This is a shameless ripoff of Pokemon and you know it.

[Zombean]

I bet Nintendo is going to start a lawsuit soon. I feel bad for people that invested in this. Let this be a life lesson for them.

[Lugs]

more like a missed opportunity by Nintendo, but with their limitations and inflexibility to expand to other platforms, they'll be unable to pull off this level of success if they were to make the same game.

And Nintendo is most likely going to have an uphill battle with a lawsuit unless they're willing to dump a lot of money for little return. I'm pretty sure the company that developed Palworld already has access to a talented enough legal team to make this bold move against Nintendo in the first place.

[Sox'n'Fox]

Alright child. Past your bedtime.

[Shiro]

Lawsuit on what grounds?

[ELDEN LORD]

yes cuz anything with creatures and capturing is a rip off. theres other games like pokemon too u know. is yugioh a ripoff also?

[jaysiemaysie]

Well duh. Why do you think people are playing it?

[Nemerlight]

If anything Nintendo should get sued for allowing GameFreak to make those terrible Pokemon games

[DizzyKitty]

MAN this game a rip-off of Solitaire, MAN!

[El Gustin]

Like the Pokemon Company has a patent on cutesy monsters
Even if it was a straight up ripoff, I'd rather support ppl actually putting thought and creativity into their game. Pokemon as an IP is the largest and richest franchise on planet earth. About time they see some games with potential..

[Drak3]

Originally posted by Shiro:

Lawsuit on what grounds?

There's enough merit with some of the designs for a lawsuit to make it to court.

HOWEVER, the odds of Nintendo winning aren't huge IMO. It's pretty obviously a parody, and all Pocket Pair's lawyers would have to do is successfully argue that point (which would be easy for any competent lawyer). The most likely thing to happen if Nintendo did win would be Pocket Pair having to redesign some monsters.

[Darkdan777]

Originally posted by Zombean:

I bet Nintendo is going to start a lawsuit soon. I feel bad for people that invested in this. Let this be a life lesson for them.

Slime Rancher.
Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age.
Monster Sanctuary.
Ni No Kuni.
Monster Hunter Stories.
Digimon
Jade Cocoon
Nexomon

Try harder OP

[FRISH]

Pokemon has let us down. I'm glad others are trying to be more fresh.

[suejak]

I'm surprised people are so defensive about Nintendo. You got a massive corporation milking a stale IP for decades and they're the good guys? Come on.

[Zoaea]

As someone that loved the first few pokemon games and just keeps getting disappointed by newer ones... GF has made nothing like this game. it is not even the same genre. GF does not own the right of "having cute monsters in your game". This is a survival game not a turned based rpg so they wont have much to stand on if they do sue.

[Maltsi]

Originally posted by Drak3:

Originally posted by Shiro:

Lawsuit on what grounds?

There's enough merit with some of the designs for a lawsuit to make it to court.

HOWEVER, the odds of Nintendo winning aren't huge IMO. It's pretty obviously a parody, and all Pocket Pair's lawyers would have to do is successfully argue that point (which would be easy for any competent lawyer). The most likely thing to happen if Nintendo did win would be Pocket Pair having to redesign some monsters.

Lawsuit is enough to kill the game, even if they end up winning. Steam is forced to shutdown store page until its finished, which could last YEARS. Same happened with myth of empires when snail games sued them.

And like half or more of the "pals" in this game are literal copy paste from pokemons just with changed name.

Nintendo is know for its lawsuits against anything that looks even little pokemon or any othe their title.

"Nintendo’s tolerance for fan games is notoriously low, with the company sending multiple DMCA takedown notices from its lawyers to at least 500 fan games, including Pokemon Uranium, a title that was in development for nine years, as well as a Metroid 2 remake called AM2R, back in 2016"

https://www.thegamer.com/a-snapshot-of-nintendos-convoluted-legal-history/

So yeah, there is quite high chance they will be trying to take this down.
anyone else saying otherwise are just ignorant.

[Espio0]

lmao, Nintendo could only wish Pokemon was this fun and polished.

Even in it's 0.1 EA state it feels so much better and more polished then the last few pokemon games.