• Lvxferre@mander.xyz
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    9 months ago

    Aaaaaaaand the source linked is a X post that doesn’t even analyse the models themselves. (Of course, because even from a glance they are clearly different.)

    That is not evidence dammit. Show the meshes of the models side-by-side, and point out the parts that were allegedly copied. Having roughly a similar shape is easy to justify by being inspired on the same critters, it is not evidence of copy.

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      9 months ago

      There are two separate comparison videos in that article, as well as the posts from industry figures discussing the comparisons that were uploaded and how damning they are.

      HOWEVER. It has come to my attention that the original poster who created those videos edited the Palworld models to make it look more damning. I was going off bad information, and I acknowledge you’re correct, there no -valid- evidence Palworld directly stole models.

      That said, you have to be a blind to think they aren’t shameless Pokemon knockoffs. It goes far beyond mere passing similarities, most pals are assembled from chopped up Pokemon (quite thematically appropriate I suppose). Nintendo certainly thinks so too: https://www.ign.com/articles/the-pokemon-company-makes-an-official-statement-on-palworld-we-intend-to-investigate

      It’s crazy to assume that just because Nintendo must be perfectly fine with it just because they didn’t file a lawsuit the day after the game launched.