I IMPLORE you all to read this https://hexbear.net/post/763625, diegetic essentialism is a waste of time and infantilizes you. Please, stop it.
The main series pokemon games have a move called Frustration which increases damage the less friendship the user has with their pokemon.
Why does this move exist in a game about friendship and loving the creatures you capture against their will?
This problem could just be solved by making pokemon not real creatures in the world but just spirits. Unfortunately, it seems that pokemon society is not vegan so it's also canon that people just eat pokemon.
I'm gonna brutalize one Pokemon for every dumbass comment in this thread. Sorry comrades but I've already stomped a Maushold to death and that's basically 4 pokemon in 1
Pokemon is cockfighting, Mario massacres Goombas and turns by the hundreds in any given game and we know from Paper Mario they're fully sentient and about equal to human intelligence, the star fox team are a PMC, Samus has blown up 3 planets, maybe more ans wiped out 2 species, sorta 3 if you count Evil Beak or whatever from Dread, he was likely the last Chozo. None of this shit really makes any sense and it's pretty senseless to go thst deep into it. Especially if you're being serious.
Hot take: game is fun, not great but it's early acess so it could get better
Honestly feels more like the Pokémon anime than the games in many ways but in a good way, little things like letting out my fire pal as a light source while mining at night feels better than anything gamefreak has done in the last 20 years
PoKeMoN iS aBoUt CoCk FiGhTiNg is baby's first edgy media interpretation. There are multiple storylines over the decades of the franchises existence that deal with Pokemon not wanting to fight and they all conclude with the message that you shouldn't force them to fight - and in the games it's stated that when they "attack" you, it's because they want to test you to see if you're good enough to be their trainer.
Pokemon makes it clear that the Pokemon enjoy battling
Mewtwo simply has drapetomania then?
pokemon is basically a shonen
This is less true for me than others because I spent 80% of my time in Pokemon X in Pokemon Aimie playing games with, petting, and feeding my Pokemon rather than battling with them
But yeah.
i think the difference is that palworld is a bad game
amazing that the first comment is "you see, these races simply enjoy being slaves, its their natural condition!"
Shin megami tensei still winning, alway winning
I'm just waiting for chuds to call it woke because the character creator uses body type 1/2 instead of "male" and "female".
Join a pvp server and beat people up and release their pals
My main problem with this game is how unoriginal the designs are. They're basically pre-existing pokemon with a few tweaks. Other monster raising games of the past, like monster rancher, had a distinct style and the monsters weren't just copy & pasted pokemon.
I doubt that these games are going to make 8 year olds start a cockfighting business, they still haven't and it's been like 20+ years.
i think they should make it more explicit actually, they would be able to claim satire with more creedance
From the library in Diamond/Pearl/Platinum
A young man, callow and foolish in innocence, came to own a sword. With it, he smote Pokémon, which gave sustenance, with carefree abandon. Those not taken as food, he discarded, with no afterthought. The following year, no Pokémon appeared. Larders grew bare. The young man, seeking the missing Pokémon, journeyed afar. Long did he search. And far and wide, too, until one he did find. Asked he, "Why do you hide?" To which the Pokémon replied... "If you bear your sword to bring harm upon us, with claws and fangs, we will exact a toll." "From your kind we will take our toll, for it must be done." "Done it must be to guard ourselves and for it, I apologize." To the skies, the young man shouted his dismay. "In having found the sword, I have lost so much." "Gorged with power, I grew blind to Pokémon being alive." "I will never fall savage again. This sword I denounce and forsake." "I plead for forgiveness, for I was but a fool." So saying, the young man hurled the sword to the ground, snapping it. Seeing this, the Pokémon disappeared to a place beyond seeing...
Long ago, when Sinnoh had just been made, Pokémon and humans led separate lives. That is not to say they did not help each other. No, indeed they did. They supplied each other with goods, and supported each other. A Pokémon proposed to the others to always be ready to help humans. It asked that Pokémon be ready to appear before humans always. Thus, to this day, Pokémon appear to us if we venture into tall grass.
I've always interpreted that Pokemon choose to show up and challenge humans when they want to join them, and will flee/not show up if they don't want to be with people. Pokemon are clearly stronger than humans and will straight up not listen to you if you don't have enough badges.
Also, battles don't seem to be "real fighting' in the way that they get injured or anything. Real sickness and injury, death, etc are presented as something completely different from status effects and fainting.
Okay, thats my incredibly nerdy take.
Anyway, I'm not so offended by Palwords "animal exploitation" joke as much as it makes me roll my eyes in a "Mario is high on mushrooms lololol Mario is possessing people with cappy lolol" way. It an old and easy joke. I feel like entertainment is nihilistic enough as it is.
I think a better idea would be a game where the Pals are being exploited by the bad guys and you free them and lead them in a bloody revolution for freedom lol.
