Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - Pokemon Pokopia: Two Weeks Later - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Episode Date: March 16, 2026

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What's up everybody? Welcome to the Kind of Funny Games cast for Monday, March 16th, 2026. You're a crack of beer? No, I thought you had it. We're not going to do the bin again for Games Daily. I'm one of your host, Greg Miller, alongside, of course, the taste maker, Roger Picorni. I lost my water. I don't know where it is.

My water. My water. My water. Go over there. Trying to get something out of her eye. It's the one the only Christmas in March. Joey Noel. I promise I'm not just like overcome with emotion about Pocopia,

even though that is like wildly true. You might be though. And then of course, joining us for the first time ever from Wholesome Games, it is Jenny Windham. Hello, Jenny! Yay, hello. I'm so excited. I jumped at the chance.

I was like, Pokemon, Pocopia. We threw up the Pokemon Pocopia signal and you answered the call and I can't thank you enough for that. Remember everybody this is the Kind of Funny Games cast each and every weekday we run you through the biggest topics in video games, whether they be reviews, previews are just topics we need to talk about. We cover it all on YouTube.com slash

kind of funny games, Twitch.tv.tvs slash kind of funny games in podcast services around the globe. If you're watching live, I need your super chats right now. How much Pocopia have you played? How are you happy with your builds? Have you rolled credits, etc., etc., etc., etc., so on. Let us know

on the YouTube.com slash kind of funny games super chats and then of course be like our Patreon producers over on patreon.com slash kind of funny Carl Jacobs Omega Buster and Delaney the Psalm twining. For now, let's begin with what is and forever will be topic of the show. We are

nearly two weeks away from the launch of Pokemon Popopia. Don't bust my chops about the headline, all right? This was supposed to be Friday's games cast but we had to move it up because everybody else was sick, okay? So, we I'm just sticking with two weeks because it's better than nearly two weeks.

I don't want to hear about it or whatever. Joey, you and I were lucky enough to be on the review. We were. And get to tell the world how much we love Pocopia. Yeah, people doubted us. They did doubt us. But now it's taken over. Yeah, taking everybody by storm.

It's taken the world by storm. So many people are buying it. They can't get it some places. You can't get it physical. Amazon's raising the prices, then getting caught, raising the prices, lowering the prices back to where they were. I have multiple people in my life

that went out and bought Switch 2s because of this game. And I did not think, this was going to be a system seller by any means. You know, when we started talking about it and the reviews were up, that's when I was like, huh, maybe, you know, this will actually kick people in the ass. And then, of course, my Instagram, my BS, that's a blue sky tip, have been filled with the people of, I cave, that cave, they got their Switch 2 out there, right? And as Paul Tassie over at Forbes reports, Poke, Pokemon Pocopia is racing towards a Nintendo

sales record. The Nintendo Switch 2 is accused of not having a lot of must-have games in its current state. hence somewhat slowing sales after a blockbuster start. But now, players have made it clear they are very, very excited to get their hands on Pokemon Pokopia, a game that's a mix between Animal Crossing and Dragon Quest Builders, two beloved titles. We now have data to back that up. Nintendo has just announced that Pokemon Popopia has sold 2.2 million copies in its first four days. That pace is somewhat astonishing, given that the best-selling Pokemon spin-off title overall is Pokemon Stadium,

which sold 5.4 million copies in total. at this rate, Pokemon Pocopi is going to blow by that in the coming weeks, most likely, or at most by the end of the year. That's wild. Incredible. Yes. Roger and Jenny, you didn't get to be on that review. So I want to start there.

Jenny, how much Pokemon Pocopia have you played since the release? Not enough. I feel like, I think I'm at just over 60 hours over the last two weeks. I honestly would have put in more. if I didn't have to do things like work. This game has, it's consumed me in like the best and worst ways possible. I am obsessed. And this was actually my reason to buy the Switch 2 at launch for the Switch 2.

I was like, I'm going to wait. I don't think there's any games for me that are really like the console buy games that are convincing me. And I saw Pocopia was coming out. So it's like, okay, I'll wait until then. And this has like been the best intro to the Switch 2 I could have ever possibly imagined. Hell yes. I want to dive deep into that. But of course, first, Barrett, I'd love to go to the wide shot.

And welcome back to work, Cool, Greg. Cool, Greg's been off an entire week. Yeah. Come here. Okay, I can't wait to hear all about it. Cool, Greg, went on a vacation, which is so rare for Cool. I'm so happy. You're back.

I'm so excited to hear the stories. That's a kind of funny podcast, if it's legal, to hear those stories. I'm not sure. Roger, talk to me. How far into Popia are you now? Nearly two weeks. Nearly two weeks. Not as far as I wanted to be, probably about a little over,

15 hours. Okay. So not as much. Rookie numbers right there. Ah, no. This is a judgment-free zone. Yes. Because we are going to delve into not only kind of funny best friend builds,

people I've been following on Instagram. And these people will show you, we are playing tidily weeks while they are building skyscrapers. Yeah, I saw a YouTube video. I was like, this is insane. I don't know how that's even possible. And yeah, it's, it's judged me free except for the way that I hold my controller. Yeah, we got to talk about it.

So let's get into this. Roger, yeah, walk us through. Right before we went live, you did something. and Joey immediately called. Yeah, so when I play my Switch, I usually don't, I don't have, like, I have a pro control about I don't use it.

So I just use the detached joycons. And I kind of hold my thing like this. Like I'm like, like, you're, like you're, like you're, I say King Tutin comic.

You're right, he's in his thing with this little septum. And I hold it like this, so it's like kind of like crossed over. And then it goes into mouse mode when I do this. So I have to turn off mouse mode. And then like,

I was like, why the fuck this is game working like this? And I was like, oh, I just, it's just, you know, I'm rubbing on my arms and stuff. How did you come to find that positioning? I don't know.

I do weird things with it. I like go behind my head sometimes. Like I'm doing weird things. It's not even performative. Like just in my house. I'm just trying to get comfortable at all times. Are you doing this like in a bed or on the couch? Yeah.

I'm just comfortable on the couch. Yeah. Yeah. I'm living a different life joke. I've been mocked for years of when I have a regular control. I'll usually lay back on the couch like this in place. So I can't get too in your head. Yeah.

And this is what it's made for. It's like it's pretty silent. Yeah. It's freestyle. You can do whatever you want. You know, you guys are so, like, in your heads about how game controllers should be held. I mean, which a larger discussion. I'm having a great time with Pocopia.

I'm actually going to have a lot more fun with it now because I finally got my fiancé who has, like, three, 500 hours. I forgot how she has an insane amount of hours in Animal Crossing, like an obscene amount of hours. And she has been dreading, like, she sees Pocopia and she's like, this not, it feels like work for her, but like, but also like she knows what this is going to entail. It's going to take over her entire life. She finally got it last night.

