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

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sundin13 said:

Ganoncrotch said:

very much so, the game visually looks a bit like botw, but if you look at 30 seconds of gameplay it shares almost nothing in common with that game from the movement to the combat... it looks like a clone of breath of the wild in the same way that Lumines is a Clone of Tetris and Columns... as in at a glance if you look at them and then you take a rock to the head, you would think they are identical.

Ripping off the graphics is still a rip off.

Unless the assets were literally ripped from BotW, no it's not. A visual style is not something that can be possessed by one singular entity.