With the implementation of Patch v0.5.5 this week, we must make yet another compromise. From this patch onward, gliding will be performed using a glider rather than with Pals. Pals in the player’s team will still provide passive buffs to gliding, but players will now need to have a glider in their inventory in order to glide.

How lame. Japan needs to fix its patent laws, it’s ridiculous Nintendo owns the simple concept of using an animal to fly.

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    If you set out to create a game involving collecting, or even looking at and cataloguing, a bunch of different fantasy creatures, you’re going to have some that are at least a little similar to pokemon

    I think Cassette Beasts pulled off the Pokemon gameplay format without making anything that Nintendo could try and sue over.

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      That sounds like a “look someone managed to pull that off so it’s definitely possible” argument. In other words “you can enter the collectable creatures scene by spending that amount of effort”. And it shouldn’t be that way. The price in effort shouldn’t be that high.

      Actually, it should be the customers who decide if your product is worth the effort of playing it. There are a lot of rehashed games in various genres (e.g. horrors, walking simulators) and wee see no issue with them even though they are using exactly same mechanics, or sometimes even assets. What matters is users’ reception. If users think your product is worth it - it means you spent enough effort already. If your product would be a low effort creation users wouldn’t spend money on it in the first place.

      I’m sure if Cassette Beasts could accumulate that kind of playerbase and profits, Nintendo would’ve sued them too.

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      Oooh, thank you for reminding me that game exists. I still haven’t played it, and so many people have told me it’s good!

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        19 hours ago

        Add one to the list. Really enjoyable, even fun to cheese, not very fond of the ending but otherwise stellar.

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        Design wise maybe, but game play wise, performance wise, mechanic wise.

        PalWorld is 100% not lazy in these categories and Pokemon is.

        My issue with people taking on PalWorld as a copy cat is it’s really a shit argument. PalWorld is a copy cat of Ark and a much better version of Ark.

        Change Pals to anything else. Turn the ball into a net and it isn’t a Pokemon copy cat.

        Competition is great. My take on this entire thing is fuck Nintendo.