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New Palworld mod adds three unreleased Pals, including that Pokemon Mewto rip-offBreed your own DarkMutants, thanks to the power of dataminers
Breed your own DarkMutants, thanks to the power of dataminers
Image credit:Eurogamer/Pocketpair
Image credit:Eurogamer/Pocketpair
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Last but very much not least, the mod lets you breed DarkMutant, a glowering Dark-type bipedal creature who can cast poison fogs and gravity-based attacks.Discovered in January, it’s the most risible of the mod’s three unreleased Pals, given that it appears heavily based on Pokémon’s Mega Mewtwo Y.
Palworld, you may have read, hasfaced some criticismfor ripping off Pokémon’s designs, though according to one lawyer we spoke to,this isn’t a case of actual copyright infringement. Still, the prospect of a legal tussle between Pocketpair and the Pokémon Company raises some intriguing questions about how videogames play out attempts to define animals as intellectual property.
Whether you’re installing the unreleased Pals mod or not, you might want to check out our list of thebest Palworld palsandguide to breeding them. If you totally missed the game yet somehow read all the way to the end of this news article regardless, you might want to check out ourPalworld early access review, in which a vengeful but not wholly revolted Katharine defines it as “stale”, “undercooked” and an “infernal checklist”.
Thanks and applause, applause toVideogamerfor spotting the above mod and writing about it for the betterment of Palworlders everywhere.