So I had the moment where I finally got to show her my island and be like, what am I doing wrong? Like, tell me, tell me what the best way to tackle this is because from, yeah. When you say, what am I doing wrong? What do you mean? Aesthetically,

a little bit of everything, right? Because for me, I'm so new to this type of video game. I never played like a harvest moon. I played Animal Crossing, but like I barely touched the surface there, right?

Like, so for me, it's like there is so much to do. And Leanzah is like a veteran of the harvest moons of all of these, you know, farming, crafting, you know, cozy games, whatever you want to call them. So I, for me, am at this point now where I am dealing with all these systems, and I am getting

overwhelmed. I am getting a little bit like, hey, I have all these sections, I don't know what to do, where should my brain be focused on? And it was kind of a nice moment last night of me talking to her and just, she's like, oh, there is no right way to play this. You just play the way that you want to play. And I was like, oh, okay, I play video games so differently than I should be playing this game. So, yeah, I'm having a great time. And also, this is my first, like, real Pokemon game, like that I'm. I'm playing ever. Like I played maybe a little bit of like the one on 3DS, but like, I was like,

oh, I don't get this. But I didn't grow up with Pokemon like that. I like the show a lot. So I'm finding out about these Pokemon. I'm having the moments where I'm like, oh, my God, this motherfucker's walking around on two feet. Like, it's crazy. Like, I don't know they did that.

Like, why is this little guy like that? Like finding my favorite characters, finding Cyther, Seither, my guy. You never said that wrong in the office. I didn't call him Syth in the office. People made fun of me. And yeah, I'm just having a great time. And I'm excited to see how this world.

opens up and decided to talk about like the niche systems because I have like some thoughts about some of the ways that the systems work and I want to know if I'm doing it wrong or also how we can approve it. Joey talked to me since review where we out hours wise play wise what have been doing I just looked and I have 70 hours god dang so I've been playing a lot um all of my other hobbies have suffered greatly and that's sad for me I've been 30% of the way through that stranger's bell burden book that you told me about for weeks at this point and I haven't been able to finish it Gia's finish it my friend Lauren's finished it everybody wants to talk about it And I'm the one holding up the conversation.

So I got to go back to that. Next, you got to move on to half his age. I told you when I started half his age and I was like, I don't know. The Jenna McCurdy one. Yeah, yeah, it's real good. I also have a song of Achilles. Like my book list is really long right now. So yes, I'm having a great time.

It's getting to be really fun because every couple of days I hear from somebody that's like, what do you think about Bocopje? And I was like, oh, I have lots of thoughts to the point now where like girls for my crafting thing. bought switches on Saturday and have been texting me about it. Everybody is playing. I am deeply upset that I have yet to find Nine Tails. Yeah, Joey, you turned around.

I mean, you worked last week. I was like, Nine Tails? I'm like, yeah, Nine Tails's been living on my island forever. What are you talking about? So annoying. But I'm trying not, I'm usually such like a guide person that I'm trying not to be with this game because I actually didn't really think that I needed it.

So I'm trying to play this a little bit more organically. But it still has its claws in me. The biggest compliment I can give. to one battle after another this weekend is that it made me put my switch down for two and a half hours. So, um, yeah, nothing but praise for both of those things. Yeah, you know, I said it at review and I'll reiterate it now of like Pokemon, Pokopi is going to be a problem. Uh, obviously we, I've made, we're able to talk about it. We've made no bones about it. You know, the Crimson Desert review is coming up on Wednesday.

Clearly that is a large game. And so I had to put Pocopia down. So I'm only at, I looked right before this over 40 hours in, which is a fraction of where I want to be. Because what review, I was at 30, I forget, something like that or whatever. And like, this is a game that consumes you. And I am still both shocked and so happy, so ready to applaud

Nintendo on this, that it's a game that I can jump in for five minutes or I can jump into for a five hour plane ride back and be like, I am getting as much out as I want. I still am the Joker the dark night. I'm the dog chasing cars. Like I get in and I'm going to do this, but then I find that, but then this happens and it's

like, even at the end of it, I didn't accomplish ever what I set out to do, but I feel fulfilled. And I did a lot and I'm excited to turn it back on and get my stamp the next day or go do this thing, right? And I'm just shocked of, I guess since we talked about on content, right, like, I rolled

credits the day after the review embargo lift, or after our review went live. And I finished it at the kid. the kitchen table in the office, looked at you, Joey, and I said, I'm tearing up over a Pokemon spin-off.

Yeah. And then I was, then the tears fell from it. And there will be no spoilers to that degree. Don't worry. I'm sure throughout this, Nine Tales is in the game. That kind of spoiler will happen.

We're not going to talk about big broad stroke, big broad stuff. But to roll those credits cry, then go back to my desk, text him about it, Pokemon fan, number two. Then Slack Jen about it.

And Jen goes, well, what happened? I was like, I won't, do justice writing it. Let me tell you. Went home, told her on the couch

after we got bed to sleep, she burst into tears. And it's like, what a special game. And as I've said, take it or leave it. Hate me if you don't. I think Starfield has such a great premise

for a new game plus. Whatever you think of the game, the premise of New Game Plus is so good. To finish Bocopia, cry at the credits, and then have it pick up and be like, all right, so this is why we should still keep going.

And maybe like, a thousand percent, yes. Like, I need to keep doing it for that. And then to be, compared to 60 compared to 70, 40 hours in. And I was like, I'm going to finish tunneling through this.

I want to get rid of all this. I want to make this tunnel, tunnel, tunnel. And then look to the right and be like, or left and be like, whoa, wait a second. Like those are the blocks they use to break things out. There's something back there. And there's a weird border around that door or what would be a doorway. Smash through it.

Go downstairs. 40 hours in, that thing you've been collecting. This is where you put them. I was like, I found that too. It's so fucking good. And I'm, I'm the same way, Joe, of like, I am all about the builds.

We will show a lot of different builds here. I'm following Instagram creators that are building really cool shit. I'm sure the subreddit is popping. I am not about jumping into the spoilers of the subreddit or jumping into the Googling what's going on or what this is. I want to take this game as it comes at me rather than try to get to the bottom of it. And so Jenny to bring you in, of course, first off, for folks who don't know what is wholesome games? And then what is it about Pokemon Pocopia that speaks to you as somebody so involved? with Holesome.

Yeah. So for folks who don't know, Wholesome Games, we started as a, actually a Twitter account. We turned into what's now a, I guess, annual showcase called Holesome Direct

and an annual showcase called Holesome Snack where we curate games that are cozy, hopeful, joyful, really gentle experiences. And we've actually also transitioned into publishing games. And so, whoa! Yeah, we have, like,

turned this thing that we all love, which is the specific type of experience and made it our lives, which is honestly an absolute dream come true. I have to imagine. That's got to be a pretty special feeling. Just like this super chat from Send Nuggies. Sorry, I'm not playing Pocopia. Just a big fan of wholesome games.

They hold one of my favorite showcases of the year and release one of my contenders of 2025 with Is This Seat Taking, which is a game I adore. I also love. Oh my gosh. That's so sweet. Thank you, Send Nuggies. Wow. Yeah.

