Palworld is a Broken, Unhinged Masterpiece

Is this game terrible, or is it amazing? The answer is yes.
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[@WhyDo]

I'll update this pinned comment with any new info, corrections, etc.! BREAKING NEWS 9/18/24: THE LAWSUIT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING LMAOO 😭😭 www.nintendo.co.jp/corporate/release/en/2024/240919.html UPDATE 2/2/24: Apparently Palworld server costs are currently $475,000 PER MONTH. Pocketpair's (only) networking engineer was told to "never let the service go down no matter what ... without regard to cost." This company is insane... twitter.com/WDBTHtGP/status/1753467000683131223 Correction(s): - Ark does let you customize the EXP modifier and some game rules! But I do love the sheer range of settings Palworld offers (day/night duration, whether you drop items on death, etc.), and I think Palworld's design overall does respect your time as far as this type of survival game goes.

[@rickywood8805]

Ark also is not the first game to do this I'm sure. And it won't be the last. It's called 'expanding options to feed a wider variety of players playstyles' wtf

[@mrdadecounty3056]

This stupid little game is addicting I have it on my Series x and I bought it on steam to play it on my that's where it's getting the majority of it runs surprisingly very well on the legion go very addicting little device the moment I unlocked the ability to give lip monk the little squirrel whatever. His name is a machine gun to sit on my head and shoot people that came to attack my base. It was game over and then I unlocked the assault rifle. Oh man, you know what I'm surprised at the map is actually pretty big. I wasn't expecting it to be this big. There's a lot of areas to explore. There's a lot of things to collect. I am truly truly addicted to this little game. It's literally the only thing I play on my legion if it wasn't for the fact that it has to be online I would be playing it a lot more if it was offline because I take my legion go with me everywhere. I have a bag for it. I get to work early. I play on my legion go outside until the I open the store. I take a lunch break which is roughly about an hour and a half. I play on my legion go. I use my legion goal more than any other device. It is my greatest gaming investment that I've made in a long time. Super happy. I even went out and bought 100 watt charger for the house for the car which is a cigarette lighter. So I'm playing while I'm gaming in the car and I'm charging it. I have a I have a massive 3000 watt battery pack with 65 w charging fast charging so I can be able to play while it charges if ever. I'm going to area where I can't charge it while I play. Truly addicting. I have so many games on there

[@WhyDo]

​@@rickywood8805 I said so in the video, but System Shock (1994) is the first example of custom difficulty I could find! Super cool and ahead of its time to have separate 'Combat', 'Mission', 'Cyber' and 'Puzzle' difficulties.

[@koitsuo]

7 days to die lets you customize the EXP modifier and game rules (including day and night duration, whether you drop item on death etc) but i doubt that's where they got this from

[@WhyDo]

@@koitsuo Oh in terms of EXP specifically, that's a good question, I wonder which game did it first? I know Persona 4 Golden had it in 2012, that's the earliest I can think of. But I'm sure someone had to have done it earlier?

[@AmandaFessler]

Reminds me of another saying... "Stealing from one source is plagiarism. Stealing from multiple sources is research."

[@rzar4971]

Researching is just copying with extra steps.

[@bagofsteel9152]

They're like the De La Soul of video games.

[@angel_of_rust]

they're like the 100 gecs of videogames.

[@dgoodlet]

Right? Like I'm hearing "we took a bunch of mechanics from games that people loved, from developers who would NEVER work together, and put it into one game" sounds like a genius move to me!

[@angel_of_rust]

if only people thought the same way about AI

[@SSJ9K1]

I've been addicted to Palworld for like 5 days and its crazy seeing all of these pieces of inspiration. They took great parts of several games and mixed it together. That's what great artist do, but it's insane seeing a GAME with so many moving parts, pull it off. Great vid by the way

[@WhyDo]

Thanks! And that's a good point, it's a strangely refreshing kind of... blatant stealing to see in a game. I think for all the controversy (they got hollow knight/BotW ripoffs too) this studio has something special going on. Wishing them the best with any high quality 'heavily inspired' games in the future, since it honestly might be a big untapped market outside of just Palworld. I wonder what crazy genres they can blend

[@Tosxychor]

​@@WhyDo we've always had imitators as the staple of video game iteration. We call those who follow in the footsteps of the greats "clones" (remember all the "doom clones"?) and we even call genres by the names of the games they imitate (like the classic Metroidvanias, or Rogue-likes). I think people are losing their minds over exactly nothing of substance; if you take something from someone else and you take your time to digest it, to iterate on it, to give your own spin on it, then it becomes yours, and I see Palworld has done exactly that; they have not iterated over the surface appearance of what they copied from (much), but they have trodden genuinely new ground in the gameplay department: this is the first monster tamer where your monsters are a meaningful part of the base building, where they provide automation. You can't find that ANYWHERE else today, and that's huge, on top of all the other things that they have done well. I think Palworld could easily spawn a fair numbers of imitators in turn, a new generation of monster tamers where the monsters do more than just one thing, where they become a meaningful component of other game loops instead of being a self-contained ecosystem.

[@leanwrld969]

@@Tosxychor this guy gets it👆🏽

[@Forbe.]

THIS

[@Nothisndhdudjdjdj]

Suprised seeing you here. I was patron on you patreon for like a week months ago and could never get the discord access. Just wanted to see if i could get copies of your old abridged content

[@theturtleking2454]

Ngl I think the difficulty options exist because the developers were using those exact same sliders to tweak the game balance and at some point they decided to just give it some ui and throw it on the menu to let players use it. They’re smart for that

[@astupidlylongnamethatstoolong]

Good for them, cuz good lord grinding to 40 and to 50 is painful at x1

[@WhyDo]

"Making the most of what they have" seems to be the motto of Palworld! I couldn't fit it in the video for time, but there was a Pocketpair post a couple years back seeking engineers to hire, and I found it very interesting: twitter.com/PocketpairJapan/status/1317109810811203585 "12. Always goes above and beyond the job category. Engineers often decide on plans and specifications. 13. There is no concept of seniors and juniors. 14. There is no concept of hierarchy." If all that's true, it's an environment where it's very easy to allow implementation to influence design, rather than just the other way around, and everyone can have a say in decisions. I suspect that this is what let them do the "dev tool -> front facing feature" trick that you just described!

[@cathygrandstaff1957]

That and Ark did it.

[@shefsufla]

@@WhyDoI feel like there might be a story after it’s full release

[@higueraft571]

@@WhyDo Actually, i will note one thing, apparently the "traced models" mentioned near the end MAY be just slightly *modified* to fit better? Apparently the person who compared them has a grudge against Palworld for "endorsing animal abuse" (as if Pokemon already dosent :V) and didnt expect their post to blow up QUITE as much as it did... Definitely hoping Palworld goes decently hard on replacing the cardboard cutouts with people/an actual plot, which the intro SEEMS to hint towards... there's just jack shit for now outside of the Journal entries and Paldeck entries (alongside map STILL not being complete, despite how massive it is) :V Now the important question: What's your favorite Pal? 🔫 This is not a request, choose wisely.

