See, I was thinking some of the Pals were just a little too close to some Pokemon to the point of being suspicious of AI. There are other Pokemon games like Nexomon (1 and 2), Coromon, Monster Sanctuary, ect. that don't have 1:1 models that match like Palworld does. Granted, Gamefreak/Nintendo don't own the genre of monster collecting, but they're cutting it really close with some of these Pals.