Game developers aren't buying the similarities between Palworld and Pokemon (gamesradar.com)

I thought this was very interesting! I'm not sure that they were copied, why risk getting sued when you can easily make a new model yourself?

Pals blatantly took inspiration from Pokémon (and other things as well) but I don't think they are copies. This smells like a smear campaign. Given Nintendo history it's safe to say that they would've sued long ago while the game was in development if they could.