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It's so weird seeing palworld go from what was characterized as a steamslop parody of pokemon full of slavery and slaughtering cute animals for fun into a fully fledged "open world pokemon meets survival crafting" concept that not only does what pokemon fans want better than nintendo can do, but also took the heat from the big N and came out unscathed. That's pretty fucking insane.

Like, this little indie game put together by a bunch of people who were making the game they wanted to play got so popular one of the biggest game companies on the planet saw them as a threat and tried to snuff them out like a mob boss putting out a cigar. But then players were finally getting the creature collecting game of the dreams so they rallied behind it and even other developers joined in and all that nintendo got for their trouble was a black mark on their reputation and pocket change, largely because their main tactic of having them burn all their money on legal fees failed and they didn't really plan for anything else in their hubris.

Oh, to be a fly on the wall at game freak as they make the next pokemon entries and watch from afar as palworld hits full release and just dumps all over their franchise like the dave matthews band on that boat. How do you compete with something that has no restraints and that fact is what people want? Palworld isn't a theme park experience with linear progression and all the "challenge" nested at the end of the game. It throws you into the world, tells you to survive and grow stronger, and then lets you go ham. You get to participate and work alongside your funky little creatures. You get to customize and empower them. You get to build a mini empire with them at your side. The world is hostile but you have your pals and together you're going to claw your way to the top of the food chain. Pokemon is a guided tour by comparison, and one so sanded down and inoffensive that it treats you like the child you play as. There are no mature alternatives so before it was either suck it up or kick rocks.

And then of course there's the tone. Pals can be violent and the factions you face are actively trying to murder and enslave their way to supremacy of the world. Some of the descriptions in the codex are downright horrifying. What do you mean this funny cartoon squid mummifies things by sucking out their guts? There's a goat demon that kidnaps people in the night and that's its most notable feature. NPCs talk about watching their friends get attacked and devoured by wild pals or lament about how tough surviving is. Everyone has guns and swords and creatures that can elementally annihilate you. Sometimes a pal's special skill is just pulling out a rocket launcher and turning some poor bastard in pasta sauce. That shit fucking rules. These are technically wild animals you are taming and turning into weapons. Violence is inherent. But being evil is a choice. You can be a cruel taskmaster or a psychopathic killer but everyone I know who plays treats their pals like their pets. They take good care of them and get upset when something happens to them. Investment in your pals and having to work alongside them to progress enables an emotional attachment that you kind of have to make up with pokemon, where your creatures are all essentially attack dogs for use in fights. Palworld is different. Not all pals are going to be in your party, many are going to be working at your base or are kept around as mounts, for utility like hauling materials, or even breeding purposes.

On that topic, some pals are purposefully sexually appealing (some by design and others by surprise). There's a whole joke about a separate dating sim where you date pals, which might be a real game someday. There are innumerable furrybait monsters to fulfill any deviant appetite and it's pretty clear at least a few people on the dev team weren't doing this just for laughs. The perverts are calling from inside the house on this one. People joke about certain pokemon appealing to the furries but that's the equivalent of stealing a cookie from the jar while nintendo isn't looking, and something they certainly don't care for. Pocketpair drops an entire pallet of cookies on your front lawn and says "call us for more, ya freaks". Say what you want about it, that tactic has definitely earned some die-hard fans.

I think the crux of palworld's success is that it gives players either what they want or something fresh in a corner of the game industry that has been monopolized so thoroughly that it has stagnated and keeps reusing the same formula from two decades ago. But the problem with keeping up that monopoly and relying on fans to consume your gruel as the only option is that when someone offers a much better dish, the blowback is going to be so much worse than you can imagine. People are going to realize that they don't need to engage with games that don't respect them or their time or their money and are going to flock to that which does. Pockepair stepped up with a passion project to fulfill a long-seated desire for a better experience and nintendo tried to beat them to death in front of everyone for daring to challenge them and got beat back. That's the kind of thing that sets a new standard and I'm curious to see if nintendo learns from this or tries to keep on their bullshit.

biohorror-human

ive become the friend that's too woke after saying it's weird that anomaly games are experiencing a cross-breeding with border control games without addressing the fascist politics being critiqued by the border control games so we end up with stuff like "animal hospital", a game where you work in a hospital, and have to take patients, but some of the patients that come in seeking aid are actually eldritch monsters, pretending to be patients so they can prey on the weak and vulnerable.

and isnt that just so fucking topical. "yeah there's an evil other that preys on the vulnerable. and they look and act exactly like everyone else until you inspect them closely on a camera and the true nature of the monster is revealed. and even though they attack people on the street all you have to do is refuse them service and they leave on their own" just let me call ICE on them at that point

biohorror-human

if your BORDER PATROL GAME is so moderately political that youtubers can play it and the only thing they come out with is "WOAGH!!!! border patrol game but with WAIFUS!!!!" you gotta get shot im not even joking someone has to killy ou

khbsd

and this isnt even mentioning the ableism present in "oh your face or skin looks different than *normal*" or "hmmm your proportions are off and therefore BAD"

like people who are accident victims exist! people with different phenotypes and syndromes exist!! hyper policing other peoples bodies to sort them into inherently bad and corrupted and good and pure is real fucking weird and fascist!!!!!!

emily-e-draws

a tasty hoard for a tiny beast!🍓🐉✨

alicechizita

@girlydemise

girlydemise

Omg cuteee dragon

nonepronounwithleftboy

@daylights-rain

strawbebbynya

making a traumacore edit bc someone ate the donut i wanted

astro-b-o-y-d

I hope you appreciate the effort I put into this stupid thing

a-dinosaur-a-day

What do you think about the kulindradromius from Prehistoric nature mod for MC?

Personally I feel its baby

holy crap that's so cute

and is that the adad kulinda color meme??? omg?????????

hymnism

making a collection

putridghost

Wait I have more

am i in trouble

how

This made me ponder, the conclusion was simple.

A noodle will be held only if it wants to.

superluxdeluxe

OMG this is super cute! Thank you!

despazito

Finally got a clear shot of noonoo carrying her spring, it's her favourite toy

krambee

noonoo….

molabuddy

i accidentally clicked onto and off of the "explore" page very quickly, and in the second or so that the explore page was onscreen i saw a beautiful photoshopped image that may infact be nothing like how i saw it due to the speed at which it appeared and disappeared.... but still. what i saw was beautiful

it looked like this

saltedsour

dw i got u i am obsessed.with this image

molabuddy

OGH MY GOD. YES THANK YOU THATS HIM

yaldabaothadeez

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humiliationvictim

Minecraft caves are so dark bro…

videolottery

Hey so it’s come to my attention that this account is stealing my posts from like 2 years ago? Super odd behavior. Why are you trying to engagement farm on tumblr?