Why Palworld Beat Pokémon

if I told you a month ago that this absurd looking Pokémon clone would go on to sell more copies than Pokémon Legends RCS emerald and platinum you'd probably call me crazy but the worst part is it did that all in its first week after releasing C world is an indie game made by a small Japanese game studio with the main purpose of making what the Pokémon company for some reason can a game with a vast open world with fun and engaging boss battles with genuinely amazing sandbox elements and who could forget the Pokémon in this game can have machine guns so how successful will po world yet will it beat Pokémon or will it Fall Into Obscurity before I even publish this video and most importantly why has it become so successful in the first place well I think there are three main reasons pal world has done so well starting with the first you guessed it pal world has slavery no I'm being completely serious ever since pal World released in January of 2024 people have been fascinated with how unhinged this game can be at times from simple things like making the creatures or Pals in the game work for you to being able to assault innocent civilians and enslaving them them this game has successfully demonstrated that the audience who once grew up with a shallow and restrained game like Pokémon has grown up and now prefers an edgier more mature take on the concept this insane concept has carried the game further than it ever would have with memes calling it Pokémon with guns spreading everywhere online and that's the secret people start by laughing at this hilarious meme where this green squirrel is shooting a homeless man with a machine gun to watching their favorite streamer play the game to realizing the game isn't just a Mindless copy of Pokémon or breath of the the Wild and downloading it themselves and of course this isn't the only reason pal world has done so well there are still two more reasons but the initial internet virality of this game has only been seen a few times online with the popularity of games like Minecraft and fortnite and now that those games have all but died off in the last year or two this was the perfect opportunity for a game with as much meme potential as palor to step into the scene the fact is the very idea of Pokémon paired with something so violent like guns is the perfect concept to go VI viral but perhaps there's an even bigger reason one that maybe you never thought of a reason that actually determined whether this simple indie game would ever go viral in the first place Cal world did what Pokémon didn't in every conceivable way see the reality is is the original trailer for this game came out almost 3 years ago and only amassed a relatively low 500,000 views with most being within the last month this game didn't just blow up from the shock factor of seeing Pokémon with guns because if it did it would have become a viral meme in June of 2021 but it didn't in fact it was completely unheard of at the time so why has this game sold nearly 10 million copies in its first month well ever since breath of the Wild released fans of every Nintendo franchise have been asking for open world games and pal world is just that it's everything Pokémon fans have been asking for for the last 7 years and much more right when you boot up the game you're greeted with this completely insane character customizer where you can make your avatar any shape or size you want which sets the standard for the rest of the game which is filled with countless ways to test the the players creativity and skill meanwhile the newest Pokémon game is stuck with a set selection of avatars which if we're being honest are all the same just with different skin tones and hair colors but palor isn't a huge creative Outlet just because of its character customization you can also build anything you want go anywhere you want on this huge map with tons of Secrets you can literally do anything you want and the only thing stopping you is your own skill level meanwhile in the newest Pokémon game you can't even jump and you have to unlock the ability to turn down the in-game volume and sure you can also buy and sell animals for money in a random Village in the middle of nowhere and then proceed to use your squirrel with a machine gun on the guy but really that's only a small portion of why the game blew up the reality is is that this game just did everything better than Pokemon everything including the small things like boss fights where Pokémon has been stuck using the same linear story where you defeat eight bosses and then fight the final boss palor has insanely difficult and engaging boss fights that you can fight in any order order if you want to die that is and these boss fights are especially fun with friends in pal world you and up to 19 other players can all join a world and shoot as many homeless people as you want you can explore build fight or just sit there and laugh with each other just like how our childhood favorite games like Minecraft would make us laugh together and this multiplayer aspect is something Pokémon fans have been begging Nintendo for since the first game released in 1996 but for some reason Nintendo just won't listen to the fans they will never add more customization they will never give fans a true open World experience and most importantly they will never add rocket launchers instead they'll just keep making the same formula it game every year because for some reason it keeps making the money but it won't for much longer because the biggest reason for pal worlds's popularity is Pokémon games keep getting worse and believe it or not there's a pretty good reason for that over the last 11 years since Pokémon X and Y came out Pokémon games have been on a huge decline in quality going from a game that doesn't look the best but is is somewhat passable on a low powerered handheld console to a buggy ugly mess on Nintendo's newest console now Pokémon games have never looked the best with Pokémon Black and White 2 releasing in 2012 looking like this with games like GTA 5 releasing in the next year looking like this however fans of the series have still noticed that the games feel unfinished and lazy even compared to then they're laggy ugly and completely broken which to me is why Pokémon fans like myself don't enjoy the games anymore so why don't the creators of one of the largest gaming titles care about their game's quality well it's simple really Nintendo is a company that cares about quality over quantity I mean literally every game is better than the last both The Legend of Zelda teers of the kingdom and Mario Wonder released within the last year on the switch and are considered some of the best games Nintendo has ever made but that's the thing Nintendo itself doesn't have complete control over Pokémon because although you may think they're the primary owners of the franchise they actually only own 32% of the Pokémon company who are the real owners and the reason the Pokémon company keeps doing this is it just keeps making them money no matter how bad the games are Pokémon is an IP that makes more than almost every Nintendo franchise combined with less than a fifth of that coming from game sales the rest comes in through the TV show and merchandise which is why the Pokémon company has literally no reason to care about the games because as long as they keep pumping out these copy and pasted games it will still bring in a few billion more dollars for them every year and there is literally no consequences but what does this have to do with pal world over the last decade Pokémon hasn't improved evolved or changed in any way while the fans of these games have grown up these fans now prefer a harder more mature game where giant tree creatures can burn down your entire house and they don't really care about this cute and easy game they fell in love with years ago so even if Pokémon did change fans of the series would have the same complaints and sure pal world isn't the best game ever made it's very buggy at times the textures are inconsistent and tend to be a mixture of random Styles and of course there's controversy saying that everything from the ideas to the individual assets of the game are stolen but in my personal opinion as someone who grew up playing Pokémon Fire Red and Pokémon X and literally every game in between paor is exactly what the real Pokémon franchise needs and it's a huge step up from every official Pokémon game we've gotten in the last 10 years and that's the reason pal World succeeded it's more mature it's everything Pokémon fans have been asking for and it's a fun new take on the genre and that's why I've played 200 hours of Paul world in the last month help me all right update my game crashed and now my world is gone I hate this game

Channel: Joshehh²

Views: 3,232

Keywords: going indie, goingindie

Id: oaJwoti7X04

Length: 7min 33sec (453 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 03 2024