So it's like honestly my dream job. I'm working with the best people, so many amazing creators. And so for Pocopia, it's like, what's interesting is I actually personally was very hesitant about Pocopia. Really? I didn't get early access. I saw it and the Pokemon fan in me was like, oh man, Pokemon as a franchise for me sits on nostalgia so much. And I was like, okay, they're now doing this. genre, doing the mechanics of cozy gaming, which is a lot of repetition farming,

some sort of life sim decorating. This could be amazing, but I am really going to like, I'm not going to put all my eggs into this basket because I really don't want to be disappointed. I was very just like, I'm not going to think about it too hard. I'm not going to, you know, I don't want to build it up to be something it isn't. Sure. And I think even if I had been excited for it, I still would have been just as, over the moon about this game as I am right now because it has taken like I think Animal Crossing

like walked so that this game could truly run the ways that they have polished a lot of the things that people have you know given feedback on over the years the ways that it involves I think you mentioned it in your review you or Joey how it's like the pathways to this game like all roads lead to pocopia like it's just so good so this game truly has been special to experience over the last two weeks-ish. And yeah, I'm going to stop because I will just end up rambling the entire time. I love this game. So it's going to be, right?

To jump off of that, someone who's going to come up both in the live chat and in photos later on. Cameron Kennedy, of course, kind of funny, best friend, extraordinary. B-Sed, that's a blue sky, Tim. Something I haven't seen people mentioned, but a huge quality of life upgrade in Pocopia over Animal Crossing is having actual icons for every item. Man, I hated having every piece of furniture. or whatever in my inventory in Animal Crossing just look like the same green leaf.

Yeah. And there's, I would say, innumerable things like that where I'm right there with you, Jenny, of like, this is clearly such a successor to Animal Crossing, even though it isn't a sequel to that. But so many lessons learned, so many things change. I think that's why it's so easy for Joey and I to jump in and fall in love with. But Roger, I'm interested in you for someone who isn't that type of gamer and then also isn't a tried and true Pokemon person.

Yeah, I think the biggest difference here is. I got pretty bored with the characters and Animal Crossing, right? When you're playing around, you understand the archetypes and like, I don't know, like, six or seven of them and you're like, oh, okay, I got a jock character. Okay, it's cool, he's cute,

but like he's doing the same, you know, voice acting, whatever. Same thing, not voice acting. But you get who this guy, he's going to pick up things, and he's going to be like, I'll work out really hard, you don't do it enough.

But then to... Dude, everywhere in my fucking island. I know. Just shut up. Stop telling me about it. And then you go over here, and it's like, oh, well, like,

Bublesaur is different. and unique to Charzart. And like all of these characters are unique. And one of them has like a southern accent. Like, you know what I mean? Like it's like why they put so much love and care into each of these Pokemon to feel unique and to have those moments where it's like,

okay, sure, that maybe they're not reinventing the wheel, right? But like they feel different. They feel unique. And to see their interactions, like that, that is what's what kept me going in the beginning was like that pure joy of walking around and be like, okay, I'm doing the farming thing. I'm doing it.

Oh, why is this character running around with this character? oh, they're playing tag. Like, they're just playing a game together. And it's like, it's still like, even though it has been a little bit repetitive, right? You know, you see it happen a few times. It's like that joy of seeing a new Pokemon that you have found now running around with another Pokemon and talking about how much they like that. It's simple things, but it adds onto it because these, they have the recognizable, you know,

characteristics of being characters that we've seen for years now. And to see them on my island popping up and also running around and talking to each other and mentioning niche things about each other, like all the references, they did such a great job of building up this universe of these characters in my island and not just feeling like,

hey, here's the generic water people, here are the generic fire people. They all feel unique. Yeah, I think, you know, to your point, something that's so special about the game versus Animal Crossing. Yeah. Is the idea that Animal Crossing,

New Horizons, and I love Animal Crossing, I love New Horizons, don't get me wrong, but turning it on after years away, you come back in and it's like, okay everyone references that you haven't been there but it feels like nothing's changed nothing's happened and again pokopia isn't seeing dramatic changes to the world but the relationships and then playing and then talking and now someone staffing the pokema art than they weren't before and this that the other like

there's a vibe to coming back to that game with the exclamations and them running to tell you something that makes it feel more like again the game is coming to me rather than me going to it Animal Crossing New Horizons is I'm going to go check in with mouse what's up oh hey Bing Bong because I named you a bit, you know, I was like, but I'm making that first step with coming to me, which is such a small thing. And I think kind of hard, maybe if you're not a player, because I know so many people are tuning in that aren't playing Pokopi, that doesn't sound like a difference, but it is, Joey. Yeah, it's definitely more engaging. The amount of, like, videos and stuff that I've seen of really fun Pokemon, like, encounters with each other have, like, really

blown me away because usually I'm, like, pretty concentrated on the task at hand, and I'm like, please don't bother me. I'm in the middle of a task, whatever Pokemon's trying to chase after me. Don't give me three sticks right now. Yeah, exactly. Like, I'm looking for Pokemon metal. Like, this is not the vibe.

It is just really mind-blowing. And I'm sure for like, I'm very similar where it's like, I don't really have a huge touchstone for Pokemon other than Pokemon snap. Yeah. So it must be so fun for people that love all of these generations of Pokemon

to see them all, like, interacting with each other and stuff like that. Yeah, it's just been such a delight. And now I'm excited to, like, play more Pokemon games. Do you think that you're... Wow. Oh, I know. What does it, but what does that mean for you?

Does that mean you're waiting for a winded wave? Or does it mean you're jumping into, like... No, I want the cute, like, island-y Pikachu. Okay, okay. That's what I'm waiting for. Okay, fair enough, fair enough. D.C. Hard Rocker Super Chat and says, online with what Rogers said,

it blew my mind when you noticed that the ditto mirrors how the characters you interact with, talk. That's just an insane detail. I never noticed that. I've noticed that for me, this isn't like you have to notice it. They spell it out for you. But the first time one of the Pokemon's like,

you know what, Ditto, you've been helping me out a lot. I'm going to start calling you by your name. And they call it for me, my Ditto's name Ben. They started calling him Ben. And then to see that slowly through the other Pokemon, I was like, damn, Jenny, that's awesome. Yeah, no, I, that was the exact same thing. I realized maybe like day two or three when they start out by calling you Ditto.

