Topic: Avatar for DS is PH ripoff

Has anyone tried the Avatar demo from the nintendo channel? I'm not sure if any other games have the exact controls that Phantom Hourglass has, but I played the demo, and they seem exactly the same.

• Stylus to move. Holding down further away from character will make him move faster. I'm sure a lot of DS game use this, but it even has a little light when you touch the screen
• Swing stylus to attack. Doing it towards the enemy will make him stab, and making a swiping motion will make him swing his spear. There are even pots you can break.
• Items work exactly the same way as PH. You have a slingshot, and there is an icon of it on the screen. Press the icon with your stylus, and you can use it by touching the direction you want it to go. It even has an Item menu like PH. But this is what got me - you can hold down L just as in PH to use your item. And when you let go of L, the item is put away.
• Switches - again, there are a lot of games with switches, but when I was using them, I was thinking PH. There is one part where the switch is inside of a room with a door, and you have to stand outside of the room and bounce your slingshot pellet thingy off of the wall and hit the switch, which closes that door, and opens another one.

Download the demo and see what you think. And please tell me if there are a lot of DS games that use this control, so I won't be counfused.

This is...odd. 0_o Why would Ubisoft make a PH clone? Too many questions, this topic brings.

Good.

???

No. Just no.

Well, you might as well copy from the best...

Inevitably, it's not as good as its inspiration, yes. I played the demo and it was decent/

That's okay is that, although I wonder if you have to go right back to the beginning of a level if you die in the real game? That would be super-annoying.

You people do realise that just because something has the same control system it doesn't make it a rip-off?

Is it a good rip-off though?

@FATEM Seriously, look at the first comment. Combat, switches, camera angle and movement are EXCATLY the same as PH.

And?
Does it have the same plot? The same characters? The same items? The same visual style?
The amount of games that share the same movement controls/camera controls etc is beyond belief. And remember, there are only so many possible ways of controlling a game.

I played it, and I agree with FATEM, it isn't a complete PH rip-off...

It is different in many ways, and its not a real bad game..

You're one to talk, Roops.