Palworld: The Lunch Thief Nintendo Didn’t See Coming
Filed under: Gaming / Cultural Audits / Petty Realities
I keep hearing people say “Pokémon Z-A is going to save the series.” Cute. Meanwhile, Palworld is still sitting across the cafeteria table, eating Pokémon’s lunch, the dessert, the thermos, and selling the lunchbox as merch.
Palworld did what Nintendo wouldn’t. It took the same bright-eyed creature-collecting formula, stuffed it full of chaos, guns, capitalism, and freedom, and said, “There. That’s what you actually wanted.”
You can build, shoot, enslave, liberate, craft, terraform, fly, and break half the moral laws of nature in a single session. It’s dumb, beautiful, and accidentally revolutionary. It respects your time and your curiosity — two things Pokémon stopped doing somewhere around the third remake of Kanto.
Nintendo keeps handing out reheated nostalgia and calling it a new recipe. Palworld just kicked the microwave over and built a grill instead.
I don’t hate Pokémon. I just know when someone else cooked the same meal better.
Mrs. Catford (with a sigh and a sip of tea):
“If you’re going to steal lunch, at least have the decency to season it properly. Palworld did.”
Mr. Catford (wiping crumbs from his paw):
“They called it plagiarism. I call it improvement.”
Jerry (final log):
- Operation Cafeteria Reclamation complete.
- Nintendo’s tray: empty.
- Palworld’s: overflowing.
Filed and witnessed by the usual suspects, with crumbs everywhere.
— Jerry “The Ankle Biter” Silverhand · Tribunal Chair & Frontline Negotiator, Dept. of Petty Affairs · Glitch Council Liaison (Codename: The Raccoon with Receipts)
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Want me to add a short trailer-style intro line at the top (like “🎥 A DPA Field Report”) or keep it clean as your final word?