DO NOT BUY Palworld - very disappointing

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

recently I've been playing this game

called Palworld, and it's kind of like a

mixture of Pokémon, Fortnite, Sons of the

Forest, Minecraft. You know, it's kind of

like a survival game where you punch

trees, collect wood, then you build an axe

or a pick, and then you mine stones and

minerals. And basically you just mine

stuff and then build stuff so you could

mine stuff better. And it's kind of boring

and bland and extremely uninspiring. It's

kind of like a ripoff of Pokémon as well,

in the sense that They have these

creatures around the world called Pals,

and they look kind of like Pokémon. And

then you have this little ball thing

called a Pal Ball or something like that,

and then you craft the Pal Ball, and then

you attack these creatures until they're

weak, and then you throw the Pal Ball at

them, and then they get captured into the

Pal Ball, and then they become your slave

and they'll fight for you. Sounds kind of

like something we all know about, I think.

It's also like an MMO in the sense that

you've got servers, but but the servers

can only have a maximum of about 32

players, so it's not like a massively

multiplayer game. It's like a semi kind of

big open game, and you've got about 30

other players on the server. But the

problem is you don't really interact with

these players very much unless you

actually put an effort into trying to find

them and talking to them. People kind of

keep to themselves. There's not really

like a quest hub or like a town where you

go and get quests. Doesn't even seem to be

any kind of story. You're just plunged

into the wilderness with nothing, and you

have to like level up from level 1 and

build stuff and collect materials so you

can get more powerful tools. And then you

can build stuff like— you can build houses

and furniture, beds, fireplaces, stuff

like that. So you could build your own

little base, your own little camp. But

there seems to be something about this

game that just feels kind of empty. It

feels like there's no real purpose to

really be here or do anything apart from

just collect materials and then attack

higher and higher enemies and then try and

capture more and more Pals using your Pal

Balls, and, you know, just try and level

up your character and get stronger and

stronger gear so you can mine and get more

materials and get more wood and ore and

stuff like that so you can build more

stuff. It's like a never-ending loop of

things that you don't really care about

doing, but that's the only thing to do in

the game, so you feel like you're

compelled to do those things. Like I said

before, you don't really have this sense

of a story or characters. It is very like

a sandbox open-world kind of game. But the

game just gets kind of boring. All you do

is run around and then you beat up rocks

and stuff and you capture POWs. If that

doesn't really interest you, then this

game is going to be very disappointing.

Also, the game is very buggy. As you can

see, I just got booted out of my server

for some reason, and I had to go and find

where my other server was where I just got

booted out of, because if you join a new

server, you end up losing all of your

stuff, which is kind of frustrating. So

because it's early access, or kind of like

an alpha or beta version of the game,

it's not officially a completed game, it

is kind of glitchy and stuff happens that

shouldn't really happen. It's kind of

weird. There's a lot of rubber banding

where you kind of fling around all over

the place whilst it lags. Sometimes you

get booted out of the server for no

reason. I thought I got kicked out of the

server. As you can see, like, I'm jumping

into this river and it's rubber banding me

back out of the river. So it's not a great

performing game. Also, the graphics aren't

amazing. It's very basic looking, kind of

looks like a mobile game, very basic. The

lighting effects are decent, I guess, but

the game just doesn't look like a very

polished game. It looks like a mobile

game, and it just feels and plays like

something that's not very modern or

premium. But that being said, if you

did really want some kind of MMO or

multiplayer online Pokémon game, And it

seems like Nintendo doesn't have any plans

of making a game like that. They always

make these Pokémon games single-player

games. I know people always wanted some

kind of MMO like World of Warcraft but

with Pokémon, where you've got this

massive world and you've got cities and

hubs and quests and story and characters,

and you go out and you attack Pokémon and

collect Pokémon. That doesn't exist, but

the closest thing to that could be this

game. It does feel a lot like a Pokémon

game. Some of the sound effects and music

feels a lot like Pokémon or Zelda kind of

games. So it does kind of tick those

boxes, and it could scratch that itch if

you want a game where you build stuff,

you capture Pokémon, and then you fight

other people, or just hang out and mess

around with other people on the server and

just chat and stuff. So in that way, it's

kind of an interesting game. But for me

personally, even though I find those parts

of the game and aspects of the game to be

quite good and interesting, This game just

doesn't really feel polished enough for me

to want to spend the money on it and

actually invest time into it. So

unfortunately, I can't really give this

game a very high recommendation, and I

think a 6.2 out of 10 would be fairly fair

for this game. It's not a really expensive

game, it's only about £20, so it's not

like a £50-60 Nintendo game. So I guess

for that price, you can't really be asking

for too much. But I didn't really find the

game to be that much fun. I had a bit of

fun, you know, creating axes and mine

picks and creating a few little building

stations and crafting stations and

capturing a few Pokémon here and there and

doing a bit of fighting. But after that,

I didn't really feel like I wanted to

stick around in this game. Just didn't

really have anything there to really hook

me in. So yeah, I don't think this game is

very good. I think it needs a lot of work

on it until I could actually recommend it.

Huh.