Nintendo has lastly come for Palworld… within the type of issuing a takedown for a video of a mod that swapped all of the Palworld friends for pokémon. Lol.
Days after Palworld’s early entry launch and cosmic-level recognition explosion, YouTube creator ToastedShoes posted a brief video on X (previously Twitter) teasing his Pokémon Palworld mod.
“Palworld already has a Pokémon mod,” ToastedShoes wrote on X. His declare was a bit deceptive: based on Palworld developer Pocket Pair, the sport doesn’t but help mods, however there are plans so as to add mod help post-launch. How ToastedShoes made the mod or precisely how refined it was is difficult to say in the meanwhile.
Both approach, inside hours of his X post asserting the mod, ToastedShoes posted that Nintendo had filed a declare in opposition to the video and had gotten it taken down.
“Nintendo has come for me, please depart me in your ideas and prayers,” he posted.
Nevertheless, that didn’t cease him from posting the complete video of his modded Palworld expertise — whereas getting off a number of jokes at Nintendo’s expense. (Catch the complete video under… when you nonetheless can.)
It’s about what you’d count on: 16 minutes of abusing pokémon, combating them, forcing them to work, and utilizing them to battle a nigh unwinnable battle in opposition to the sport’s first boss, which was modded to appear to be Jessie from Crew Rocket driving a huge Electabuzz.
Nintendo is famously litigious relating to its mental property rights and has a historical past of taking down fan-made content material. Because the arrival of Palworld and the accusation that its monster designs infringe upon Nintendo’s IP, there’s rising dialogue about whether or not Nintendo will go after Palworld’s builders. It doesn’t seem to be Nintendo has filed any complaints in opposition to Palworld simply but. It’s usually far simpler to take one thing down the place there is no such thing as a ambiguity relating to infringement, which is what occurred with ToastedShoes. But it surely’s additionally straightforward to maintain these issues up: as of publication, ToastedShoes’ video continues to be accessible on YouTube. The YouTuber posted on X that he initially needed to launch the mod free of charge to everybody however now says he plans to “tread frivolously” in the intervening time.
