Random: The 'Pokémon-With-Guns' Game On Steam Is Yet More Homework Copying

I know WHY, but WHY waste your time making clones when you clearly have the skills to make your own product. This and craftopia are disgusting and honestly if heaven is real they’re going to show these tapes at the gate and tell them to go downstairs.

@Strictlystyles Probably because they get way more attention by making Pokemon with guns

@Strictlystyles clones lead to inovation.
The best innovation works in small dosis of iteration.

Look at how the FPS genre completely originated as a bunch of blatant clones of doom.

No idea on the quality of this game but we need to stop calling this genre 'Pokemon Clones' just like how we stopped calling First Person Shooters 'Doom Clones'.

There is so much potential in the monster battling format that we are unlikely to see from Pokemon given it's downward spiral of quality.

@darkswabber meh. There’s copying and then there’s just clones/plagiarism . Clones do nothing for anyone(most of the time). Games that are inspired by other games lead to innovation. Not blatant cloning

I was looking forward to this until I realised thats is more a survival game than a creature collection title. Not a fan of having to farm materials as a gameplay loop.

Out of curiosity, are these games broken or full of issues/glitches? The plagiarism with characters is blatant but the game seems… kinda fun… maybe. Lol

Looks like it could be fairly interesting, regardless of what the inspiration was behind it.

What it reminds me of is Hogs of War, which was a cracking game on the PS1. It may have been knocked as a Worms ripoff when it came out but the gameplay was excellent. It also had a great sense of humour and the now-legendary Rik Mayall provided the battlefield commentary. That's a game I'd love to see make a triumphant comeback.

Lots of games are scams but you should be careful calling out genuine games as scams. Not exactly fair to the devs. This is on Gamepass today by the way - looking forward to trying it out with a friend (I haven’t played it yet).

From the Palworlds streams I have watched it seems very much a real actual game, now its still in early access so its possible the devs could drop the project but they much have got a decent payment to get on gamepass. I will be giving it a go later as it actually looks pretty fun.

Like in Factorio I just want to eventually get production lines going like in the trailers.

Hmmm...seems like a game built around a gimmick. 'Pokemon with guns', as the article states. I'm guessing that once you get past the initial shock factor, you're left with mostly garbage.

@JohnnyMind I bought it, but have yet to try it. I'll let you know what I think when I actually get to playing it. From the small bits and pieces I've seen from content creator's reviews, the game is apparently pretty fun. Its basically a survival game akin to ARK, but with a monster collecting aspect to it. The Early Access is apparently pretty much a complete game, aside from a few features they have to add a bit after the planned launch window. There's also apparently minimal glitches.

@VoidofLight

I enjoyed ARK a lot, which I suppose you could basically describe as Survival Pokemon + Dinosaurs.

@Woderwick I've always wanted to give ARK a shot, but I could never actually get the game. When I got a PC that could actually run it, it ended up getting a remastered version.. and apparently that wasn't really all that good. I just found the concept of the world's lore and monster designs really interesting.

@VoidofLight

It's a good game. I played it offline, single-player on Switch, after the recent-ish patch that completely rebuilt it from the ground up.

It was a lot of fun, and absolutely nailed that feeling of starting off with nothing and being scared of pretty much everything. The nights are also really, really dark (realistically so) which adds to the feeling of isolation and tension.

It scales up well, and when you start taming dinosaurs they add loads of cool utility functions. Also, the moment of locating, planning and executing the successful taming of your first heavy-hitter is an incredible feeling. Mine was a Spinosaurus I named Lothar.

The problems I ran into are sort of where I run out of steam with a lot of survival games. Once you hit a certain level of tech and comfort they lose some of the appeal.

ARK does have a huge end-game though, with some massive boss fights. But I found the caving aspect quite tedious, and that's required to be able to access the boss fights so I never quite pushed that far.

I also never did any of the other maps, but I may dip back into it at some point and try some of them out.

This looks like a big pile of trash. And I am not even against games that are "inspired" by other games. But honestly I'd rather be playing the PETA Pokémon 'games' than this.

I love how the main character goes from shooting the 'mons in the face with a bazooka to carefully patting their heads. And they even let some of the little creatures work for them, lol.
This is wrong on so many levels but I‘d be lying if I said I didn‘t enjoy watching this. And the title is just the cherry on top.

That palworld, really got my attention, not really a Pokemon fan, but this game, looks really promising.

