GTA killer, Halo killer, Pokemon killer?
Random people and journalists have been claiming these things in the past, and Palworld got the attention of Pokemon with guns in mid January this year.
I didn't buy their narratives that it was made by an AI bots, according to Twitter's users. Even though, it was made by around 70 people working on Palworld.
The fact that people panicked about AI controversy, even though the character designs were introduced in a trailer that was released years ago before generative AI could have been capable of making anything close to resembling them, is nonsense.
I know that Saints Row took Grand Theft Auto's inspiration and was it a GTA killer? Nah.
Or was it Haze a Halo killer? (according to some media sources) Nah.
What about Genshin Impact's art style that it took from Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild? I don't think Genshin butchered Zelda.
I mean Overwatch didn't kill Team Fortress 2 and people still play it to this day.
There were a number of examples of the next "Pokemon" thing in the past that Digimon, Monster Rancher, Temtem, etc. would become popular.
I didn't have high expectations of those games.
As for Palworld, the "Pokemon with guns" game is still early access, it's pretty nice and I'm having fun at the time I'm writing this post.
The next question is…will I be obsessed with like Apex Legends? Maybe.
Will this derivative "clone" game be remembered? I don't know. Art is subjective to every individual.
Minecraft, ARK: Survival Evolved, Project Zomboid, Rust……it's fair to say I'm not a fan of survival games.
I'll keep playing this game.
Life goes on. It always does, until it doesn't. But you know that, don't you?