. I... No, I was going
00:27:11.900 --> 00:27:13.859
to say I'm sorry for all the tangents, but I'm
00:27:13.859 --> 00:27:18.059
not, actually, because I think I'm so excited
00:27:18.059 --> 00:27:21.960
for what this game could be. This no game, no
00:27:21.960 --> 00:27:24.779
Pokemon game for a long time, actually, to be
00:27:24.779 --> 00:27:28.480
honest, has captured my attention like this game
00:27:28.480 --> 00:27:32.980
has. I am absolutely taken with it. You know,
00:27:33.079 --> 00:27:35.700
it has really, really captured my imagination,
00:27:36.039 --> 00:27:40.650
where we're at. As Pokemon fans. And I'm so so
00:27:40.650 --> 00:27:43.529
excited. To see how this does actually develop.
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But I think Pokeopia. Might not be the biggest.
00:27:46.569 --> 00:27:49.170
Might not be the biggest Pokemon game ever. You
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know. It's very much nearly so. But it could
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be the most important one. Because it shows where
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Pokemon is heading next. And where we could potentially
00:27:56.869 --> 00:28:00.390
see the Pokemon franchise. Go towards as well.
00:28:00.589 --> 00:28:04.210
And I'd love to know what you guys think. Are
00:28:04.210 --> 00:28:08.690
you excited? For. The new developments of Pokopio.
00:28:08.710 --> 00:28:11.049
The new events. I'm excited for the Sableye event.
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For sure. I'm definitely, definitely excited
00:28:13.549 --> 00:28:15.650
for the Sableye event. I think that looks super
00:28:15.650 --> 00:28:18.049
cute. There's some things in there that I think
00:28:18.049 --> 00:28:21.009
will fit really, really well. In some areas of
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my island. Some I'm going to have to make multiple
00:28:22.750 --> 00:28:28.210
copies of. But awesome. But I'd love to know
00:28:28.210 --> 00:28:32.559
what you guys think. Are you also like... is
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it two months in two months in are you still
00:28:34.900 --> 00:28:38.039
loving pokeopia is it still a vibe for you what
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are you guys doing on your islands if you follow
00:28:40.420 --> 00:28:43.359
me on instagram or tiktok please do let share
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your photos i'd love i'd love to see what you
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hey everyone welcome back to the chibi trainer
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pokemon podcast where we talk all things pokemon
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from the games to the tcg and Thank you for returning.
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Hello again. Thank you so much for coming back.
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Thank you to the new subscribers as well. Thank
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you for all the new listens. It's been great
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to kind of see the podcast, kind of, even without
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the episodes going up, still see some. some listens,
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some downloads. We've seen a lot of activity.
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It was like plus 200 % like on normal, even without
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me putting out like weekly episodes during the
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move, during the break, during every like normal
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life kind of thing, which is really, really great.
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Actually, that was that was fantastic. So thank
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you so much for the support anyway. And yeah,
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thank you for joining me on the newer venture
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of this podcast. But now, today's episode is
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all about something that's been getting a lot
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of attention recently, from myself included.
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I am... I... I... I know I'm addicted to this,
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but it feels like there's so much we don't understand
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about it yet, and it is Pocopia. Now, Pocopia
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is the new game for the Nintendo Switch 2, and
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if you don't know, we'll go through that later
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on, but depending on how the game plays out...
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I think Pokopia might actually be one of the
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most important Pokemon releases we've seen for
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a long time. And I think it could really define
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what Pokemon looks like for the years to come.
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Now in this episode, we're going to break down
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what Pokopia actually is, what makes it different,
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and whether or not this could be a glimpse into
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the future of Pokemon games. I think there's
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a lot to unpack with Pokopia. I don't think it's
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something that is a standalone. It could be.
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But I think we've got a lot more to unpack here,
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so let's dive into today's episode, and subscribe
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if you aren't already, and let's dive in. All
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right, so before we dive into today's topic of
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Pokeopia, let's take a quick look at what's been
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happening in the Pokemon world. This is the Pokemon
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news for this week. So we've got a lot of little
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updates going on. We've got the next set for
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Pokemon TCG Pocket. Now, I love the Pokemon TCG
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Pocket app. It's probably next to Instagram,
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next to TikTok, probably my most used app. And
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I love the idea that you can kind of just enjoy
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the TCG, enjoy the art without actually spending
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any money. That's a great win. You can obviously
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spend money. I don't. I just enjoy the free version
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of everything when it comes to things like this.
