It's almost embarrassing that Pokemon got upstaged by something as sloppy as Palworld, a janky survival game carried by one good idea
Opinion | Palworld is fun enough, but I still like the idea of it more than I actually like the game
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Palworld is Ark: Survival Evolved spliced with the Pokemon trainer dream. Its core mechanics and overall presentation are very different to Pokemon – again, it’s a survival and management game – but it shamelessly leverages a very similar fantasy of catching and interacting with critters, right down to the balls you use to capture them. It’s also come at a time where the owner of Pokemon not only isn’t makinga game like this, it isn’t making good creature-collector games at all.
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The mainline Pokemon RPGs have been begging to get dunked on for years. Indie catch-‘em-alls like Cassette Beasts and Anode Heart handily outdo them, to say nothing of the likes of Monster Hunter Stories or Temtem. After the hideous and unacceptably buggy duo of Pokemon Scarlet and Violet,a game like thiswas perfectly positioned …
