I’m not a copyright expert, so it would be gravely inappropriate of me to suggest that Ubisoft has done anything that contravenes legal guidelines here but this game really, really looks a lot like Zelda.Īnyway, that point made, let’s move swiftly along to the pitch. I know Nintendo and Ubisoft are best buddies, but even so, I can’t help feeling that a Kyoto attorney is, right now, feeling a strong urge to brush up on her “look and feel” fundamentals. (I most definitely was not.)įrom swishy, fairytale meadows of grass, to the heroic pose of the elf-faced protagonist, this game screams “daylight robbery,” or in the argot of the copyright lawyerly class “respectful tribute.”
As the game’s creative director presented his PowerPoint to me, and spoke about “innovation,” I wondered if I was supposed to laugh at his chutzpah. Ubisoft’s Gods & Monsters looks so much like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild that I’m still not sure if I just witnessed a game demo or an act of grand larceny.
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