And when they start calling you by your name, it's just like the best feeling. in the world. It was something I was not expecting at all. And to your points on like the Pokemon interaction, like seeing the animations too, like Bulbosaur has this adorable heart animation that they do. And it's just like I was surprised at how much the photo feature ended up being something I used because I'm not a photographer in game. But not only does it have a function where you can take pictures and actually get items essentially through that. But as you go through in play, there are these moments where you can encounter scenes between Pokemon that are

sort of more special photograph scenes that you can collect. And that just those little details that make you want to engage with every part of the game constantly. It's just, I've not engaged in a game and that is so delightful. It's amazing. Yeah. Even the little things that they could have done to, you know, cut corners of like giving onyx a bunch of berries

and be like okay you crushed them for me right and it's like okay you could have just easily just had it like a big you know fog of war of him just but you see the thing and you see him crushing them and it's like oh wow like that's you put in the work to make sure that this feels like I'm doing something special not a generic action

that he is doing yeah yeah the ability you give anybody cut up lumber do whatever right see them doing all right I'm gonna be here a while check you later and there's that point of where I understand how they can be annoying for certain people I understand. I think the game is so vast in the amount of things to do.

The amount of times I leave, all right, you guys burn all this fucking squishy clay into bricks and I just go off and then days later in game. I come back and it's, oh, sorry. That's how I do it. Okay.

No, I need the bricks. That's great. I come back on the ship and the island and they run up to me like, hey, I'm like, oh, man, I forgot I even did that because I've done it,

but I found it over there and did this and yada. This game, unfortunately, is like, really good and really bad for anybody that has ADHD because there's 17,000 things to do. And I never remember what I was doing right before it. So yeah, I have that all the time.

I'm like, oh, that was the thing over there. And I was waiting that for the house and the thing. And it's a lot to keep track of. I feel like I need a journal for this one. Yeah. I've thought about it. Yeah. But then I would also not get anything done in the game because I'm just journaling

the little crazy thing and the discovery and this or like, the amount of times I'm like, you know what? I'm just going to go up there and go to that corner. And the fact that I'm still finding stuff. The fact that, like, I feel, and this is, I guess, in Animal Crossing, I've always been drawn to finding fossils and putting them out there, right? Fishing never did it for me. So now it, I like, I like, I collect them all kind of thing, whereas fossils, I was like, I want to do that. So in Animal Crossing, New Horizons, you know, that part of the museum was done for me.

So I'm always so, I just run past, you know, the, oh, there's something in the ground there. The fact that here it is still like, am I going to get music? Am I going to get that thing, Joey and I are talking about it? I'm so inclined to stop and do or be up and I'm looking for something else like, oh, I got to go investigate that or this habitat I built forever ago off in that corner is now flashing.

I need to get over there and do that. I think my brain is still trying to figure out, like, because when I see this and I see like, especially mining and stuff, I assume Minecraft, right? So I'm like, oh, I can just fully go and just break, it's like, at least in my game,

don't tell me if there's, well, you can probably look at me and just tell me yesterday. But like, I'm going towards like, areas and it's like, oh, like, you're going too far, right? Like, or I'm hitting, like, that fog, or I'm hitting walls, or I'm like, oh, this is not procedurally generated, right? Like, there is areas for the copper, right? Like, it's not like,

hey, just go down on the earth and you'll find iron eventually. Like, you have to go to the areas and find those areas. So I think my brain, as the Minecraft person is still trying to kind of deal with that a little bit. It's not like a negative necessarily. It's just more of like, oh, I expect a mining game. I just go down the earth and I find whatever I want to do just by pure will

and resistance of just spending time and just digging on the Earth. Yeah, I feel like that's where it differentiates between like DK bananas and stuff like that where it's like the endless goal that it's like well I can't do that in this. Yeah exactly. You have to be a little bit more intentional. Yeah. Scout out places. So then Jenny, I want to start with you. Where are we all at in our journeys? So I've rolled credits. I'm still playing, but I'm really just hung up on that first area. I'm trying to make that less where I'm focused. Jenny, what are you doing right now in Pocopia? So like I said, I'm like, yes, 60, 70, like somewhere in that time frame. I have not rolled

credits yet. I have taken my sweet, sweet time. I love this for you. And I've been really so happy with that. I spent most of my time, honestly, in the wastelands, the very first area that you get maxed it out. It looks not as gorgeous as I would like it to, but I'm starting to plan and do the things. And I've unlocked two other areas, sort of like a volcano-y area and a beach area, but I have not progressed to all the biomes yet even. What happened was I saw all the ash in the volcano region. And the power wash simulator, yeah, yeah,

wait, let's just clean up some of this ash. And then it just like never stopped. And so now I have an entire like storage building of ash. Incredible. But everything looks clean. So I'm able to like finally progress this week, I think.

Awesome. I love it. What about you, Joe? I kind of did the opposite thing where I feel like my earlier biomes are such a mess because I didn't really understand what I was doing as I was playing that I have deemed one of the later biomes like this is my home one. This is where all of my stuff is. So I'm kind of moving myself backwards in terms of building houses. The decorating part is interesting because I feel like you get so many more recipes and things as you play that I'm kind of not really. really delving into that too much because I know I'm just going to acquire more things.

And then right now I'm really focusing on trying to build all the habitats and catch as many Pokemon as possible. That's usually my, I haven't really, there's so much that bothers me in terms of like patches of grass not lining up in pathways and stuff like that. But I need to get every, I need to get everything done so that I can like really hone in on the aesthetics of my area. and do it because I know that if I start it now, I'm going to be like, well, I need more room for this house and I want to put these things here and then I'm going to have to like blow it all up anyways.

Fair enough, yeah, yeah. Waiting for that till the end. Roger. I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm going to be completely honest, y'all. So I have, of course, the main area. And then I got another area, which is like a beachy area. And I started cleaning up that.

And then I was trying to do like some of the quests there. I'm trying to figure out where wheat is. I'm also trying to figure out all these Pokemon habit. I'm all over the place to the point where I'm like my brain is like, like split into so many different places and it's like I almost regret opening up that other area because I wish I just stayed in this area and just like felt a little

bit happier with it because now I feel like I have to juggle two areas and I just don't really honestly I don't like this beach area very much I don't like maybe I just don't like this Pokemon over there I got a spider one I hate this fucking spider guy. He's a literal spider I don't want that I almost literally said follow me and just took you to the end of the earth

and just said you live here you live here put him in a box exactly So yeah, I'm all over the place right now, but I think if I'm going to do this right, I have one Pokemon that I'm waiting for that will get me the potted plant situation, and I want to get some potted plants going on there, and then I'm just going to stay in this main area and just kind of build this out a little bit more,

and then finally go over there and start cleaning up. What's the little bird guy that has the bubbles that you have to spray? Oh, Pipel up? Yeah, Pipple up, yeah, and then I'm going to get all the mud and finally do the PowerWash simulator and get that all out of there. So, yeah, very early game, but having been trying to, you know, pull back a little bit. This is where I mean, you talk about it and we're all the same page of like, this is why I do truly believe like at the end of the year,

it's going to be 300 hours in the clock for me. Where it's like in between everything, popping back in between reviews, popping on a plane, whatever, you know, I have a downtime. And it's going to be that like I did the thing of mainlining it yes for review, but then also because this is how my mind works after so much animal crossing of. I want every recipe possible. I want every recipe possible. I want every thing they're going to eventually give me later on to make it easier to build and change.