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Just because, you know, it's an expensive hobby
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anyway, you know. But the article on Pokemon,
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the UK website, says, Get ready to battle with
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new Pokemon and support cards debuting in Pokemon
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Trading Card Game Pocket. The latest expansion,
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Pulsing Aura, launches on Monday, April 27th,
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2026 at 6pm PDT. So that is 2pm on the day of
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release in the UK. But this, I am recording this
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actually on the day of release, but it's not
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actually... We're past that time. It's not actually
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on the app yet, which is super bizarre. So they
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might be having a little bit of an issue. But
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look forward to the debut of Mega Lucario EX,
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Mega Sceptile EX and a variety of Pokemon known
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to train hard for those crucial moments in battle.
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New trainers known as such as Karina and Arena
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of Antiquity are coming through to give players
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the upper hand too. And it looks like some great
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cards. There's a Mega Lucario one. There's a
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Vaporeon EX as well that looks so, so good. There's
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a Kubfu illustration art, which looks absolutely
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adorable. There are also some new card styles
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with Aura Farming set of covers, backdrops featuring
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Mega Lucario, available Thursday, April the 30th.
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So there's some new stuff coming as well for
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the coming days. We've also got some new stuff
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with the release of Pulsing Aura. so this is
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starting with pulsing aura gold frames will be
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available as a type of flare for common like
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one diamond two diamond and three diamond clarity
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cards in each every each series you can automatically
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obtain a gold frame if you collect 10 of the
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same card and gold frames will be retroactively
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granted for cards that you already own 10 or
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more of so you can get this really cute like
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little gold and foil cover like frame thing it
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looks really really nice actually i always forget
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that flare is even a thing in this game so i
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don't kind of sit and retro retroactively kind
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of add that kind of stuff but it's great if you
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do it's a really nice little event new elite
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deck gift missions will be available from april
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to the end of july this new elite deck is a fire
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type deck featuring mega charizard y ex from
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queens and blaze and moltres ex from genetic
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apex we've also got some new events we've got
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a we've got like a good calendar actually of
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events which is really really cool there will
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be a myriad events that you can participate throughout
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april and may to help expand your collection
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so it says from late april to early may celebrate
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a year and a half of pokemon tcg pocket with
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the special event 2026 taken on special solo
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but take on special solo battles To obtain promo
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cards. And complete missions to get Zygarde EX.
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Accessories and more. The Zygarde EX looks so
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so cool. From April to late July. So complete
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handy card collection missions. To obtain useful
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trainer cards. That can turn the tide of battles.
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Such as May, Cyprus and Giovanni. I bet the Giovanni
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card looks awesome. Early May we can. Let's see,
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during the Community Week event, missions will
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be available where you can trade and share cards
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to obtain trade hourglasses, special accessories
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and other rewards. Then we've got early to mid
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-May, battle in the Pulsing Aura Emblem event
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to earn emblems that you can set on your player
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profile and complete missions to earn useful
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items as well. Mid to late May, so the last set
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we've got is complete solo battles to earn B
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-Series Volume 8 promo packs. During the Mega
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Heracross EX drop event. And collect Trico and
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Galay promo cards. During a Wonder Pick event.
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We hope you enjoy this. Absolute haymaker of
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an expansion trainers. So I think they're going
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a lot harder with this one. They know how popular.
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They know how popular Lucario is. And I think
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they are fully aware. Of how popular that Pokemon
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is. And I love that Pokemon. I'm not going to
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lie. I think he's really really strong. One of
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my favorites in any game, I think, to be honest.
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So a lot going on for Pokemon Team. But we've
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also got some news for TCG Pocket as well, funnily
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enough. This one is Search for Treasure during
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Sableye's Gem Hunt in Pokemon Pocopia. This one
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was rumored and it looks absolutely spot on.
