Random: Geez, PS5 Game 'Anime Life Sim' Sure Looks Familiar

Haha wow. If nintendo goes after pallworld i expect this will follow

Seems like another lawsuit approaching

Also that side-by-side picture makes me think this could be partially made by AI, but I’m no expert at telling that kind of stuff 😆

Animal Crossing: At Home

I haven't played much Animal Crossing so if you'd tell me that this is Animal Crossing I'd 100% believe it

Animal Crossing: AI Edition.

PS fans: "We have ACNH at home!"
The ACNH at home:

EDIT: @LadyCharlie beat me to that joke lol

My main takeaway from this is that I'd kind of like Animal Crossing to adopt a slightly darker palette. The slightly moodier colors here fit the general look nicely.

Okay, unlike Palworld I fully understand if Nintendo wants to sue over this.

Hmm, I think I've seen this somewhere before...Skyrim?

It’s so depressing seeing ripoffs like this get made. Make something unique rather than trying to trick people for a few bucks.

Donno if this would be it but Animal Crossing could use some competition, they kinda dropped the ball with the latest one.

@Expa0 No they didn’t. It was fantastic.

All the competitors, or lack there of, want to be like Nintendo.

but the most glaring thing to notice is the character's eyes. They're completely different shapes.

I regret my decision of zooming in on said image. Now those eyes are gonna be on my nightmares tonight.

Animal Crossing: Temu Edition

To all the people saying Nintendo will/should sue, how? Does Nintendo own the exclusive rights to the fonts, themes and type of gameplay featured in Animal Crossing?

@Keegsy Not really. Are there some blatant obvious ones? Yes, but this is true for every popular franchise.

However, every game dev, including Nintendo borrows ideas from other popular franchises.

This is 100% AI generated

Aaaand lawsuit in 3, 2, 1....

I was going to make a joke about it being Hello Kitty Island Adventure that releases in 2 weeks but nah, it's just AC.

This is just sad…

Lawsuit in 3, 2, 1...

How blatantly do you want your homework copied? Lmao

People are really just begging Nintendo for a fight lately. Do they think their lawyers have gone soft or something?

@YunoboCo Agreed! The items on display in the homes and outside are really hard to make sense of 😥

Sony doesn't even try to moderate or look at whatever slop people want to put up on their store. It's wild.

OH YUP THATS A LAWSUIT SEE YA IN COURT 💀

@CooCooKaChoo Honestly 😭

Could have atleast called it "Anime Crossing"

Animal Crossing: Doubutsu no Mercy from Nintendo

The Nintendo Ninjas are on the attack!

An anime inspired life sim sounds like it could be interesting but this looks nothing like that. Just a rip off. Anime shouldn't be in the title.

I dont understand why companies or people have the need to copy the game source of a succesful game🤷Then they will cry foul and their mother when the project is shutdown🤦 This is a ripoff and the chance that Nintendo will say something about it is quite high. They better prepare for trouble and make it double.

Yikes. I know people love to bring up how these clone games are "competition" for Nintendo's games, but this isn't it. Just a straight rip off at this point.

Given all the copy & paste slop on the Switch eshop already, I assume there won’t be any issue with this!

@Joeynator3000 is that ur cat?

The graphics look like what Animal Crossing would look like if it were developed by GameFreak. LOL.

Are you kidding me?
They barely tried to make it different.

I literally thought this was a picture from animal crossing when I saw it…
This is rather blatant, innit?

This is just Animal Crossing. Where's the game where I can play as a girl who is late to school, running with a slice of buttered toast in her mouth?

Ngl, I wouldn't mind playing this.

This isn't even TRYING to hide it.

This is just blatantly copying ACNH

In a few months time, the ruthless Nintendo Ninjas will rise... so will it be copyright or patent infringement for this one? I can't wait for all the crying in the future because Temu's Animal Crossing is done.

I don’t think they will even bother suing this as it’s clearly not a game that actually exists, just a bunch of surprisingly convincing AI junk.

And here come the nintendo ninjas in 3,2,1 and boom instant lawsuit ....

Nintendo innovates while snoy- oops I mean sony immitates.

@burninmylight Yawn. This is scummy cheap and lazy game design, If you even wanna call it that. If you don't make an example of it, you'll get 10 more.

They should have called it a mod it would have got a much better reception.

People worried about AI taking over and they can't even get cartoon eyes correct. We'll spot their attempted takeover in seconds unless they up their game.

Nintendoes what playsta-sucks at.

@axelhander

from one AC hater to another: what is your personal "least interesting" nintendo franchise?