[@greed94]

Every time my Katress helps me finish crafting slave spheres and gets the happy sparkles, I get the warm fuzzies.

[@eldiablo4160]

As you should!

[@greed94]

@@eldiablo4160 They get stuck sometimes, but it's okay because they're cats.

[@henriqueferreira5165]

@@greed94 fear not, you just need to erase the entire universe and remake it like before and everything will be fine (reload the save)

[@Rat_Fบcker]

Just remove them from base and re-add them

[@MrCodey360]

was about to comment this, just remove them and add and they respawn in front of u @@Rat_Fบcker

[@maxfromflorida9518]

"This is no mere level one plagiarism, this is a carefully constructed kaleidoscope of almost plagiarism"

[@mogalixir]

Sounds like art to me.

[@johnwong5317]

1000th Pokémon for example is the same way just to tell you a peak of history of Pokémon.

[@RoboVenturer]

Sounds like art in a nutshell lol

[@alaricpaley6865]

As an artist, This is basically how it's always been done.

[@lipmajesty383]

Sounds like a pizza with all the toppings you can think of slapped into one. And it works.

[@phoenix5029]

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" Honestly, the fact that Palworld puts several ideas together and successfully makes it mesh together shows potential. As for the human characters, I imagine they'll be expanded once the critical gameplay issues are solved for the most part.

[@zoromax10]

Full quote being: "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery mediocrity can pay to greatness" So....

[@kugetsu]

@@zoromax10 Too bad that "greatness" doesn't exist.

[@beegpappa7900]

@@zoromax10 L

[@DoMorrMusic]

To quote the great philosopher Coney, “selling humans is the meta.”

[@ladybabe6958]

💀

[@WarrenGdog28]

😂😂😂

[@KingShado69]

They'll be cheaper imported by force from a poor continent- Prince Henry

[@XLostGamer]

Bro he want even real lmao

[@michapiasta3072]

Unfortunetly humans are to hard to catch for their price.

[@LostSnowdrift]

2:28 "the animation of the pals [carry] more than everything else" it's true! one of the core concepts of the game, acc to the lead dev/director, was "automation with emotion" -- not just having a base with generic worker grunts, but having workers that emote and express themselves thru animations. thats part of why development took so long: ~20 animations per pal, x 130 pals, is a lot of animation to make! especially for a team that self-professed to "not knowing what a rig was" at first!

[@Rat_Fบcker]

There around 115 pal and all of them have unique walking eating working and fighting animation either pocket pair is goat or game freak is dogshit but i believe it's the later

[@dragonandavatarfan8865]

@@Rat_Fบcker "either pocket pair is goat or game freak is dogshit" i believe its both lmao

[@stupidw33b52]

please let palworld thrive so the competition makes Pokemon company actually try

[@jacksonvoet8312]

Pokémon has shown signs of changing to taking more time for game refinement and postgame, but they usually take a huge amount of time to act on it. Palworld’s success might just be the thing needed to expedite the process of reforms needed to fix the rushing of what would’ve been GOTY contenders.

[@Tazreale]

Sales wise it is already almost caught up with Scarlet/Violet. It took Scarlet Violet about 6 months to reach 23.3 million and Palworld is already over 19 million in nearly two weeks.

[@ThatBattleCatsUnit]

Honestly it's more of a competition on ark than pokemon

[@toukoenriaze9870]

​​@@Tazrealeit also helps that palworld is multiplatform and on PC specifically where the most people are while Nintendo is very puritan about only wanting their stuff on the switch

[@Tazreale]

@@toukoenriaze9870 Yea, I heard Playstation also wants a slice of that pie.

[@kaseywahl]

Palworld executed on what we've all known for years. Modern games are predatory by design, selling you half-complete thoughts and charging you again and again for the next piece of the puzzle. Or they'll sell you loot boxes until you're blue in the face just so you can try to "keep pace" with the whales in pay-to-win fashion. Or they'll simply release games in a broken state because the devs are overworked and underpaid with not enough time to execute properly. Palworld isn't trying to push the needle. It's not trying to put money before the gameplay experience. It's giving us the kind of experience like early Blizzard games gave us: a love letter from devs who love games and aspire to make something enjoyable at an accessible price. I freaking LOVE that these devs did so much with so little in terms of expeprience and budget. This game gives me hope for small studios and people like me who have all but completely stopped gaming so I can make enjoyable games instead. I want my kid to enjoy gaming the way I did as a kid: pure joy with reckless abandon, never worrying when I have to fork out another $10, $20, $50 just to continue playing, and never having to feel guarded about the studio trying to rip me off around every corner.

[@JoseELeon]

12:52 wait.... thats the actual game censoring it??? i thought the youtubers added that

[@WhyDo]

YEAH!! It got a good laugh out of me when I first saw it. We need more humorously censored violence in games

[@ti3g3r2000]

That was my exact reaction when I first used the butcher knife

[@spectacledman]

Like Scott the F****** Woz

[@Elite02k]

if you go into the gamefiles, theres actually a blur screen animation for butchering. you can remove it and the game works fine. HOWEVER it reveals another truth of why they probably did it. the animations looks so outlandishly ridiculous that it could create thousands of memes. the fact that when you butcher humans it looks like they are laying in fetal while begging for their lives with their hands above their faces to protect against danger is absolutely hilarious and i cant figure out why. its just so silly, i literally sat for the first half hour of it off crying laughing because its so crazy boring but ironic at some times with some pals and the humans.

[@chrisbarnes3864]

Nintendo response was more "stop tagging us non stop. We know about palworld and if we could do something, we would uave by now"

[@clarkem4119]

Most definitely. If Nintendo ever has a slight chance of winning a lawsuit over anything, they sue. It's not like they are letting this slide out of the goodness of their hearts. They are not doing anything because they are powerless to, even though you just KNOW they want to sue the devs into oblivion.

[@k9foru2]

@@clarkem4119 They nuked the pokemon mod. Also Pocket Pair and Nintendo are both Japanese companies and Japan has no Fair Use laws so it wouldnt even be an international lawsuit. Nintendo has known about it since 2021 at the latest.

[@panampace]

You’re spot on about the animation. The Pals look like soulless knockoffs, but the animations make them super loveable. Meanwhile the official Pokémon games are lifeless in their animations like the NPCs in Palworld.

[@Xiatter]

Pokémon lately often look more soulless than these Pals, imo.

