Palworld is a pretty annoying game tbh
It feels just as jank as Pokemon at times and i cant get over a lot of the pal designs. Theyre just a few pokemon mashed together into something that doesnt have a whole lot of cohesion. Some look like they are from sonic the hedgehog EU. Just very uninspired. All of the birds look the same to me; different variations of random bird pokemon but homogenized.
There are some designs i like though. Splatterina is really cool. Wispaw is my fav so far. Omascul is great. Maraith is pretty neat….somehow all of them are dark types…
The pokedex descriptions…and the world in general just feel cynical though, which i find pretty boring.
“The creatures learned how to use guns! Arent we cool?!”
“This creature likes to dismember people! For reasons!”
It feels like they are trying to match some of the qurkier pokedex desriptions from pokemon, but those work in those games because theres not that many of them…and pokemon just feel better thought out in terms of their placement in the world.
Why is there a pal that spawns with a butcher knife and is a serial killer and is also called splatterina? Like how does that fit into anything other than trying to be edgy? And i LIKE splatterina. But like a lot of the pals, it just doesnt really have any sort of cohesion with the world its in.
And dear god the human ‘characters’and ‘story’…
Pokemon is a game written for babies, but at the very least, the characters tend to be memorable.
The only character i can remember off the top my head from palworld is the first boss and only cuz she sorta looks like Ironmouse.
Suggesting this game to pokemon fans seems misguided. They arent really that alike other than you catch monsters.
One series is a jrpg and the other is like a mish mash/survival game. If you want a relaxed time with memorable characters, forgettable story, fun monster designs, good music, turn based battling, and some thought put into how the monsters interact with the world, you play pokemon.
If you want a resource gathering survival game where you can freely explore a huge map, endlessly grind for materials, catch monsters and do other stuff from like 5 different game genres, you play palworld
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