Paldeck Entries
Some of the Paldeck entries are good for a laugh in a
Black Comedy sort of way.
Gameplay
- A great majority of the Pals are susceptible to Blank White Eyes or swirly eyes once defeated. This even includes bosses, the legendary Pals, or Pals with such intimidating designs such as Astegon. The "savage beast" mentioned above gets the former upon defeat, making it look completely foolish in the process.
- Depresso's mining animation is… not very enthusiastic, barely tapping the rock with the pick. This somehow still works at mining. When they transport an item, they drag it behind them. Their method of using the sauna also involves just lying limply, face-down in the water.
- Due to their large, rotund shape and its natural habitat being full of trees, Mozzarina can often spawn on top of said trees with almost no way to get down. The end result is a plump cow standing on trees, which is always hilarious. The same can happen with Mozzarina in player bases somehow managing to get onto the roof.
- Mossanda has a number of hilarious moments:
- You'd expect a big, bulky panda to be heavy, especially with how hard it can hit. They're actually very floaty, not only being prone to knockback, but can also "float" in the air when they jump by flapping their arms. Even more hilariously, this floaty jump can surprisingly be used as a Cheese Strategy, as many boss AIs break when the player uses it while mounted.
- Their building animation has the big, bulky panda delicately wielding a tiny hammer between two fingers. Given that they're known for having Super-Strength, this is probably about as much effort as they can safely put in without accidentally breaking things.
- Their signature move Crushing Punch is always good for humor. The attack's animation (with ridiculous windup and actual stumbles afterwards) is mildly amusing, but ragdolling an unfortunate Pal/human into the distance never gets old.
- Their animation for chopping wood at a logging site is a calm, sedate, almost meditative affair, making short punches and bowing to the tree. Their animation for chopping free-standing trees consists of them menacingly flexing at it, which is just as effective despite not even touching the tree.
- Due to a glitch, it's fully possible to capture a Tower's boss along with the human
, resulting in the giant, overpowered Pals running around town and receiving head pats. - The default method of guiding your Base Pals around to do various tasks is to pick them up in one hand and throw them at the station where you want them to work. Not only does this work with Pals of any size, meaning you can pick up a humongous Relaxaurus or Mammorest, or even the gargantuan Jormuntide, as easily as you would a smaller Pal like Pengullet, but the neutral expression on the Pal's face implies they're okay with being manhandled like this.
- Some of the partner skills are awesome and hilarious once you craft special Pal gear for them. A couple of examples are Foxparks, which can be picked up and used as flamethrowers for a brief period, and Lifmunks, which climb onto your head and fire a gun at enemies. And then there's Pengullet, whose Partner Skill has you using it as a weapon by shooting it out of a rocket launcher.
- Lily Everhart’s pre-battle cutscene. She walks into the battle arena with a serious expression. Then, after she summons Lyleen, she leaps onto its head and happily rubs her face against it. She then stops and looks at you with the same expression as before.
- Running away from the PIDF can cause this, due to the game always wanting to spawn them near you. If it can find no valid location to spawn them, it may just spawn them on top of you. The most common reason this happens is because you're flying or crossing deep water — cue squads of PIDF soldiers appearing next to you in midair and immediately falling to their deaths.
- A mix of heartwarming and funny. Whenever your base Pals are incapacitated, other Pals can carry them to bed. The funny part is that your small Pals are somehow strong enough to carry much larger Pals on their heads.
- Putting especially powerful Pals to work at your base, while entirely valid thanks to their often huge skill levels, can be amusing all by itself. Having Jormuntide Ignis (a bloody massive fire-breathing Sea Serpent) put to constant work as your local Supreme Chef thanks to having 4 Kindling skill is common to the point people hunt it down not for ultimate power, but because someone's gotta bake all those cakes in a timely manner.
- Dumud has a humorous Paldeck entry, but it's also funny in motion, because it just flops everywhere wildly for everything it does. Outrage at being attacked, trying to threaten you right before shooting back, or even just moving around because it never learned how waddling works, it just flops about like it has no idea how to do anything else. Dumud's mining animation at the stone pit is also good for some laughs; it'll be holding a pickax in one of its fins but it will never use it, like it's too dumb to realize that it can use that to mine instead of ramming the stone deposit with its head.
- The best way to defeat a Jetragon used to be Fall Damage. This is despite Jetragon being able to fly and constantly floating. This no longer works anymore for any flying or hovering Pals, however.
- Due to the way how Pals spawn, Alpha Pals in Lava dungeons often die to lava if they are not fireproof. Hilarious at first, but gets annoying if it's a Pal you are looking for.
