This Is What Makes Palworld So Good (And Better Than Pokémon) [Palworld Review]

[Music] after somehow taking the World by storm everyone's favorite new bootleg Pokemon game is skyrocketing up the gaming charts amassing 19 million players across both Steam and Xbox just on Steam alone it's become the second most played game on the platform with over 2 million Peak players coming in second only to pubg it's a feat that's just so utterly mindblowing to me especially for an indie game that had barely any marketing to begin with I remember years ago seeing memed clips of Great Value Pokémon working in sweat shops and carrying guns and thinking huh this looks weird and then seeing nothing about it for years until bam it's suddenly one of the biggest game releases of 2024 I didn't really know what to expect from power world as it's released 8 inch closer and closer but the whole concept of Pokémon with guns with a little bit of slavery sprinkled on top seemed fairly interesting but I was worried the game would end up being just a little bit stinky never from the gas station bro especially because pocket pair the developers of power world also made another similar title called craftopia that is really just a very UNS subtle ripoff of breath of the wild I guess they really do live by the motto imitation is the most sincere form of flattery but after actually getting to sit down and play power world I have to say it's pretty good shockingly good if I'm being entirely honest and if you've been living under a rock for the past few weeks and have somehow missed all of the PO world news and controversy allow me to fill you in on the details like 75% of other indie games today power world is an open world survival crafting game where you fight for survival in a hostile World inhabited by creatures known as Pals adorable little critters that can only be described as legally distinct Pokémon seriously these things look like you would find them at some shady Boardwalk kiosk right there besides special man and funny person in fact these similarities got so out of hand the horde of armchair detectives on Twitter took to tearing the game apart I mean it is 2024 you can't go two days of a game's release without there being some kind of massive controversy they accuse the developers of not only plagiarizing some of their designs but outright stealing official Pokemon models and incorporating them into their characters in addition to utilizing AI to create some game assets that little tidbit about AI ended up being entirely untrue and was really only suggested in the first place because pocket pair released a game a while ago called AI art impostor that uses AI image generation as a main gameplay feature as well as having their CEO Tako Mobi praise the potential of using AI image generation in a creative context to be honest some of the designs kind of blur the line between inspiration and outright copying the survival crash mechanics are pretty standard for a game of this genre you chop down trees mine some rocks butcher cute animals it's got all of your average Survival game fair and as far as games of this type go you'd get pretty much the same experience whether you played this or Minecraft or valheim or any of the other 50 kajillion survival crafting games that are out there on the market today but that's not to say po world is a bad game by any means all of the mechanics that are here work really well it just doesn't revolutionize on any of them the game's unique charm really starts to shine when you mix in the pals even though Nintendo would never admit it these things are pretty much just Pokémon so you can obviously have them fight for you though really the pal battling probably has the least amount of depth compared to the other things that they can do battles are entirely automatic with Pals moving and attacking all on their own except for a singular partner ability that you can manually activate such as jolt Hog's jolt bomb ability where you literally pick it up and Chuck it like an electric grenade other abil AB ilities are more utility oriented such as being able to ride certain PALS like malaka or Nightwing but absolutely nothing tops the fact that you can give some Pals actual guns and they can use them in combat there's just something utterly hilarious about seeing a little small cute itsy-bitsy grass squirrel mow down a 7t tall deer with a submachine gun or if you're particularly unhinged why not load a penguin into a rocket launcher and have it literally explode when it hits its Target even though the joke is exceptionally old at this point powor is constantly described as Pokemon with guns but to me it's really better to describe it as Pokemon meets Arc truthfully the game's main facets of survival craft and monster collection are barely shallow on their own neither of them really stand out as being all that fantastic yet somehow pocket pair struck Gold by mixing both of these very different genres together into a combination that's a better match than my car keys and a six-pack of Coors Light in all actuality the mechanics of these two vastly different styles of game mix together far better than you would think mainly because they play on that addictive aspect of just one more if I go get this ore I can craft one more item or I can build the perfect team of if I catch just one more pal together they make an addiction feedback loop that keeps the player hooked and constantly engaged and it all comes together perfectly when you discover the main mechanic of the game indentured servitude Pals aren't just good for fighting you can actually bring them back to your base and give them all sorts of different jobs to do some are