Random: Nintendo Releases The Hounds On A Pokémon Ripoff Game, But Not That One

@Bobb Well, Venomoth’s the man! (No joke, I actually dig Venomoth’s design)

Good gravy, what a waste of effort on something that was never going to fly in the face of the Nintendo ninjas. What possesses people to forge ahead with these things?

Such is the Wrath of Nintendo! Wow, seems like Palworld's success emboldened others to also take "strong inspiration" from Pokemon.

These "inspired" corporations better watch out. Nintendo Ninjas are relentless.

Not to be that guy, but with all due respect, insinuating Palworld is a Pokemon ripoff shows you're contributing to the corporate stranglehold and monopoly TPC has on the genre and anything dealing with "catching monsters." Please have a little more intellectual integrity.

There's "inspired" and then there's "blatant copying" which this game falls into the latter.

that "but not that one" is pretty unnecessary. I understand having strong feeling towards something, but unless it's a real ripoff, it feels really off.

Whatever about Palworld this one's definitely trying to pass itself off as a pokemon game

I thought this was a game where you go around looking at ZX Spectrum cheats in enclosures.

What in the world of Pokemon is this... 🤦

Palworld doesn't need to be targeted by nintendo, the creator will keep talking and inevitably ruin his hot streak.

Yeah I'm not surprised by this. I'd honestly be surprised if palworld actually gets sued. It's heavily inspired but nothing looks like it's using pokemon assets.

@Bobb I think that Mothman might be from MetaZoo?

A bit surprise that Nintendolife didn't mention MetaZoo in this article, because I think that is how they got the name "PokeZoo."

Edit: (Off topic, but I just looked up MetaZoo, and all of a sudden they just abruptly shuted down recently? Hmm...)

While there are definitely rip offs of pokemons elements looking at that game on the google play store page it looks nothing like pokemon haha

If you're using actual Pokeballs and using the name Poke you're aware of what you are doing and asking to get shut down.

@SmileMan64 Theres a diffrence from being inspired by pokemon like palworld, and blatantly using Pokemon IP and characters.

@woodenbard The ultimate irony to me is Palworld is never talked about without Pokemon being mentioned or brought up somewhere in the conversation. It can't stand on its own! The people who defend it are the very people who dubbed it "Pokemon with guns." Just silly.

Hey it's totally okay, there's no accent over the e like in Pokémon so it's cool.

@Rainbowfire @woodenbard @illmatic20xx I mostly agree, but some of the Pals are literally just pokemon. There's a cobalion one, a goodra one, an eevee one, a lucario one, a cinderace one, a meganium one, a luxray one...etc.

@Aurumonado I agree, ive played about 20hrs of palworld and alot of the pals are literally Pokémon reskins, but probably have enough changes to them. Nintendo would of blocked the release of the game months ago if they actually had any type of legal case.

I asked this on another thread already but what nintendo console is/was Palworld on? I tried looking on the switch eshop but it's not there. Is it physical only or something?

That has to be a blatant attempt at a signal boost by goading out Nintendo's legal team, probably angling for companies to see their work and be sympathetic to the plight of this developer getting crushed by the big bad N.

@woodenbard itself, it is not a pokemon ripoff
but many of the designs are directly stolen

@weisske Its on Xbox gamepass, and steam. Not on Switch or PS5. If you can id recommend playing palworld though its janky, it is fun.

@illmatic20xx Wait if it's not on nintendo then why is Nintendolife talking about it? I thought they had separate sites for sony and xbox games?

@weisske Because alot of the monsters in the game look like pokemon with slight changes. Also people were expecting Nintendo to take legal action.

Nintendo fans will continue to hate Palworld...until it gets a switch release and they can finally play it for themselves.

Personally i really loved Palworld, and sure it does look a better pokemon, but for me (and apparently alot of people's) it gave me more of a Ark vibe. With Digimons and Pokemon's.

@woodenbard Not to be that guy, but with all due respect, acting like the main criticism of Palworld is its shared similarities by genre (or lack thereof) with Pokemon, rather than the blatant ripping off of character designs is completely disingenuous. Please have a little more intellectual integrity.

@woodenbard People thinking Palworld is a rip-off has nothing to do with the game genre or any of the game mechanics, and everything to do with how blatantly they ripped off the designs of Pokemon.

And no, Nintendo doesn't hold the right to cute looking animals, but that's really not the point either. Some of the designs were CLEARLY ripped off of some of the more unique looking Pokemon. And that is lame.

@Daniel36 tbf it's not like the real pokemon are well designed, looks like they asked primary school children to draw some animals...

@Deljo Of course, that is true, but here we are not talking about something like an Ekans, which is just a snake, but straight up knock offs. I've been browsing their monster list and it honestly looks like they asked AI to combine two very distinct Pokemons to create new ones. One looks almost exactly like a pallete swap Lucario. Several of their grass types look like a combination of two flower Pokemon.

In your comparison, Palworld looks like they asked primary school children to draw Pokemon by heart, and this is what they came up with.

And one thing I am sure a lot of people also have issues with, is that the world looks quite realistic, more like Monster Hunter, the character models look different as well, so why not create monsters that feel more like they belong in that realistic world, instead of pasted in?

The answer to that question is almost certainly "Because we know this will get people's attention, specifically because they look like Pokemon."

If they had created monsters more akin to Monster Hunter, or any other game, this game would have NEVER picked up this amount of steam. They knew exactly what they were doing.

I am also pretty sure that the reason the backgrounds look way more realistic is because that was a free or at least cheap asset pack. Which is fine in and of itself... I have had the ocassional dream of creating my own game and I would be MORE than happy to use assets such as these, because the world looks amazing and it gives me more time to work on other aspects. But I wouldn't put these monsters and those character models in it, because they don't match.

To quote a certain cartoon shark, “I’m staying out of this”.

I would like to point out that PokeZoo was not supposed to be a TCG. It was an online TCG store which sold both Pokémon and MetaZoo cards, hence the name “PokeZoo”.

The “4th wall breaking mechanism” was taken from MetaZoo as well.

Lastly I have to say that this PokeZoo takedown happened after the shutdown of MetaZoo Games, plus PokeZoo wasn’t doing much in terms of selling MetaZoo and especially not Pokémon products