Damn, I guess the monster designs aren’t a ripoff, now that they’ve received death threats and clarified that the game isn’t a copy of the Pokémon gameplay loop.
I recall the dev claims that the monster are inspired by Dragon Quest.
…and Pokemon itself has a lot of monster that basically inspired by Dragon Quest as well.
Also, huge chunks of design are basically based of common monster design in Japan or Chinese mythology. Unfortunately, Western fans don’t know the reference, and claims it was ripped-off from Pokemon.
I have yet to see anything in that game that’s not ripped from somewhere else. It’s an incredibly derivative collection of successful concepts. Other studios doing the same thing, to a lesser extent, doesn’t make it worthy of praise and other games have been called out for the same shit. Getting death threats unfortunately works like some kind of get ouf of jail free card for game studios, because social media is more obsessed with defending a company over the original criticism than any threats they received over it. Exactly like what’s happening in this thread.
Damn, I guess the monster designs aren’t a ripoff, now that they’ve received death threats and clarified that the game isn’t a copy of the Pokémon gameplay loop.
The dev admitted he copied a lot of games and the next game does look very similar to hollow knight. Doesn’t deserve death threats though.
Nothing does and no one said anything to the contrary as far as I can tell.
I know but sometimes you just need to make the obvious statement because people will attack you anyway.
Who cares about them looking like Pokemon?
Clearly no one if the death threats aren’t made up.
I recall the dev claims that the monster are inspired by Dragon Quest.
…and Pokemon itself has a lot of monster that basically inspired by Dragon Quest as well.
Also, huge chunks of design are basically based of common monster design in Japan or Chinese mythology. Unfortunately, Western fans don’t know the reference, and claims it was ripped-off from Pokemon.
Iirc the head creator of Pokemon has actually explicitly said that Dragon Quest V was a major inspiration for Pokemon
I have yet to see anything in that game that’s not ripped from somewhere else. It’s an incredibly derivative collection of successful concepts. Other studios doing the same thing, to a lesser extent, doesn’t make it worthy of praise and other games have been called out for the same shit. Getting death threats unfortunately works like some kind of get ouf of jail free card for game studios, because social media is more obsessed with defending a company over the original criticism than any threats they received over it. Exactly like what’s happening in this thread.