I Wish I’d Known This One Pokémon Pokopia Trick 30 Hours Ago

Pokémon Pokopia smooths many mundane, repetitive moments of a life sim and town builder, but harvesting crops can still be surprisingly time-consuming once gardens finish blooming.

Early in your first terraformed zone you meet Scyther, who teaches the move Cut. The move clears debris and, in its powered-up form, can even cut down trees.

I had assumed using Cut on materials would destroy them, so I avoided trying it on things I wanted to keep. Crops like beans or tomatoes initially look as if you must pick each vegetable by hand, which is slow for a full garden. Instead, Cut will slice through entire patches without harming the vegetables, leaving them loose so you can hold down Y and suck them up; what used to take several minutes now finishes in seconds.

Having wrapped up the main story, I’m now focusing on terraforming and prettying up my cities, and I’ll have plenty of chances to put this to use. I just wish I’d realised it dozens of hours earlier.

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