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It's exactly how they kind of rumored it. Pokemon
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Pocopia is all about making new friends and the
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Sableye Gem Hunt event. brings new pokemon pal
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to your town from april 29th at 5 a .m to may
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14th 2026 4 59 local time uh that's am sableye
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will appear near rebuilt pokemon centers and
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you can befriend it to receive a request to collect
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a red crystal fragments which you can find on
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the dream island so you can head to a dream island
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with any doll and collect as many red crystal
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fragments as you can find. When you return home,
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bring those fragments to Sableye at the Pokemon
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Center to exchange them for themed items, including
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furniture, build kits, and more. As the event
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is over, Sableye will stick around your town
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with your other Pokemon friends, so much like
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the Hoppeep and Jumpluff kind of event. So they'll
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be just in your Pokedex then. They'll be around
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your town. So it looks really, really cool. I
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have to say, there's a little screenshot of what
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the items are. There's a rebuild thing. There's
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like a build kit. And I really, really, I'm itching
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to know what that build kit is. There's gem fragments.
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There's a little backpack. A, like a camping
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chair kind of thing. A lantern. Some gems that
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float above the, like, a bit like string lights
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kind of thing. A sleeping bag. A lantern, which
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I cannot wait to put in my ghost type. uh island
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that looks so so good that's gonna look so good
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on my island a little map thing and a little
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camera as well so it's very like campy camping
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vibes so it's a little bit different to what
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i thought it would be but there's so many items
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i think will look so good in like different areas
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of my island so i'm really really excited to
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kind of get on with this event sableye is a ghost
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type pokemon so i cannot wait to have sableye
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all over my at palette town if anyone does follow
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me on instagram or tiktok i'm doing a ghost type
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series where i'm turning palette town into like
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a big ghost town and usually i have like a little
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ghost area in most pokemon games and i'm turning
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the whole town or palette town whole kind of
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map into a ghost type area so if you don't already
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check that out do go check it out it's really
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really cool uh but yeah there's a lot of there's
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a lot going on they've obviously got the 30th
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anniversary still going on as well But without
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any of that, we've already kind of touched on
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it now, but let's get into Pokopia. Because this
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is where things get really interesting and super
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cosy. So what actually is Pokopia before we dive
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any further? So from what we've seen so far,
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its platform is the Switch 2. It's an interactive
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social... experimental kind of game so it's not
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a traditional mainline game for the pokemon franchise
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or series of games a little bit like animal crossing
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meets pokemon and that's exactly the kind of
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best way to describe this game it's probably
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the coziest pokemon game you'll ever play and
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it's one where you'll go on to play five minutes
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and a full day has passed i feel like i've experienced
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that so many times but it's one that i think
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is one of the most addictive pokemon games ever
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if not i think this game this gives me the exact
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same vibe and it's the exact same kind of energy
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the animal crossing gave us years ago and that
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came out just before um the 2020 lockdowns so
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you know that was at peak time really everyone
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was stuck inside playing games but this one gives
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that same kind of vibe without the lockdown if
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you if you see what i mean And I think this is
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where Pokeopia kind of stands out. It's a lot
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more immersive than, not particularly more immersive
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than a normal Pokemon game, but I feel like it
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leans a lot closer to Pokemon Go, Animal Crossing,
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and it gives you that kind of vibe where actually
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we start to see our proper impact in the game
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immediately reflected. If we're building the
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habitats for these Pokemon, how happy are they?
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do they need other stuff do they need more stuff
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to become super happy you know their happiness
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and their their life is essentially in your hands
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without being super dramatic but their hand their
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life is in your hands as a Pokemon trainer or
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as a as the player I don't get too much away
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if you've not played it yet but if you've not
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played it yet um I'm not going to give anything
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away but there is a storyline you know Animal
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Crossing doesn't particularly have a main storyline
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which is where pokemon pokopio does differ we
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have a pokemon storyline there is a quite a heartfelt
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emotional storyline to this game which i was
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really surprised that i have to be honest i did
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not think this game would have anything like
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the storyline that it does but that's a really
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nice surprise to be honest it's a really nice
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surprise to kind of have that undercurrent of
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This character's here for this reason. This character's
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here for this reason. And you're doing this because
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of this. You know, there's a really nice edge
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to it and a really nice idea to it. I think there's
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something super interesting with Pokopio. We've
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seen a lot of events. This is the second event
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that we've mentioned, which is the Sableye event.
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And it comes actually not long after the Jumpluff
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event. I think that's... interesting are we going
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to see like an event a month potentially that
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could be really cool i like the idea of an event
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a month i think that would be really cool right
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now there's a little event for um the jump rope
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event for bulbasaur so you can earn like a little
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trophy you can earn some little berries things
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like that it kind of keeps it fresh it's been
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out two months nearly now and You know, I think
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Pokemon know that sometimes games can get a little
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bit of, a little bit either intimidating or they
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can get a little bit, okay, I'm done now. I'm
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kind of done. I've got no other kind of aim now.
