VGEsoterica
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People always look down on games that were 100% inspired by other properties / genres...like someone the fact that they are hyper similar to another game somehow diminishes their quality or fun! I mean if devs stopped making games similar to other games that were successful...gaming would have died FOREVER ago.
IMO Demon Front is wholly inspired by Metal Slug...yet it's a game that is AS GOOD as the best Metal Slug had to offer. It feels more like a spin off game than it's own property. But it legit has all the run and gun action you'd come to expect from the genre and damn is it a near perfect game. Plus the music is legit and the graphics are some of the best the 16-bit era had to offer. The devs had the same talent as SNK's best had at the same period in time.
But that got me thinking...what are OTHER great instances of games that clearly copied and pasted the concept of another game...and managed to make it as good if not slightly better than the game they were wholly using for inspiration?
IMO Demon Front is wholly inspired by Metal Slug...yet it's a game that is AS GOOD as the best Metal Slug had to offer. It feels more like a spin off game than it's own property. But it legit has all the run and gun action you'd come to expect from the genre and damn is it a near perfect game. Plus the music is legit and the graphics are some of the best the 16-bit era had to offer. The devs had the same talent as SNK's best had at the same period in time.
But that got me thinking...what are OTHER great instances of games that clearly copied and pasted the concept of another game...and managed to make it as good if not slightly better than the game they were wholly using for inspiration?