If this game is not a clone explain the jiggly puff cat thing and the penguin starter who’s name I forgot, the breath of the wild clone looks like it has lynals and moblins in addition to bokoblins

Everyone sitting here calling it garbage but like...multiple previews have already released saying that it's really good.

Just seems like an unfocused asset flip riding shock factor rather than any substantive core ideas.

I think the fact it's releasing in Early Access says it all really. The game's not finished but they're ready to take your money, whether they finish the game or not.

What's the chances that this studio that has never finished a single game, but now has two Early Access Open World games is gonna finish Palworld? Zero Percent.

It's a blatant scam, and if it's on Gamepass it's only because Microsoft doesn't give a crap rather than a sign of legitimacy.

Looks so much better than anything TPC have put out in decades.

Well, this does fix one issue... Okay, a few issues that I've had with the Pokémon series, but specifically, I've always wanted to be able to play as an adult, not some stupid little school boy, a problem that is only more noticeable for me when you get to fight adult trainers; I feel like I can relate to Larry a lot more than my own character.

It looks interesting to say the least. It's got a lot of good reviews on Steam, but that price point($30, but $26.99 for launch) is kinda off-putting. Plus, I'm not a fan of survival games, especially when it gets to the point where you get more monster attacks than things you can forage.

@Druidsbrook I agree. Heck, this honestly feels like a mix of Pokémon, open world survival games, and BotW. Honestly, there are a few models that did give me a "yep that's very much like a Pokémon design" vibe, but unlike Pokémon Switch games, it looks like it will play well on Xbox and PC, and theres' no chance even if it would be allowed by Nintendo, that it would even come, probably because the Swtich would be unable to run the game well.

What a clickbait article!

having a pokemon daft son and watched too many tv shows movies. i like the cut of the devs jib. total ripp off but looks stupid fun

@Strictlystyles So nobody is allowed to make a survival game with monsters you can catch to use in those survival elements and combat just because Pokemon exists? Or monster taming games can't exists at all? You might not like the game, and some designs aren't too original, but you are comparing this to killing someone.

The gameplay literally looks nothing like Pokemon. Plus to be fair BOTW certainly borrowed plenty of ideas from other open world games too.

That doesn't make any of these games a clone though. Games take inspiration from the past all the time. There's nothing wrong with that.

@RupeeClock Conflicts with the 'Pal' in the title then doesn't it. Maybe they should've called 'SlaveWorld' instead.

@JohnnyMind Just very recently, YouTube recommended a lot of videos of people playing this to me. I scanned through quite a few of them and the people were mostly very positive saying the game is fun. Only 1 out of around 7-8 of those videos was negative. It also has mostly good reviews on Steam.

But I haven't played it myself, so I can't help much beyond that. I'd still seek further feedback, as I don't know, but it has an audience that likes it from the feedback I've seen.

It's also still Early Access on Steam.

I don't know, given how stale Pokemon has become, maybe we do need to have Pikachu out here with a glock ending Team Rocket. Blasting off again for the last time.

If the game is good though, what's the harm? Pokemon wasn't the first monster collection type game, and it certainly ain't the best. Just the most profitable.

If TPC made an open world pokemon game like this it would be huge.
edit- without the animal enslavement that is

@JohnnyMind Yeah, I can see that as it definitely has a lot of positive feedback on YouTube and Steam. It's on my "keep my eyes on it" list. I'd like to check the feedback after some time has passed but I think it's good from the reception so far. Hopefully it is good then.

Have you read or watched reviews of this game? It is waaaay more than a Pokémon knock-off.

So much hostility in this article when Temtem is available on the eShop 🤔 And apparently the gameplay has more in common with Ark.

@Druidsbrook I agree 100%. I looked at this trailer and saw the similarities for sure; but I also saw how it was unique in it's own right.

I think that’s a little unfair to just label it a knockoff, the game seems to have real love put in it.

And from the gameplay I’ve seen it actually looks like fun tbh! And the people that have played it seem to enjoy it as well.

@Druidsbrook but this is a Pokémon clone, look at the image

I'm getting it on Gamepass to let my Pokemon playing son try it.