@Expa0 dropped the ball how? The game did amazingly well, and from someone whose played every AC game it was by far the best one and the regular updates and expansion were all good. So please exain how they apparently "dropped the ball"?

That aside and back to the article, this is one instance where I hope Nintendo sues these Devs kif we can call them that since it does appear very much ai generated) because this is an absolute blatant rip off/plagiarismof Animal Crossing.

@-wc- "AC hater"? Do you really let a mundane game get to you that badly? What did it do, make you realize that you have the creativity of a tube sock? Like, I don't like Fortnite, but I don't go out of my way to actively hate it. That's just a super weird thing to waste energy on.

@BloodWolfe
The amount of customization and player control takes away from the life sim aspect, you never have to deal with villagers leaving or anything like that since they always need to have your permission first, that just totally misses the point of what Animal Crossing is. The villager dialogue is super repetive and just way too nice, the earlier games had bit more of an edge to them.

And then the customization and terraforming features themselves are still limited and cumbersome to use, so it fails in that side too.

It just hits this awful middle ground that doesn't really satisfy either side, but for me personally the series has just lost its identity with this entry and they really need to rehaul the entire villager dialogue system, it's pretty telling that the game itself treats talking to the villagers as a "chore" from which you gain points from.

Another Russian scam. I hope Nintendo slaps him with a lawsuit.

@Expa0
But, I like the ACNH features when the villagers never moving out by themselves, the game emphasizes more designing like The Sims, the villagers have less yada yada yada, no freaking Mr resetti, that's why I have played ACNH for more than 1055 hours and will keep playing ACNH.
I don't even like the antics from Animal Crossing GameCube version with punishment and penalty for not playing the game everyday.

Also, the audacity from the developer who blatantly copycat Animal Crossing game with AI style.
They will face with the consequences for their action.

@Expa0 So in a shooter, when you gain points from getting headshots or whatever, that also means it's pretty telling that it treats this aspect as a "chore"? That honestly makes zero sense to me and seems like you're just grasping at straws..

@CooCooKaChoo Animal Crossing: You Thief

This is somehow more blatant than Palworld.

Pre-neutered Resetti would have been furious.

Now he's just a sorry, passionless husk of a man... 😞

Hopefully Nintendo can file a lawsuit against this without everybody acting like they’re being a bunch of jerks.

This gets me so irritated. It’s not the copying in itself, it’s the use of AI and the trickery trying to deceive folks, and the sheer cluttering of the shops with literal trash. I have no respect for these people.

@Expa0 Fair points, and the first paragraph ya you're right I forgot about the whole needing our permission to leave part, which was weird.

I liked the terraforming and customization aspects enough, but too each their own.

Dialogue I can agree needs to be better too. I just didn't bother talking to villagers too often and went about my own business with everything else lol.

I see it's more when you say "dropped the ball" is more your personal opinion, which is fine as everyone is entitled to their own opinions. I guess I just misunderstood the original statement. I get you now.

I can’t help but wonder if this is a kind of side-gig hackers toy around with when they’re not busy stealing data and holding up businesses, schools, and hospitals for ransom?

It’s high time for the eshop and its peers to get with the times and CURATE and remove this ripoff AI schlock.

@Joom

I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek, frankly. I don't actually hate AC, but I have a complicated and lengthy history with it and I don't feel compelled to play it anymore. ✌️ it's a fine game though.

(I do realize that's impossible to get from my words as written 😂 thanks for taking the time to ask.)

Animal Crossplatform

Even the title seems AI generated. If you only keep the A as a capital letter, the acronym reads "Als".

As if the 2020-2021 period of the game isn't relevant anymore like why a ripoff now of all times? It's just stupid.

Better store curation just doesn't happen it seems, sigh. Why act like the Play/App store, be better console makers. Or is it once Last of Us clone was on Switch, oh when it suits them. XD

A lot is very similar and probably crosses some line of Nintendo's for sure or like with others the licensing/patent edges to not be crossed not just Nintendo pushing for things as the lines for a ripoff yeah it's pretty clear here.

Some features seem odd too, some games are strictly that way for challenge or immersion or balance. They can be annoying but sometimes they make a game/series what it is. You can get used to it over time or just find others that are 'better' instead besides their theme differences, mechanically differences. Or a different entry as well.

Palworld was just Ark with tweaks and a survival game so it was different, the mechanic sure even if mods have done similar in other games like Minecraft and the Zelda BOTW/TOTKT style climbing/Pokemon looking creatures is something. But I respect what Palworld could do when it took inspiration but still did so much of it's own thing I respect it for sure as a survival game fan that isn't really into them that much anymore.