[@jeffdagena4298]

how are they more soulless than pokemon exactly ?

[@Xiatter]

@@jeffdagena4298 I think nostalgia glasses may be making people overvalue the "soul" of Pokémon lately. 🤔

[@Zorothegallade-gg7zg]

It also works well with the action gameplay. Each enemy pal has different animations for every attack they can throw, so you know what to expect and can dodge it.

[@boianko]

Pokémon definitely did a lot to make the Pokémon themselves more liveley and expressive in Scarlet and Violet. The overhauled models and the new animations both in and out of battle make them feel alive.

[@thenetherkinggaming9000]

I don’t get why so many people considering remixed ideas bad, the hole point of copyright at least in the US is to let the company make money for originally 14-28 years max then other people get to use that idea. The only reason it’s nearly 100 years for some works is because companies like lobbying more then sharing.

[@Its_Asteria]

Disney is a great example of the copyright lobbying, and a lot of Disney's works take from existing things. Like the rennaissance Era films for example, and rapunzel and frozen. Those are all based on or just adapted straight up, old myths and stories and the like, into films based on things that were in public domain for 100s of years. So yeah.

[@AromonChannel]

@@Its_Asteria well yeah but that remixing disney do is still lazy compare to this. They just remixing ONE STORY ALONE to be their own version, and remixing from ONE THING ALONE FROM SOMEONE ELSE is litterally a lazy rework. Like bro even when someone make their own thesis about something on college, they are not allowed to remixing a word from one source, but they have to remixing a word from alot of source, and let me tell ya remixing a word from alot of source while making it not look like you copy other people is a hard work that take times lol

[@flaminpirates]

1:15 oh come on, theres no way your comparing Chikipi to a pokemon, ITS LITERALLY A CHICKEN.

[@WhyDo]

ITS THE EYES

[@JeffHikari]

If we're going the "cartoony chicken" route, then it'd be closer to a Cucco from Zelda.

[@Hungryymelon]

@@WhyDobro the most passionate Pokémon game I played was years ago this is more passionate than a 60 dollar cash grab and also check out Pokémon and dragon quest and a idea can’t be plagiarism

[@qwertyrewtywyterty]

literally just the eye? so all anime copy from each other? since they have similar big eyes? lol

[@cathygrandstaff1957]

@@WhyDoI think it’s closer to Harvest Moon chickens. Harvest Moon animals are super cute like that.

[@rapidest7434]

3:21 looks like someone never found the isekai pizza guy and his magical pizzas

[@WhyDo]

How am I just learning about this LMAO

[@Recoil1808]

*Desire to know more intensifies*

[@MrCodey360]

i found him completely by accident and i cant even remeber where, i think he is close to the bridge near that village settlement southwest of the first rayne tower with grizzbolt

[@rapidest7434]

@@MrCodey360 yeah i think so, i couldn’t find him again either but when i do i’ll mark it on the map

[@rapidest7434]

@@Recoil1808 there’s an npc i haven’t been able to find since that says he “almost got hit by a truck” and woke up on the island, and he found out if he thinks really hard about it, he can make a pizza appear. when you talk to him he gives you one and trying to get more in quick succession results in him telling you it makes him hungry to do that and come back later

[@veen6847]

4:40 clearly he didnt caught a depresso yet.

[@Eldoofus]

Yeah but Larry is a human

[@janaguirre4756]

Idk, my deer caught depression because he wanted to hit a tree and refused to use one of the two Jacuzzis i built

[@pineapplepizzasandwich1974]

Depresso is one of the best. The bathing animation kills me.

[@jacplac97]

@@pineapplepizzasandwich1974 So it kills him

[@HighLanderPonyYT]

Clearly you haven't learned English well enough yet.

[@teroriekki2910]

this game was announced 3 years ago by saying it will be Pokemon with guns. If there was or is something illegal, Nintendo would have already sued. They got Pokemon mod banned in a day.

[@XSDStitch]

They never actually said it. It was just implied. The internet did the rest...

[@dinovoldo544]

Not even a day. It was 8 hours.

[@angel_of_rust]

They did NOT say that. However that was the clear implication. I can remember back in 2021 I wanted to play this game because it's such an obvious idea that no one before has bothered to attempt. Meanwhile the Pokemon mod for Palworld got instabanned. Palworld clearly passed Nintendo's vibe check.

[@SoulDude24]

​@@angel_of_rustwhat's your thoughts on Nintendo's most recent statement?

[@angel_of_rust]

the one where they confirmed they heard the feedback? when i read it Nintendo sounded like an annoyed dad "OKAY I GET IT THE LEGALLY DISTINCT POKEMON WITH GUNS GAME EXISTS, but they aren't egregious enough. But that Pokemon mod, OH BOY that Pokemon mod is gonna get a beating from me"@@SoulDude24

[@TrundleMacDennis]

Palworld is the Scary Movie of the game world. Its a great homage to all the greats before it.

[@5665sizo]

Thats actually a great summary of the topic.

[@lexysteinberger7725]

See, funniest thing about it being a kaleidoscope of plagiarism: because it's made of more than one franchise, that makes it a derivative work, aka completely legal

[@The-EJ-Factor]

Funny that they already just had an update full of bug fixes, that fixed a ton of the glitches I’ve witnessed first hand. They are actually already putting that money to good use.

[@silsternensand]

And some quality of life changes on PC: carry pals with v instead of f makes a huge difference

[@h_chase1974]

​@@silsternensandalso, you can now know where you are throwing the pal in the base.

[@DKSprocket]

To be fair the patch also added a bunch of new bugs.

[@kugetsu]

@@DKSprocket That's every game ever, though. No patches come without bugs, ever.

[@_stealth_313]

The fact a small company got 100 creatures to have diverse and expressive 3D animations before the largest profiting game franchise of all time could it insane to me

[@venomflame2358]

What's even more depressing about that is gamefreak has shown it could do just that with the animations back in the pokemon colosseum games + xd Gale of Darkness but rather just puke out a game with little to no polish every year since they know people will buy it hoping for a better experience than the last one.

[@miimiiandco]

​@venomflame2358 Colo and XD took a lot of their animations from Stadium 2, which took many of their animations from Stadium 1, which took some of their animations from Stadium 0, the Japanese exclusive first Pokemon Stadium game. Battle Revolution did remake the models and animations, but they used the old ones as a base, and the game had like no content. For comparison, X/Y had to make about 600 Pokemon from scratch, as well as a new adventure to go along with them. Ignoring Colosseum, none of the Stadium games also had to make a fully featured, satisfying Pokemon adventure, as well as a bunch of new 3D animations.

