Patterrz Reacts to "Palworld VS Pokémon - All Similar Designs" 

Hey Patterrz, thanks for showcasing my video :) I based this on the consensus that I saw online and what the Palworld Wiki said. Admittedly, some are stretches but I wanted to include everything. Overall, I am glad Palworlds exists and I enjoy it so far.

What makes Lovander even funnier is that its Paldeck number is #69. They knew exactly what they were doing with that one.

While several of these are definitely “legally distinct” I think this video goes to show just how far people are stretching for a number of these.

Got the game, caught the sheep, found out you can pet the sheep - game of the year. This game is a perfect survival to play with your gf as well.

Some of these are in no way identical to pokemon. Some you can see the similarities, but they're different enough. Then others are just 2 or 3 Pokémon Frankensteined together. And finally, some of them are literally the "can I copy your homework?" meme.

Some of the designs have taken a lot of Inspiration from Pokemon I have to admit but there r some original ones to.

If that video was based on the consensus for the argument, I can see why it's not holding water. Pat was more spot-on for his guesses than any point the comparison video stretched to make.

Some of them match pretty closely (especially if you stretch/compress them a bit), but others (maybe even most) look as though they're just based on the same real-world animal or idea.

THANK YOU for recognizing Totoro. It's driving me insane people keep comparing Grizzbolt to Electabuzz!!

A lot of these comparisons are stretches. There is a penguin pal therefore it must be piplup despite them not really looking alike. People are seeing design elements that can in some way be linked to a pokemon. Of course there are some that have definitely been heavily influenced (maybe copied who knows) by pokemon, although its gone to the point that people are forcing comparisons

a lot of these are stretches and people forget that animals are real things, and what's bound to happen with two games using the same animal type to create a creature shouldn't be a shock

These look legally distinct but they get very little credit in originality. Like Zilla versus Godzilla Kinda funny that Gamefreak is being more mature about it than most of the internet. I do really like Mammorest

Whoever did that video did a pretty poor job. Should have shown what pokemon it looked like thematically and what model it most resembled. The boar and Zigzagoon was just pathetic.

So far, it feels like the longer the video goes, the more you need to squint to see any similarities.

It's obvious that the designs are not 100% the same, but it's pretty obvious (to me) that they took a lot of inspiration from Pokemon's designs. You can see it a lot in the movement and the little features of existing Pokémon.

You have to consider "real world" models for the Pokemons/Pals as well. In Palworld they have Eikthyrdeer, which resembles a Legendary Pokemon who's name eludes me at the moment. But it's not a rip off of that Pokemon, it's modeled after Eikthyrnir from Norse mythology. The fire fox one is taken from Finnish folklore. Anubis as mentioned is an Egyptian god, and the colors on the Anubis pal match the color scheme associated with the Egyptian god, not the somewhat similar Pokemon. There's only so many ways to make a sheep, a cow, a deer, a boar, a well-depicted mythological being, etc.

The one that's just combined Serperior, Primarina, and Milotic is so funny to me because Primarina's hair looks like that because it's tied, so there's no reason for the pal's hair to look like that because it has no hair bands or anything.

2:56 The video dropped the ball here. This is about similar designs and Sobble’s fin is right there. It’s like they lost sight of the purpose

I feel like a lot of these designs take elements or heavy inspiration from certain pokemon to the point where we are able to recognize them, but were added to completely different base designs to avoid plagiarism allegations.

it feels like a lot of the designs they took inspiration from pokemon with specific details, e.g. the legendary type one literally has arceus' thing around the body, or the edgy character looking one has literally got absol's spike thingie. Or they are essentially rethinking a pokemon's design to be "what about X pokemon BUT anthropromorphic/grass/water/etc. Or literally doing a fusion of multiple pokemon. However a lot of the examples shown inthe video seemed a bit iffy at best.

i like how you were really reasonable. there so many people that hate just for the sake of hate who would literally just say 'all these are 100% carbon copies!' the games great, and after scarlet/violet game freak needs a kick in the pants to do better. i hope palworld makes a huge impact on the next legends game.

