00:00For years, survival games have convinced us that chopping down 400 trees is somehow part
00:05of the fantasy. Need a better axe? You've got to spend an hour collecting stone. Want
00:09to build a bigger base? Time to manually ferry hundreds of logs from one storage chest to
00:14another. Somewhere along the line, the genre started confusing friction with depth. But
00:19I've realized that what makes PAL World special has almost nothing to do with its Pokemon
00:23bits, but everything to do with the way its pals hack away at the busywork that's become
00:27synonymous with the survival genre. Sure, you're catching creatures that look like copyright
00:32infringement claims waiting to happen, and while it is satisfying to pick up a fox and
00:36use it as a flamethrower, the best use for those pets is getting them to do all of the
00:40hard work for you. PAL World recognizes that the reason most people pick up an open-world
00:45survival game isn't because they dream of optimizing a production chain. Well, unless
00:49they're playing Satisfactory. No, it's that the most exciting part has never been the chores.
00:55It's everything waiting just beyond the edge of your base.
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