Reviews are flooding in for Pok\u00e9mon Pokopia, the Animal Crossing-esque \u2018Mon life sim co-developed by Koei Tecmo\u2019s Omega Force and Game Freak, and according to almost every outlet, it\u2019s kind of a banger. Reviews will likely keep popping up in the days ahead, including Kotaku\u2019s yet-to-be-published appraisal, but, as of this writing, Pok\u00e9mon Pokopia is sitting at a respectable 89 out of 100 on Metacritic.<\/p>\n
While the high critic scores may come as a surprise to some, the true shocker here is that Pok\u00e9mon Pokopia\u2019s 89 score makes it Metacritic\u2019s current highest-rated Pok\u00e9mon game ever. That might sound somewhat unbelievable, but sorting Metacritic\u2019s list of The Pok\u00e9mon Company\u2019s titles by Metascore<\/a> confirms that Pok\u00e9mon Pokopia is currently a single point above the highest-rated Pok\u00e9mon entry on the site: Pok\u00e9mon Y, which sports a Metascore of 88.<\/p>\n Personally, the most astonishing part of this news is that Pok\u00e9mon Y is the highest-scoring Pok\u00e9mon entry on Metacritic. However, that might have something to do with the fact that Metacritic was launched in 2001, which means that the scores for any Pok\u00e9mon game pre-Ruby and Sapphire will likely be slightly inaccurate. While Metacritic does include historical data for games pre-2001, certain reviews that were exclusively published in older gaming magazines are considered lost media.<\/p>\n While individually searching for every Pok\u00e9mon game on OpenCritic to 100-percent confirm this would be a hefty task, there\u2019s a solid chance that Pok\u00e9mon Pokopia is easily one of that site\u2019s highest-rated Pok\u00e9mon entries, too. That\u2019s because Pok\u00e9mon X and Y have a combined<\/a> 84 percent Critics Recommend score on OpenCritic, versus Pok\u00e9mon Pokopia\u2019s<\/a> 93 percent score. Just keep in mind that all of these scores are still subject to change at any point in the next few days, so there\u2019s a solid chance that Pok\u00e9mon Y might steal back its Metacritic rating crown soon.<\/p>\n