13:26 I knew instantly that one was going to be Silvally, I recognize that head crest anywhere! Also the info for it is very similar and big Silvally vibes: “It’s very existence should not be”

Some of them are definitely stretches, but a whole bunch look straight up like they took the Pokémon into photoshop and tweaked it a little 💀

The cat face is from studio Ghibli's Totoro isn't it? In Palworld her eyes glow in the night as well and actually act as light source so that you can see stuff. (Palworld's night is really really dark.)

I think some of the pal world designs should get redesigned and they should hire some professional fakemon artist to design them.

And then we gonna have people defending copied designs having Anubis as a shield to hide other more obvious copies Btw this is og video creator is dumb, they missed and misjudged a lot of these The case is obvious here. Big company small company competating. People gonna be on small company side obv. Thats how human works

Galarian Meowth's face is just the Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland.

While I agree with some of them a lot of them seem to be inspired by the same things and because Pokemon is so engraved into our brains we think they "stole" the idea like a fire fox is nothing new and vulpix was for sure not the first ever created

Hey guys, did you hear? Horses have decided to sue giraffes for copyright infringement because they both "stand on four legs"

To be fair... Tiger (Monster Rancher) was released in the 90's-- so it predates Lycanroc (Lycanroc shiny is even blue & white like him just missing horns so don't know why nobody has seemed to make that comparison). I personally think the body is a pretty basic cartoon wolf- so it could easily be compared to almost any other videogame or cartoon franchise. Direhowl is a basic wolf. Pengullet is a cartoony penguin, but Nintendo dont hold the rights to be the only one to use tiny blue penguins in their game. lol Piplup & Pengullet do not look at all identical, they just happen to be cute smol blue penguins.

tbh a lot of that video feels like its trying to stretch how many similarities there are not sure if i worded that right😭

Are you sponsored by palworld or something because you are saying no to like every single one when you can tell what they are going for on about 80% or more

I think the biggest thing is that they used a similar art style as pokemon, so they are bound to have pals that are similar, I do think they took direct inspiration for some, but for others it’s a stretch

Its crazy how bad Nintendo unity's criteria is, they missed a lot of pokemon and chose some that doesn't look at all similar

It definitely looks like they did stuff like copy and past the tail of one pokemon and stick it on another. There are a lot of 'parts' that look straight up copy and pasted, though they do mix and match stuff so you can't pin most down to one specific pokemon.

The "Galarian meowth" one is Based off Catbus, to go with the Totoro. Even has light up eyes and is a mount.

Here’s the issue because Pokemon have been around for a very long time and they have loads of Pokemon that exist we have gotten too the point that honestly it’s pretty hard for any artist to come out with a completely unique and new design of a monster like creature in a similar art style as Pokemon (and it should be made clear art style is actually not under copyright and there are games that look very similar too each other and play like each other but at the same time you cannot ignore the actual overall differences and the completely different people that made them).

8:47 i didn't notice it at first either but it has Corviknight's feet/talons just recolored

There are several where things are obvious when you see them from other angle, like zoroark mane tail thing

14:21 That is not Tangrowth. That is Nihon Dex 237, Wolfman, from the Spaceworld 97 Pokemon Gold and Silver demos. The sprites have been public info since the demos were leaked following a Nintendo hack. Wolfman might have been scrapped during the development of Gen 2, but is still part of the Pokemon IP. Pity that the Pocket Pair devs didn't think or forgot to alter this sprite more - I guess they forgot some folks are fascinated by seeing scrapped bits from game development, and would be familiar with those demos (esp. since there are free fangames that turned the demos into full alt Gen 2 games...l.

"Do they want people to make r34 of these creatures?" Yes. Yes they do.

