The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom hasn’t even come out yet that already some misguided developers are rushing to copy it. The proof with Kung Fu Saga.
There is no doubt that a title like The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom will inspire other games in the years to come, like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild since 2017. When relying on inventive gameplay, that’s completely normal. But the future title of Nintendo has not yet been released that, already, we can find copies broke. As we can see in this video shared on Reddit on May 5, about a video game called kungfu saga.
When watching the sequence of a few seconds, it is difficult not to smile. We see a young hero with a design reminiscent of that of Link strolling on celestial islands. Sometimes it hovers. Sometimes he uses powers similar to those of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, such as the ability to go back in time or fuse a weapon with another object. This kungfu saga don’t even try to hide.
A strange copy of the next Zelda
Developed by Watt Games and published by TTHmobi, kungfu saga is a mobile game already available on iOS and Android. It obviously meets with great success according to the figures provided by SensorTower: more than 800 million downloads just last month – with a certain enthusiasm in Asia. In terms of gameplay, it defines itself as an oriental fantasy RPG. When you go to the official site, you are immediately greeted by a video reminiscent of another recent video game: Kena: Bridge of Spirits. A priori, Watt Games is really not afraid to copy. By the way, Kung Fu Saga was called Avatar Saga originally, with a main artwork whose resemblance to Avatar the Last Airbender was obvious.
” I can pretty much guarantee that this video isn’t real in a playable sense, because mobile games love to falsely advertise. It’s just a way to talk about the game says YouTube user javannapoli2018. It’s hard to fault him. By comparing to The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdomavailable from May 12 on Nintendo Switch, kungfu saga offers a little light. And we imagine that some people will not hesitate to download it out of curiosity. When looking at real footage from the game, it doesn’t look like the video shared on Reddit at all.
” From the communication that had been made, we were told an RPG in the open world with immense freedom. In the end, the reality is quite different, since we end up with yet another RPG where everything is done automatically “says Scaldeon on the App Store, with a rating of one star out of five. We can at least recognize kungfu saga his propensity to fool people.
Note that Nintendo has filed several patents for certain powers of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdomas Games Reactor recalled in an article published in December 2021. In short, we cannot imagine the mechanics dear to the Japanese company landing in a mobile game that only copies everything that happens for promotional purposes.
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