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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.

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