Someone Copied The Legend of Zelda

There’s a game titled Final Sword in Nintendo eShop that looks oddly familiar: it looks like the Legend of Zelda. But it doesn’t just look like the latter; it even sounds like it! Perhaps the only differences of Final Sword are the frustrating game bugs, as well as the bad choice of sound that its developers used when the player falls to his death, as well as the ugly music on the “game over” screen.

There’s plenty of Dark Souls in the main character’s animation, and a boss fight with a dragon shows the creature posing just like its counterparts in Skyrim as it breathes a blast of fire. Several Japanese gamers have noted similarities to Monster Hunter as well. But perhaps the game Final Sword is most blatantly, oh, let’s call it “taking inspiration” from for the look of its menus and outdoor environments, is The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

Heck, even the game’s covers look incredibly alike…

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But what’s really gotten Final Sword in trouble isn’t how much it looks like Zelda, but how it sounds like the beloved Nintendo franchise. Not long after its release earlier this month, players started noticing something very familiar about a certain piece of background music in Final Sword…

And so it got pulled from Nintendo’s eShop.

More details about this story over at SoraNews24.

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