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Palworld gameplay isn't even remotely similar to Pokemon. Its basically Ark Survival that just so happens to have plagiarised pokemon designs instead of dinosaurs.
I kinda wish they didn't go such overt plagiarism in terms of design because then Palworld could be a nice game on its own
I'm reminded of how Fortnight, arguably the most popular game ever, is a direct rip off of PUBG, which is itself a repackaged Arma 2 mod
Fortnite Battle Royale was an afterthought, a gamejam project at Epic, made with assets from Fortnite: Save the World. They hoped to use the BR hype to get some more players to the main game, but it got so ridiculously popular it quickly overtook StW and became the Fortnite we all know today.
(FYI, by raw numbers Minecraft is still the #1 popular game. Not relevant to the discussion but a neat statistic. It's kind of mind boggling how popular that stupid block game is)
Which is just an infiniminer clone.
And dwarves fortress
the only explanation i can come up with is that they wanted the free PR, i mean would the game really have been so popular if it wasn't teetering on the knife's edge of plagiarism?
if they made the creature designs comfortably different from pokemon it would kinda just be yet another game
But honestly, what can even be considered "comfortably different" from Pokemon? If you make funny little animals, they'll probably resemble at least one of the 1025 Pokemon currently in existence.
that's my take on it really, they clearly knew their designs were copied bs, and totally did not have to make it that way. For me personally it totally throws off the potential vibe and just feels like poking a bear for absolutely no reason. Plus I also think the game is kind of offensive and in poor taste but that seems to be a minority opinion to say the least.