• gorogorochan@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    GameFreak sucks big time, one of the worst first party devs Nintendo has in their roster, but Palworld is such a bland, uninspired and generic attempt at copying Pokemon that I still can’t fathom how it became so popular.

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      9 months ago

      Because people have been asking and craving for an actually good and fun new Pokémon game for yeaaars now, and Palworld delivered just that. It gives the people what they want.

      People think it cool to hate on things that are popular, but this one makes perfect sense. It’s popular because it does what Gamefreak has been refusing to do for decades now.

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        9 months ago

        Dude, seriously. The contrarians are out on full display with this game. You see the same poorly thought out points regurgitated in every thread.

        The monsters look like Pokemon and you capture them in balls. That’s the extent of the similarities.

        But what you can do after that is fun and unique. I’ve always wanted to play a game where I could live with Pokemon. Having a Vulpix help me cook my food and a Piplup help me water my crops is awesome.

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          9 months ago

          And the counter argument against contrarians is that it’s not an issue that the monsters are uninspired copies. I mean it’s not like they are the leitmotiv of the game… I guess GameFreak managed to set the bar very low.

          I’m reallu happy that people are enjoying the game, especially with GF underdelivering for so long, but to me, the game looks like an asset flip with heavy… inspiration in monster design.

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      9 months ago

      You can’t really argue that it is a pokemon game tho. The gameloop is a complete different one. The only thing they have in common are uninspired monster designs. And maybe the that you catch them with a ball.

      Persona games have more in common with pokemon games than palworld does.

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        9 months ago

        The game isn’t on switch so I bet a lot of the people saying it’s a ripoff haven’t even played it.