‘Pokémon Pokopia’ is even better than ‘Animal Crossing: New Horizons’

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We tuned into a baseball game, he picked up my guitar, and I eagerly booted up “Pokémon Pokopia,” the 30-year-old franchise’s new cozy life simulator game, which is unlike anything we’ve seen from Pokémon before. I only looked up because the baseball game was about to end. But while “Animal Crossing” is pure escapism, “Pokopia” at least gives you the sensation of actually rehabilitating a broken world.

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