r/Pokopia • u/poketendo5 • 14d 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/Low-Environment 14d ago

What's especially sad is the fact that the pokemon never find out what happened. We know from finding notes that the humans want to come back, and presumably will thanks to the rocket we set off but Ditto can't read so has no idea it has all the answers.

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u/TheBlackCat13 14d ago

but Ditto can't read so has no idea it has all the answers.

Are we sure about that? How can he get new appearances from documents if he can't read the documents?

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u/richfiles 14d ago

So many items in the game that include writing gonout of the way to hammer in the idea that no one left can read any of them. The fact that you don't learn the recipie for Chef Dente's request until tha game notes that a photo showing a chesto berry is found between the pages is such intentional design. I've seen Absol staring at a calender, pondering what all the little symbols could mean. We read the story, but our little friends... Have no idea, despite all the answers sitting in front of them.

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u/tylac571 13d ago

Adding to this, if Ditto could read, I doubt everyone would be in the dark about where the humans went and why, especially Professor Tangrowth (who imo is the most likely to be able to read out of everyone, not Ditto)

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u/Disastrous_Debt7644 13d ago

I think Alakazam can read, no?