And so, yeah, going back to, I am back in withered wastelands, right? And I am just cool. This wall, ugly, smash it down. I need to bring it all down to connect these two areas. Because why am I building my shitty little houses when there's a house over here to restore? But then I got to get electricity.

But then I want to go up there. I forgot that there was a mine over here. Then there's this secret thing. It's like, well, what do I put all my habitats up high on this, that and the other? Like, I'm going to spend so much time on that area long before I go back to like, let's go back to the beach. Let's go see what we need to do there.

It's crazy the depth of this game. It's nuts. and how long it will keep going for everybody. Jenny, is there going to be a problem for you and your work? You know, I have decided and started saying we should make Pocopia content for work. Smart. I'm like finding ways to try and bring it in because otherwise it is a problem for my work. Because I haven't done this since the Animal Crossing days where I am waking up to check in on the builds that I know have finished overnight.

And just doing a quick run out to like collect a few resources before I start. start my workday. I go in at lunch. It's wild. I really don't know. And it's been so much fun to see because that is the energy that's been online that I've loved even maybe more than the game itself, which is, you know, a lot is everyone seems to be in the state of just joy in discovering the game and sharing the little secrets that

they're discovering and the little tips and tricks. And it's you don't get that sort of break from a launch moving into this, what feels like. beyond launch momentum. A community, right? Yeah. Yeah, community. It's joyous for me to open Instagram or open Reddit and see the subreddit and see the post and then be flabbergasted about what other people can build versus me.

Gosh, I know. My brain just doesn't work like that. No, me neither. In terms of content, though, Jenny, over on your Instagram, you did put up a really cool post, I thought, which was attempting your first build. And you have, like, not only, you have so much, like, I like, you can tell them, again, we're talking about the community here and what people, feel the way you went into this and delved in and put text on all the screenshots and like walking

people through what you're due hash or you know asterix keyword attempting like I really appreciated the way you did that and did that but I think that's what I'm enjoying seeing these people experience it that way yeah yeah I think one thing I want to highlight is because a lot of people make the Minecraft comparison and for me that was a point of hesitation as well like I was I was nervous because I am not a Minecraft girly I don't usually enjoy games that are sandboxy I don't enjoy spending a lot of time building. But what Pocopia has done that I think is really unique and helps people like me who aren't into just building sandbox mode style is everything has a purpose where I know like

Bulbosaur wants these types of environments. It likes these things. And I want to create something for Bulbosaur. And so it gives you sort of these goals implicitly. Like you don't have to really think too hard about what you're trying to create. And so that for me has encouraged me to. start building and um yeah i've now learned i kind of like building in a sandboxy environment it's like provided me the gateway and yeah my first builds was an absolute mess but i had a great time and i'm

having fun experimenting and just getting more free with that experimentation i feel like the game is really good at like if you want to do that you have endless amounts of time and resources to like do these cool builds but if your brain doesn't work like that. It's like, hey, here are these different sizes of houses that match the aesthetic and you don't really have to put a ton of brain power into it because I feel similarly with like Minecraft. The building is like never really my part. I usually am like in the minds or something like that. Well, this is again speaking back to what I think Pocopia does so well of having the prefab houses where it is the idea you go through all these different environments

and level up their thing. You unlock, you know, the small house, the medium house, the big house, that you can throw down that look beautiful. Yeah. And it's like awesome. For me who just, I do not have that architectural mind of like, as I envision build even when I'm talking about a smashing the wall down the first area, there's that place that's dilapidated.

Let me just fix this up rather than, because if I sit down and do it, it's always just, it looks like a warehouse. I'm building a warehouse. I'll put a window in there, sure, but it doesn't look good.

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Especially if you're seeing what some players were doing like literally 48 hours after this game launch in public. Yeah. And these are your screens, right? Jenny that we're seeing right now. Oh, they're so cute. This screenshot, though, is hilarious. And honestly, I think it's the best tip I've given myself.

So I will share with everyone and take it if you'd like. I will look at these majestic builds and be on inspired Austro. like bow down and then I'll look at and try to find one thing that I can copy just like yeah and so the one element from this like beautiful is the sort of cottage core foresty park tree house build and I was like they put the light bulbs like the glow lamps yeah inside the walls I was like I'm gonna do that everywhere on my island I love that that's really that is where where I tried that it's like yeah you see what people are doing out there and it's like the rudimentary me and Altono at IGN Minecraft stuff. I'm pulling

out of like when Ben, I was with Ben I'm like, hey look, that looks pretty high. We can't get to it. He's like, yeah, I'm like, watch this. And I just jumped up in blocks underneath. I never destroy them. I just got to leave them there forever now. I have so many of those. But then if you want, Barrett, I want to jump. It's on the sheet under Godlike build.

This is Vanessa, aka a.k.a.k.a. Zoy Bean over on Instagram. Vanessa is an Animal Crossing influencer I follow. Okay. Who immediately jumped on the the Pocopia stuff. It's just starting to cranking through the most incredible shit. And it was that idea where I was like,

I can't believe she was able to make the jump from Animal Crossing to this so seamlessly. And you can just scroll on these thumbnails, Barry. You're doing great. Of all the, it was to the point that she had to put up a post on, and I believe this was Vanessa on our stories of like, everybody who's upset that I'm not.

Okay, now we're back to Animal Crossing. I was like, this is crazy. I am still an Animal Crossing creator. I will still put up Animal Crossing things, but I have to ride the Pocopia high for a second. Yeah. I don't do this. And I look at this and it's the idea of like,

damn. Using those fun eardescent blocks like that? Right. Every time I open up the subreddit and see what people are making. I'm like, God damn. And I was at least like, well, at least, you know, in our community, I'm doing fine. If we can throw up at Cameron Kennedy's Instagram that I put

in here, Camden is just going insane. But he's got that like artsy. Yeah, I know. But still, I don't like seeing it. I don't like seeing how your talent to yourself, Cameron. Look at this. Yeah. Oh my gosh. He went through and made this like basically, I mean, for me, Ghostbusters Firehouse, but whatever you want to call

New York building, right? Like a shared space. This, look, he's got the fucking goddamn retail on the bottom, residential on the top thing. With the fire escapes and like all of that stuff. It's like outrageous to see what people are. I love to see it.

It's incredible, but like you go into this like. And now we're inside where we've talked, right, Joe, of like, in Animal Crossing having so few, and I'm including the hotel, right, and the happy home island. So few interiors to decorate, that seemed manageable. The amount of houses and buildings I'm putting down, even in my one area of

Pokopi, I'm like, I can't. I can't be bothered with what they look like inside. No. You get your three pieces of furniture, move in Pokemon so I can move on. Yeah. I, yeah, I feel like the item acquisition process in Pokopi is a lot longer than the one in Animal Crossing. I felt like I was able to get more items and like have more of a vision. Yeah.

