{"id":25859,"date":"2024-01-19T18:37:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T09:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=25859"},"modified":"2024-01-19T18:37:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T09:37:03","slug":"20240119-25859","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20240119-25859\/","title":{"rendered":"Palworld dev says their game isn\u2019t like Pok\u00e9mon at all, but rather like ARK\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PocketPair\u2019s highly anticipated <strong>Palworld<\/strong> launches in Early Access on January 19. The game will be available for the PC (Steam), Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S, with a Game Pass release planned. \u00a0In an interview with Automaton, PocketPair\u2019s CEO Takuro Mizobe commented on Palworld\u2019s much-discussed similarity to the Pok\u00e9mon franchise.\u00a0<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Palworld | Early Access Release Date Announcement Trailer | Pocketpair\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tOatviGVCTs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Palworld is an open-world survival craft game set on the island of Palpagos. The island is inhabited by creatures called Pals that come in a wide variety of species. Pals can be captured using Pal Spheres and then used how the player sees fit \u2013 for combat, field work or labor. \u00a0You can even sell the creatures or eat them as food. \u00a0The game\u2019s premise of collecting and raising monsters has been heavily compared to the Pok\u00e9mon series, even escalating into rumors and concerns about copyright issues, but what do Palworld\u2019s creators have to say about this?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240119-25859-002.jpg\" alt=\"Pals in Palworld\" class=\"wp-image-25865\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240119-25859-002.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240119-25859-002-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240119-25859-002-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240119-25859-002-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240119-25859-002-600x338.jpg 600w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking on the topic, Palworld\u2019s representative Takuro Mizobe explains that he is a big fan and admirer of the Pok\u00e9mon series, having known of it since his elementary school days. He mentions being greatly impressed by the quality of Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet and Violet, as well as the open-world title Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Arceus.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mizobe refers to Pok\u00e9mon as the \u201coverwhelming leader of the monster collection\/raising genre,\u201d and admits to being \u201cscared to compare it to Palword\u201d because of how good it is.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the same time, he goes on to explain that Palworld was created from the premise of combining an open-world survival game with a monster collecting\/raising game. And while the developers of Palworld&nbsp; did reference Pok\u00e9mon as a &#8220;great predecessor,\u201d they created something that Mizobe describes as feeling completely different. He even mentions that, in regard to game mechanics, Palworld is a lot more similar to the action-adventure survival game Ark: Survival Evolved.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mizobe finishes by assuring that Palworld was developed with great care in terms of respecting other companies&#8217; intellectual property, and that it has cleared legal reviews without issue.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240119-25859-003.jpg\" alt=\"Palworld gameplay\" class=\"wp-image-25866\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240119-25859-003.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240119-25859-003-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240119-25859-003-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240119-25859-003-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240119-25859-003-600x338.jpg 600w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With the Pok\u00e9mon franchise being, as Mizobe described, an overwhelming leader in its genre, its successors are destined to be scrutinized and compared to it. However, \u00a0we\u2019ve already noticed many unique aspects in Palworld, and we\u2019re looking forward to digging deeper into its rich gameplay and worldbuilding.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay tuned for the English version of Automaton&#8217;s interview with Takuro Mizobe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Palworld releases in Early Access on January 19 for the PC (<a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1623730\/Palworld\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Steam)<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xbox.com\/en-us\/games\/store\/palworld-game-preview\/9nkv34xdw014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S<\/a>. The game will be available via Xbox\/PC Game Pass.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palworld developer Takuro Mizobe says the game isn&#8217;t at all that similar to Pok\u00e9mon as it is to ARK: Survival Evolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":25862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-25859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Palworld dev says their game isn\u2019t like Pok\u00e9mon at all, but rather like ARK\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20240119-25859\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Palworld dev says their game isn\u2019t like Pok\u00e9mon at all, but rather like ARK\u00a0 - 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