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Gamers flock to Palworld’s ‘Pokémon with guns’ despite copyright qualms


When Palworld made its inauspicious debut in a teaser a year or so back, few thought this strange, blatant Pokémon ripoff would be anything but a quickly

Leave a few Lamballs and Cattivas chopping wood, mining, and tending the berry plantation while you and your Eikthyrdeer roam the island, mowing down low-level Pals and human poachers. In the last few years, developers big and small have put out massive hits that reinvent genres, fine-tune combat to perfection and hand the wheel (sometimes literally) over to gamers themselves with clever building systems. Plenty of people who have collected Pokémon own pocket monsters for years have flocked to Palworld, in spite of criticisms that the surprise hit is a blatant knockoff chock full of thinly veiled stolen character designs.

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