[@bredceo]

This a certified PENGULLET sweep 🔥🗣️

[@FlamingKakarot]

“Today’s video is sponsored by the fraction of a cent I make from ad revenue” is too funny

[@WhyDo]

Thank you so much for your $0.003! 🫡

[@thepaintingbanjo8894]

The secret sauce for Palworlds replayability for me is the random assortment of traits your Pals get when catching them in the wild. Like it incentivizes you to keep catching the same kind of Pals and weighing them if they are better for your base or to carry with you in the open world. That kind of personalized RNG keeps me playing a full 24 hours straight if I'm not careful.

[@johnwong5317]

I am waiting for MODS and to catch WAIFU.

[@SPZ-gv2on]

That combined with just cranking the egg hatching speed and breeding for specific goals is very cool. I bred an insanely fast wolf to get around on for example.

[@stuperman117]

There's also the breeding mechanics, that are surprisingly in depth. The best way I can describe how it works, is the selective breeding humanity has done for centuries or even within decades to get various animal and plant species to best produce or look good etc. Except in Palworld, it's trying to get god traits on ones you'll put into a base or bring with you on adventures, while also trying to ensure that breeding weights are correct, so you could get the best Quivern you can possibly get as an example.

[@WhyDo]

That's true, it's dangerously addicting sometimes. I definitely just spent a couple hours in search of the perfect horse...

[@nicholascompton2115]

​@@johnwong5317There's already mods on Steam.

[@LethalHips]

Didn't know climbing mountains was an original idea

[@Scotch20]

It's the stamina system used to balance climbing mountains which was stolen

[@tbr2109]

@@Scotch20 Botw may have made it popular, but it isn't the first game to tie a stamina system to climbing either.

[@miimiiandco]

Celeste is quaking in their boots.

[@GammaFn.]

Thank you for making the video which somehow contains the sum total of all my thoughts on this game. Right down to Cassette Beasts being the real "it's Pokémon but better" game.

[@silsternensand]

8:42 "... desire for my work to be enjoyed..." that is the intension of good writers and good filmmakers. What's so surprising that game developers also have this goal? Maybe because in the gaming industry the fun of the players has been downgraded to a minor matter and it's only about income?

[@xann2681]

Its a secret desire of mine for them to have fans design or redesign their Pokemons, since some of them do feel dull and completely ripped off, it would make for fresh and unique Pokemons

[@toukoenriaze9870]

Would make for really good community building ... Altho they would have to weed out copywritable submissions which they already did for the main game otherwise we wouldn't be playing it lel

[@YurinanAcquiline]

I have never played a Pokemon game...only Pokemon go. I have never played Palworld. And looking at Palworld Pals and Pokemon. I realised how uninspired Pokemon are. Shaymin is just a hedgehog. Is that really copying. Eevee is just a fluffy cat/dog. Basic. Lucario is every bipedal basic furry. That dumb football player rabbit is just that. I have seen mascots like it. Like they are just basic animals with a color swap. I cannot consider that palgiarism. People are comparing them to Pokemon and screaming plagiarism or copying and all I see is how boring Pokemon really look. How basic. Not copying if they are both color swapped animals.

[@valenschristianyosua]

The reason some of them "feel dull" is precisely because they are ripped off, the copy is only ever going to be as good as the original after all. If you stole from a lazy and dull design then your own design is going to be dull and lazy if you don't make some major modifications.

[@benw7616]

​@@YurinanAcquiline theres also pokemon that are just keyrings, trash cans, a pile of trash, when i 1st saw the keyring pokemon in the anime i just went "wtf" and laughed at the design, really lost alot of love for the future of pokemon that day... As for eevee, eevee is designed to be generic as its there evolutions that add to the design. Eevee is a blank slate where anything can happen and thats kinda cool to me. (need more eeveelutions!)

[@Itsthat_Yu]

why are you calling em pokemon

[@turboturkey7236]

Every single game that has ever existed has “stolen” something from its predecessors. There isn’t anything that is truly original anymore. Edit: even Tennis for Two, the first video game ever, stole the concept of the game from table tennis. 😂

[@KD-_-]

being able to butcher captured humans for loot is Rimworld

[@fuzzydragon]

There is one character in this game that is an interesting human, And that's the reincarnated Guy, A cop who is hit by a truck And woke up in this world with the ability to create pizza slices in his hands out of nothing.

[@AromonChannel]

So he was basically got isekaid to palworld XD

[@fallensoulkun]

3:21 The sadness of the rest of the world not getting to play "Dickworld", a pleasure only known by Brazilians. When every line of text is full of "pals", this games' text becomes Shakespeare.

[@MordereMors]

Something of note, the thing about the models being basically 1 to 1 was admitted to have been false and the models were modified by the person claiming it because he hated the game.

[@K40005]

He straight up changed the models to match the pokemons

[@angel_of_rust]

now THAT'S misinformation

[@egbert5871]

@@K40005 even still there VERY diffrent like no parts line up (head , body so on

[@r-resnet2841]

wowie, another crazy info. nice clarification tho.

[@globbo2225]

Yeah, I knew this game was for me the moment I saw someone throw a ball and fly 100 meters in the air

[@lazy_guy_2525]

I knew that i would like that game when I saw you can capture humans.

[@mattwo7]

4:41 They did make Larry though, it's called "Depresso"

[@Alanis1337]

All boils down to gameplay at the end of the day. Make a good game, AI, inspiration, whatever you need, just make a good game, and it won't matter in the end

[@tr7zw]

The funny thing is, all these people yelling "this game is AI generated, don't give them money!"... The trailer was released in 2021... That was before ChatGPT, DallE2... Using an AI to generate a blurry picture that might pass as a kitchen from a distance was the best we could do... They 100% couldn't have used AI to design anything that was shown in the trailer like pals, the game concept etc.

[@kugetsu]

@@tr7zw Yeah, the AI witch hunt is stupid. If anything, they used AI to come up with vague ideas of what they wanted (which I believe was shown by the devs at one point). Not once did they say they actually used AI images to make the game. Most of the Pals in the trailer from 2021 are the same ones they're claiming to be AI creations... head empty. Also, AI means SO much more than just "AI Art", and people somehow don't even understand this. AI is just using a teaching a program and using it to automate. This could have easily have been done with code, but people just want to be outraged and believe the first thing they see on Twitter.

[@miimiiandco]

The main reason people are thinking about AI is because of another game they made, "AI Art Imposter".

[@possumwithacowboyhat5140]

I’m gonna stop you real quick and say that the plot, despite it being told in only journal entries, is pretty solid and gives depth to a few characters and themes.

[@lucazani2730]

Also I think it's not right to judge the plot of palworld. It's a preacces game of course it's not finished what do you expect?

