Looks alright, but I'd hope for a good English translation and decent performance for a PC port, otherwise I'll pass.

Also, while we're on the "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery", imagine making millions off of your own idea or work, then having someone else copy it and change a few things. Artists get pissed at this and you also have the copyright law, which China is known for not following, yet still desiring to make millions from other;'s work.

There's a reason that law exists, please don't even begin tot ry removing it with a mere phrase, as if it absolves copying directly.

To add to your comment, this company (mihoyo) has been using this colorful cel shaded anime graphic style for a while now, for example their previous game (Honkai Impact 3rd) also uses this exact same graphic style, the only difference is that its set on a futuristic sci fi setting so the similarities to BOTW are not apparent, however of course if they take this to a fantasy medieval setting its gonna look similar.

But you wanna know what the kicker is? this game was released BEFORE BOTW in 2016, so they have been using this exact same colorful cel shaded graphic style before BOTW came out.

Knowing this i do not see this as them blatantly copying BOTW graphic style, but obviously they are just continuing to work with the same graphic style they have been using for years now, obviously now on a new setting.

eeh i can see some inspiration but I don't think it's a complete ripoff..game looks more like an action rpg

Yeah, then again this is China we are talking about: The land of copying and knock-offs of all kinds.

If you wish to surprise me with video-games related news from China, let me know when some company over there is in the spot light for actually making an original video game, cause then I'll be like: Holy Shit, no way, I can't believe it, tell me more !!!

That's what I wanted to say. Sure, some similarities to BOTW are clearly there. But other stuff too. I did think a bit of Dark Souls at the fight with the big monster. Also I don't see any physics system as BOTW has.

Overall an interesting looking game. Does it come to the west?

It is indeed one of the best looking ones.

Japan needs to step it up, looking at many of the games showed at China Joy even though in terms of gameplay many of them look rough, at least visually they are either superior or very superior to many of the Japanese games ive grown up playing, and when you realize that this game (Genshin Impact) actually runs on a smartphone... just think in terms of visuals what they could do if they focused on a PS4.

At least the newest "Tales of" game finally improved the graphics and looks like it belongs in this generation.

Wow, it looks almost exactly like Zelda.

Yeah, I think this qualifies as plagiarism. the Nintendo ninjas(lawyers) are coming for sure.

Yeah, it looks like they copy-pasted the environmental graphics and rearranged the map around, changed the enemy textures (the first ennemies in the trailer still look like moglins) but kept the animations and some other systems from the game, including the fire physics from what I could see in the trailer, and give it a more musou inspired gameplay. That they kept the food system almost 1:1 is really shameless.

Imitation is the greatest from of flattery, but this is not imitation, this is taking from another and selling it as their own. That should definitely qualify as plagiat.

It's Ok he most likely smashed his PS4, knockoff while protesting another knockoff.

Nintendo invented everything.