But I feel like with this one, I'm getting stuff a little bit more. slow drip to me. So it's harder to have a cohesive look for everything, which is kind of why I'm not doing it because I'm waiting to unlock. You don't have a whole bunch of stuff. But like, how much is, what,

how many things are in the game? Like, how much am I going to be? Like, is that just going to be a never-ending problem for me? How are you all dealing with habitats and everything? I'm sorry, in terms of like building houses for all your Pokemon. Are you doing that?

Are you building houses for every single one to your Pokemon? I start with the habitat. And then when I put down the house, I move them into the house. Okay. I do that where every bulldoze their habitat for pretty much every

Pokemon. Yeah, I want everybody in a house so that I'm going to worry about their habitat. My entire first area has no houses because I didn't understand that until I got to the second one. Now it's the point where they're like, you know, you have Pokemon who are asking for specific

habitats. I'm like, all right, bro, but get in the house. You know what I mean? I was pissed at Scyther. I built him the biggest house that I had and then he's like, awesome. Hey, I need a new house. I was like, bro, no, you're not. You're not getting a new house. You're staying there. I think the habitat,

I guess the creation or the way that they built this out just doesn't make sense in my mind a little bit where it's like okay so I'm putting this this person that wanted to be by the water in in like in the water and now just a house and then they're cool with that you know what I mean like it just that part to me doesn't make any sense and I'm waiting for them to be like hey bro like I know they sometimes like oh it's too bright or whatever but it's never like a super negative reaction right you can just kind of put whoever together and it just be fine right so I think that part of it is like my brain is expecting more of like role playing and trying to figure out what these people like

but that's not really how this game works yeah yeah chat's popping off with different things, right? What, I think that's Polo7. OT. The big thing is stacking habitats, habitat inside custom houses. And then Billy says, if you give them a house, they won't disappear. They'll just go into their house.

Otherwise, you have to use honey to call them. Which I haven't had to do. I don't know if that was... No, I haven't either. I think with the habitat thing, I think that is more of like a tutorial thing where they're teaching you, like, how to do this at the beginning.

And then you're moving them into houses. You can reuse those habitats and not have to build like 17 of the... the same ones or whatever okay like that I like if she was an inspiration person where I'm not doing it but I could see the idea of like all right you want it to be fucking humided here

let's put a hot tub in I'm building something inside it'll then be the vibe for what you're doing because in the very beginning I was like I'm never building a house because like why would Bulbosur want a house you know what I mean like why would this do want a house like I can't put a fire inside this I was going to burn down I can't

go and it's going to get so dry over on BS that's a blue sky Tim I put out the call for folks to share their stuff. Grim Gray Beard shared one and said, this is my huge aviary for my bird Pokemon. Of course, Grim Gray Beard is a kind of funny best friend live with us right now who's super chatted

as Mr. Grimstone and says I'm close to 100 hours into the game. I also am the one who sent the picture of the aviary. And again, I love that idea of like, okay, cool. That's such another level of thinking. Where again, I'm like, I want cute house. Put down cute house. Put people in it. So they do

And then it'd be like, no, I want this house to be this. And even when they're like, I love hanging out with whoever I'm like, you would like to live with them. That is not in my purview right now. No, they already have a house. I appreciate you saying that. Get into this other hoffle left thrown together. I'd like to jump in then to the one I got broken relic in there too. This is another BS blue sky that got shared.

This is, I like the caption of this one is still a work in progress. Building a skyscraper house with a ladder inspired by the snake eater ladder moment. as you can see. It might, if you look at it, you're like, why would we showcase this brick house? But when you see the giant ladder going to the giant platform above, I'm like, all my God, that's cool. I like what you're working on. I like what you're working on there. This comes back to something you mentioned by accident, Roger, all right?

But BanderS.N. Super Chats in. Has anyone tried mouse mode? It's a game changer. No. Has anybody used mouse mode here? I'm a handheld girl. I started using mouse mode on the plane back and I was like, oh no. Like, this is so off.

Because you don't, you know, so mouse mode, of course, you know, you flip the thing over and you're going. But, you know, when you're playing the game naturally and you're trying to destroy a bunch of blocks above your head, you look like three up and then it stops. You can't look beyond that. With this one, you can just go da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da and just destroy all those. So when I was trying to connect my areas in that first area and smash through, it was like, oh, mouse mode is such a game changer as Bander writes in. I was smashed for all this stuff to be done with it. Okay. Yeah, yeah, very pretty safe.

That's pretty sick. You don't have to. You could stick around. But it's going to be so much more. very sure I mean talk about the things that animal crossing doesn't have right you know what I mean like that that was the one of the big update where I was like oh man they're gonna totally do it they're gonna have like builder pro where you know my fiance I can finally get out from underneath how that fucking animal crossing has built this and she can actually do it no they would never do that so it would never do that bookopia just has this and so many quality of life improvements just yeah yeah yeah are there things you're playing right now Jenny as you play through this and I want everybody that you go oh man this could be better are there things that stand out of like we're giving it so much praise because it deserves it But even with me in mouse mode, right, where it's like, okay, I'm smashing blocks. It'd be way better to be able to click and drag. Yeah.

Just eat up all these. You know, kill up all these. Go into like a full edit. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that would be so nice. Honestly, like my biggest kryptonite right now is the organization. Sure.

Because I have done such a poor job. And I think it would be nice if there was something like a little bit more unifying beyond just like the region of, you know, putting the stuff in your. I use my house actually as my home base and that way I can always teleport but outside that building it's kind of like no man's land and who knows what's out there is just all in boxes

so I would love for organizational stuff to be different I think like the thing I noticed the most is like Ony is getting stuck in different wonky spots for me but there isn't really too much other than that I've heard like load times but for me I've actually appreciated

some of the load times especially going on, it gets a little bit longer, but I realize I don't look up from the screen. So I'm like, those load times are actually my stand up and let's take a quick stretch break. This is water. Yeah, so this is actually like wellness check. Yeah, my criticism is also the storage thing of like,

there's the hacks of you can put the storage bins touching the bench and then pull stuff out of there. But I was really, that was one of my goals when I was playing thrift. is I really hope by the end it would be the do do do do here's the stores that connect here's a here's a here's a here's a macuffin yeah connects everything so it isn't I need I need clay even though that's never a problem but I need and I know I have it in whatever bit and I go area to area to area to area looking for it trying to I also wish that there was a better way to like

dispose of items and I understand why you wouldn't necessarily want that but like I don't want 17 chests full of like the volcanic ash and stuff like that and I don't like sure I could put it somewhere dumb that I never have to think about it but I wish that I could just get rid of stuff that I didn't need especially when it's like the environment sure breaking down stuff rogy I have a lot of little things with the habitats and like trying to figure out where my Pokemon are okay which because like they overlap so much for me at least in this you know very beginning part of the game where it's like you know a pidgey's right next to charmander it's all next to this, right? And then, like, pressing the

right stick, it just shows you this big square where it's like, oh, I just wanted a little icon above where they live, because that's his house, clearly. So just why don't you just put a little icon that you have in the corner, just put it right there. And then also, like, little things, like last time I was playing, and I forget why, but I was talking to, I think,

Bulbosaur, and I needed to know something about his habitat or something like that, or I was, whatever. And it's like, oh, there should totally be a like, I should be able to press, you know, back or whatever, some button to just pull up that person's pokey decks. so I could just actually see what they need and see where their vibes are,

where they are, or what their habitat is. Little quality of life things and also the UI. I don't love the UI of looking through my habitats and seeing like, okay, well, it's grayed out. That means I never got any version of this habitat.

