>>57025492All Palworld did was show how many frustrated Pokemon fans there were with GF, who had money and were wasting it on shit quality why holding back because they had to make it "safe" for kids.
The only real competitor to Pokemon was Digimon and it was superior in every way and only flopped because those owners also burned their franchise to the ground (though by the mid 00s in their case).
It was literally Palworld but of actual quality and taken waaaaaay more seriously to the point where kids noticed in the 00s (because it was bigger than pokemon for a while there, I only watched Digimon because it wasn't baby like pokemon).