{"id":1979,"date":"2025-09-12T14:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T14:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/?p=1979"},"modified":"2025-09-17T15:12:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T15:12:23","slug":"this-is-the-pokemon-spin-off-i-didnt-know-i-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/12\/this-is-the-pokemon-spin-off-i-didnt-know-i-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"This is the Pok\u00e9mon spin-off I didn&#8217;t know I needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love Pok\u00e9mon and will always look forward to news about a new one coming, but I have to admit, I wasn\u2019t expecting to see a spin-off that seems to take elements from Animal Crossing, Minecraft, and Dragon Quest. Yet, that\u2019s exactly what I got with Pok\u00e9mon Pokopia during the September 2025 Nintendo Direct.<\/p>\n<p>In this game, you get to play as Ditto, which transforms itself into a human, going around making Pok\u00e9mon friends and building homes for them to enjoy. To do so, as you can see in the trailer, you need to make the most out of your friends\u2019 abilities. For instance, if you need some grass, it looks like Bulbasaur is the \u2018mon for the job.<\/p>\n<p>This game looks utterly adorable, and it features some of the best Pok\u00e9mon out there, including Scyther, Eevee, Charmander, Pikachu, and Squirtle. Naturally, you not only build homes for your friends, but you also get to grow crops and make a proper little life for yourself. It also happens to look incredibly picturesque. We can&#8217;t wait to find out if it&#8217;s worth a spot in our guide to the best Pok\u00e9mon games.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story on Pocket Tactics: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/pokemon-pokopia\/guide\">This is the Pok\u00e9mon spin-off I didn&#8217;t know I needed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love Pok\u00e9mon and will always look forward to news about a new one coming, but I have to admit, I wasn\u2019t expecting to see a spin-off that seems to take elements from Animal Crossing, Minecraft, and Dragon Quest. Yet, that\u2019s exactly what I got with Pok\u00e9mon Pokopia during the September 2025 Nintendo Direct. In&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1980,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions\/1980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}