Palworld | Fully Ramblomatic

I remember thinking when I played at Early Access on Yahtzee Tri's way back when that the experience was a bit anemic.

You pick one of about five different generic anime faces and then get dropped on top of a grassy hill with the suggestion, hey, go punch some trees and build yourself a house because of reasons.

And if you happen to see a spherical sheep, hit it with an axe for different but related reasons.

Well, it's still the early access version I thought, doubtless they'll add a bit more context to this in the final release, and they do.

They removed the words early access from the title screen.

Oh, and I picked up a couple of random lore documents from chests, but I was buggered if I was going to stop and read the fucking things, because as an online game that couldn't give two chunks of poo from a heavily armed squirrel that I was playing offline, it refuses to pause the game when the menu's open.

So Palworld didn't have a particularly strong start, I picked a more or less random spot, built a base, captured five or six frankly pathetic looking creatures resembling overgrown inflatable bath toys, I blew out my lips, cast a look around at a vast, extremely uninteresting world extending in every direction that didn't seem to contain anything but small spaced out groups of two or three Pokémon, and decided I was done for the day.

Not Pokemon Yahtzee, they're pals.

I'm not going to call them that, Palworld.

It's an ease of communication issue.

It's like complaining about me saying that I hoovered the living room when technically I Electroluxed it.

At that point I was unsure if I would continue with Palworld, I had no idea what I was supposed to be doing in it, and I hadn't recruited a single grenade launcher-wielding ferret, but something, SOMETHING made me go back for more.

That something's name was Editor Nick, who helpfully reminded me that playing it was my fucking job.