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Palworldis comfortably summarised as ‘Pokémon with guns’, thanks to its too-familiar character designs and third-person machinegun combat. It’s got more going on than that, though. It’salsoPokémon with base building, Pokémon with sweat shops, Pokémon with corpse piles.
I’ve enjoyedprevious Palworld trailers, but they’ve typically paired footage of Pals performing hard labour with music. The addition of voiceover makes all the difference, because now I’m sure the developers are having the same fun I am. There’s good comic timing here.
Plus, as I’ve said before, Pokémon is already pretty strange, having been made mundane only through repetition.Palworldincreasingly looks like it might sit comfortably alongsideSlime Rancher, another game in which you exploit cuties for your own progression. And it’s not like there aren’t already lots of games about fighting creatures with guns. The previously-releasedhow to catch Palstrailer, in which you punch cute cartoon characters, isn’t odd at all, really. If you think about it.
Palworld isdue to launch into early access in early 2024.
