#what if ark was fun... ough...

[transmandrake]

Thing that baffles me about Palworld is now its been out a lil and people have explored it more... Apparenlty the whole slavery and animal abuse aspect which is *heavily advertised* as the quirky silly gimmick is... completely optional and often the worst way to play the game.

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WHY WOULD YOU ADVERTISE IT LIKE THAT??? Oh yeah cuz people who dont like funny haha animal slavery are definitely going to buy the funny haha slavery game. And then its actually like 60% funny haha slavery.

(I'm basing this off the steam page primarily. Its like... Half the description and images. Because surprisingly I expect that to be an accurate representation of the game and if I'm going to like it or not.)

[milktian]

Ough fontaine is out there's so much stuff :0000 I'm a little overwhelmed by it all but hdkslsksl so uuuuh first impressions!!

I've decided that I'll stick with the archon quest for now and leave exploring. I usually like to run around as soon as I can freely move places but there's just so much that I kinda wanna do the story first and then wait till I'm less excitable about it jdjsks

(A little more spoiler-ish stuff regarding exploration + the beginning of the archon quest below the cut, just in case someone can't play on release jdkslls)

♡ Exploration ♡

The swimming is way smoother than I thought it was gonna be ngl. The way the camera like moves as you swim so it feels more natural is really cool I love how they've done it. The combat is also vv different so I have to get used to it jdjksls I'm very bad at the moment but I'll figure it out

One thing I do really like as well (that I speculate will also be in natlan coping so hard cause I have yet to find more than the barest scraps about natlan) is the boiling water mechanics. I didn't realise what was going on but it is vv cool and it's so like,,,,, idk how to describe it other than like that's more than I was expecting. Like I said before, I really hope that's something that's not just fontaine exclusive cause I imagine the same (or a similar) mechanic will be in natlan

One thing I'm hesitant on is the whole arke thing. There's already a bunch of mechanics in genshin already that it feels very overwhelming in a bad way that there's another thing to keep track of. I'm sure I'll get used to it but for now I'm kinda eh on the whole thing. At least it's just a fontaine thing

All of the design is gorgeous, i love how the underwater looks and some of the enemies are so cute I really don't wanna kill them ueueueue

♡ Story ♡

I've only done the very, very beginning of the archon quest but I feel there's enough for a first impression thing hdjsksk

Im really happy there's another 'archon is against you' type thing this time, even if it's more lowkey than inazuma. I thought it was going to hate furina cause I've hated her archetype in the past, but something about her isn't as annoying as other ones like she's great I love her so much jdjskls

I also really like the dialogue; there's one specific moment where the writers were poking fun at the fact that the traveler doesn't speak and the dialogue option is along the lines of "well paimon says everything so there really isn't anything to add once you're done" and whilst I would like for the traveler to get spoken lines (cause their voice actors deserve it so much and there's so much banter in the profile voice lines between them that it feels like a waste) it was super fun hdjskdk

That's about as much as I have I think? Like I said I'm only at the very very beginning I've just sorta been running around cause everything is bright snd shiny jdksls

I am Not looking forward to collecting the hydroculi tho,,,, but it must be done QwQ