Pokopia made me look at Pokémon’s high-tech future in a whole new way
Pokemon 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 Pokemon game. But I was not expecting to find, inside the once-crumbling Pokemon 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 Pokemon world. I've been Pokemon-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 ...