Your Games Completed of 2026

The biggest change, for me, was letting you bump up the music volume.

That had to be one of the best soundtracks of all time and they buried it under all the sound effects.

Is there still no jukebox? I think the OST is on the Nintendo Music App at least

Rolled credits on Pokopia, but it would be foolishness to assume I'm anywhere near done with this behemoth.

I’m currently

Spoiler - click to showrepairing the big building in the Skylands

which I’m assuming is fairly close to the end. But I’ve barely dabbled with the whole town-building and prettification side of things which really is an entire game in itself, I keep finding massive new areas I hadn’t suspected were there, and I’ve found less than a third of the available Pokemon so far, so yes - behemoth is the right word.

To roll the credits, you need to Spoiler - click to showdo the Team Membership Challenge stuff for the lighthouse in the Withered Wasteland, which requires getting Environment Level 5 in all the other areas (which also require finishing the "plot" mission for that region)

As far as I'm aware, some Pokémon don't appear until after the credits, and some are only available in the Pallet Town sandbox area—so finishing the Pokédex is a lower priority.

Oh OK, I've got some more building to do then! I've completed the stories in most of the areas but haven't particularly concerned myself with beautifying the areas, and most of my Pokemon are still living in bushes.

Currently stuck because I don't know how to get

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but maybe raising the Environment levels will help with that.

While it is obviously a wonderful game, I am finding some of the wait timers, as I get closer to the end, a little frustrating. It gives it the slight air of a mobile game which is at odds with the quality of the rest of it.

Currently stuck because I don't know how to get

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but maybe raising the Environment levels will help with that.

You can find Spoiler - click to showwaste paper scattered around the sky island location (also inside some trash blocks), and then you can give that to a Pokémon with the Recycle speciality to convert it into actual Paper. You should probably have Trubbish in Bleak Beach (it's required for a plot mission, IIRC?) but I remember there being a sidequest to get Metang in Sparkling Skylands, and they can do it too.

The game could be a little clearer about how those pipelines work, to be fair—but I think it could be a lot better about discovery for the crafting recipes generally.

Yep, I loaded it up this afternoon and immediately got the introduction to Metang, so I was right there.

Trubbish had never asked for anything other than non-recyclable garbage to turn into iron ore, though, so I had no idea it was a general thing. I'm going to see if I can feed him anything else now, I'm sure there are lots of possibilities.

One thing Pokopia does unfortunately demonstrate is how shit a lot of the newer Pokemon are compared to the first couple of gens. Both Conkeldurr and Tinkaton are absolutely awful designs and they've unfortunately got big roles in the story. Also I had never realised how many Pokemon are just straight-up birds. The game very sensibly gives you a load of Gen 1 favourites long before it starts bringing in all the also-rans.