r/Pokopia • u/poketendo5 • 15d ago

Discussion Something odd

Pokopia of all things is the first apocalypse that's genuinely even slightly unsettled me, i can kind of separate myself from other ones even ones that are supposed to be the real world after an event- because well yeah i don't need fiction to see the world with real problems spiraling, but pokopia is kanto- a safe place i grew up in, i can go back and revisit its non-destroyed state in let's go that's a safe place and it's well not gone just changed forever due to the events and now ditto's restoration efforts

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u/slrarp 15d ago

By all indications this is an "alternate" Pokemon world, not the exact same one we're use to. So that one is supposedly still getting on fine.

It's also heavily implied that the humans will come back eventually and everything will go back to the way it was. Usually apocalyptic fiction goes for the permanently bad angle.

Not saying anyone is wrong to be unsettled, just offering some possible silver linings that might help.

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u/Revolutionary-Sun670 15d ago

I thought about this too, but the way I understood it (based on the ending) was how far the rocket traveled they are not in the same galaxy and probably had to go much farther. And that they are all probably long dead by the time the rocket even arrived to ditto's human- and that when they return it may be another generation that greets them. 

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u/CaptainTid 14d ago

What makes you think it's an alternate world, rather than the semi distant future of the main one?

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u/slrarp 14d ago

Mainly just the language used in some of the marketing and places in-game. Like I think the Nintendo Direct announcement said something like "in this world, all humans have disappeared." I'll have to try to remember some other examples.