The boar zigzagoon comparison was the biggest stretch I've ever seen. Not even the same animal

I think many of these had similarities to different Pokémon than they showed. While the ideas and colors may have been similar to the Pokémon comparisons many of the pals had copy and paste features from some Pokémon that they looked nothing like

11:41 "One must imagine lamball happy"

Thing is, the pals have way better animations and expresssions than pokemon do. You honestly cannot judge them without seeing their working and sleeping animations.

The thing is that many of them have elements from at least 3 Pokemon smashed together and maybe recolored a bit. You can't really compare them to only 1 Pokemon or I would imagine GF would've sued the socks off Palworld's people already. Except the Mega Mewtwo Y, which is probably the reason it was kept out. 0:35 This one is a mix of Leafeon's ears, Pachirisu body, and Nickit's tail. 1:00 Meganium face, Goodra body, and Liligant's flower. Maybe even Serperior's tail. 1:18 Blaziken's legs, Sneasle's body, Decidueye's cape, and Gallade's "helmet" thing. 1:35 Serperior's body shape, Dragonair's tail detail, Suicune's ribbons, Primarina's hair and Milotic's eyebrows. 2:08 This to me kinda looks like a shrunken Honchkrow with a part of @GameboyLuke logo and Hoothoot's foot split into two feet. Bit of a stretch, I admit. 2:19 Misimagius's hat (although it's really just a witch's hat) combines with elements of Braxien and Delphox. 2:42 Drillbur's claws, almost a Gengar's face, Electabuzz's pattern in a Totoro body. 2:57 How did they miss the Sobble's fin thing?? 3:24 Raichu tail, Lucario face, and a Pyroar body? 3:42 Mega Salamence, Miraidon "turbine" legs, and Iron Moth's wings. 3:03 Silvally's crest, Escavalier's "arms" and Ceruledge face. Maybe some horse pokemon's rear? 4:29 Nailed this one. 4:39 Zoroark body, Houndoom's horns.* 5:21 Espurr's body, and Misdreavus's color scheme? 5:46 Lycanrock's body in a Galarian Zigzagoon color palette. 5:59 Mareep and Alcremie. 6:30 Salazzle fanfic. Not sure if those ears are from something else though.

pokemon fusion dude.why do people not notice this shit and just go for similarities.this is why AI was an arguement to begin with

"that's just galarian meowth's face" because cats don't have sharp teeth and eyes that glow if a light is pointed at them. because pokemon invented the cheshire cat.

This game also is using similar Ark UI and using premade UE textures, they aren’t working as hard as you think they are

It's often hard to not make one that doesn't look like an existing pokemon. But some of these had no effort in hidding how they copied it.

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"I don't see it" if it shows two Pokémon, chances are they think it looks like a fusion of those two Pokémon.

They literally just copied the sobble fin and pasted it on the clodsire clone. Like that's the exact model

I never once thought to associate Grintail with G. Meowth it was always the Cheshire cat.

Riot: steals designs from everywhere for their champions, no one bats an eye Palworld: vaguely similar creatures, Nintendo Ninjas on their tail

Comment section be acting SO offended just because someone says the literal WORD "copy." God forbid anyone of yall find out how they rendered Palworld sprites lmaoooooo

I feel like some comparison are bad not because they just dont look like them but because he didnt pick the right comparison.

ok, im pretty sure a lot of palworld's designs came before gen 9.. right? this game was in development for 3 years. Not saying they didnt make them after the release of gen 9.. but it's pushing it.

i dont think the comparison was stretching far enough. palworld designs can be amalgamations of 3-4 pokemon at once, to the point they just feel pokemon ish

I think that pokemon has made so many designs that its not posible to make something without it being compared to pokemon.

