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

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Ljink96 said:

I got bashed by saying that Zelda also copied a lot of mechanics from previous games, which is true. And a lot of what BOTW did simply improves on previous mechanics from other games, which is true. But some of this stuff in this game is shameless in how they got a bit too inspired.

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. 

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.