[@kiwiplaysvr6798]

My only real issue in palworld rn is my pals falling through the floor, or just dying for no reason, or teleporting out of the base circle and just not pathfinding back and starving

[@astupidlylongnamethatstoolong]

Hopefully they fix those, but the temporary solution is to put them back in palbox and set to base again

[@toukoenriaze9870]

Is that an Xbox thing cuz I've played PC and I've never seen that happen

[@Elite02k]

they just fixed majority of the glitch occurences you speak up with the 0.01 patch released earlier today. let the game update and its fine, ive been playing 3 hours with virtually completely different quality of game play. no crash when you are overweight and use your grappling gun to get next to palbox and teleport. i tried forcing myself through the terrain by using the summoning of certain pals and couldnt get myself through the layer barrier. alot of the major complaints have been fixed, and im excited because its proof that this isnt just a scamware.

[@SPZ-gv2on]

the last patch helped with that quite a bit actually

[@bowserjrimacasualshutup6754]

i had a gumoss that got stuck on a cliff right next to the base and stood there until it starved i didnt even notice until way later

[@Craft-199]

Imagine if after ford made the first motor vehicle everything after was illegal? Thats how people seem to think copyright works these days and it explains why everything feels so stail in gaming since the fifa, call of duty, general shooters now and the state of pokemon all being unchallenged i hope this year shakes up more stail franchise ^^

[@sonicmastersword8080]

Not how it works. Patents in America protect only the original invention. Improvements are not only permitted but encouraged both by the original inventor and competition.

[@BlitzkriegOmega]

One of the earliest pals that you are able to catch shows just how much personality they managed to inject into the little creatures. Depresso, The Pocketpair Discord server's mascot And in eternal millennial mood. Besides the fact that he Looks like he is in desperate need of a can of monster, Depresso Also has one of the funniest and most expressive mining animations in the game: One in which he puts in the absolute least amount of effort into doing his work. Me too buddy, me too.

[@adambennett4207]

And he drags items he moves. I LOVE IT!

[@stuperman117]

Toss in that Depresso faceplants into the hot springs? The combat ability of 'WEAPONIZED ZOOMIES'? One of the best early dark types in the game.

[@GionnyTheGreat]

which is ironic, since people have been trying to hate on the game by calling it "soulless" when the pals have more life to them than the pokemon of the last 15 years combined lol.

[@higueraft571]

Depresso is literally Larry's Palsona. Change my mind

[@Zorothegallade-gg7zg]

I find it hilarious how over the top Lovander's animations are. When it carries items she does it by holding them in one arm like she's a maid carrying a tray, all that while shaking its hips and tail. Truly the quintessential thot

[@Sotanaht01]

I think the tower bosses have character about on par with trainer battles in pokemon. They don't have dialog, but they do have animations and design, and there are all those logbooks that give more information about them.

[@stephaniesayer7191]

Have you noticed the little tears in the Pals eyes when they are locked up in the cages? You didn't mention Conan Exiles as a source, particularly with respect to the thrall system and workstations.

[@MB26535]

Not everything has to be a masterpiece, you know. It's fun, just leave it at that.

[@Jagm3854]

Mom can we have: “Pokemon survival game with guns??” Mon: “we have ^^^ at home”

[@IAmGalaxian-bi6co]

I would love to see Parts 2 and 3 of ranking each Mii Brawler set. You're the reason me and many other Brawlers got into the character, and I would love to see more content on him from you. Also, because you impart so much personality onto Mii Brawler and your gameplay, it makes your content really enjoyable about him and it's the reason you're my favorite Smash youtuber, even as you drift away from Smash.

[@Mas-cm6cy]

Ngl, at least the bugs are not "2 FPS and your camra clips through EVERYTHING". they just seem funny most of the time.

[@Elite02k]

its kind of like the rdr1/rdr2 glitches and bugs. they are so hilarious at timing that you can't even be mad because now you are just staring at a crocodile chase you on your horse in circles while you just stand there

[@miimiiandco]

Shame people don't give that same kind of credit to S/V's visual bugs. Though I guess they're not that funny.

[@BurakkuHishou]

I think pokemon suing is pretty limited on a couple factors: -The game itself is pretty unique on its own standing. Yes its a different hodgepodge of various mechanics, but what game isnt that anymore. Also they cannot say "its just like pokemon" because of 1 or 2 similarities. -they have to go through and hard prove asset theft or straight up plaigerisim. And for the most important point: -Theres also the matter of public opinion. The fact it sold 4 million copies within the first couple days is a blessing for palworld, and also the fact that it runs 1 million concurrent players everyday. If pokemon sues and gets palworld shut down, thats gonna be a very bad pr stunt because theyve just blocked millions of people playing a game they enjoy playing. This coupled with the fact that it raised the standard for this genre of gaming, and if pokemon does sue, it feels like they are trying to remove competition, punishing a rogue company for "raising the bar for standards," and limiting what players should enjoy.

[@miimiiandco]

Palworld isn't a Pokemon game. It's a creature collector Ark clone.

[@raanab6578]

And along with Stravinski, Pablo Picasso has also stated "Art is theft"

[@WhyDo]

I thought this too, but while fact checking this video I discovered that Steve Jobs made up that Picasso quote (I'm serious). Turns out Picasso never actually said that!! 'Nice argument Steve Jobs, why don't you back that up with a source...?'

[@PotatoGod69]

i dont care how much they copied, they did it well, i had fun. I approve.

[@Tofu682]

I got this game literally out of curiosity with full intentions of playing it ironically and probably refunding it on Steam like an hour later. For some reason the game is just unironically fun… somehow, the sheer amount of shit in it creates a game that is literally the exact sum of its parts. And given how many parts there are, that sum somehow ends up way bigger than you’d expect lol

[@WhyDo]

LMAO I love this, 'literally the exact sum of its parts' is the perfect phrase to describe how I feel about this game. The 'I'll play it ironically' to 'wait this kinda rocks' pipeline is very real, though... I swear that liking things ironically is just the brain's shortcut to liking them unironically...

[@astupidlylongnamethatstoolong]

​@@WhyDoI held off a week before paying for Palworld, but something sold me in on it. The fact that I saw my friends stream the gameplay on discord slaughtering pals with rocket launchers at max raid settings is fucking funny

[@CloutmasterPhluphyy]

​@@WhyDoas someone who unironically listens to boi what and glorb (ai SpongeBob music artists), i can confirm that irony is a very fast way into liking something unironically

[@TimeTravelingFetus]

I'm usually against blatant, borderline plagiarism, but honestly, seeing all the backlash this game has gotten on twitter while still being a somewhat fun game really makes me want to be on its side just out of spite.