Some of these are so obviously inspired by Pokemon while some of these feel completely original, there are definitely some great designs here imo

It's much more of drawing heavy inspiration than anything else. Mammorest does look a lot like dorefan, but the concept and feel has been changed to something unique. It's the same case with most of the pals. Sure, some of them are combinations of two pokemon designs, but they are not labelled pokemon, and don't share enough similarites to either to really be classified as a copy of them. Also am I the only one who sees some of these supposed design combinations and doesn't see much resemblance?

I think you're kind of misinterpreted a lot of the comparisons made. Any of the ones that showed two Pokémon at once was trying to imply it shared obvious traits with each, not that it looked like a copy of both of them. Lifmunk ABSOLUTELY looks like if Pachirisu had the leafy traits of Leafeon. Not to mention, you noted that "it doesn't look like their design was ripped straight out of Pokémon", but the video title just says "similar" designs, so it's kind of an escalation of the claims being made anyway.

Personally, some aren’t close enough, but there are DEFINITELY some that you can see instantly

The Galarian Meowth comparison I'll argue, there are so many creatures that have those eyes and teeth that I don't think it's a fair comparison (though I've been told if you throw galarian meowth's head on a skitty it becomes more blatant). I cannot defend the cobalion comparison though. Like come on, you couldn't even change the colors?

One of the palworld designs is just straight up sheen from yo-kai watch. I believe they even have the same Japanese name

95% if these are so farfetched it's unbelieavable. How is the cat similair at all to Galarian Meowth? If anything it looks much more like the Ceshsire cat. Errmagerrd pokemon copy pasted chesire cat's face to meowth.

Animals can't be copyrighted.

The thing is that they definitely took design elements and pieces from Pokemon and slapped them on. The hair of the seal singing Pokemon was almost exactly replicated in the elegant seal Pal - down to the little fly-aways which... why would they add those bit at random in the exact places they are in the Pokemon's hair? That's a straight copy. Also using Absol's horn on one of them, or Mudkip's fin on the quagsire-like one. There are some where they're very close to the actual designs, but a lot more where they just take pieces of Pokemon and glue them on top of a Pal for 'more'. And it's very obvious. Also, you cannot tell me that every other game out there that has wolves, sheep, cows, deer, boars and mythical beings look so akin to Pokemon as to be almost exact copies at times? Do you know how many different variations of wolf monsters exist in games? Each of them being incredibly distinct? And none of them are Lycanroc-copies. Like, the argument that "Of course they look the same, they're from the same inspiration" is disingenuous when you look at every other game that has used the same inspiration yet managed to create distinct and original creatures. And it's a pity because they DO have some really cool design ideas that are original to them! They're doing themselves a disservice by stealing bits and pieces of Pokemon when they're fully capable of creating their own critters and doing so better than Pokemon does, in some ways.

Ah yes, because Pokémon came up with the concept of sheep. And wolves. Some of these, sure, but others should not be in there IMO.

If Nintendo thought it was a ripoff Palworld would never have even been close to releasing with how sue happy Nintendo gets

I’m amazed that one pal can be so relaxed that it wouldn’t realize it’s dead until the next morning lol

Also, as a monster hunter fan, the Teostra looking dude with its subspecies that colors it like Lunastra is also rather amusing. Nice to see they weren't just ripping from Pokemon. The jetragon also vaguely reminds me of Valstrax a bit too.

Patterrz: "Idk, they're pretty different to me" Also Patterrz: guessed 95% of them within 3 seconds

"We resemble but are legally distinct from Pokemon"

Not a palworld hater by any means but they did straight up copy the models of pokemon themselves. This can be seen if you put some of them on the same layer in a modeling program. Especially for Direhowl & Lycanrock. It’s just a different hairstyle for lycanrock but that’s about it.

"they are similar but I don't think it was stolen", bro, literally the CEO of Pocket Pair (the developers of Palworld) has openly said that none of his games are original and that he especially likes to copy Nintendo games, because according to him, The most important thing in a video game is that it is fun and not that it is original Edit: sorry if my english is not that good, it's not my native language

One thing i started to notice,the more you compare the 3d models,the more you notice how distinct they are,except the luxray and cinderave ones,they are impossible to argue against

When some of the pals look more pokémon then pokémon.

the fire fox thing literally just looks like an old Mega delphox fan design from years ago.

