Captain’s Log Stardate 43125.9 While cruising through the ionosphere, I saw these alien beings / Everywhere I went up there, they were shakin’ their alien things / I’ll give you a genuine faux pearl ring if ya git on up and shake / Your… honeybuns! Shake your honeybuns! Shake! Don’t let it rest on the President’s desk, rock the house! / Oh yeah! Yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh! Cosmic! Wooo! Shake that thing! Cosmic!
any fan could tell the difference, but i can see parents being confused, and they’re the ones footing the bill for the vast majority of pokemon fans. pair that with the guns and back in the day if my parents caught wind of it, Pokémon would be banned in my household no matter how hard i tried to explain Palworld was different
for the record i am very anti-copyright and think Pokémon should be in the public domain by now, and generally hate Nintendo’s over-ligitous practices. i also don’t understand the patent angle of this action. but i ln this one specific case i can see where they’re coming from, as opposed to if they were going after good-faith tributes like Coromon or Cassette Beasts or a ROM hack