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We also can\u2019t forget Lovander, who was already known to chase after humans with love on the brain, according to its Paldeck entry. Fittingly, the pink Pal became a \u201cflirty senpai who wants all the boys\u201d in the dating sim. At first glance, everything about the trailer (except the Black Marketeer) seems like a legit game. But, according to interviews with Inverse, visual novel developers are not having it with all these April Fools' jokes centered around dating sims. Pocketpair is far from the only game developer to use a dating sim parody as an April Fools' joke, making it both repetitive and disappointing at this point. 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Pocketpair released a video of a Palworld<\/em>-themed dating sim in honor of April Fools’ Day, but visual novel developers didn’t appreciate it. In fact, they found it offensive and hurtful for the genre.<\/p>

April Fools’ Day is a bizarre time in the gaming world, with fake news and release announcements left and right. Pocketpair used this opportunity to drop a video of a dating sim featuring characters from its smash hit Palworld<\/em><\/a>. The \u201ctrailer\u201d took fan-favorite Pals like Chillet and characters like the Black Marketeer and threw them into a high school setting where romance will inevitably blossom.\u00a0<\/p>