[@ihateanimebutonlywhenitiso7227]

Tbf Elden ring took the opening section from BotW first down to the church and shrine inside it, minus the sweeping shot ofc

[@cyclic_infinity]

But to be fairer, no it doesn't. Kind of a weird justification from a single connection. You can argue it was inspired by it, but that's the whole difference in this Palworld discussion. They didn't "take it," they might have riffed on it. Very briefly. Fromsoft has been using religious iconography for several games, and there's churches all over the Lands Between related to some of the very central lore elements. There's too many differences to say they're even similar unless you really really squint. If anything, it felt more Dark Souls 3 than BotW.

[@ihateanimebutonlywhenitiso7227]

@@cyclic_infinity It’s not a weird justification my dude Elden Ring took heavy inspiration from BotW in the first place, the whole gaming industry did what I said wasnt a new revelation of anything. Also last time I checked DS3’s opening doesn’t start with you overlooking a hill with an NPC to the side of it and a church/cathedral immidiately down the hill w/ a mid game enemy lurking around… Palworld, Elding Ring, and BotW all have this which was the comparison I was making in the first place.

[@cyclic_infinity]

@@ihateanimebutonlywhenitiso7227 Dude, looking for exact reduplication being a silly way of drawing these links is actually what I'm talking about. By your logic, BotW lifted from Dark Souls by having you start in a Shrine of Resurrection with trash gear, which is functionally how every Dark Souls game starts. Tropes and Ripoffs are different. And I misinterpreted you in my first comment. I was thinking the actual start of Elden Ring, the Chapel of Anticipation, which is a little linear "bridge" from DS3 to ER. You meant at Varre. I'd call that a homage at best. The wandering strong early boss has been getting done for ages and the sight-lines to the church are very different. I remember FFXII doing that in 2006 and it was already a trope. That's just basic game design for PvE. Honestly that bit isn't one of the many things I'd take issue with Palworld for. But I won't fight on this, Palworld's not worth the fucking effort. Palworld sucks and I'm in the minority, whatever, maybe people will come around and maybe they won't, with a lot of that depending on Pocket Pair. I also think Brandon Sanderson's books suck, so I'm used to being the minority critical nerd.

[@aheahe7943]

my only complaint about the whole "rip off this, rip off that" situation with palworld is: where do people draw the line? I get some pals are obviously almost 1-to-1 in terms of design with their Pokemon equivalent. Cremis and Evee being basically the same thing. But when Lords of the Fallen launched, no one was saying "they stole this from Dark Souls" even though 90% of it's gameplay is just Dark Souls. Not Dark Souls with guns, that's Remnant. Just straight up Dark Souls by a different dev studio, under a different name. If people want to argue the "Squint Test" about Palworlds looking indistinguishable from pokemon, I can promise you, I could throw up gameplay of Lords of the Fallen, Elden Ring and Lies of P, have everyone squint and I doubt anyone would be 100% correct in guessing which game is which. But we call those "Souls-likes", instead of "THEY STOLE FROM DARK SOULS OMG", meanwhile Palworld only shares the designs of, and capturing of, Pals with Pokemon. Everything else is, as you said, from 20 other games, who probably got it from 20 other games before them as well. That new samurai game, whose name I forgot, is literally just Ghost of Tsushima with Assassin's Creed/Spider-man traversal. Wild Hearts was literally just Monster Hunter with Fortnite building. Anyone else see the new Silent Hill 2 trailer and get confused thinking it was RE4? And let's talk about TemTem which everyone seems to forget about when discussing Palworlds and Pokemon. So while i get the whole: "designs look stolen" argument, considering Nintendo hasn't done anything since the game was announced with those exact same designs present back in 2021, I don't think they plan on doing anything at all because they know they don't have a case. The message they sent was more in regards to the pokemon mod for Palworlds, which Nintendo struck down with the speed of the gods the second it went live. That alone should tell you, Nintendo IS watching, they've done nothing. There is a reason.

[@xraenon1664]

I dunno if this is a hot take, but I don’t think Nintendo is going to do anything in terms of lawsuits. Remember, this game was announced nearly 3 YEARS AGO, and Nintendo has already taken down a mod that puts actual Pokemon characters in Palword, so it’s definitely on their radar (if they somehow missed the new #2 highest concurrent player count on Steam).

[@AmandaFessler]

I've seen that take doing its rounds, and that's what I'm hoping is the case. So I wouldn't really call it necessarily hot, so much as very logical. Pocketpair is literally 5km from TPC's HQ in Tokyo. It would've been easy to talk it over during those three years.

[@ysbrann3059]

it s not a hot take , it s the most obvious take

[@cipheredentity6954]

A surprisingly well thought out and well articulated take on Palworld, all while being simultaneously very funny, quotable, and enjoyable to watch. A very quality video! I don't find many of them these days. Good work!

[@that_one_dogg7377]

One thing that's important to remember is that this dev has made another game called Craftopia. A lot of this stuff was in that game too, the elden ring roll and stamina bar, the botw climb and glide. They kind of just ripped most of the stuff from taht game and put it in this game.

[@ferro9926]

Self plagerism moment

[@icaruswindrune7116]

Not exactly. Craftopia happens to be a unity based game while Palworld got switched over to UE5 during its development. Prior to that switch, yeah - a lot of the code likely was carried over (kinda like with a bethesda game), however upon making that switch - they had to rewrite practically all of the code for it to work correctly in UE5 (hence why many of the features from the Trailer [which is the unity version] do not appear in the current game).

[@that_one_dogg7377]

@@icaruswindrune7116 I see what you're saying and would like to clarify that I didn't mean a rip of the code but rather they just took the ideas and mechanics they already had.

[@kp9894]

Still surprising that Palworld is still an early access game, yet has made history having the 2nd most number of active players in Steam's history. Just imagine the final product that is years to come. It's insane.

[@NeverlostatBSgaming]

Almost like CARING about the game when making the game matters

[@lrgogo1517]

If GMTK doesn’t mention Palworld in the next annual Accessibility Rewind then we riot

[@spaalonebabuguuscooties]

ok so this is every popular gane carefully but also haphazardly thrown into a blender into like kinda that smoothie your mom makes with the fruits she knows you like thats like kinda weird tasting but is honestly pretty ok

[@Elite02k]

it takes all the best ideas from all of the popular mainstream games, smashes them together to make an unironic smoothie. and we're all here just sipping that bad bitch down because its so smooth and delicious

[@TheHexedMan]

I laughed when you pointed out ARK for not caring when mentioning the custom difficulty when Palworld's Custom Difficulty menu is basically taken 1 for 1 from ARK. I love ARK but yeah, they don't care lol. Great video though!

[@LaterXavier-TX]

12:26 Man, they really did my guy Terry like that.

[@Quipsi]

It’s so relieving to see a game as enjoyable and relaxing as Palworld finally take the stage as the next big thing! I love making content on it!