@Strictlystyles Gods going to send them to hell for plagiarizing? I'm not religious but Im pretty sure when I studied the bible when I was younger plagiarizing was not one of the sins mentioned xD

Hey, looks like it'll run better than Scarlet and Violet.
Seems like it's Pokémon with Sonic Frontiers' visual style and Fortnite character designs. Honestly it looks pretty well-made, aside from the blatant plagiarism. Even has a character creator!

Ooh, add this to my wishlist! /j
Totoro with a gun, tho...

@Druidsbrook This. I really enjoyed TemTem and I think a lot of people would have but didn't give it a chance because it's a "Pokemon Clone." No! It's a game inspired by Pokemon. The Pokemon Company will not do the things that the consumers want so other developers are trying to fill those roles.

And this game looks like a lot of fun despite being a mismatch of many different genres.

@Snatcher Yeah, veen if it is a knockoff, the concept is stillf unny and seems fun!

@Druidsbrook
This. The game is so much more than 'pokemon with guns'
This article is actually really closed minded.

Every genre started somewhere, I don't hear anyone complain that a Metroidvania is a 'Castlevania' and 'Metroid' clone, it's it's own genre now, as should monster collectors be.

Reminds me of when Genshin was considered some cheap BOTW clone, lol

Pokemon Clone seems right on the spot.
Unlike other games in the monster collecting genre like Digimon, Monster Rancher, Medabots, Beyblade, Yokai Watch and so on this one is much similar to Pokemon than it is different.

@Strictlystyles You said you knew “WHY,” still asked “WHY,” then had the audacity to snap at @mariomaster96 for replying with an “obvious answer.” Not cool.

I understand your primary point is that Palworld and Craftopia are damning and the devs clearly seem to be capable enough of doing something less blatantly derivative.

The “I know WHY but WHY” part was for emphasis and incredulity, but you can’t expect everyone to interpret text exactly the way you intended.

Please have a bit more respect and compassion for the community here. We shouldn’t be demeaning one another.

Anything with monsters in your Party or Team is actually a Pokemon clone, including SMT which came before Pokemon. Ignore literally everything else.

@CielloArc

"Unlike other games in the monster collecting genre like Digimon, Monster Rancher, Medabots, Beyblade, Yokai Watch and so on this one is much similar to Pokemon than it is different."

Weird, I don't remember the part in Pokemon where you build a base.

I don't remember the part in Pokemon where your Pokemon help you build that base and gather resources.

I don't remember the part in Pokemon where you shoot the Pokemon.

I don't remember the part in Pokemon where there are guns at all, actually.

I don't remember the part in Pokemon where you can capture people in pokeballs.

I don't remember the part in Pokemon where you can butcher your Pokemon for meat.

I must've forgotten a lot about Pokemon.

The game looks God damn awful, there's plenty better Pokémon like games out there such as Digimon, DQ Monsters, World of Final Fantasy, SMT V and TemTem.

@FawfulsFury I saw some people on saying online how some of the actual art was stolen from the independent artists Nintendo used for Scarlet/Voliet. But, then I saw other people saying those artists stole from Pal. Not sure what to make of that; doesn't really excuse the older pokemon designs being copied, but if true, maybe it lessens the effect of those comparisons.

@EllaTheQueen6 right? i have never really been an ark guy never really been interested but this is actually something I want to play.

@Snatcher Also whyisyourChristmas pfp still here lol

@JagGentlemann this is clearly an asset flip. This is not anything with its own ideas. These types of games should
Be wholly shunned.

“Pokémon with guns” I’LL TAKE YOUR ENTIRE STOCK!!! no but seriously a monster catching survival game is honestly a amazing idea. Also can we please kill the term Pokémon rip-off’s and start calling these games something like monster catching games or something?

@ijulianvel it’s called a rhetorical question. Typically used to start conversation. I didn’t ask for the obvious answer. That captain obvious answer is not the type that invokes discussion

@RubyCarbuncle I’m not foolish enough to pay for an unfinished Pokémon clone with guns.

@Arcata that entire game looks like a sin. Trust me they are going. If not, god isn’t real.

I find the discourse behind this game immensely intriguing. You’ve got the people pointing out design similarities to the point that it appears to be blatant asset theft. You’ve got people who, if the asset theft is real, are fine with it as it’s a way to “stick it to the man” and let the big corporations and companies hurt. You’ve got people who are defending the game saying that being inspired by previous games isn’t wrong (which it isn’t). And above all else, it seems that the people who are playing this game are enjoying it, to the point that it appears to be going viral, especially with all the discourse surrounding it.

