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Heading back to Palworld after two-and-a-half years<\/a>, I can definitely see where Nintendo\u2019s patent lawsuits have needled the game. You can\u2019t glide with Pals anymore, a concept apparently Nintendo owns and wants to keep to itself. And there is some sort of stipulation that you can\u2019t throw a ball and have a battling creature come out of it (now you just hold up your hand and they appear). It\u2019s all rather absurd..<\/p>\n However, there is not just a legal conflict between Pok\u00e9mon and Palworld, but rather fanbases clashing as well. There is a contingent of fervent Pok\u00e9mon fans who make it their mission to try and take down Palworld, calling it a cheap knock-off of the series that inspired it, or claiming that it outright plagiarized the original. In some cases, saying it looks like \u201cAI slop,\u201d a more common phrase now from 2.5 years earlier.<\/p>\n Palworld is not the most polished game in the world, and it has certainly taken ideas from a host of games. Not just Pok\u00e9mon (which of course does not own battling and catching monsters. Not yet, anyway), but you certainly see echoes of Breath of the Wild as well in its open world. None of this, however, takes away from the fact that Palworld is a fundamentally fun game, and it is hardly the first title to borrow from other big industry leaders. It has combined a number of systems under its own banner to create something unique, and if it was just a bad clone, well, we wouldn\u2019t be here, would we? Through all of this, we have to keep in mind that Nintendo is a monster company with one of the biggest IPs of all time, and Palworld doesn\u2019t have a fraction of its cash. Yet, it\u2019s doing all this, creating a game that is almost, if not frequently more engaging. <\/p>\n There\u2019s a line I\u2019ve heard out there that if you truly think Palworld is better than Pok\u00e9mon, you have nostalgia glasses on and haven\u2019t played for generations now. You\u2019re thinking only about the bare-bones games from ages ago. <\/p>\n Play Puzzles & Games on Forbes<\/p>\n I did play those, but what I do remember is eagerly looking forward to seeing how the series would evolve from there. Even when I was like, ten, I was hoping we\u2019d get a more action-based take on the series. A big (for its time) world to explore and no turn-based combat. It never came, not in the ways I wanted. Not until Palworld, 25 years later.<\/p>\n The combination of survival mechanics, base-building, live combat against Pals and humans alike, world exploration and secret-finding, breeding and min-maxing, and playing in the same world with friends all adds up to a tremendous experience, which is why so many people have logged on for Palworld 1.0.<\/p>\n Game Freak has not innovated at nearly the pace it should have over all these years. This isn\u2019t to say Pok\u00e9mon is crashing and selling terribly, but if fans are introspective, there is a lot of \u201cbare minimum\u201d progress going on here. Even brand experiments like Pokopia aren\u2019t matching what Palworld is doing here. Pok\u00e9mon is not a terrible series by any means, but Palworld is not a terrible game either. Both can coexist, but yes, Palworld certainly has some advantages, expanding the genre more than Pok\u00e9mon has in a long, long time.<\/p>\n Follow me on Twitter<\/a>, YouTube<\/a>,<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series<\/a> and The Earthborn Trilogy<\/a>.<\/p>\n