Pokémon Fans Are Coming for Palworld With a Vengeance

ign.com:

Palworld, aka ‘Pokémon with guns’, is out now and already shooting to the top of Steam’s most-played games list. It’s early days of course but already it seems safe to declare the game a hit. And it’s going down well with players, too. On Steam, Palworld has a ‘very positive’ user review rating.

But some Pokémon fans are less than impressed, and that’s because of the clear and obvious similarities between Palworld and Nintendo’s all-conquering, family friendly gotta catch ‘em all franchise. Are Palworld’s Pals too similar to Pokémon? Are we in “rip-off” territory here?

As Palworld trends across social media, one vociferous debate cutting through the din revolves around this very question. For some Pokémon fans, Palworld is a shameless clone, and they’re letting the internet know it.

Here’s a snippet of the reaction:

That's definitely not a coincidence pic.twitter.com/AFSRKngGD5

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Reminder not to support palworld, it's not even subtle about its rip offs, how much else has it stolen? pic.twitter.com/amoWemNcpC

Snorlax/Tangrowth, Staraptor, Xatu, Cobalion

Actually, Cinderace funnily enough has the best chance of getting Palworld sued by the Pokemon Company

This is a COMPLETE carbon copy. The only difference this thing has between Cinderace is it's a Grass type pic.twitter.com/Wv22P0qP8i

On the topic of Palworld monster designs:
No, heavily referencing and copying from Pokémon designs won't harm the Pokémon Company. I don't think people are arguing that.

What it does is come off as incredibly shady and lazy. Make something original.

Another copied design, shame on you palworld #Pokemon #Palworld pic.twitter.com/VD2RRVMxeX

I don't got any hate currently against PalWorld but we can't deny that A LOT of these designs were ripped from Pokemon, some almost identical https://t.co/iUHixSrqDx pic.twitter.com/mNUtzUOADO

People told me that there are hundreds of original designs and not everyone was a blatant