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But I think with these events, it's immediately
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going to bring you back. You kind of need to
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come back to get Sableye. You have to do this
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timed event and then you'll kind of get more
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addicted to it because you're doing stuff. You
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know, they know what they're doing. They know
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exactly what to do. They know what they're doing
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with us. But I also wonder, how does Pokemon
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evolve this? If you pardon the pun, how do they
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evolve this game even further? We've got the
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base of the game. It's based in Kanto. And we've
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got a mix of generational Pokemon. We've got
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a real mix of Pokemon. It's based in Kanto, essentially.
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But it's not actually... only Kanto Pokemon,
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and I'm really happy for that, you know, I, don't
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get me wrong, I love the Kanto Pokemon, they're
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iconic, you know, they're what started the whole
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franchise, but I love further generations more,
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you know, Gen 5 is my favourite one, so I was
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so, so happy to see a lot of Gen 5 Pokemon in
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this game, there's so many of them, and it's
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fantastic to see so many generations shown and
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celebrated in this game, but I wonder how far
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does that go how far are they going to make it
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go we've got these events and it seems like these
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events were running pretty commonly to be honest
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it looks like they'll be getting a lot of events
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here or there going forward going on pretty regularly
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throughout the calendar we've got a lot going
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on we just had the jump fluff we're having the
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bulbsaw one right now with the jump row and one
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of a mini event and then we've got a sableye
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event coming up as well at the end of april and
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i wonder how quickly Are they going to run these?
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But also, how do they expand it? There's a lot
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of areas in the game where you kind of, if you
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go a little bit further, the map will kind of
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cloud it out. And I wonder, now I wonder if there'll
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be an area where they'll make these available
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suddenly in an expansion. Maybe a DLC, maybe
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just available anyway. But I wonder if they'll
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do more of a... Like a Johto version of Pokopia.
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A Unova version of Pokopia. I wonder how many
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generations of islands and areas could they do
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of this game. I think there's so much potential.
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But then it could get tired pretty quick. There's
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a risk there. There's so many legendaries we
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could meet. If they bring the different legendaries
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for different areas. That would be so good. They
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could do Reshiram and Zekrom coming over because
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of something. N could have like his, you know,
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there's so many items we could pick up from them,
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potential relics from them. Oh, honestly, there
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is so much potential for Pokopia. I would love,
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love a Unova version because Unova was known
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a lot more cityscaped. It was a lot more built
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up. There's so much going on with Unova, so unique.
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That I think a universe version of Pokopia. Would
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be my ultimate ideal. There would be so much
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to unpack. But I wonder how. How are they going
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to expand it. They've seen how popular this game
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is. And there is no secret. In how popular this
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game is. It is everywhere. It is literally everywhere.
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and I think it's been more popular than potentially
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they even thought it would be themselves I think
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they know it's going to be popular when they
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kind of produce this it took five years apparently
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to produce this game they started it out as something
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a lot more simple but they turned into something
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that we see today which is a lot more in depth
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a lot more substantial a lot more hands -on than
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I think they originally counted it to be and
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I wonder it's going to be Could it be even more
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community driven? Is it going to be a lot more
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social? Could it be a have like a. An always
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online kind of style direction as well. There's
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so much they could do. I've got so many ideas
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kind of spinning. And I'm kind of. I'm interested
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to see what you guys have as well. And what you
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guys think. That Pokemon. So many P's. Pokemon
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Pocopia. Could be in the future. I think there's
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so much. They could do with this. I don't want
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it to become one of those games where if you
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pay, you get this. If you pay this, you get this.
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I hate things like that. But I wonder, you know,
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these events are free and you've already bought
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the game and you've bought the game on a localised
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system of the Nintendo 2, the Switch 2. You know,
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that console alone is a hefty amount. It's not
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cheap and I think... They took a risk only releasing
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it on the Switch 2. And luckily, I think that
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risk has paid off. You know, if you can't afford
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one, unfortunately, you know, it does run that
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risk. You know, it's kind of crap from that perspective.
