THE FUSE

We know that a subset of the Pokémon community has some ungodly, sinful thoughts about monsters like Gardevoir and Lopunny, but we don’t talk as much about how there’s an equally degenerate side of the community that feels similarly about Machoke. It’s a fighting-type Pokémon that is literally just a guy. A big, muscly guy who happens to wear nothing but a pair of black briefs and a championship wrestler’s belt. In Pokopia, the new cozy life sim game set in the Pokémon universe, you can let this almost-human guy live with you and it’s, well, it’s reaching its natural conclusion.