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Forums - Gaming Discussion - Nintendo fans in China protest Genshin Impact announce at ChinaJoy 2019, claiming that it shamelessly copies BOTW

Shitty BOTW rip off with animu characters.

Yes there's gameplay differences but the artstyle alone is so similar, there'd be grounds for lawsuits if a western dev had made it.

As others pointed out, this could be a publicity stunt. Not sure why there would so much protesting otherwise. Just don't buy it....?



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for those saying this is a copy of BOTW..... watch that video of the game, look at how every single area the character is running around looks like boxed in area's   WHICH ARE ALMOST ALL COMPLETELY FLAT, have you guys not seen any footage even of Breath of the Wild? There is a small handful of area's in the whole game which are in any way flattened out and those are very outstanding in how they have been protected from the calamity.

The fighting mechanics in this game look way closer to a dynasty warriors type title than anything seen in breath of the wild, again I think you would need to have only ever seen a screenshot 2 years ago to think this game is a copy paste of botw... the only thing which you could say was the same or similar is the grass effect on the ground, but if that and the semi cell shaded look is where the similarities end then you might want to take a look at games like Cel Damage which is 100% a copy paste of WindWaker.... as long as you disregard the fact that Cel Damage is a multiplayer vehicular deathmatch type game.... it's exactly windwaker!



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Ka-pi96 said:
In China? Aren't cheap knock-offs kind of their speciality?

Yup



It's just what they do. Make funny knockoffs.



Wow, those Nintendo fans must really hate BOTW if they're comparing this game to it.



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Ljink96 said:

Personally I think it looks much better than BOTW Visually, combat seems a bit more interesting but the physics system, runes, and overall complexity of the game engine aren't there. But it's highly obvious how they were heavily inspired by BOTW, almost to an uncomfortable level. I personally don't care, the more games like BOTW the better and again BOTW didn't invent gliding, swimming, climbing (although the climbing animations look like they just ripped the data from Link's Animations) etc. But it did it well and this game seems to want to take what Zelda did...and not change much. 

Not to mention they're bringing it to more platforms. At this point this is nothing more than a public service to the gaming community. It looks like BOTW but without all the terrible things that made me stop playing it.



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imitation is the sincerest form of flattery....

If they want to try and make a game that draws heavily on Breath of the Wild.... why not?
Nothing wrong with seeing others do something, and trying to follow suit.



I guess these guys literally think Nintendo invented everything.



Honestly looks better than BotW lol



"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."  Nintendo should take this as a compliment.  Once China copies you, then you know you've arrived.