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The Pokémon Company Announces It Will ‘Investigate’ Palworld IP And Assets (www.forbes.com)

submitted 10 months ago by Stovetop to c/nintendo

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[–] Sheeple 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Why would Nintendo buy something that plagiarized them? They only buy independent stuff like how they did with Super Mario Bros 2

[–] willis936 8 points 10 months ago

Palworld didn't plagiarize them. This is what the kids call a nothingburger.

Obviously there are loads of similar designs, but in a way that indicates illegal asset stealing? That’s a different question, and so-called “lazy design” aping on other creations doesn’t qualify as actual theft unless it can be explicitly proven.

More grimly, it is a big corporation trying to squash an upstart competitor and suppress art. If they succeed then it is truly dystopian and a sign that we need more legal protections against overzealous copyright litigators.

[–] Mr_Dr_Oink 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I didnt k ow about this. Just read about it now. Wow. Really interesting. I want to try the Japanese super mario bros 2 now haha.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Doki Doki Panic!

[–] Mr_Dr_Oink 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

From what ive read, doki doki panic was a seperate game and was reskinned to become what the western world got as super mario bros 2. Japan had a different super mario bros 2 game that was built using the original game engine.

One key difference was that in the western version mario picked up and threw enemies but in the japan game mario jumped on enemiea like in the original.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh no way, I didn't know that. When you said you wanted to try the Japanese Super Mario 2, I thought you were just referring to Doki Doki Panic.

Now I really want to play the Japanese Super Mario 2 as well.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The Japanese Mario 2 was released outside of Japan on the Super Nintendo in the Super Mario All-Stars game. It's known as "Super Mario Bros. The Lost Levels" on that cartridge.

[–] Sheeple 2 points 10 months ago

It's also tbh very much just "Super Mario Bros but more" in terms of well... Everything. If you like SMB1 and want new levels, play SMB2 Lost Levels.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Oh I played that a lot as a kid. I always wondered why it was called The Lost Levels