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Early reviews mark Pokemon Pokopia as one of the best games in the series

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The embargo for Pokemon Pokopia reviews has was lifted earlier today, and boy are those reviews ever positive. Coming in with an average score of 89 on Metacritic and 88 on OpenCritic, the game is set to be one of the highest-rated titles in the Pokemon series to date. It should be noted that these reviews naturally only include those written by outlets with early access to the game, but is a strong indicator that we have a fantastic game on the way.

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Being developed by both Koei Tecmo and Game Freak, Pokopia appears to take a good bit of inspiration from the Dragon Quest Builders series, blending it together with the bright atmosphere and familiar faces of the Pokemon franchise. I'd love to give you more information than that, but wanting to keep the game fresh for myself, I've personally skipped the reviews and early footage. Anybody on the fence can expect a review from us around a week after the game launches, but know it's one I've been looking forward to since it was originally announced.

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Scarlet said:

The embargo for Pokemon Pokopia reviews has was lifted earlier today, and boy are those reviews ever positive. Coming in with an average score of 89 on Metacritic and 88 on OpenCritic, the game is set to be one of the highest-rated titles in the Pokemon series to date. It should be noted that these reviews naturally only include those written by outlets with early access to the game, but is a strong indicator that we have a fantastic game on the way.


Being developed by both Koei Tecmo and Game Freak, Pokopia appears to take a good bit of inspiration from the Dragon Quest Builders series, blending it together with the bright atmosphere and familiar faces of the Pokemon franchise. I'd love to give you more information than that, but wanting to keep the game fresh for myself, I've personally skipped the reviews and early footage. Anybody on the fence can expect a review from us around a week after the game launches, but know it's one I've been looking forward to since it was originally announced.

:arrow: Metacritic Page
:arrow: OpenCritic Page
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I have high hopes for it coming from a good chunk of the Dragon Quest Builders team.
 
Esdeath said:
The fact that sun/moon has the same rating as white tells me all I need to know about how meaningful the score is
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Honestly, I thought you already figured out that critic/"journalist" scores are garbage metrics to use when making game purchase decisions. I mean, in what world does The Last of Us Part 2 being only two or three average score points below The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker and TLoZ Twilight Princess make any sense? (Especially when you look at the User Scores on Metacritic, where the gap is much, much wider - a 9.0 average for Wind Waker and 8.9 average for Twilight Princess vs. TLoU2's 5.9 average.) Hell, being close to even God of War (2018) should be considered an insult (94 for GoW vs. 93 for TLoU2, when the User Score difference is just as wide as with the Nintendo examples).
 
NostalgicMillennial said:
I'll wait until the "rated high to not get blacklisted by Nintendo for future review codes" reviews come in.
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you got that correct. sites like ign are forced to advertise with fake ratings and over promote because they are given gifts and access to nintendo that if they dont do as they are told no more free trips to nintendo events paid for by nintendo. their writers acknowledge it all the time for both nintendo and disney. they get given free products, trips, and tons of stuff to play ball.
 
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AndorfRequissa said:
you got that correct. sites like ign are forced to advertise with fake ratings and over promote because they are given gifts and access to [insert AAA dev here] that if they dont do as they are told no more free trips to [insert AAA dev here] events paid for by [insert AAA dev here]. their writers acknowledge it all the time for both [insert AAA dev here] and [insert AAA dev here]. they get given free products, trips, and tons of stuff to play ball.
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Fixed it for you, because you could insert literally any other AAA dev (especially Western ones), and it'll still be true (if not more true that just throwing Nintendo's name in there without context or nuance). Hell, the aforementioned The Last of Us Part 2 has a much higher rating than it deserves, when you look at the sheer different between the Critic Score and User Score (with only the latter consisting of review that weren't average or better), but I'm sure Sony and Naughty Dog would've royally screwed over any reviewer that was 100% honest with their review of that game.
 
Scarlet said:

The embargo for Pokemon Pokopia reviews has was lifted earlier today, and boy are those reviews ever positive. Coming in with an average score of 89 on Metacritic and 88 on OpenCritic, the game is set to be one of the highest-rated titles in the Pokemon series to date. It should be noted that these reviews naturally only include those written by outlets with early access to the game, but is a strong indicator that we have a fantastic game on the way.


Being developed by both Koei Tecmo and Game Freak, Pokopia appears to take a good bit of inspiration from the Dragon Quest Builders series, blending it together with the bright atmosphere and familiar faces of the Pokemon franchise. I'd love to give you more information than that, but wanting to keep the game fresh for myself, I've personally skipped the reviews and early footage. Anybody on the fence can expect a review from us around a week after the game launches, but know it's one I've been looking forward to since it was originally announced.

:arrow: Metacritic Page
:arrow: OpenCritic Page
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Hmmmmm.... Highly doubt this. I am interested however, so used fer 10-20 dollars off... yeah, I'll consider it, 'specially with that game key-card crap.
But to be honest I'll wait fer Winds/Waves AND ESPECIALLY the new Digimon game Switch port!
 
Scarlet said:

The embargo for Pokemon Pokopia reviews has was lifted earlier today, and boy are those reviews ever positive. Coming in with an average score of 89 on Metacritic and 88 on OpenCritic, the game is set to be one of the highest-rated titles in the Pokemon series to date. It should be noted that these reviews naturally only include those written by outlets with early access to the game, but is a strong indicator that we have a fantastic game on the way.


Being developed by both Koei Tecmo and Game Freak, Pokopia appears to take a good bit of inspiration from the Dragon Quest Builders series, blending it together with the bright atmosphere and familiar faces of the Pokemon franchise. I'd love to give you more information than that, but wanting to keep the game fresh for myself, I've personally skipped the reviews and early footage. Anybody on the fence can expect a review from us around a week after the game launches, but know it's one I've been looking forward to since it was originally announced.

:arrow: Metacritic Page
:arrow: OpenCritic Page
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Cant wait to emulate this. I refuse to buy a Switch 2, haha.
 
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ChronosNotashi said:
Honestly, I thought you already figured out that critic/"journalist" scores are garbage metrics to use when making game purchase decisions
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Of course I know, but when I read news on a site like this that acts like "higher score on metacritic = better " I feel inclined to criticize it, and the picture just happened to provide a perfect example.
 
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