[@Tye069ER]

No the Elden ring stuff hit me off guard I was dying. Never notice it but ong ❤😂😂😂

[@budgetproductions1178]

here's the thing people doesn't understand, Palworld already submitted the game to Japan:s copyright inspection, which is very strict and passed, if pokemon can sue them, they would but palworld is indeed a carefully crafted kaleidoscope of almost plagiarism

[@supremechaosbeing2696]

no way. no way this sold me on it. I think "actually doing something with the pokemon" is something i want an actual pokemon game to do. What it looks like you're showing off here is that all the mons have SOMETHING you can do with them, like ride them or grenade them. I think a pokemon game with a really small group of mons that you can actually do stuff with would be SO nice. i don't necessarily care as much for the ark elden ring fortnite breath of the wild rimworld stuff but like. shit. I want to do things with my guys so i can care about them as actual things

[@peterkart7281]

It's a Combo of Pokemon for Pal design, the world aesthetic of Genshin, Genshin with human character design, Elden ring for world design, the sound design of Pikmin and Genshin, and functions like ARK (with the statue that gives you power from Genshin). I've played all but Elden Ring and I've got to say this is the best game I've played, the only way to make it better is if you could have all your pals out at the same time.

[@nexivy]

The best way I could describe this game from what I’ve seen, is that is it the culmination of the philosophy of Asset flips + why copyright expires. The difference between this game and others with no originality, is that the devs actually know why all the things they stole work, instead of being lazy. This game has probably NO originality in anything it has, but for some reason, the devs are super competent in understanding good game design.

[@toukoenriaze9870]

Learn what an asset flip is ... This game is nothing like The Day Before

[@nexivy]

@@toukoenriaze9870 I have edited the comment for you

[@mobiusevalon]

Palworld without pals is any given boring short-lived early access survival/crafting game, and Palworld without survival/crafting is just Pokemon. Neither on their own are able to hold my interest, but mashed together in their current unhinged manner is one of those examples of the ancient internet phrase "it fails so hard that it wraps back around to 'win' again." It makes me sad that it is doomed to die, though. They'll never be able to keep up with the rabid fanbase clawing at them for more content all the time (including me,) and it'll fade away to simply be another niche cult favorite.

[@JDReC100]

so far its doing pretty okay. still EA but had a massive update in the summer. i don't think it will ever truly die. Be out of the spotlight shortly after news outlets cant milk article titles: yes. have a lower player number than the 100,000 it tends to have rightnow: probably. but as someone who played stuff like DRG, as long as you can make your own servers and its not online only (and get mod support)...this game will last a long long time. also consider that digimon (with all the Ls that franchise has taken due to Bandais mismanagement) is still around with a dedicated fanbase after all these years and truckloads of blunders. if digimon can still live (and neopets for that matter), so can PalWorld.

[@Elite02k]

the legend of conan exiles, tears of the elden pals

[@sausig773]

Glad I finally found a video talking about this. Others are right: Palworld is inspired by pokemon, but it is not a ripoff or plagiarism. Rimworld's worker system (although many worker systems exist in other games like oxygen not included etc), building systems ripped from survival battle royales and their spin-off genres (fortnite only being the most recent and infamous, rust and dayZ being much more apt comparisons), breath of the wild is an insanely obvious comparison for the climbing mechanic and the opening of the game. You can really just keep going with these comparisons. Pokemon is bottom of the barrel in comparison terms, and it was an insanely smart move to play heavily on the pokemon parody when they made Palworld to drum up interest. I too was ready to hate on the game if it was just riding pokemon's coattails while being utterly mediocre. But it isn't. There is plenty of meat to this game, and a unique product. If anything, I wish they ripped off harder and a little better. Despite the comparison to rimworld, it lacks the feature of assigning number priorities to specific workers for their different jobs they can do. i.e. if I have a mining and igniting pal, I can't tell it to prefer mining to lighting fires around the base. Now sure, I can pick the pal up and throw it at a job to assign it until the job is finished, but if that's something like mining an ore node then they finish the job and we're back at the same problem. This leads to having to make whole separate bases where I do one or two specific things to make things really efficient. Other times though, the Palworld creators made some insanely smart decisions. For example, the minecraft mod that added pokemon to the game (forget the name now) was really fun, but had a problem because they imported the catching mechanics straight from the game. Because the game was openworld, and crafting ultra balls was a matter of mining to make pokeballs and not actually training from lower levels to catch higher stuff, you could always just skip from beginning with your level 5 starter straight to level 50 or 60 (whatever the highest level you could find in the wild). You often had decent odds to catch anything at full health, so never needed to fight the level 50 or 60 and could just catch it off the bat with enough balls. That problem is still marginally present in palworld, but it's much better here for a few reasons. 1) your character can be killed in palworld. This stops you taking on absolutely everything you see at vastly higher levels because there is a risk of being ages away from a warp spot and having to traipse across the map to get back to your stuff when you die. 2) The chances of catching higher level stuff is incredibly low, and the resources you use for crafting "pal-spheres" isn't trvival, at least when you start out, and the better spheres get more and more costly in terms of how practical the materials are to get. Sure, there are some ways around this like merchant cheese strats, but this is a pretty effective deterrant to most players who won't think to do that. 3) even if you catch a much higher level pal, using it decreases the level of the pal until it hits your player level, which is a separate stat that you gain throughout. Ironically, I think this is not only a fantastic mechanic that palworld has come up with, but a fantastic solution to a pokemon series problem has: overlevelling. If people had the option in game to have a slow player level difficulty designed purposefully in the game which they could turn on to counterract exp-share shenanigans which did the same thing Palworld does and reduces pokemon team levels to your player level, I think you could have a much more fun experience for old players while not doing anything to hurt Game freaks' current approach to recent pokemon entries being inclusive to new ones. The game has done some really interesting stuff by mashing a bunch of pre-existing ideas, the same thing all good art should do honestly. Nintendo doesn't need people to ride for them and defend them, they have all the money in the world and if they had a case for plagiarism or IP infringement they'll bring the heat. ALSO it's worth baring in mind that more games competing with pokemon forces nintendo to actually put work in and improve their next title. Pokemon has barely innovated in the nearly 3 decades it has existed, it needs that kick to motivate the greedy CEOs and bosses who don't care to see the game improve for consumers, they just want more of the same pumped out because it sells. Fortunately palworld is providing that boot. Both can and shoul absolutely exist in the same world.

[@Elite02k]

when a game was thought to meme but instead it becomes a beautiful meme farm.

[@GELTONZ]

"These developers might have played Elden Ring" the CEO of the company gave everyone an extended weekend to play Elden Ring when it came out. Not even joking. EDIT: As for what games were ripped off? From Mizobe's own mouth in another interview: Minecraft, Terraria, The Forest, Sons of the Forest, Conan Exiles, ARK: Survival Evolved, Raft, Rust, Valheim, Astroneer, Scrap Mechanic, Sunkenland, and RimWorld. On the survival side of things anyway. I'm gonna be real: I love his brazen honesty.

