Palworld has hit a big sales milestone just hours after release in what is already looking like one of the biggest video game launches of 2024.
Palworld has hit a big sales milestone just hours after release in what is already looking like one of the biggest video game launches of 2024.
Different degrees of shaking up the formula. This is Pokemon-but-survival, and I’ve got another game in my backlog already that’s Pokemon-but-metroidvania.
Yeah, but I would say that already makes it more markedly different, even compared to, say, Monster Hunter Stories. Sure, there’s cutesy creatures which gives it some similar aesthetics but the gameplay experience is not even remotely similar.
Compared to Lies of P which looks and plays like Bloodborne, it’s not really that close.
Heh, maybe I’m splitting hairs, but if you want a game “like Pokemon”, they’ve been making exactly that game for 30 years, but there’s only a handful of games in the ballpark of Bloodborne. If you want the fantasy of roaming a world, catching creatures, and battling with them, there are lots of ways to skin that cat that GameFreak and Nintendo haven’t been doing that aren’t at odds with preserving those core pieces. Likewise, I don’t enjoy Monster Hunter, but some of its core pieces are present in the likes of Horizon and Mercenary Kings, and I love those games for taking the high level parts of Monster Hunter that do work for me.