Like I haven't gotten any Pokemon. I haven't even tempted to make that habitat. Okay, but then it's, it just is not green. So that means I haven't gotten all of them. You know what I mean? I want a yellow almost instead of just having like that weird in between where it's gray.

Like I just want to like, hey, you've, you started doing this, right? Like, there's little... Isn't that just that when it becomes colorized? Yeah, but it's just, for me, it's just like not enough. Like, I, when I associate it, like, I haven't done it before. It's like, no, you have done it. Someone moved your microphone around. Barrett's saying something.

Yeah, Joe, if you could put your microphone on your desk. Sorry. Yeah, we're getting some weird feedback there. But yeah, just little UI things that I, especially when it comes to the habitats that I'm just, I'm not loving, but it's not, not Dilberg. I can also talk to the Pokemon and be like, hey, here's why. I live and just walks over you. Yeah.

I actually really like that system. I also am very appreciative of how good they are at giving you all the information you need so you don't have to look stuff up of like, oh, this is the quest, this is the Pokemon, this is the habitat, you press X, it gives you all the items you need and all of that stuff. I was like, oh, you just made it so much easier to where I'm not like having to talk to them to hunt them down to figure out what the thing was. It's like all very accessible. I'll be interested to see, you know, obviously we just did on Games Daily the announcement of this bug patch they're pushing through yet to yet. Obviously we already have our first event going on. There's support for this game.

And I'll be interested to see how it evolves over the next six months. Because I do feel like what you're talking about being able to track this, being a little bit more specific storage solutions. These are all things that you would imagine are going to get patched in some regard because it seems no brainer that you would want that there. And I don't think it takes away. You know, I've seen so many like, what I would call dream builds online of how people are doing storage or they're making the

different signs to be like, all right, this is where I'm putting my berries and my building materials. I saw one today that I didn't even thought about where they were stacking the crates three tall and two over. So then they had like an archive and they're like a library that they just went through and they could access them all that way. I was like damn, that's really smart too. Like I'm about that life but again I know it will just be the ugliest shit of all time when I start doing it. So I know I need to. That's I have so many two-doss in of Pocopi. I'm like, I'm eventually going to get my area to this thing,

but when will I ever actually do it? Who knows? Yeah, it's nice to play a game that is published by Nintendo. That is a, you know, cozy game that has all these things that we want change, that we're like, oh, there's a huge possibility that they're going to change it, right? Like, it's like, Animal Crossing, it was like, oh, there's the hope. And it's like, oh, six months later. It's like, where the updates? Oh, it's the final update.

Oh, shit. Like, that's, it's exciting and hopeful that we get expansions. We get big things coming out for this. I hope that Nintendo doesn't look at the, and say, you're working up, Pacopia 2 right now. You better stop. We made way too much money.

You better stop right now updating this video game. Even the fact that they're doing like the events and stuff right now so early after launch. Yeah. Gives me like a lot of hope that they're going to put a lot of support behind it.

And there's always Pokemon content, right? You know, there's new games. There's new, you know, anime, all that jazz. And that's the thing, yeah, Pokemon in general, like they're so good about supporting all their games throughout that I'd be like,

yeah, for sure you're going to see stuff come and go for this. A Pokemon Go, Pocopia tie-in, something like that. Yeah. let alone all these dittos in the Nintendo store Oh, did you go? I did Oh, they have a bunch? Yeah, oh yeah, they have them for a whole Yeah, it's it's the thing where

Especially after credits My deal is no no I love ditto Like I said I was talking to Jessica on this where she's like Hey, we're gonna get a restock and I'm like Listen Ditto doesn't need to put on a face for me Like what we've just gone through

I love ditto I don't need to worry about anything on that End or whatever I want to jump into a bunch of different super chats here and I see one that we will start with. Let me just get it all prepped here. Phantom, Phantoms Tempest 4-0-0-1 says Tim set on Pokemon Presents he wouldn't be playing this.

Now that it's a huge hit, has that changed? I love the mainline games and feel similar. We will call Tim Getty's. I'm going to say no. This is like not a Tim. I think he'll jump in, but I think he's going to go far. He'll try it. He'll buy it out physically.

Gia on the other thing. Tim, it's Greg. You're live on the kind of funny games cast. How are you? Good. What's up, everybody. I was watching for the first half of the show. Y'all are doing great. Thank you. Do you want to say hi to Jenny? Hi, Jenny. Thank you.

Hi. We have a super chat from Phantoms. He says, Tim said on the Pokemon presents, he wouldn't be playing Pocopia. Now that it's a huge hit, has that changed? I love the mainline games and feel similar. You know, it hasn't changed. I do have FOMO.

Okay. And all of the, the, the Kanto kind of, spoilery stuff, is very enticing to me. but I'm just, I'm not into the, like, you know, crafty stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, you put crapting in games, I don't like it. When that's the point of the game, I don't know, I don't know. It being successful doesn't really do much for me. I'm excited that more people act kind of funny or, like, into Pokemon as much as they are.

Like, getting Roger and Joey is huge, huge. There was a moment that I thought that we had an extra code, and I was like, maybe I'll give this thing a shot, and didn't happen. so I'm like, all right, I'm really going to go out and buy this game? The answer is yes. I am going to go buy this game. But that's just because I'm a broken person. But how much I put into it?

Probably not much. I'm going to be honest. Okay. Didn't I send you a code? I don't think so. Okay. Joey, raise her hand. Joey, you go.

Do you think that Gia is going to be into this? She could be. This could be a Gia game. Yeah, she's got a lot going on. Okay. Fair enough. Fair enough. Okay.

Well, thank you so much, Tim. Yeah, I miss you guys. I miss you, Tim. I miss you. We miss you, kind of. Me and Nick, we're just talking about how great it is. We drank beers today. We have three beers.

Three beers. When did you drink? Me and Roger are three years. I watch games daily. Oh, okay. Don't worry about that kind of funny podcast part. No, here's an important thing. I know I can't take up too much time on air for this, but because of the

FOMO of Pokemon, everyone's playing Fire Red, right? And the girls playing Picopia. I was like, I can't. I made it. through a couple gyms and fire red. I can't do this to myself. I do not need to play this game again. So of course I went back to Pokemon Violet, okay?

