iPad Title Castaway Paradise Does A Pretty Convincing Impression Of Animal Crossing

I do appreciate that the word "stolen" is right in the company's name.

@HylianJowi Why it is! I didn't notice.

Every remotely successful IP in gaming has a 100 knock offs on the App or Play store. I do hope some of these thieves are being sued.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

"Stolen Coach Games"? Are they even TRYING to be subtle?

I gotta admit, it does look a bit charming with it's blocky graphics, but I still prefer Animal Crossing. I recall reading somewhere that this game is coming to Wii U. Not sure where though...

@MrWalkieTalkie Nintendo would never allow such a blatant ripoff on their market.

Hey at least they're honest.

Nintendo took legal action on all Mario related ripoffs so I wonder if they would do the same with this. Although Nintendo is allowing 3rd parties to use their ips in games so maybe they would have to pay rights

I don't think they're trying to be subtle at all. If you look up "Stolen Couch Games" on Google, their website meta description is "Castaway Paradise is like Animal Crossing for your tablet and mobile phone! It's free! Play it right now!"

I'd rather play the real deal imo.

@KodyDawg Ummmm what is this? It looks horrible.

It looks like it has it's charms.

@KodyDawg oh wow it just ported everything just altered a few things. Even tge app icon is an existing Mario artwork

...Wow that's horrid looking.

@KodyDawg Damn. Ok atleast Castaway Paradise is at the very least coping the animal crossing formula but this is stealing at its finest.

@KodyDawg Holy crap, They are so sued.

An iTunes game copying off of something of Nintendos for quick money? I am so surprised... #sarcasm

@KodyDawg "broken controls"
Yep, sounds like Mario 64 to me.

@KodyDawg WOW.... They even used Mario's sound effects but distorted them.

@KodyDawg Nintendo probably didn't take legal action yet because they aren't aware yet as the previous app games have been talked about a lot in the gaming community attracting Nintendo's attention. People probably don't see that as even worth negative attention

plus... It's sad that people can't come up with original games... D:

I've been waiting on this.... Sadly, my account is for the US. I guess I'll have to wait a bit longer.

Castaway Paradise: For those who aren't willing to pay for an actual 3DS and Animal Crossing: New Leaf, or even any of the other Animal Crossing titles for other platforms. Just what the world needed.

@C-Olimar
Are you talking about the DS version?

@C-Olimar
Are you talking about the DS version?

The visuals look more Windwaker than Animal Crossing to me

It looks soooo ugly.

@Spakiness Loads of the big mobile games rip off Warioland or Warioware in some way. (Fruit Ninja - Based on Warioware Microgame / Endless Runner in Warioland 4 (Dunno how Canibalt gets credited as being the first). Its allowed though as long as you don't steal assets. (That Simpsons Crazy Taxi clone - Sega tried to stop for example).

Nobody has managed to win against Zynga who only clones games.

iPad stories always boil down to 1 of 2 types of comments:

1 - this game is nothing but a complete and total rip-off of Ninteod's game

or

2 - Nintendo can't make games for tablets b/c tablets don't have any buttons so none of Ntineod's games will work on a tablets

Why is it that so many copy-cat companies can make exact copies of Nintnedo's games work on tablets (according to the video this game is even better than AC) but Nnitnedo, for all it's game making glorious history, can't find a way to make a game work without buttons?

Nintendo create other rip them off! It's happened as long as I've been a gamer. That's longer than I would like to admit.

@HylianJowi LOL

I was ready to go see the "copy" but this honestly seems different from Animal Crossing. You might as well say that Animal Crossing is a copy of Harvest Moon. Of course all I've seen of Castaway Paradise was this video but it looks fun and different enough from Animal Crossing.

I feel like people are being too harsh on this game. Normally when people here hate on a game for being a copy, said game is always something that was probably thrown together in an afternoon. Whereas with this game I feel like it's more of a homage than just lazy copy pasting.

I suppose I'm just more attached because I've known about this game prior to this article. I watched a preview playtest of this game a while ago.

@Dizzard
It looks charming, I agree. It's not as if the company is claiming to be Nintendo like all the other myriad games on tablets... It looks like some real effort went into this! Why all the hate?

"In fact, this is as close to a carbon copy of Animal Crossing you could possibly get. From the art-style--"

WOAH. Nonononono. Don't dare say that horrible, terrible art style is similar to AC's in the slightest. Nope.

Please I hope they get sued..

That's why Nintendo should continue working on their 3DS or following consoles and not release their new games on mobile platform. There are tons of such cheap imitations, and Nintendo has no effective way (except so called "law" which doesn't always work) to defend their IPs and ideas on others' platform, and no way to attract customers to choose their games if the low quality imitations are much cheaper (because most customers can't really tell the difference before purchasing)

1.) And WHY do we need this?
2.) And WHY are you telling me about thiswhen I don't want or even care about this?
Life is confusing.

The app store is full of rip offs and stupid games.

@rjejr said: "(according to the video this game is even better than AC)"

According to my mother, I'm "such a handsome and talented young man"...I'm not trying to say my mother is lying, but...I don't know if you can go on her words alone.

Obviously, there's a few things to consider here:

1) I prefer buttons, keep the buttons!
2) Artistically speaking, I'm gonna say Animal Crossing looks better
3) copycats and rip-offs have the hindsight of the original title to steal from

Haven't played Animal Crossing so I don't know how much they've copied here, but there's similar "rip-offs" on the eshop.

Which Animal Crossing game are they copying the most?

@Action51 - "3) copycats and rip-offs have the hindsight of the original title to steal from"

Yeah, but if they could do it, coudln't Nitnendo do it first? Guess I'm just sick of all the whining I read about anything w/o buttons not being a "real game" b/c it's on a phone or tablet, yet Nitnedo magically makes them into real games when they get ported to the 3DS like Puzzles and Dragons Z. And Nintedo makes minigames in Nitnedo Land which are based on motion like that -FZero game. It's just a crock. Nintneod made Game & Watch fer cryin' out loud, they could make a game work w/o buttons if they wanted to. They just don't want to, which is their prerogative, but the "it can't be a real game without buttons" argument really irks me. As you can tell.

I don't know if it's been brought up before, but has anyone looked at this one?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAEhRBtuEMM

@SuperiorTech Wow talk about ripoff. They only changed the music and a couple pallet swaps. Of course lame story as well. "Bring the scepter by midnight." WTF?

I can respect this, it isnt half@ssed, and it isnt a giant cash grab. This is as much a copy as Tekken is tobStreet Fighter.

@rjejr

Ofc it can be a real game, but it can be limited severly. It can be hard for a game to reach full potential when bogged down with inapp purchases, ads, and buttons that cover half the screen. Some games can make the leap, most cant.

See? Now Nintendo has actual reasoning to sue, but they don't. So why do all those other worthless companies with no similair product keep sueing Nintendo!? Better yet, why do they win!? Nintendo could take down half of the AppStore solely due to copyright claims, but they're the only ones having to pay. This just makes me mad.

Honestly I thin knock-offs can be pretty good. If these games come out once every couple of years than why wait all that time to play the sequel when a similar game is available when you get tired of the current one. While it is a blatant knockoff Nintendo has no right to sue unless they patented the Animal Crossing formula.