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Palworld looks like Pokémon until you see the guns and sweatshopAnother astonishing genremash from the makers of Craftopia
Another astonishing genremash from the makers of Craftopia
WhenPalworld’s trailer starts, it looks a whole lot like a fancy 3D Pokémon. This lasts nine seconds, until you see someone hanging from the talons of their birdPokémonPal while spraying bullets with an assault rifle. Soon, you’re seeing Pals made to work in fields, then in a sweatshop assembling new rifles. Then someone picks up their sheepy Pal to use as a shield in a gunfight. Then… it is a trailer of endless surprises, a marvel you must watch.
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Developers Pocketpair describePalworldas a multiplayer “open-world survival crafting game”. You know the score: exploring, building, fighting, crafting, and such. To help you with your tasks, you’ll be able to enlist Pals, big critters that are just Pokémon. But while Pokémon have often worked jobs alongside their human friends, Palworld sounds like a cruel extrapolated endpoint of treating Pokémon as tools.
Uh, certainly a unique selling point?
Pocketpair also madeCraftopia, a gamewhose trailer looked like Breath Of The Wilduntil you saw Pokémon, a WW1 biplane, and conveyor belts dumping whole live cows into a giant cooking pot. Though our Edactually quite enjoyed playing Craftopiaso who knows, Palworld might have weird charm too.
Watching the Craftopia trailer again, I am delighted to see how both are wholly unpredictable yet seem to follow similar beats. Just a treat to watch. Video games are amazing.
Craftopia - Official TrailerWatch on YouTube
Craftopia - Official Trailer
Palworld is comingto Steamin 2022.
With Craftopia is still in early access, the devs haveaddressed concernsabout what the announcement of Palworld means for their previous game. They say they’ve expanded their development team and are continuing to work on it, and recentlylaid out a roadmapfor future additions and updates. I think I’d be leery if I had bought Craftopia.