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But I think it's paid off for them in the long
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run. I think people have done what they had to
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do to get the game. But let's dive into Trainer
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Diary. I've spouted what I needed to. But on
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to other theories about Pokemon Pokeopia, and
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I think this comes from more of what we're seeing
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with Legend CA and how the TCG is really starting
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to kind of merge the games with the actual TCG
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in a more kind of on -the -nose way. We've seen
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some cards revealed where we see quite literally
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the game environment in the background. Two new
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cards have been revealed for... The Chaos Rising
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set. Where we see Watchog with Prism Tower. We
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see Emolga. And we see the kind of the borders.
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Of the. Of the wild zones. Like the green lighting.
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It's so on the nose. Where it's obviously the
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ZA game. In the background. And I wonder whether
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we'll see. A Pokemon Pocopia TCG set. I think
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that could be awesome. I wonder if they've. I'm
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surprised actually. They haven't done something
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like it for Pokemon TCG Pocket because it's digital
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anyway. I wonder if they would have maybe used
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that to kind of see how many people open it.
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Do they go for this kind of thing? But I think
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they know that we will. I think they know we
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will anyway. But I wonder, could the Pokopio
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game influence the digital and the physical TCG?
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I know for a fact that I don't collect every
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set. Right now, I'm collecting the Mega Evolution
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Series 1, the Mega Evolution Series 3, so Mega
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Evolution and Mega Evolution Perfect Order. I'm
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finishing my Master Sets for Scarlet and Violet
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9, which is Journey Together, and Black Bolt
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and White Flare. So I've got a couple of Master
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Sets going on at the minute, and I know I'll
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have them for a while to be able to Master them,
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but I would. I would go for a Pokemon Pokeopia
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set, I think. It would be so cosy and so cute.
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That it'd be rude not to. I do think it'd be
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so rude not to collect that one. It'd be so so
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cute. I don't know if it'd be a big set. Maybe
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more of a small set. Maybe just like a celebration
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holiday kind of set. Just to kind of commemorate
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the game. I think potentially we may see that
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in a year's time. To kind of celebrate the one
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year anniversary of Pokopio. I wonder if it'll
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take a while to create it. You know the art wouldn't
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exist for that. already you know that's not like
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pokemon tcg pocket that kind of reuses the art
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of the tcg anyway so i wonder if we'll see something
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like that in a year's time where the artists
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that do work with pokemon have made these arts
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for the cards where we've got a pokemon um a
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pokemon set for pokopia i don't know how that
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would fit into the sets you know would it be
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a mega evolution set there's no mega evolution
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in in um pokopio oh but could that be a thing
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could also that be a thing that's another theory
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for you to kind of mull over to noron could that
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be a thing as well who knows again don't know
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how that'd work but could you have like if you've
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got an ability could you learn a if you're holding
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like a megastone Could your leafage be even more
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powerful? You know, could, if you got a, let's
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see, a Blastoise Mega Stone, could your water
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gun be so much stronger? There's so much they
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could do, actually, with that. So it could be
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part of Mega Evolution if they did that. I'm
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not sure if they will. It's going to be in a
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year's time. So, we could see another set kind
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of go on. With that, you know, we've seen Scarlet
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and Violet. We're in the Mega Evolution right
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now. There could be something else following
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that. But I think by that time, we'll be starting
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to get into Gen 10 territory. So, who knows?
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They could break the system and they could go
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for a full standalone set. Like, on its own,
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this one for PocoPio. That's it. so they could
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do something like that, you know, I'm sure it
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wouldn't be the first time, the lack of researching
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right now, but I think that could be something,
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I think that could be something really interesting,
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I think, I think I'd be really into that, if
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I'm honest, I'd be really into a little Pokopio
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set, because, yeah, it'd be so cute, so, so cute,
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but it feels like Pokemon. Is slowly connecting
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everything together. With it's kind of world.
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As a whole. This is the first time we've interacted.
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Solely. Really. With the world around Pokemon.