My opinion: I am fine with a game that is inspired by previous games in the genre, and I encourage it. Take Temtem, for example. It’s obviously inspired by Pokémon, but you can tell the devs want to make it a similar experience while also wanting it to stand on its own. In that game’s case, to say you won’t play it because it’s not Pokémon is short-sighted and a disservice to the amount of hard work the devs put into it.

Palworld, however, is way too obvious with what it’s doing for me to consider it anything other than a scam. It makes me ask, “Okay, these devs clearly know how to make a fun game, so why are the creature designs so similar to Pokémon to the point that I can easily name the Pokémon they are ‘inspired’ by? If they really wanted to make something unique and creative, why do they appear to be blatantly copying and tweaking assets?” The only answer to these questions, in my opinion, is that they’re doing it just to make a quick buck. With that in mind, their strategy becomes obvious. Create a game on the cheap, use elements that make people go “Wait, I recognize that!”, and all the discourse surrounding the game will market it for us. All press is good press. We don’t care what kind of reputation the game has. As long as people talk about it and promote it, we’ve already won.

To me, this game is a cynical cash grab that was cleverly crafted to be as clickbait-y as possible. And we, as the people who are making discourse on Twitter and engaging with articles like this one, are the ultimate losers because we’ve given them exactly what they want.

@JagGentlemann when did I compare this to killing someone? That’s not the only thing that can send you down there. Making a Pokémon clone with guns that plays like arks is definitely another way. And yea there are other really blatant Pokémon and botw clones and all those devs are going too, we can only talk about one game at a time though

There are hundreds and hundreds of pokemon designs, most of which use the standard rules of cute. There's a pokemon of almost any animal you can think of. Draw a cartoon animal: It's going to look like a pokemon.

I think the bigger story here is that this is yet another game abusing "early access" to have two full, hyped "releases" without having to worry about negative reviews until they say the game ... that is already out ... is ready to be released.

Thanks to Baldur's gate 3, this is becoming the standard for all but the largest studios now, and I don't think we'll be waiting long to "pre-order Assassins' Creed: Early Access" available now!

@BreathingMiit

You're not wrong, but I would say if you draw a cartoon animal and don't try to fit any given style, just make it "cute", it's going to look like a Sanrio character. They are deliberately designed by committee to look as generic as possible. Pokémon have a precise "wonkiness" to them.

I'm playing this right now and ... the creatures absolutely look like Sanrio characters and not Pokémon. It's also way more "Lost planet with creatures" or even "Ark with ... no, basically just Ark" then "Pokémon with guns"

But hey, that's not going to make a headline, is it?

Game is great better then anything gamefreak made. Lol

Seems unfair to drag a game through the mud just because you're weird enough to care about IP rights

Forgot about this

@Druidsbrook To be fair, those do look an awful lot like wooloo.

I saw a new game that was even more blatant then this, in its copycatting. It straight up pulled enemies and movesets from SMB2, Castlevania, and Super Metroid. I mean, there was Phanto acting like Carmilla, and that plant alien thing. And I was like wooow. I thought it was a rom hack.

ETA: It's called the Transylvania Adventure of Simon's Quest

@Strictlystyles You said that it's a reason to go to hell, and I know it's mostly a joke, but you really show yourself heated up by the existence of this game.

people defending this cuz 'its just a genre now' are ignoring the blatant character design ripoffs. Should there be a Lucario in every game now?

@moomin IP rights are weird? Say you never created anything of worth without saying u never created anything of worth

I hope the best for the developers if the game is indeed legit (and it seems to be).
Still, this comments section reminds me how I hate a large portion of Pokémon "fans" that act like things are much worse than they actually are.

Seeing there seems to be a lot of speculation and misinformation, just a few points about legal issues around this.

1) You can not copyright or trademark a game play mechanic or idea on any level. In most places, this rule is as old as copyright itself and was meant to make sure people couldn't stop you from playing dice or card games because they "owned" the rule sets. It's literally the reason board games exist, because while you couldn't protect the gameplay, you could protect the board and it's design.

Back in the 80s Atari tried suing people and arguing that video games were not covered. It actually worked at first, but nowadays we have enough jurisprudence that it's very clear video games get no special treatment.

