Nintendo goes after the Palworld Pokémon modder
![Screenshot from YouTuber ToastedShoes’ video, “I modded ACTUAL Pokemon into Palworld,” featuring Pokémon character Ash Ketchum in Palworld’s character creator.](https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/9h2VnX3XihLd6aBNZ9uo1NZ1MZY=/159x0:1641x988/1310x873/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/73079205/Screenshot_2024_01_23_at_3.16.47_PM.0.png)
Nintendo has finally come for Palworld… in the form of issuing a takedown for a video of a mod that swapped all the Palworld pals for pokémon. Lol.
If you’re not one of the now 6 million players who’ve bought a copy of the game, here’s a quick explainer. Palworld is a multiplayer survival crafting game in which you use cute monsters called pals to harvest resources and build structures. Oh, and there are guns — you can shoot the pals with guns.
Days after Palworld’s early access launch and cosmic-level popularity explosion, YouTube creator ToastedShoes posted a short video on X (formerly Twitter) teasing his Pokémon Palworld mod.
“Palworld already has a Pokémon mod,” ToastedShoes wrote on X. His claim was a bit misleading: according…