Games media kills these kinds of games all the time by making comparisons far before release. Those comparisons then stick and set a tone for the game.

The ONLY way this will not happen and will go off like palworld is if this series somehow does the things that the sims won’t let you do. The sims is a very “arcade” type of life sim where it might as well be a cartoon. We have yet to see anyone do a different take on that but in a different theme