Get the latest tech news

Is Palworld actually any good? Of course not


Eurogamer's thoughts on Palworld, which are in brief: it's not great.

Watch on YouTube And it is cynical: here's developer Takuro Mizobe talking to Wired Japan in 2022 and responding, with some admirable candour, to a question about Nintendo, the culture there of prioritising creating original, high-quality work, and why he didn't get on with that (as translated by Eurogamer): Start up the game and you're given an option to play solo or on a multiplayer server, a typical character creator, and then you're plonked into place at the bottom of the food chain - and skill tree - in an extraordinarily generic world. Breath of the Wild's watercolour mournfulness was already diluted into blandly vivid green hills in Genshin Impact; here it's watered down once again, filtered through mobile shovelware, to the entirely vapid non-place of the Palapagos Islands.

Get the Android app

Or read this on Eurogamer

Read more on:

Photo of Palworld

Palworld

Related news:

News photo

Palworld Embroiled in AI and Pokemon 'Plagiarism' Controversy

News photo

PlayStation eyeing up Palworld, head of indies Shuhei Yoshida suggests

News photo

Pokémon's former chief legal officer "surprised" Palworld managed to get this far