I dislike how nostalgic Indies can be and audiences eat it up and I want more originality then the inspiration given and focus on them but ripoffs like this are just disgustingly stupid.

They are too lazy to make their own, cut corners to even try and think oh we will fool people that don't understand licensing or go 'but I want this on other platforms' well make your own and a valid one not a garbage one.

It really isn't that hard to understand how licensing works (the artstyle/models and more sure it's convincing, I've never played Animal Crossing [eventually I may but not right now, I may get New Leaf or something, maybe New Horizons eventually, I've done research at least to know what the series is like and each entry] but I can still tell the difference in some details) but people are so stupid in their normal minds they deserve to be fooled if they can't understand the simplest things.

We gamers can because we use our brains, pay attention to things and it doesn't require much brainpower for licensing or other things to work it out and 'why' Animal Crossing is only on a Nintendo platform since N64/GameCube.

I don't complain going 'but but but Cruis'n is only on Nintendo' I go yeah and that's totally fine. Besides I'm interested in Cruis'n Blast when I get the chance but otherwise there are plenty of other arcade racers just not in the same way it is and that's totally fine.

Nah you gotta sue em

Nintendo lawyers are in position!
Wonder Twin powers activate, form of a lawsuit!

This is insane… it’s literally animal crossing XD
Even the text bubble is the same this is a pure copy
This crime must be punished

@The-Chosen-one It'll probably be even worse for this thing. Palworld only really copies some aspects from Pokemon, while this thing just straight up looks like a one-to-one ripoff of Animal Crossing.

Inspiration is one thing. Look at Astro bot, clearly inspired by Mario, especially Galaxy but it did its own thing. This is just pure copying.

Sony does what Nintendid.

If it does Animal Crossing better than Animal Crossing then cool but if it doesn't this doesn't interest me much.

Whoa whoa whoa lol. I literally thought it was animal crossing in the article photo.

I at least think palworld tried to be somewhat distinct rather then, at least the gameplay is different and some of its systems. But this looks exactly like animal crossing. A they would have been much better off choosing a different inspired artstyle and just used people or whatever creature they wanted that wasn’t animals lol.

You have to wonder how the developers explain to themselves that this is not a rip-off, or how do they convince themselves to work on a copy of a well known franchise instead of creating something original.

Will a sit on your ass PS in one room audience go for this in enough numbers though? I'm surprised they took this long to have a go at an Animal Crossing "copy".

Would you like Animal Crossing but darker, uglier, with less charm and featuring some very wonky and almost certainly AI generated textures? Then do we have the product for you!

The PlayStation already had its own Animal Crossing-esque life sim game.

Nintendo lawyers: "Ha *****, here we go again."

They're not even trying to do something original. Please Nintendo, sue them.

GETTEM NINTENDO NINJA’s!!!

I am all for competition and borrowing ideas to make something different. But this is just blatant. They could have went with a Voxel graphics design and they would have been fine.

This isn't AI. This is actually just straight up an existing template: https://www.fab.com/listings/1e8b4598-dc70-4fcb-98e3-af9b1ebfe828

Screenshots have been stolen from the page and only got a couple new ones. The game doesn't exist.

While I don’t agree with blatant 1:1 ripoffs. I do hope this will have the same sift kick up the arse for Nintendo that Palworld gave them for Pokemon.
Nintendo have so many great franchises but they’ve been lazy as all hell in the past decade in regard to innovation with them.
Pokemon is stagnant from recycling the same template generation after generation with just a few name changes and a few new sprites at AAA prices.

Tavel to 8 gyms to beat 8 gym leaders to take on 4 elite leaders to take on the champion with team [insert name] popping up occasionally.

Similarly with AC, with a few minor character swaps NH was NL and NL only had marginal improvements from WW.
The “It prints money” gameboy meme has aged like milk and we’re still paying for the curdled cheese that remains of once vibrant franchises.

Nintendo should innovate rather than litigate and stagnate

Yeah no the different sized pupils are a dead giveaway that this is AI trash and I hope this one gets torn to shreds. Get some original ideas people Jesus

I'm not condoning violence. But a little "ass kicking" and common sense / discretion by Sony, MS & Nintendo e-stores would fix this. It's just horrible that my switch eShop looks just like the dumpster fire of the android google play. 🤮🤮🤮

Yeah knowing how aggressive Nintendo's legal team is, why even bother?