While I do get that there are those which are incredibly similar, with what some of the pokemon community are saying in regards to copyright I don't think nintendo/game freak have the copyright of literal animals (penguin, boar, wolves, etc)

I think it's high time Pokemon company stops slacking off ,cause the overall gameplay and graphics in this game are much much better

7:18 The grass type Cinderace has got to be heavily inspired 💀💀💀

1:11 - This one has a different color scheme known as Dinossom Lux. The green one you saw is a grass-dragon type, whereas the Lux version is electric-dragon. The Lux colors remind me of shiny Goodra and shiny Meganium. 1:32 - The orb on its tail made me think Dragonair. 5:11 - I think its name is Depresso. Description says its kind hearted but I disagree. Its always aggressive with me, even if I'm just trying to walk past. 5:42 - Craft the saddle. You can ride the wolf! 8:41 - This guy is called Mammoforest (I think) and is the first boss you see in the starting area, around level 37-38. But its docile unless you attack first. You can pass by no problem or pick up a branch next to its foot and it won't attack. Which is nice coming from a boss pal, unlike someone else I know... I'm looking at you, Depresso. 10:28 - This one, Nitewing, is good to have out of the sphere when you have multiple targets as its attacks can hit multiple enemies at once and even cause them to see stars/stun them. Dinossom is also good for multiple enemies as it hits the ground, causing a shockwave. 11:24 - Can be used as a paraglider if its on your team and you have crafted the appropriate gloves.

8:56 Even if it's one design that's enough to take them and everyone agrees with at least something on this list. No one is completely denouncing it.

Some of these are just too similar to be a coincidence, but for a lot of them I feel like if you have over 1000 different designs like Pokémon does, basically no matter how you design your new monsters there will be some resemblence to some of them simply based on the huge number.

3:48 Now das Valstrax + Salamence from the looks of it. But Iron Moth only makes sense because of the wings.

for the primarina comparaison it comes down to they took Primarina's hair and striped the jewlery and changed the color ! They litteraly have the same shape and details of "split hair" and the second pokemon should have been Serperior since that's it's body

These are definitely mostly wrong they get the similarities mixed up. For example Drummond literally has sobble’s fin and jetragon is just the eon duo

Now we gotta compare Pokemon and Dragon Quest.

The palworld mons look so much more alive then the pokemon ones

How can you say they dont look like them when you guess them correctly

I am very much so enjoying palworld. And I usually don't like survival-esq games... like... at all...

Ok some of these look like fusions of different pokemon. I don't hate the game though. You can critique a game and not hate it. But some of these feel like they took designs from pokemon fan designs. There was a pal that looked like a fusion of deerling (its face) and Tinkaton (its hair) with a little bit of victini (its body and it's floating). I still like that pal. Its called a flopie and i love it. Too bad i can't play it. And that "yeti tangrowth" reminds me of scrapped Pokemon design from i think gen 2?

The critiques are totally valid and quite a few designs are suspiciously similar to Pokemon but idk the original creator was reaching with a lot of these imo lmao

Hot take, these would be way better if they didn’t use Pokemon as an “inspiration” at all. Some of these are entirely unique and they look much much better than the ones that aren’t.

For many examples of this video there were much better matches that probably the OC missed

The meganium look a like is unironically better then actual meganium and I quite like meganium

Some of these are kind of a stretch, but that one Pal being literally just green Cinderace is fucking hilarious

Lol I think they just borrowed Pokémon’s art style and created an interesting survival game. If I had access to Palworld, i’d give it a try, looks fun. Some of the Pals do look too similar to existing Pokemon though, and they should’ve changed them just to be more original.