[@hosatus2433]

Yes they look like Pokémon knockoffs but like... Alot of things look like knockoffs, but none of them have ever been so controversial. Palworld getting dogged on unfairly.

[@AmandaFessler]

@ReuloricsLead artist is literally a Fakemon designer. She just drawing what she knows.

[@miimiiandco]

They're just Pokemon-looking enough to be weird.

[@bottlegang3187]

if I had a penny for every time WhyDo made a weird yet also extremely accurate comparison of one game to a nonsensical combination of words, I'd have 2 pennies, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice

[@StoryTeller796]

Okay, more options like how PalWorld does their difficulty options would make the gaming world a better place.

[@fowlmarlee]

Your sense of humor/narrating style is so fun, made Palworld KZbin Video #59568 actually enjoyable

[@mpo48]

he's literally the most annoying one of these youtubers due to how smug he is about his own opinion. and how right he thinks he is. with his retarted rip off and cash grab accusations

[@DirtyTesla]

Palworld is so fun, but I also love it for the fact that it has all this awesome stuff and works so well from a new team. Compared with most AAA titles that are buggy as crap day one and try to charge you $70 to play and then push microtransactions at you after paying. I am SO glad this game is such a success, hopefully other studios will learn.

[@Zorothegallade-gg7zg]

Palworld is pure chaos. I'll just raid a poacher camp to rescue the umpteenth Flopie and then start looking for a fast travel point uniquely because all the random crap I picked up is clogging my inventory and go back to the ginormous stone castle I built to house my crew of random-ass ugly critters (including the giant chicken who feeds all of them)

[@GooglieHunter]

Palworld - Prime example of such a bad poorly made game with stolen concepts being better than most modern triple A games and being so bad that it comes back around to being good.

[@SunburstSenshi]

I literally had my first experience with falling through the ground earlier today, and within an hour managed to fall through the ground 3 times in 3 different ways and get flung into a wall clipping through it. Thankfully only one was bad enough I had to respawn but I had a panic because my bag of stuff was under the ground, the beam of light still let me pick it up so I didn’t lose my hours of progress.

[@raywarlock]

Golden note: You can see through the entire barrel of your gun and see the round in the chamber.

[@raywarlock]

Unless pistol

[@TheCubicalGuy]

I don't know how to tell you this, but you need to make more video essays.

[@justsomejojo]

Some part of me absolutely hates that Palworld became so big as "Pokemon with guns", because as a fan of the monstertaming genre (it's all I play besides regular RPGs) the whole pokemon clone thing always felt so... devaluing to genuinely good games just because they had tameable monsters in them. And then along comes Palworld, finally a monstertaming game that takes the world by storm and isn't Pokemon and it's mired in choices that scream "we looked REAL hard at Pokemon design philosophy". It's truly the monkeys paw curling. And it's not like I can't see it. For a lot of designs I'll give the benefit of the doubt, but there are numerous color palettes ripped straight out of Pokemon. Makes "stop calling an entire subgenre Pokemon clone" sound real hollow. I hate that, not gonna lie.

[@augustday9483]

This is a great review and I really enjoyed your point about the accessibility settings in Palworld. I love when games have very customizable settings, both to make things easier and harder.

[@Goblin_Hater_37]

They managed to have sickness/illness stuff at bases perfectly balanced. If you keep your pals at a easy working rate it comes up just enough to keep them feeling alive. While if you over work them like crazy, they will suffer a ton!

[@gauna98]

I love how all the people make characters with serious faces, it's like a serious business.

[@silsternensand]

They didn't steal from any game because gameplay cannot be protected. Game style cannot be protected either. And ideas are never protected.

[@killerwasp-23-31]

You missed out when showing off the pals expressions the star of the show… depresso 😂😂😂

[@cloud8813]

A little thing I noticed in Palworld, is that wild pals have an eat animation for any dead pals/humans.

[@BeanutButterBoy]

Palworld has such good personality.

[@mactep1]

I don't think this game is a cash-grab, its developed by a small company, with a single fixed priced for the whole thing and it just feels too honest about its inspirations, its more like a parody. In a twisted way i would even call it pretty original, like, if put enough common ingredients inside a blender, you will eventually get an original flavor, this in itself is easy, but getting one that tastes good, not so much, you can grab any single element of palword by itself and immediately point at its origin, but you cant find a *single* game that has even 50% of what this one has in a single package, and to me at lest, that makes it pretty original.

[@RandomDude647]

i was hoping you'd talk about the multiplayer. can you still do all that custom difficulty stuff with friends?

[@WhyDo]

Yep I believe they are classified as 'World Settings' so you can still customize everything! And yeah def want to give multiplayer a shot, honestly part of why I'm making this is to get some of my friends to buy palworld LMAO they're all playing fighting games or monster hunter...

[@toukoenriaze9870]

​@@WhyDomultiplayer is a little buggy with anything to do with moving (grappling hook ... Eikedeer/fenglope charge attack ... Jumping while on a cliff sends you to the bottom of the cliff instead of the up jump it does in single player) But ye it's still pretty good all things considered

[@SPZ-gv2on]

@@WhyDo Basically what the guy above said. Movement is all jank but everything else works pretty perfectly. Just have the person with the best specs run it and it should go fine.

[@MeowO_O]

A Civic got four wheels and a steering wheel. It must have copied Ford!!! A RAV4 got four wheels and a steering wheel. It must have copied Ford!!! A Mustung is red. It must have copied Ford!!!

[@FartPriest69]

We love us a whydo upload

[@drpavel_]

This game is amazing. All I've wanted from Pokemon is a game with real time combat and one where you can just hang out with your Pokemon, do tasks, have them ride on your head or riding them. It in a lot of ways captures the vibe of the anime, you get attached to your pals in a way I never felt with the pokemon games. You take care of them when they're sick, see them sleep and feed them, watch them hang out in the hotsprings. They actually are involved with the world beyond turn based battles. This has so much soul to it. You're like Ash but with a gun, with a faithful Pokemon by your side, who also has a gun.

[@JDReC100]

"You're like Ash but with a gun, with a faithful Pokemon by your side, who also has a gun." Yes. Just...Yes 😊

[@notimportant768]

This game is literally their last game ported to unreal, the sword you get at tech level replaced with the gun you get at tech level, and finally vehicles and animals replaced with pals. Most everything else is kinda the same, they even had the pokeballs in craftworld too.

[@CalmestManOnMars]

Thing is, they EMBRACE this which makes their game even easier to enjoy