Nintendo and the ongoing lawsuit for violation of the Pokémon patent against Palworld Pocketpair caused many debates among game and players creators. However, the recent film from Yoshiki Okamoto, a former creator of Capcom, in which he seemingly commented on Pocketpair and Palworld, caused a sturdy reaction of viewers.
The current president of Japan Game Culture Foundation, Yoshiki Okamoto has been working in the game industry for over 40 years, with a variety of CV, which includes Street Fighter 2, the first Resident Evil and Hit Mobile Game Monster Strike. He also created an original concept of what would become Red Dead Revolver Rockstar.
IN YouTube video Published on his channel on September 27, Okamoto issued his opinions on the ongoing Nintendo vs. process. Pocketpair, saying that Palworld “has crossed a line that should not be crossed, and I do not want the world to become a place where such things are acceptable.”
Later in the film Okamoto said that “if the settlement is reached with Nintendo, I think that (Palworld) will become a game, which is officially fine. However, this is now the defendant’s game to make it unacceptable. Playing the game you support, so don’t buy her.”
This comment and its pocket label as “Anti-XXXX” (Okamoto spread and distorted the last figure of Kanji of the word both in audio and subtitle in the film) caused a flood of criticism in the comments-many did not stop. Most commentators interpreted the half -summed term Okamoto as “Hansha” or “anti -social force” (a shortened term often used to describe criminal organizations such as Yakuza, and groups operating in a way that concerns the appropriate and/or legal way of doing things). One of the commentators indicated that calling Pocketpair “anti -social force” can be considered defamation. Then they added: “On the other hand, your argument that” people should stop playing games with dubious content, because it corresponds to them support “, is convincing” before they announced that these words made them decide to throw playing in the monster of hitting Okamoto after almost 20 years. Other user reactions included: “I think that assuming that something is bad, just because it was bad” and ” On how much you don’t like (Pocketpair and Palworld), calling them anti -social crossing the line. “
Okamoto openly admits that although people recommended it to him, he never really played Palworld, insisting: “I’m not going to play the game or spend money on it.” He pointed out that Palworld became a dividing theme, and people divided into fans and hate camps, and confirmed that he was anti-spouse. “But at the same time I understand that there are fans,” he added.
In the film, Okamoto also expressed concern that if Pocketpair wins the lawsuit and is able to release the full version of the game, copyright violation can be seen as more acceptable, if the game is seen as compelling and will get good reviews. He was also worried that this could potentially open the flood gate to the demanding work of the creators in other Nintendo series (such as Mario, Zelda, etc.) being more free and explicitly copied, especially using generative artificial intelligence.
However, commentators also pointed out that many games used elements of previous titles of other companies, noting that they include the games that Okamoto worked on. People mentioned how Street Fighter 2 used similar elements for previous combat games, such as Yie AR Kung Fu, and how Monster Strike’s interface is similar to puzzles and dragons. “How do someone who did such things speak against Palworld?” Sad commented. Others pointed out that the memory of Okamoto about generative artificial intelligence risk of feeding false gossip (since the overthrow of Pocketpair) that the developer used AI gene in creating Palworld.
Referring to the changes introduced to Palworld mechanics in the dispute in the lawsuit, Okamoto predicted that Pocketpair had developed some way to solve the case with Nintendo, which is why he announced a full, official version of the game. He noticed, however, that there was no “information” to properly confirm it at the moment.
The Nintendo-Palworld lawsuit, which has been going on in Japan since its announcement in September 2024, contains three patents, two related to the capture and release of monsters and one associated with driving characters. For more information, check the Ign on the lawsuit, in why Nintendo again wrote patents in the middle of Kazu and the latest Nintendo transition to rebate mods as “prior art”. Nintendo was busy with patents all the time – Some of them, from which IP lawyers said – When he develops his case against Pocketpair, which oath to defend himself in court.
Last month, Pocketpair announced Palworld: Palfarm just a week after Nintendo revealed his colleague cozy Sim Pokémon Pokles. Pocketpair announced on September 16 that Palworld would receive the official version 1.0 in 2026.
In GDC in March, Ign sat down to an extended conversation with the Pocketpair communication director and the head of the publishing house John “Bucky” Buckley After the conversation at the conference “Summit community management: A Palworld Roller Coaster: Surviving the Drop”. During this conversation, Buckley fell into truthful details about many Palworld struggles, especially accusations of this by means of generative artificial intelligence and theft of Pokemon models for his own buddies. He He even commented In the lawsuit for violation of the Nintendo patent against the studio, saying that “he came as a shock” and was “something that no one even thought.”
Verity Towsend is a Japanese independent writer who previously served as an editor, collaborator and translator on the Automaton West website. She also wrote about Japanese culture and films for various publications.