2) You don't need a trademark, copyright, or anything at all violated to argue that something is violating your IP. You just needs to agree that it is close enough that it could cause confusion, and that confusion can cause brand damage. You do not need to prove intent. Could Nintendo go after this game because the "average person" might confuse it with an official Pokémon game? Not in any realistic way. The use of Poke-a-balls of different quality to effect catch rate and the way you toss them at low level enemies would be the most obvious avenue, but Pokémon's success actually works against it here. It's the most recognized brand on earth, so the "average person" should know enough about the brand to understand this has nothing to do with it.

3) None of this matters. If Nintendo wanted this game gone they could just litigate it until Pocket Pair ran out of money. Case closed. Laws do not apply to rich people, and a 99% of all IP and trademark cases come down to who has more money to toss at issue.

@EllaTheQueen6 I’m gonna change it soon ya know. I’m just uh, haven’t decided on one just yet lol. Guess my schedule (which has been straight up trash like I’m not even playing) as been messing with my thought process/Creativity.

Any Shooter, but only while Doom was relevant: OMG it's a Doom clone!

An Entire Genre literally named, designed after, & lifting ideas directly from Metroid: OMG that's so cool and original, can't have enough of 'em!

Any game with any kind of ally or friendly monsters for the past 28 years: OMG it's a shameless Pokemon clone! Ignore the fact it plays nothing like Pokemon!

@RubyCarbuncle I don’t have to play the game to scoff at developers that make blantant ripoffs for shock value cash grabs. I don’t care if it was the best game of the year people who do that are still scummy.

@JohnnyMind yeah I agree. It’s marketed as Pokemon with guns because that’s a great PR hook, but looking deeper at the game today I realised it is its own thing and that hook only summarises a very small part of the experience. I’m going to dive in and try it. I also think TPC will never do what they are doing so it’s a constructive way to bring this very starved genre forwards especially for a more adult audience. I enjoy all TPC games but I do think there are merits to this taking off.

@Chaotic_Neutral

Here's the thing. I've been playing it, and its quality of life is pretty solid.

You can get the pals to do the collecting for you. In some ways, it feels a little like an rts

i feel very uncomfortable of seeying clearly rip-off of many pokemon, doing questionable acts such as murder, sufering trough slavery and be used as weapons of destruction, this is way more then a parody, this is a a shameless game, that doing all this just for shock value

Game is fun as hell and I'm thrilled to see it selling like gangbusters. Infinitely better than S/V.

I don't care to play this game but I LOVE how its very existence tilts Pokémon fanboys.

Though the sheer number of them erroneously claiming the game is some sort of theft/infringement is annoying.

I didn't have much interest in the game, yet I grabbed it as something to pass a bit of time until Enshrouded on Wednesday. But it's surprisingly good. Despite catching creatures (which honestly I'm finding a lot cuter looking than most pokemon, even if many of them are clearly similar to this or that one), I'm seeing a lot more 'influence' from Ark and Breath of the Wild than Pokemon. "Pokemon with guns" really doesn't do it justice.
Regardless of what you could say the developers have ripped off from this and that, the game itself is enjoyable. There are things that could be improved, but it's still early access, so plenty of time for that. The important part is that it's fun.

I dunno, it's an interesting concept and I like the idea of a "Dark" Pokemon game that deals with serious topics like slavery, exploitation, and dog/cock fighting, but as others said this mostly seems to be going for "shock value" than anything profound.

So I've been playing this all day, and I have to say ... this is the most impressive use of marketing I've ever seen. Non-ironically, completely serious, the marketing team behind this game deserves the highest possible parse. What they did here is legendary.

At a core gameplay, design, and mechanics level this game is a shameless and blatant 1:1 copy and complete rip off of ... Ark: Survival Evolved.

By taking advantage of the media's need to generate engagement, they controlled the narrative and instead have people making the radicalize argument that the game is anything like Pokémon. No one can dare talk about the games clear similarity to ARK, because they will miss out on the clicks you get from using a game like Pokémon in your headline and you can't write two articles about the same game being a rip off.

Win, win. Not only are people completely ignoring the game Palworld did borrow heavily from, but they turned the internet into a argument where they are clearly the good guys. This game did NOT rip off Pokémon. So 1000s of people are defending the game and posting that it isn't a rip off ... when it really, really is. It's just not a rip off of the game people are saying it is.

To be clear ... being a "rip off" isn't a bad thing. This game, so far, is great and I really enjoy playing it. It has enough new to it that it's clear the developers were creative and brought there own ideas to the table.

