{"id":133539,"date":"2023-05-05T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-149033"},"modified":"2023-05-05T15:45:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T15:45:00","slug":"looks-like-theres-already-a-mobile-game-ripping-off-zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/05\/05\/looks-like-theres-already-a-mobile-game-ripping-off-zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Looks Like There&#8217;s Already A Mobile Game Ripping Off Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/45ba9ef23b729\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/45ba9ef23b729\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Zelda: Breath of the Wild Shocked Link\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/45ba9ef23b729\/zelda-breath-of-the-wild-shocked-link.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA3Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/45ba9ef23b729\/zelda-breath-of-the-wild-shocked-link.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Zelda: Breath of the Wild Shocked Link\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Nintendo Life<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Well, we&#8217;re just sure that Nintendo is going to be completely &#8216;flattered&#8217; when it discovers the recent marketing tactic used by mobile RPG <strong>Kung Fu Saga<\/strong>, which blatantly rips off some of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_tears_of_the_kingdom\">Tears of the Kingdom<\/a>&#8216;s new mechanics such as Fuse and Recall (thanks, <a href=\"https:\/\/nintenduo.com\/clon-moviles-zelda-tears-kingdom\/\">Nintend\u00fao<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>A recent advert for the mobile app shows a green-dressed hero (*<em>eyebrow raises<\/em>*) heading up to an &#8216;aerial dungeon&#8217; by riding on a piece of falling debris (*<em>eyebrow raises higher<\/em>*), before using the new &#8216;weapon synthesis feature&#8217; to stick, or should we say &#8216;<em>fuse<\/em>&#8216;, a nearby boulder to their stick and attack a hoard of enemies (*<em>eyebrow reaches its peak, there&#8217;s no going back<\/em>*). Does this ring any bells?<\/p>\n<p>If those alarms aren&#8217;t quite sounding for you just yet, worry not. Reddit user <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/niteowwl\/\">niteowwl<\/a> posted the ad to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/tearsofthekingdom\/\">r\/tearsofthekingdom<\/a> page, so you can check it out for yourself below and see if it reminds you of anything&#8230;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-oembed\"><!-- cache: oembed\/https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/tearsofthekingdom\/comments\/138635c\/we_got_a_copy_cat_game_already\/ @ 2023-05-05T18:54:40+01:00 --> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"reddit-embed-bq\"><p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/tearsofthekingdom\/comments\/138635c\/we_got_a_copy_cat_game_already\/\">We got a copy cat game already<\/a><br \/>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/niteowwl\">u\/niteowwl<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/tearsofthekingdom\/\">tearsofthekingdom<\/a> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Looks more than a little Tears of the Kingdom-y, no? We&#8217;d be very surprised if the app actually played like it does in this showcase \u2014 <em>a mobile game using a cinematic trailer with no mention of its gameplay? Can you imagine such a thing??<\/em> \u2014 but using these Zelda mechanics in such a blatant manner is likely to be a pretty big no-no from Nintendo&#8217;s point of view.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, we think we&#8217;ll stick to the official Tears of the Kingdom, thanks.<\/p>\n<p><em>What do you make of this mobile copy cat? Let us know in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Nintendo Life They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Well, we&#8217;re just sure that Nintendo is going to be completely &#8216;flattered&#8217; when it discovers the recent marketing tactic used by mobile RPG Kung Fu Saga, which blatantly rips off some of Tears of the Kingdom&#8216;s new mechanics such as Fuse and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}