Fair enough. If there's still things to do, I'm playing for so many hours just trying to like grind that final finish to get every single thing done. And Greg, I'm going to have to talk to you. We're going to have to figure this out. I need to borrow your switch to for a couple hours

and I need to trade some things from Scarlett. It's a whole thing. I only have like five of these motherfuckers left. I'll have the entire Pokedex DLC. Wow. We make that happen, Tim. Anything for you? Appreciate it. I'll talk to you there. Bye.

What a nice young man. Yeah. But in that, in Tim's Lane, we have, I'm gonna say, well, you say cigar, so I go, Guy Gar, who writes in, it says, damn, I feel like you're crazy person. This is super chat. This game is not pulling me in the way it is for literally everyone else.

Hopefully it clicks for me soon. I am so well versed in the game, the talk of the town, just not clicking with you. If it doesn't click, don't force it. There's like, you're not, if it isn't working, you're not going to turn this corner to be like, wait,

now I fucking love it. Yeah, I feel like this is a pretty quick, you know if you vibe with this or you don't, because it's really just more of it as you keep going. It's not a huge change. Piro says, over 60 hours into Pocopian loving the gameplay loop.

Building isn't my strong suit, but having fun regardless. and I think that's the thing where you can be someone who's making the most amazing shit of all time but you can also be throwing down just a foundation

and a door and be like that's good enough for now and then come back if you want to for me it's like not even like entering my mind you know what I mean like as you were showing me all this I was like I didn't even know

that was like possible I guess I thought in like the back of my head it's possible but like I have so much shit to do I have to keep all these fires from you know from taking over the entire village tarmanders just burned down everything

he'll do it God it's not playing a different game, everybody. Devon's Super Chat and says, went and bought a switch to for my girlfriend, and we have been playing nonstop. We have about 45 to 50 hours in it. That's another one I've enjoyed so many different date nights I've seen of people switched up,

two TVs up, ready to go, sharing the same world. Is Jen into this or not? You know, when I got a review code and Jen watched that night once she's like, I'm going to be into this, but she has not made time. Granted, it's been GDC, which is so hectic. But I'll be interested to see between her

pottery and other hobbies when she'd fit this in. But she still seems like it. She still seems gonna go. We do have it for her. I was gonna say, my friends, we did a Sunday Pocopia date yesterday where we just like went to this cute cafe, got snacks, played Pocopia. And literally everyone coming in either talked about wanting Pocopia or was also playing.

So it was so neat to see just like, oh. Now did you play your own worlds or did you go do like a shared world thing? We did both. we started off and we were like doing our own dailies and kind of hanging out and then it was my friends jazz and enna they had been playing together on a cloud island already and so I came and

became part of their cloud island and so now we have space together so very exciting a couple more super chas to close out the show here. Chrono Riggs says my favorite part of Pocopi is seeing people that have never played a Pokemon game learn about some of the Pokemon lore like Cubone and his mom or Drifloom

LOL.O.L. There's a lot going on in like the art of Cubone and his mom things have been pretty incredible. Terrifying as always, but incredible. BG. 25800 said stores are pissed that they could not sell a physical copy to people already at the store to buy the console. Will Nintendo course correct? Absolutely not. I don't think you'll see Nintendo changed how they do it because, of course, they'd rather than buy them online.

They'd rather you go home and buy it there so they'd have to share that money with Target and etc. But they can't, they did release a physical cop. They did, but it's been sold out in many. many places. Not for Nintendo's Sor. You walk by, they got piles of them back there. They're ready. They're taking you where you need to be. Neo-Ao-A-O-She writes in and says, thank you, Jenny, and wholesome games for supporting my charity drive for WCK last year. One of the things I would love to see improve in Pocopia would be a way to track items. Yeah, we're on part of keeping track of what you want. But then, of course, yes, shout out to

Holesome Games and Jenny. Yeah. Verum Dex says this is the first Pokemon game where I truly care about my Pokemon and feel like I have a bond with them. And I think that's an interesting angle on it as well. You both not to go, for me playing the games, there's the Pokemon who have, you know, like, Altaria, who I'm like, oh, man, like, you save my day. You're my first 100. You did this thing. Like, I have a connection there versus the connection I feel here to Ditto and the professor. Like, that's a different level of Pokemon connection of you're just not some stupid animal.

ball. Like you have feelings and I need to take care of you. Yeah, mine's just, I find a cute one and I decide that you are now my favorite. I appreciate that. I got the puppy with the cinnamon roll ears or something like that. I don't know what any of these are called,

but I'm really, that's actually the official name. Way to see YAMP. Well, what's funny is when I was a kid, like the thing that I wanted, like I loved Pokemon. I started,

you know, red blue way back in the day. And the only thing that I wished as a kid was like, like live with Pokemon. I wanted them to be real. And this is like genuinely the closest we've gotten to, just like hanging out and living with our Pokemon, which is great. Hell.

Yeah. Roger. Hi. Joey. Yes. Myself. Oh. And Jordan Midler gave this a nine on a kind of funny scale.

Are you at a point where you think you could review it and give it a score? No, not yet. I need to give me 30 hours more. I got it. I got you. Jenny, what about you? Do you have a score for this that you've been thrown around? Yes.

Yes, for me, and I guess because it's kind of funny is the 10 point scale, correct? We do that. We do point fives if you want to talk to me. You know, I love a good whole number. I don't like to sit in the point five. So I would give it personally a 10 out of 10 for me, even with. You already your first, everybody. Yeah.

For me, even the gripes that I have, those are such nitpicky things that haven't overtaken my enjoyment of the game overall. And for me, if I am returning to a game to this, degree, like that is something to take note of. And I just, it's a 10 out of 10. This is honestly like frontrunner for Goody for me at this point. Yeah. Yeah, I know. Me too. This is the top game of the year for me. Resident Evil below it, another fantastic game. But yeah, this game's awesome. It's going to take a lot to beat Resident Evil for me, Greg. I'm going to be completely honest. Sure, sure, sure. It might be 30. What about us? Wintercell. Yeah. 2029, 2030.

Okay, fair enough. Fair enough. Uh, Jenny, where can people keep up with you? You've been a delight this episode. Thank you so much for making the time on short notice too. Yeah. Oh my gosh. It's been a joy being here and hanging out with you all and all the best friends. Me personally, I'm at Jenny Windham on Instagram. I'm Kimchika. Everywhere else, YouTube, Twitch all the places. I'm well connecting things. I followed you for you. Hey. And so, yeah, you can find me online personally. I love to talk about indie games, all kinds, not just like Wholesome Cozy Games.

And then I also am part of Wholesome Games, the organization where we do shows and we publish games. You can find everything at wholesomegames.com. Shouting out, we have submissions open for Wholesome Direct 2026. So if we're a game dev and you want your game in a showcase this summertime, that's a great opportunity if it fits within sort of the general feel. And co-hosts as well, we always invite a group of creators to come, and help announce the games during the show.

And so if you are or know any content creators who you think would be great, applications are open or submissions are open. Awesome. Oh, yeah. Jenny, thank you again so much for your time. Yeah, thank you for having me. Everybody, thank you for your time.

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