good at growing crops While others are handy in front of a workbench at my own base I had a team of three Pals that would rotate between crop plantations constantly planting watering and harvesting berries and wheat to keep both me and my pals fed I also had some Pals that would continuously mine rocks and chop down trees so I wouldn't have to keep going out on my own to find basic resources plus some Pals will even store items and chests for you completely on their own you could develop a fully automated base that's constantly producing resources so you can spend more time collecting even more Pals to feed into the orphan grinding machine even though other games have successfully tackled the automation as ECT of survival craft arguably doing it a little bit better there's just something wonderful about watching adorable whittow animals toil away at backbreaking labor but to me this isn't what makes po world so great it's the fact that it's a subversion of everything the monster collection genre and the survival craft genre have to offer especially Pokémon and it's about a subtle in that fact as a shotgun blast to the face one of the main parts of Pokemon is the bond a trainer has with their team of mons especially in the anime trainers are shown to treat their Pokémon as friends and sometimes even as family especially in the case of Ash's mom and Mr mime you know he's definitely calling her mommy pal World takes this whole concept of love and friendship and pretty much tosses it right out the window this is where po world's parody aspect comes into play because it pokes fun at all of those mildly disturbing things in Pokémon that we just Overlook take a look at the simple Act of just catching a pal just like in Pokémon you have to weaken it down first before you're able to catch it but it's significantly more brutal and a whole lot more hilarious to pound the snot out of a cute little sheep with your own fists rather than having another animal do it for you or just take a look at the fact that you can literally butcher Pals with your own hands and feed them to the other Pals in your party it's the most adorable and hilarious version of soilent green I think I've ever seen even when you fail fa to catch a pal the game will straight up call it a cheeky bastard the game does not expect you to see these things as more than adorable punching bags but even though I treated my pals about as well as Amazon treats their delivery drivers I still formed more of a connection with them than I ever have with any Pokemon in any game ever and that's because you actually do have to care for them you craft them beds hot tubs to relax in and give them food to eat plus you actually get to see your CS walk around your base and do things that directly help you and you don't just sit back and watch them fight either you can actually jump in with them and get your hands dirty too with Pokémon all you do is let them out of the ball once in a while do a little battle here and there and then right back in they go I care more about these Pals than I have ever cared about Pokémon because they actually feel like a living breathing part of the world that's what makes power world so good and honestly so much better than Pokémon especially when you compare it to the more recent installments in the franchise the games just aren't doing enough to break the mold that was established 27 years ago and I don't mean to sound like a video game elitist but I need a lot more depth for my video games and it's a lot more than Pokemon offers especially for RPGs it's just the same old song and dance over and over again that they occasionally mix up with some gimmick like Mega Evolutions or dynamaxing not to mention since Pokémon came to switch the series as a whole has been the equivalent of hot dog vomit on a technical level graphically the games in Generations 8 and N would maybe look impressive if they launched on the N64 in at launch these games had horrid performance issues and numerous glitches enough to make Todd Howard quiver with excitement frankly it's a little ridiculous that a franchise like Pokemon which rakes in billions and billions of dollars every year still produces games that just suck and I sound a little hypocritical saying this especially when I still part partake in the trading card game but that's a main reason also why I just don't buy or play any of the newer games boy am I happy my addictive personality got me hooked on shiny cardboard instead of fentanyl or horse tranquilizers I am very very happy to see Power doing so well on the charts mainly because I hope that success lights a fire underneath game freak to make Pokemon games that Excel not just on a technical level but games that also break the mold the series is relied on were far far too long pal World shows that you can do so much more with the creature collection genre than just doing another monster battler game freak may have set the standard back in 1996 but pocket pair has proven that the times have changed and people are expecting far more from their games than another milk toast Bare Bones RPG thank you all so much for watching and I hope you enjoyed if you did please leave a like and let me know what you thought of the video down in the comments below and do do be sure to hit the Subscribe 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Channel: Dizrush

Views: 4,098

Keywords: gaming, Pokémon, Pokemon, Palworld, bootleg, bootleg game, controversy, plagarism, survival, survival game, survival craft, open world game, crafting game, indie game, Nintendo, Pocketpair

Id: gi6oAHetr5o

Length: 11min 30sec (690 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 09 2024