watching the Guerilla Collective (pre-Summer Games fest) stream and i’ve already seen like a really egregious NES Castlevania Clone, a Silent Hill clone, and a Mischief Makers clone. i mean no hate but like also… if you’re going to make a ripoff of an older game maybe you shouldn’t make it this egregious? like it’s down to the character design and stuff. it’s very weird, all that effort to basically remake these games.
people keep acting like indie games are the savior of the game industry in the wake of AAA layoffs and then i see so many weird clones that look fine show up in these streams but have basically nothing unique about them and i’m just like… what world are you living in??