- Every corpse is subjected to Ragdoll Physics. This also includes the player. If a player or a Pal dies in a hill or mountain side, expect their corpse to travel for a while. Sometimes, it's even possible to see corpses launch into space, bringing the Tamriel Space Program to mind for some players.
- When a hostile Pal comes into your base, your own Pals in the base stops whatever they are doing and gangs up on the hostile Pal until either one is dead. This can happen if a Pal worker brushes with a Wild Pal.
- Larger Pals can trample over smaller Pals to cause minor damage, easily observable even in the Plateau of Beginnings with the occasional Eikthyrdeer running over Pals like Lamball, Pengullet, and Cattiva. Cue the Eikthyrdeer, which by all rights is minding its own business, getting chased by a horde of angry sheep, penguins, cats, and chickens because it stepped on them. The player can also do this with various mounts, either for the hell of it or to soften up Pals that they want to catch but would die to any actual attack. It can even happen by accident; any Lamball or Chikipi unaware enough to run into your path while you're busy getting somewhere will likely become roadkill. Finally, this can also happen to any neutral Pals wandering into your base if your workers are big enough and in a hurry to do something. And since they immediately become hostile, they will retaliate, only to get absolutely buried by everyone present for a fight they technically didn't even start.
- You can make a hostile Pal attack another Pal or a NPC. This causes the victim to attack the offender and the two will eventually duke it to the death.
- The breeding system. Not only are you allowed to breed any Pal with any other Pal as long as one is male and the other female, the way the offspring is determined (namely, a calculation based on hidden "breeding values" which are unique to each species) can lead to some really funny and/or headscratching results that completely defy both biology and common sense. For instance, breeding the sorcerous Funny Animal rivals Katress and Wixen results in… a Caprity. Not another Funny Animal; a goat-bunny-bush… thing. Huh?
- Surprisingly, one of the strongest attacks in the game comes from captured Syndicate Elites, whose punches somehow deal rocket launcher damage that can delete opponents in seconds. The discrepancy in damage from a seemingly weak punch is just utterly hilarious.
- The fact that you can call over your captured humans and pet them the same way you would a Pal is already absurd enough. But it goes from "absurd" to "uproariously hilarious" when the captured human is a Syndicate Crusher or the equally large Black Marketeer — especially when the height discrepancy results in crotch fondling.
- The extremely valuable Ancient Civilization Parts you get from defeating bosses, which supposedly contain information on the tech from the precursor civilization on the islands, are depicted by their inventory icon as ordinary spark plugs.
- The current Final Boss, Victor and Shadowbeak, have a whopping 200k+ health to whittle down. One of the best methods to beating them is to ride a Chillet while having Gobfins as the rest of your party so that your attack is boosted to high levels and changed to the Dragon-Element that's effective against Shadowbeak. Then the player can use the Assault Rifle, Pump-Action Shotgun, or Rocket Launcher to mow down his health within 3-6 minutes. The sheer ridiculousness of a horrifying Bioweapon Beast being taken down by a person riding a cute weasel-dragon while being supported by 3-4 midget shark men is hilariously absurd.
Paldeck Videos
Much like the Paldeck entries in game, the video trailers themselves showing off each Pal are good for a laugh.
- Chikipi's video gives it absolutely zero respect, with the first scene not being a player using a Chikipi in battle but rather battling a hoard of them with a Mossanda. Even the ending bit, after the player character is seen petting their newly captured Chikipea, shows one being cooked in a pot whilst several of its kind are packed into tight cages. Just like the Paldeck suggests, they are plentiful and practically exist just to be food.
- Maraith's video concludes with it, Cawgnito, and Daedream giving a Jump Scare to some little Pals, two of which run away while Lamball freezes stiff and slowly falls over.
- Ragnahawk's video ends with the adorable sight of Lamball, Cattiva, and Chikipi sleeping in a cozy wooden home...until Ragnahawk flies over to burn it.
- Foxcicle's video ends with it going to sleep in a comfy bed next to Cattiva and Chikipi, only to freeze the other two simply by being in close proximity with it.
Other
- The official Palworld Twitter has given us this gem, with a PocketPair dev coding beside a large statue of a Cattiva… with a gun.
- For April Fools' Day 2024 (even though they released it the day before even for Japanese timezones), Pocketpair decided to follow in the footsteps of some other games by posting a dating sim parody video, using characters that are very popular in "romantic" fan content as the love interests, including Katress, Lovander, Chillet, Zoe Rayne (plus Grizzbolt), and... a Black Marketeer? Highlights include Katress having a Yandere streak and going full Monika, and Chillet being petted under the collar and making that face to bring the meme full circle.
