It’s simply amazing what’s happening with Palworld these days and not only because of the incredible number of sales the game got in just a week, but also because the controversy surrounding the originality of the title and its great similarity in several aspects with Nintendo’s Pokémon saga.
The latest to contribute to the controversy was Don McGowan, a lawyer who headed the Pokémon Company’s legal team for 12 years, who referred to somewhat strong words to the developer Pocketpair, responsible for Palworld.
Palworld: a success that does not ignore controversy
McGowan, ed. A meeting He noted that Pocketpair’s game “looks like the cheap, meaningless copy I saw a thousand times a year when I was the legal manager of Pokémon.” At the same time, he also said he was surprised “that they let (the title) go this far”.
Monday, Takuro Mizobe, CEO of Pocketpair and Director of Palworld publicly responded to accusations of plagiarismand although he did not deny that his product is heavily influenced by Pokémon (which is more than obvious), he claimed that the artists who worked on the title received many offensive messages.
