Ok, so developers should simply stop doing things that have been done before?
Given that they are platformers, they are going to share certain characteristics. People just love to throw around the word "rip off" freely. Given how it is being used here, you can say many games are "rip offs" but eh, whatever.
Hmm, I respectfully disagree with some of the points but don't see a point in arguing it, but appreciate the explanation. I can at least see why you feel that way. I really enjoyed it
as much as I enjoyed Super Mario Odyssey.
Did Super Mario Bros rip off Pac-Land (the main inspiration according to Miyamoto, we saw ideas of it not only in SMB1 but also in later games in the series) or Kung-Fu Master (Nintendo/Miyamoto did its NES port and later reused its scroll code for SMB1)?
Asmongold really? Lol sad
Then watch just the comparison video without him. Options are good you know
The incredibly obnoxious voices, and the fact that this is the Nintendo game that started abusing them, automatically makes it the worst version regardless of everything good it does.
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Bro you are wastijg your time, play them side by side and they will still deny it
Exactly. It's not hard to admit. I mean, the only Astrobot I've watched was a kid trying a demo at a games convention, and possibly a minute or two of someone speedrunning it at GDQ. And in those few minutes I caught so many little things that made me go "aha, just like in Mario (insert pretty much any 3D Mario title)".
This is all you can really do in platformers. It's really hard to add something unique to a genre that gave us our first real take on 3D gaming. Borrowing bits of gameplay that worked, tweaking them to make them your own and dressing it all up in style is the way to go. The game was heavily influenced by the Marios and that is fine and it also innovates in presentation and to some extent with the powers. One thing I hope it doesn't copy from Mario is trying to reinvent itself every iteration and taking nearly a decade to do so because I want more of these games. It's literally the only reason for me to buy a PS platform, because my kids love it and I like playing through the same games with them like we are doing with Pokopia.
Are you sure about Spyro? Nintendo works on these games from concept to "perfection" for a long time until they get the mechanics right and make it fun. Any game releasing before it could have started development well after Nintendo came up with the concept themselves.
Astro Bot is great at level design, but the platforming elements are lacking. There's very little replay value as a result, unless you're trying to perfect the hard courses.
That VR game was amazing.
I'm sure. Several games had jump hover before sunshine. Jumping Flash had rocket powered jumps too. It worked almost exactly like Astrobot in mechanics but a lot more height.
Some people in here have unironically been repeating this for the last 9 years, actually.