But that table was a PC desk, with a PC playing ARK on it.

@ChakraStomps Touche. May I check out any novels or albums you've released? Would love to check out your virile artistic output.

@Kiwi_Unlimited I was playing it last night and was really enjoying it.
Like you said, the resource management isn't that bad when you have the pals taking care of the base. I spent most of my time exploring and even managed to kill my first World boss

@JohnnyMind I played about an hour and its pretty fun. The game runs pretty well, but I heard it varies based on what PC runs it. Its more intensive than it looks, apparently due to not being fully optimized for all hardware.

The gameplay is basically ARK survival evolved, but with some elements from BotW and Pokemon sprinkled in. I'll have to play a bit more and see more of the monster designs before saying anything concrete, but its pretty interesting thus far.

@darkswabber
just look at something like freedom planet, started off as a sonic fangame iirc and later became its own thing and from what i hear the sequel iterates on the first game to become something even better (haven't played 2 since I'm waiting for the console release)

@HeadPirate Honestly, I enjoy it more than ARK so far. Grant it, I've barely touched ARK.. but what I did play of it was completely unpleasant. The game had glitches and bugs that have gone unfixed for years, and apparently the remaster they released is pretty glitchy and awful as well.. or so I've heard.

I also was never a fan of the idea of having my base raided by people when I was offline either, which ARK allows.

@Chaotic_Neutral

Yeah, I'm impressed how tight this game is. Especially given that it's early access. This game is legit!

@Strictlystyles how is this in anyway a Clone? Its derivative yes inspired but its in no way a clone thats like saying breath of the wild is just a skyrim clone… how dare Nintendo copy Elderscrolls…

@VoidofLight

ARK wasn't great. It's was pretty transformative in how it approached the sandbox, but it didn't get a lot right. It's a great thing that people are trying to copy that formula and do it better.

I haven't played Palworld with a group yet, but I can tell you the single player experience is just on a different level. In ARK you had to try and customize dozens of setting manually to try and get the server down to a level of challenge that would work unless you had a populated open server and it never really felt right. Palworld seems fine out of the box.

But you can't pause, which bugs me a lot. Sure, obviously you can't pause if it in server mode and other people are playing, but in 1 player mode you can advance time by sleeping, so it knows the rules are different and could easily allow for a single player to pause. To quote a AVGN video so old it's on VHS ... "Bottom line: HAVE A PAUSE BUTTON"

@Savage_Joe
"It's ok that Palworld rips-off Pokemon because Pokemon sucks" is not as good of a reason as you think it is.

@JohnnyMind I would actually avoid it. Refunding the game because the developers are pretty scummy and basically want to replace human workers with Ai in the future. There's accusations that they used generative ai in the monster designing process, trained off of the data from Pokemon.. but I don't know for sure. Its mostly an accusation. However.. given the whole situation with how one of the lead developers kept mentioning ai generation in game dev, I just don't feel good supporting the company.

5 years from now, when people are asking themselves "Why is there so much AI generated content in video games, movies, TV, comics, etc?", I'll be sure to point to this as a good starting point.

From what i see, Palworld is amazing and show that even a "rip-off" is better than the newest pokemon game.

Plus design aside, it doesn't feel like a rip-off.

Wow the salt is real lol. Haters looking for things like "oh no it's a clone" "it's a rip off". No it's a solid game that's in early access and is in every way better than Pokemon except in creature designs in my opinion. The game is fantastic and if you are a Pokemon fan or just monster collector RPG fan in general do yourself a favor and try the game at least. PSA: you can refund steam games within 2 hours after purchase

@Druidsbrook Agreed. I feel the same about "Smash clones." A lot of the "clones" have merit. Hell, Smash may have popularized the style of fighting games, but the Outfoxies should be considered the first.

We don't say 2D fighters are Street Fighter clones, so why do we do it with Smash and Pokemon? It's just reductive to say they're clones and leave it at that.

I played a few hours with a friend on gamepass. It's decent for a beta but there are areas where I can't tell if the game is working as intended or if it is bugged, particularly to do with palmon behaviors.

calling it clone and still runs better than scarlet and violet runs on fixed system of switch lol

This game is fun as hell

@JohnnyMind i played about 100 hours and i can say its probably made alot better than scarlet or violet, and alots of fun totally recommend playing it