Palworld: AI Creatures, stolen assets? Interesting games from their past.

So, amidst the hype of Palworld's early access release, it's no surprise people are drawing a lot of similarities to pokemon. But surely it's just coincidences and a similar style, right? Frankly the more likely thing here is that they just took images of pokemon, fed them to an AI which they are known to use for the game "AI: Art Impostor", then mutilated actual pokemon models in Blender to copy the AI's output. Sure is strange how unfitting many of these 'pals' are compared to the designs of everything else right?

And then there's the matter of their other early access survival sandbox, "Craftopia" which well, just looking at the trailer it seems they got a bit of inspiration from an old tunic wearing knight doesn't it? That game has been in 'early access' for three years, and now they're launching another early access game blatently based off of a second Nintendo property?