>>713355336Palworld is unironically better than nu-pokemon
I got it because it was hehe haha pokemon with guns but then played it for like 150 hours. Obviously not the pinnacle of quality, but the designs aren't bad, a lot of them can be ridden or used as a glider (or could, I think they were removed after being sued or something), they can help around the base instead of limply sitting around in your party or PC purgatory never to see the light of day outside of a battle. Then of course there's some building elements so you can build yourself a house for you and your pals. Scratches the same kind of itch playing pixelmon/cobblemon does.
Meanwhile you go to pokemon and it has none of these things. You can ride your pokemon in LGPE at least, but the selection is extraordinarily limited. 2 water mounts, 3 flying mounts, not as many land mounts as you'd expect and some of them are straight up useless since they don't walk any faster than you do. And fuck you if you like venusaur or blastoise I guess because charizard is the only one that can be ridden.
Pokemon's just a soup of questionable decisions and recycling the same shit for 30 years. Only one that tried to actually DO something was PLA