It isn't subtext though, it's just text. Literally. The game says it's all slavery and torture and stuff, but the pals seem happy enough to work on their own, and stop working when they feel like it. That's what I mean when I say it feels almost like a bad translation. The story in the text and the story in the gameplay are completely unrelated. I think they just did it solely for the meme value.
but the pals seem happy enough to work on their own, and stop working when they feel like it.
Having seen nothing but some footage because I had the same question as OP this does feel like we're doing MGS V again where the whole "uhh how is the guy kidnapping and brainwashing people with literal 1984 posters the bad guy, he saves the world"?
It's very weird. I've seen plenty of actually edgy pokemon games, every other pokemon romhack has a ton of "and the pokemon die for real in this one! It's super dark and mature and edgy!" stuff in it.
A lot of this weird freaking out about this game seems to come from people who seem to think "pokemon" is the only thing that has ever done a creature catching and battling game, and have never heard of any other games in the genre.
(and have never actually played Palworld, because it's much more of an Ark survival evolved knock off than a pokemon knockoff, the creature designs are just very heavily inspired by pokemon, with a few being directly based on specific pokemon, so people look at a screenshot of one of them and say that they "ripped off" pokemon, because drawing cute cartoony creatures with anime eyes in that style means it must be a rip off and not homage or inspiration.)
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It isn't subtext though, it's just text. Literally. The game says it's all slavery and torture and stuff, but the pals seem happy enough to work on their own, and stop working when they feel like it. That's what I mean when I say it feels almost like a bad translation. The story in the text and the story in the gameplay are completely unrelated. I think they just did it solely for the meme value.
Having seen nothing but some footage because I had the same question as OP this does feel like we're doing MGS V again where the whole "uhh how is the guy kidnapping and brainwashing people with literal 1984 posters the bad guy, he saves the world"?
It's very weird. I've seen plenty of actually edgy pokemon games, every other pokemon romhack has a ton of "and the pokemon die for real in this one! It's super dark and mature and edgy!" stuff in it.
A lot of this weird freaking out about this game seems to come from people who seem to think "pokemon" is the only thing that has ever done a creature catching and battling game, and have never heard of any other games in the genre.
(and have never actually played Palworld, because it's much more of an Ark survival evolved knock off than a pokemon knockoff, the creature designs are just very heavily inspired by pokemon, with a few being directly based on specific pokemon, so people look at a screenshot of one of them and say that they "ripped off" pokemon, because drawing cute cartoony creatures with anime eyes in that style means it must be a rip off and not homage or inspiration.)
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Could Pokémon have literally done the same thing in gen 1? Not as Farfetched as you'd think