Pokopia made me look at Pokémon’s high-tech future in a whole new way
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Pokopia's inclusion of a 3D printer in a restored Pokémon Center unexpectedly highlights the series' advanced technology, prompting a fresh perspective on its sci-fi elements that were previously taken for granted.
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Pokémon Pokopia features, of all things, a 3D printer. I wasn't sure why this surprised me so much, given all the other high-tech gear in pretty much every Pokémon game. But I was not expecting to find, inside the once-crumbling Pokémon Center I'd just worked hard to restore, a kind of machine I'd never seen before.
Until Pokopia, I hadn't spent much time thinking about tech in the Pokémon world. I've been Pokémon-pilled for so long that I took all its sci-fi technology for granted. Sure, there are magic PCs that can digitally store living creatures - that's how it's always been. Obviously fossils can be resurrected and obviously sometimes …