Look, I'm generally not on the side of any corporation bludgeoning people with ip law. I think that copyrught law as it currently exists exclusively protects the interest of capital and works against the average artist.

That said, you're crazy if you deny that there are many pals that are nearly identical clones of Pokemon.

I like the idea of palworld and I want them to win this lawsuit, but to say that palworld is some glorious high effort piece of art is pretty disingenuous. It's a sloppy roughly slapped together game with mismatched assets and art styles because they made it as cheaply as possible. It's survival slop like so so many other cheap shitty games these days.

I want palworld to win this suit because I want more games like Pokemon, but let's be honest and stop riding this cheap shitty game's dick just for being the victims of a bad lawsuit.

They are victims, not heroes.

Edit, honestly, I have a hard time believing they didn't bring this suit upon themselves intentionally. When that first trailer dropped every single person they saw it was wondering how Nintendo wasn't already suing them. If this was all a stunt to intentionally defeat game freak in court by carefully designing their game to slip through the Japanese ip system then maybe they are kind of heroes. Still doesn't make the game good. Honestly, the fact that it's sticking it to Nintendo is the only thing I like about it. So like, I argue that they are ripping of Pokemon, but I aplaud them for that. I just don't like survival slop.