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 buddies for pokémon. Lol.
Days after Palworld’s early entry launch and cosmic-level reputation 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: in line with 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 subtle it was is tough to say in the mean time.
Both method, inside hours of his X submit saying 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 go away me in your ideas and prayers,” he posted.
Nonetheless, that didn’t cease him from posting the complete video of his modded Palworld expertise — whereas getting off a couple of jokes at Nintendo’s expense. (Catch the complete video under… when you nonetheless can.)
It’s about what you’d anticipate: 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 like Jessie from Workforce Rocket driving a big Electabuzz.
Nintendo is famously litigious relating to its mental property rights and has a historical past of taking down fan-made content material. For the reason that 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 appear to be Nintendo has filed any complaints in opposition to Palworld simply but. It’s sometimes far simpler to take one thing down the place there isn’t a ambiguity relating to infringement, which is what occurred with ToastedShoes. However it’s additionally simple to maintain these issues up: as of publication, ToastedShoes’ video continues to be accessible on YouTube. The YouTuber posted on X that he initially wished to launch the mod free of charge to everybody however now says he plans to “tread evenly” in the interim.