This is what an open-world pokemon game should have been. Not the buggy disappointing mess GameFreak gave us for 2 generations.
Its a very messy game. I dont think there was ever a vision for what kind of game this was going to be, they just grabbed whatever was hype at the time and added it in. Throw in pokemon, throw in fortnite, throw in breath of the wild, throw in meme postable character creator. I guess its working out for em.
The core gameplay is fun as hell. I’m using a crossbow and my flame fox thing to catch or knock out pals while riding my pink sheep-llama thing to explore the world and having a blast. For an early access game it also runs great and so far no game breaking bugs.
Is the map big enough for 4 people? Friends have been wanting to get it and have me run a dedicated server, but I’m worried we’re going to get a few hours into it and get bored from the lack of size and shit to do. Medieval dynasty pulled that on us…
There’s more than enough map. It’s huge.
And it will take a lot of hours to even see all the Pals, much less catch them all.
And they aren’t just reskins of each other. So far every pal fight feels different. It’s a unique experience every time you find a new one.
This is good to know then, thanks for the info
I’m currently playing it and I don’t really think it’s as messy as it appears on the surface. It has a pretty clear progression goals from what I can tell 5 hours in.
I agreed I expected a mess but actually got a very good, well thought out game. They definitely got a lot of their ideas from other games but I don’t think that’s a bad thing when they take all these separate ideas and mix them in a novel way.
throw in meme postable character creator
Mmm. Monster Factory worthy? Always excited for new episodes of that.
You can give sheep guns, Im sure they will eat this game up
Saw that the game was made by the folks that are behind Craftopia, which definitely explains why it looks and plays the way it does, “without a vision”. Here’s to hoping this one actually gets finished and released.
Well someone gave it this glowing review:
How did I not hear about this? I need names, now.
Palworld.
For an early access it’s surprisingly polished.
Is this friendly for someone who’s never touched a Pokémon game?
It’s not really a pokemon game, the similarity basically ends at: there are weird fighting animals you catch with round objects and take research notes on. There’s no evolving, combat is an active battle rather than turn-based, combat participants are unlimited, your character participates in combat directly, you can catch people, you put what you catch to work for you at your camp, plus all the survival elements.
you can catch people
Wait… what?
you put what you catch to work for you at your camp
Hmmm.
This and the obvious modern guns are what are giving me pause. Slaughtering cute pokemon and slavery.
You can also slaughter the slaves.
Wait, really? No evolving? Huh, it definitely looked like there were evo lines in the promo
Not that I’ve seen at least, you can mulch a bunch of the same type to get like a better tier of it, but for like the little penguins and the big penguins, you get the big ones from eggs or as a boss so far.
I’d say yes.
Looks too “edgelord” for me
More like: game developer probably doesn’t know how to code a game to efficiently use servers.
I mean, maybe. But if you’re not a AAA studio just not having (or realistically, enabling from a cloud provider) enough capacity when your game sells way more copies than expected is entirely reasonable.
Its a beta for a reason, I doubt they expected this degree of buzz
I doubt the people behind it were expecting to hit 300k concurrent players within the first weekend of the early access. Even Craftopia’s launch only hit around 26k
