{"id":27574,"date":"2024-02-22T09:45:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T00:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=27574"},"modified":"2024-02-22T09:45:45","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T00:45:45","slug":"20240222-27574","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20240222-27574\/","title":{"rendered":"Palworld: Disturbing secret about Pals&#8217; appetite shocks players\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Palworld<\/strong> might look cute, but the game\u2019s dark side is always hovering under the bright and colorful surface. This is already evident in how PocketPair\u2019s open world survival game allows you to enslave pals and butcher them for profit. But one player took to Reddit to share an ominous secret that was hidden in plain sight.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-reddit wp-block-embed-reddit\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"reddit-embed-bq\" style=\"height:500px\" ><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Palworld\/comments\/1ave31j\/pals_eat_humans_lol_he_just_ate_3_of_them_in\/\">Pals eat humans, lol. He just ate 3 of them in front of me.<\/a><br> by<a href=\"\"><\/a> in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Palworld\/\">Palworld<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.reddit.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Other commenters shared how the discovery that these cute and innocent-looking creatures have a taste for human flesh had unnerved them. Many Redditers pointed out that the first NPC you meet warns you that Pals are savage creatures who ate all her comrades. However, it seems that the Pals\u2019 cuteness has endeared them to some players, who subsequently forgot all about the Pals\u2019 darker appetites.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-reddit wp-block-embed-reddit\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"reddit-embed-bq\" ><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Palworld\/comments\/1ave31j\/comment\/kra22qo\/\">Comment<\/a><br> by<a href=\"\"><\/a> from discussion<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Palworld\/comments\/1ave31j\/pals_eat_humans_lol_he_just_ate_3_of_them_in\/\"><\/a><br> in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Palworld\/\">Palworld<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.reddit.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This puts a whole new sinister twist on the game\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z72Leau-200\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">opening cutscene,<\/a> in which three adorable Pals are smiling down on your unconscious character who has just washed up ashore. If you hadn\u2019t woken up, you might have been dinner. Perhaps this explains the disappointed expression on the Lamball\u2019s face when you start to move.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1191\" height=\"632\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1191px) 100vw, 1191px\" src=\"http:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/20240222-27574-001.png\" alt=\"Palworld lamball cattiva\" class=\"wp-image-27580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/20240222-27574-001.png 1191w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/20240222-27574-001-380x202.png 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/20240222-27574-001-768x408.png 768w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/20240222-27574-001-600x318.png 600w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Palworld is available in early access 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>.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palworld players of Reddit react to a sinister secret that was hiding in plain sight in PocketPair&#8217;s open world survival game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":27581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,17],"class_list":["post-27574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-global-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Palworld: Disturbing secret about Pals&#039; 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