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This is what Crash Team Racing did-they literally imported a track directly from Diddy Kong Racing and messed around with it to get a feel for how to design a racing game, but they didn't stop there.
I hope the game is relatively early in development and they're just using Link's Awakening as a baseline and making changes from there. But it really does feel like their talent is being squandered if they aren't gonna take the time to make original NPC's and world layouts at the very least. This is good enough that if I were Nintendo, I'd consider hiring them. If this is the first project by an indie team, it's a very good proof of concept to showcase their development skills with impressive lighting, animation, and physics. I'm not like offended by this game or anything. From what I've seen, it still looks like its own original world, and the characters and gameplay mechanics are different enough to justify the game's existence. Maybe someone can fill me in on whether the game is filled with landmarks very closely representing Twin Peaks, the Great Plateau, Lake Hylia, Death Mountain, et cetera. Games like Genshin don't go that far, as far as I'm aware. If they're incorporating large chunks of Nintendo's level design, then I could see them taking a look at this game and possibly suing. But the character designs, the physics, and the level layout all just come together to create the perfect storm for me of a game that goes a little too far. Probably still a good game on its own right and maybe worth checking our." They obviously put a lot of time and effort into painstakingly recreating Nintendo's style.
As I said, the visuals and gameplay mechanics alone are enough for me to say, "It looks derivative, but still neat. Even if they don't bring anything new to the table not every game has to re-invent the wheel, and sometimes it's okay to play it safe by piggybacking off a formula that's already been proven. I respect "clones" that manage to be just as fun-if not more so-than the games they're copying. (Heck, Donkey Kong and Zelda are largely just King Kong and Peter Pan-and they were sued over the former.) But standards are a bit higher now. Back then, the industry was still new though, so copyright laws were much more lenient. Nintendo's first arcade game was essentially a clone of all the other space shooters-Space Invaders, Galaxian, Galaga, etc. Then, of course, there's the Mario Kart and Mario Party imitations in the form of Crash Team Racing and Crash Bash, respectively.Ĭopying each other is an inevitability in the gaming industry. Crash 2 took it a step further and instead of being just thematically similar to DKC, it added the sliding mechanic, which can be jumped out of-even above bottomless pits. Crash 1 is very Donkey Kong Country-esque, taking place on a world map consisting of islands where you gradually work your way from a jungle setting to a more industrialized factory scape.
Some of my favorite games are "clones." A Hat in Time is an unabashed Super Mario Sunshine clone with scenarios ripped straight from Thousand-Year Door, Okami is a Zelda clone, Nick All-Star Brawl is a Smash clone.yet, I still love them all.Ĭrash Bandicoot is one of my favorite game franchises, and he's been ripping off Nintendo since his very conception. If they just made the level design (and the NPC's) more original, I really wouldn't have a problem with it. It's like a fan remake-still impressive in its own right and the developers should be commended for their hard work, but as a product being sold for profit, it's entering sketchy territory. If you're stealing the exact level structure, I feel like you may as well take Nintendo's 3D assets while you're at it. There were other moments in the footage that also looked uncannily similar to the same pathways I traversed in Link's Awakening. Having a nearly identical graphical style and gameplay mechanics is one thing, but copying the structure of the overworld is going too far. Wed 18th May Yeaaaah, looking at the side-by-side comparisons, it definitely seems like a ripoff to me.
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