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Not just going. Travelling through them. You
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know. They're not just spaces where. We travel
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through them. We go to the gym. We catch the
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Pokemon. We level up. And we move on to the next
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area. These are now areas. Where we are solely
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responsible. For building the areas. And making
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them what we. choose to see fit you know i'm
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i'm interested to see how how pokemon text that
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you know there is a bit of information gathering
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there as well you know they can see what what
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kinds of areas do do pokemon players create what
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do we make as as trainers i think that's something
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super interesting as like a social experiment
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there you know without getting too weird with
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it i think there's something super interesting
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of what do we build if we're left to our own
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devices? What kind of regions do we build? What
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kind of areas? I'm a ghost -type trainer. I love
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ghost -type Pokemon. I love all things spooky,
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you know? So I'm building more horror, spooky
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vibes in all of mine. You know, I've got the
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little nods to horror movies throughout the kind
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of island that I'm building, and I wonder how
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that kind of translates into... inspiration for
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them they're obviously obviously not gonna just
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um they're obviously not just gonna kind of take
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the idea and make it into a new series but i
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think they're there's something that they can
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take from us because you know they're there because
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of us you know i'm pokemon is only as popular
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as it is because we love it because we do stuff
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you know we are as as loving and committed as
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we are as fans you know i don't think there's
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an As much as a committed fanbase. As there is
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for anything else. As there is for Pokemon. So
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I wonder how that will develop. I wonder. I've
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gone on a right tangent. And I wonder. How does
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it develop? Is what I'm trying to say. There's
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so many areas. There's the TCG they could do.
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There's the events they're already doing. There's
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new games that are already in the making. Like
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Gen 10. That I wonder. how does that happen when
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we see gen 10 release pokemon pokopio will obviously
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still be a thing so i wonder will there be an
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event where you can get the gen 10 pokemon at
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the week of release of winds and waves you know
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how does that become a thing what if they do
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limited islands you know we've seen ikea the
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collaboration with ikea um which makes sense
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actually it's kind of weird um But I wonder if
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we'll see something like that in the future as
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well. I've gone back essentially. This was going
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to be like the TCG zone. And I've gone straight
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back into like the main topic of the podcast.
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So I apologize for that. But I've, I've, I've.
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I like the live reactions, you know. But I wonder
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if we'll get like live, like limited availability
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to the islands. Where we can go gather as much
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stuff as you can. come back before the event
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runs out. Limited islands could be a very, very
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cool thing. Even that could be something for
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the region, you know? I'm not going to keep going
00:26:53.359 --> 00:26:57.480
on, but Pokemon TCG, cards for Pokeopia, would
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you be into it? But let's dive into the hidden
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ability. Let's start the close -up. So this episode
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has been full of tangents. I... No, I was going
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to say I'm sorry for all the tangents, but I'm
00:27:13.859 --> 00:27:18.059
not, actually, because I think I'm so excited
00:27:18.059 --> 00:27:21.960
for what this game could be. This no game, no
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Pokemon game for a long time, actually, to be
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honest, has captured my attention like this game
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has. I am absolutely taken with it. You know,
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it has really, really captured my imagination,
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where we're at. As Pokemon fans. And I'm so so
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excited. To see how this does actually develop.
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But I think Pokeopia. Might not be the biggest.
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Might not be the biggest Pokemon game ever. You
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know. It's very much nearly so. But it could
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be the most important one. Because it shows where
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Pokemon is heading next. And where we could potentially
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see the Pokemon franchise. Go towards as well.
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And I'd love to know what you guys think. Are
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you excited? For. The new developments of Pokopio.
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The new events. I'm excited for the Sableye event.
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For sure. I'm definitely, definitely excited
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for the Sableye event. I think that looks super
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cute. There's some things in there that I think
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will fit really, really well. In some areas of
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my island. Some I'm going to have to make multiple
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copies of. But awesome. But I'd love to know
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what you guys think. Are you also like... is
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it two months in two months in are you still
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loving pokeopia is it still a vibe for you what
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are you guys doing on your islands if you follow
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me on instagram or tiktok please do let share
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your photos i'd love i'd love to see what you
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guys are doing if you haven't already please
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do hit that subscribe button it it really does
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mean a lot to see the subscribing numbers go
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up see you guys interacting and if you know any
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other pokemon fans that will think they'd love
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this episode or they'd love to hear this guy
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talk for half an hour share it with them too
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because it really does mean a lot and you know
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i'm sat here in my office surrounded by pokemon
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stuff talking about pokemon to a microphone to
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my laptop essentially otherwise so thank you
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thank you for any share in in the future I am
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much guys and i'll see you on the next episode
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ryan your host thank you so much for joining
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me and i'll see you later bye free audio post
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