has everyone gotten their knee-jerk reactions to palworld out. can i throw my two cents in
speaking as both an artist and a game dev student, the fact that people were so quick to jump to pocket pair’s (the company behind palworld) defense in regards to ripping off pokemon was highly concerning. even though there is evidence that they have literally ripped at least one model from pokemon directly.
and there is also no denying they have taken at least some “inspiration” regarding their other designs.
and a lot of people may go “there’s no problem, they’re ripping off nintendo who is a huge company”. well, if they can get away with ripping off nintendo, what happens when they start ripping off smaller companies?
at first glance, what game do you think this is? nope, it’s not actually hollow knight. this is pocket pair’s upcoming game “never grave: the with and the curse”. hollow knight was made by only three people. that is a far cry from nintendo’s massive company.
and although usage of ai generation may not be used in palworld, the company its from is no stranger to using ai art for their other games.
palworld exists as a novelty, haha funny pokemon game but with guns. but the moment you look into it, the company its from does some shady things. personally i would not want to support a company like it
You also forgot the part where Pocket Pair plagiarized fan pokemon designs with no compensation or credit.
That Mega Delphox was originally drawn by an artist by the name of pyroaura98 (their DA is down so here’s a repost, as unfortunate as I had to do this: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/320037117242282149/)
To the left is the pal Arsox and to the right is Flairees, who was made for a fangame called Pokémon Sage (https://antifandom.com/capx/wiki/Flairees)
Damn, it’s worse than I thought.
Ever since I first saw that game I thought it was a fucking Joke. Like does it really have guns in it!? I’m honestly surprised they are allowed to get away with such blatant copying. And the fact that you have to pay for it is even more insane. I personally will never touch this game, even if someone gifted it to me.