If You Said You Haven't Seen Much Of It At All, Let Me Tell Ya, There's An Option Where You Can Capture

If you said you haven't seen much of it at all, let me tell ya, there's an option where you can capture humans in the Pal Spheres and enslave them and there's some people who unironically love that mechanic. Whoever loves said mechanic shows what kind of person they are.

I don't understand what the big scary deal is about Palworld. Given, I don't know much about it, so I may simply not know enough to understand. But some criticisms I've heard simply confuse me.

I have seen people express upset because the pokemon-like critters have guns. But, uhm...

That's nothing new. Digimon did that twenty years ago, and nobody cared. (As a matter of fact, I think there was actually a Digimon that was literally made entirely out of guns.)

People also seem mad that the critters are basically slave labor. Which, hey, yeah, that's pretty dark, but:

1. I thought they were animals? Do we not still have oxen pulling ploughs around irl? But maybe there's an aspect of Palworld I've not seen...if so, let me know.

2. The game everyone compares this game to--Pokemon-- is literally a dogfighting game. You are pitting two animals against each other and making them beat each other up. Is THAT not slavery? Is that not abuse? How can you suspend disbelief for one game and not the other? I don't follow.

I think that people are upset that you can eat the critters in Palworld, too. If so...does no one remember this moment of Pokemon Season One?

Besides, people eat meat. Meat comes from animals. I feel like maybe being reminded that your food once was alive, that sacrifices were made for your upkeep, isn't a bad thing.

I understand criticizing the game for being unoriginal (to put it lightly) is utterly valid, but I can't fathom how it could possibly be the violent, grimdark nightmare people say it is.

That said, I haven't actually experienced the gameplay past about two hours, so perhaps there's some other horrifying aspect of the game that I'm missing. If there is, then I'd like to know. But based on my limited experience with the game, a lot of the responses I see just look like pearl-clutching.

The only monster Pal I care about

Those guys don't wanna try cause' they're allergic to said series just cause' you can't enslave them with humans too, my gawn it really does show those type of fans are unaccepting jerks judging by how they love that mechanic within that game.

I don't get the people touting palworld as a clever deconstruction like no it just sucks. If you want a monster franchise that's sort of fucked up and yucky and weird and has guns and wants to talk about how war is hell. AND is actually fucking good and has a heart instead of just being like "lol look at how SHOCKING and CRAZY we're being". Digimon is right there.

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As I've mentioned from my previous reblogged post, this game attracts racist trash for said mechanic and I hate it that people glance over it.

No, actually if yer out here defending Palworld in any regard you need to be mentioning the fucking human npc slavery mechanic.

Please note I don't support this game for the slaving mechanic nor do I want to support it. This is about if the game would've actually antagonized and punished the player for going down that path.

Had this game not have a crazed mishmashed of Pokémon designs alongside emphasizing and enabling the player that enslaving Pals and humans makes the game "better", it should've been an evil route. Basically, this evil route is like a "automatic option" to hard mode, making it as a form of punishment for the player for committing such acts.

Taking the evil route, NPCs views on the player have changed into hating them and going against them as they acknowledged the player for enslaving humans and Pals. The two has a higher chance of revolting against the player and refuse to do any work for them. Everyone in the game is out to get you.

But too bad the real game isn't like I what I said. Oh yeah, I don't know if anyone before me mentioned this, but there's no NPCs that commit to enslaving humans and Pals, only the player does it. I've heard there's NPCs designated as villains but I don't think they're slaving humans and Pals.

Edit: Nope! Apparently they're not just giving you the option to mistreat your pals, you get railroaded into it via "pay to win" but now it's "enslave to win" because not enslaving them makes the game a ton slower. The exact same formula that's despised across the board when it's demanding money, but now it's demanding slavery, and that's seriously fucked up.

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Undertale: literally gives you the option to commit genocide.

no one flips their shit and says the game is endorsing genocide. It is constantly celebrated and unavoidable because everyone loves the series so much.

Palworld: gives you the option to mistreat your pals

suddenly everyone is on board with PETA-style claims that this game is endorsing animal abuse. As though all of the same criticisms haven't been lobbed at Pokemon since day 1...Pokemon, where you're literally beating and catching animals to fight them.

I think people should just admit they're mad about having proof that modern Pokemon games are shitty glitched messes that they shouldn't be wasting their money on because the company is lazy and greedy and can't make a playable game even with millions of times the budget and manpower of some random indie game that's parodying them.