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Palworld dev’s take on Hollow Knight finally has a Steam demo (www.pcgamesn.com)
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[–] ech@lemm.ee 21 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Everyone keeps saying this is a HK rip when it really doesn't seem to be to me, at least no more so than HK was a "rip-off" of Metroid/Castlevania. Neither the combat or the aesthetic is very similar to HK.

I get their previous work has been pretty blatant rip-offs of other games, but where in other games assets and gameplay were near 1-to-1 replications, this one seems relatively original. I suppose the hat-possession could be considered a copy of Mario Odyssey, but that's all I can make out from the trailers.

[–] LyD@lemmy.ca 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The characters are all very different but the environments look extremely close. 0:18 in the trailer is Greenpath.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 8 points 9 months ago

The art style is obviously ripped off from Hollow Knight, but in their defense, it's hard to make a foresty looking region in the art style of Hollow Knight without it just being Greenpath.

They really ought to try making their own art style at some point. Maybe then people will stop accusing them of just ripping off existing games

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 12 points 9 months ago

Some of the screenshots look borderline identical.

[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Its because we have reached a point where people are too stupid to know that Hollow Knight was not the first Adventure Explorer game, that Metroid did not copy HK but infact came before HK, and that Castlevania did indeed exist.

People these days be thinking Fortnite was the first Battle Royale style game. They don't even remember it was originally a Tower Defense style game before hard pivoting to copy PUBG. Even PUBG wasnt the first BR style game.

[–] wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 4 points 9 months ago

Watch the trailer. The backgrounds are all at min an homage to HK, and the foresty ones are almost straight greenpath / queens gardens

Its not "they copied the genre" the game specifically has art direction like HKs style

[–] hoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

TBF Fortnite pivoted to battle royale so fast that it basically never even really tried to still make that a thing.

Still weird if you think about it tho.