Yeah it's so weird how they're trying so hard to put themselves in the position of the "good guys"
Pocketpair said it would battle the lawsuit on behalf of Palworld's fans, but also framed the fight as a matchup between "a small indie game company" that wanted "to ensure that indie game developers are not hindered or discouraged from pursusing their creative ideas".
Defending indie games creativity while all of their games are creatively bankrupt is quite ironic. That being said Nintendo is still a bully and really should stop these scare tactics, but I'm not comfortable with how people are defending Pocketpair in spite of Nintendo. I'm all for artistic and creative innovation in video games, but Pocketpair is certainly not where this innovation will come from.
This is inspired. If it is considerd ripped off, we wouldn't even have Path of Exiles,Soul-like games,WOW-clones, ect.
And checking the screenshots, the art direction looks different enough.