Yeah it's 75% Dragon Quest Builders 2, 25% ACNH. If you complete DQB2 you'll see so many features that everyone is praising Pokopia for.
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Yeah it's 75% Dragon Quest Builders 2, 25% ACNH. If you complete DQB2 you'll see so many features that everyone is praising Pokopia for.
Pokopia has been such a huge delight to play dude, been screaming from the rooftops how good it'd be since I loved the Dragon Quest Builders games, but I had no idea it'd be this good
Game has made me tear up several times and its just so fun to build stuff for my lil virtual monsters ๐ฅน
Pokemon Pokopia is one of the best Pokemon games ever, but not because it's a Pokemon game.
REVIEW: Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly Remake
"...this is a distant departure from what made the original so breathtakingly horrifying, sacrificing all the subtlety that made you feel at unease and replacing it with cheap tricks."
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Pokรฉmon Pokopia reminds us of an important lesson: other developers can - and should - take risks with the Pokรฉmon IP
Third-party dev just made the most thrilling Pokรฉmon in years.
Iโve sunk nearly 20 hours into Pokรฉmon Pokopia in 3 days โ a grim, Animal Crossing x Stardew Kanto from Koei Tecmo/Omega Force.
Copies are selling out on Switch 2.
Will Nintendo let outsiders steer the franchise?
One that's truly special to me - Bladestorm!
Secretly last in Koei's Kessen series, trading Japanese history for European. The Hundred Years War, mangled Dynasty Warriors style. Pure dumb strategy-lite fun. Overhauled over the PS360 version.
Usually VERY overpriced. Often under ยฃ15 in sales though
Koei Tecmo and Team Ninja released the Ver 1.04 update for Nioh 3, which adds the Thunderous equipment set along with numerous game balance adjustments:
https://www.rpgsite.net/news/19825-nioh-3-ver-104-update-releases-with-thunderous-equipment-sets-distributed-to-all-players
Saiyuki: Journey West (Koei - PSX - 2001) obscurevideogames.tumblr.com/post/8075347...
WinBack: Covert Operations (1999)
Omega Force, Koei Tecmo
Nintendo 64
Pokopia shows me that over all else, that my "always bet on Koei Tecmo" stance is proven once more
I'm not sure, but Koei Tecmo I notice is a bit odd when it comes to optimization and download sizes compared to other games.
For example it takes about 100GB to install Nioh 2 and 3 (not sure about Nioh 1 but I assume the same) while Elden Ring only takes like 50.
Absolutely! Only main exception is arguably Metroid: Other M. That one received mixed reception. Some folks enjoyed it, though.
That would be so awesome! The closest they got was Yo-Kai Sangokushi on the 3DS in 2016. Asian exclusive, of course ๐ข
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Now that Koei Tecmo did Conquest and Pokopia, when's Pokemon ร Romance of the Three Kingdoms?
Imagine a World War II Kessen
Not like Koei doesn't have experience with the setting
Koei Tecmo has been an incredible partner for Nintendo this last decade.
Koei Techmo needs to take a page out of the Warriors formula following Dragon Quest Builders 1&2 and Pokemon Pokopia. I NEED A Zelda / Hyrule game in this style. Like I desire.
I suspect they've intentionally made efforts to differentiate Pokopia from DQB2 by adding more Animal Crossing influences, changing the control scheme, and excluding combat. That way it is its own game and doesn't compete with Square Enix's property.
Koei Tecmoโs Omega Force really getting the most out of their Dragon Quest Builders tech.
Cover art for "Jailus The Last Battle" (ใธใฃใคใฉใน)
Believe it or not, this actually isn't as far fetched as it seems! Koei had a sub-brand called COMIX for like 2yrs in the mid-80s. They released "Jailus The Last Battle" (ใธใฃใคใฉใน) in 1984. Shares a remarkably similar Japanese name. The creator even made a sequel last year! hijk0909.itch.io/jailus2
For the prompt "games that made me who I am", subtext "FOR BETTER OR WORSE". I put them roughly in release order.
KOEI's outsized influence on my child brain ๐คช
I'm kinda thinking the reason Pokopia is so good is because it's a Koei Techmo joint and they can make a good game when it doesn't involve their own IP (sorry that's slight shade but I do love them, just kinda how it is.)
Also, I really did love DQBuilders 2 a LOT so they already had a fan in me...
I just started Pokopia and I'm a little peeved that nobody told me it's basically Dragon Quest Builders 3??
![[PC-88] Nobunaga no Yabou: Zenkoku-ban OST Boost Mix / ไฟก้ทใฎ้ๆ ๅ
จๅฝ็ BGM / Yoko Kanno / KOEI](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rlbnkjbmzq2zweppjsxpgc5i/bafkreiac3yn2jtnx64bgxa3uvls6isi57bapojdp7wsuczoigknw7iv2am)
Ok third one in a couple days, one more X1 soundtrack queued up whenever I can finish the video. PC-88 Nobunaga no Yabou: Zenkoku-ban (the first game in series with music, very iconic themes now with 80s style silky reverb/bass) #pc88 #nobunagasambition #koei #gamemusic youtu.be/Rt5agNiTudA?...
Are they? That's silly. Koei are the Japanese kings of simulation games, and this is their second Pokemon game
DQB2
I kinda forgot that Koei Tecmo were doing Pokopia, turns out that most of the games ive been playing this year have been from them:
Dynasty Warriors
Nioh
Pokopia
Theyve been on a great run of games for me in particular.
hey nintendo, pokemon, koei tecmo...
why no Pokemon Conquest 2 ๐
Meanwhile single player games, while not making ALL of the money, have continuously proven they're much safer investments that don't blow your company up from the inside out.
Koei Tecmo has been surviving off of Dynasty Warriors and NNA iterations for 26 years and now Nioh exists to do the same.
I suspect that's a key reason for so many things being different in Pokopia. UI, control scheme, battle mechanics, how you progress, etc. And to be fair, the OG Pokemon games had a lot of similar tile assets to the OG Dragon Quest games, too
