Awesome video 😃

Cool and interesting video 😄

So turns out, in 2022 Treasure made a tweet for their 30th anniversary saying they were working on a highly anticipated title. Imagine bro……

Glad it wasn’t just me whose mind immediately went to Sin and Punishment and Trauma Centre. I need those games to come back so badly!

45:47 I ignored everything else up until this part, but c'mon, lmfao.

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1:52:45 Freakae for real lmfao

is mario wonder ghosts a copy of cuphead ghost in co-op?

They get too much credit for innovation when a lot of times they should be credited with being able to synthesize existing ideas in a manner that's often intuitive to the player. BotW is a prime example of this because - as great as the game is - it's largely an amalgamation of other game mechanics seamlessly blended in to the Zelda universe. Breakable weapons, climbing everything, fire spread, dynamic weather, paragliding etc... You can find a lot of these in RPG's, Assassin's Creed, Skyrim and physic-based indie titles.

I'm not knowledgeable in rap music so does drake have sonic 06 level failures in his career

Great video! I can’t recall the source exactly but regarding Breath of the Wild I seem to recall Eiji Aonuma commenting that he was a big fan of Skyrim, so I could see that influence there too personally

I'd go as far to say some of Nintendo's worst games are where the inspiration seems to be itself like the New Super Mario Bros games

Sony is also an innovator in the gaming industry who also invented/created tech in gaming with PlayStation so it's not only nintendo

It's more than likely that the Metroid Prime games took a lot of inspiration from western fps games. However since it's mostly a Metroidvania in fps it makes it a bit harder to tell, especially with some Nintendo fans who haven't played traditional fps games.

and then they paten them and sue companies that try to use them

Yeah, but NORMALLY not by much.

carrying the game convos in 2025 and people need to hear it!

Great video. It's interesting seeing how Nintendo was inspired by American game developers while creating several of their games.

Man, all this talk about Nintendo being inspired by other things and you didn't even referenced Pokemon. lol

I really do wish more people open up their perspectives when it comes to how ideas and concepts in games (or even media) is referential at its core. Ive legit me people that have stated they wont touch modern castlevanias because they could just play super metroid. And while i can understand the sentiment, the reasoning gets lost from trying to alienate and put metroid on a pedestal of originality when that series takes so much from the Alien franchise and it comes from that lack of knowing but also the undeserved confidence that comes with it. Also want to say i loved the way you touched on Arms having similarities with Virtual On. I was trying to think for the longest time what game ive played that reminded me of how the characters attack and move in arms and you were SPOT ON!

Yeah, that's ok, and i own a switch and like nintendo games. But if they do this, they coudn't sue others like palworld for copying them.

Another fact: Fire Emblem franchise did have some inspirations from other games. For example, FE1 was inspired by final fantasy 1 NES game. Three Houses was inspired by Persona 5. Engage was inspired by Genshin Impact.

Duh

This is why Nintendo are a bunch of bastards for the palworld lawsuit. concepts should not be patentable cause everyone takes inspiration.

A lot of people need to see this video. So many people for years have criticized Sony and Microsoft for “stealing” ideas from Nintendo. When the truth is they all put their own spin on things. That’s how things advance and we get a lot of innovation. Good stuff bro. 🙂

Its really annoying how Nintendo fanboys call other game mechanics a rip off when the concept ideas was already used by many games before, i mean they think that Arms invented the idea of character "extending their arms to punch". Or they think that the idea of a gun that shoot paint/liquid was invented by Splatoon when games like Ratchet and Clank was already using it as weapons years before(same for the small sphere level in Mario Galaxy that was already been used by Ratchet & Clank).

Do proper research lol, Aonuma has basically said he has wanted to do the sky islands since the time of skyward sword and he thought about he could connect the sky island and seamlessly since then but wasn’t able to do due to technical reasons.

The fact that xenoblade was influenced by Bethesda games is maybe why I thought it was a crap game. I dislike Bethesda’s fallout games.

The section about Xenoblade X just got me even more hyped for the Switch release

YES, YES, YES, YES Salmon Run really reminded me of Gears 2’s horde mode, and god how fun that was. Also BotW has a lot of influence from Shadows of the Colossus

I heard that Nintendo got started, originally, after they stole Hanafuda from Milton Bradley, back in 1888.

Had no idea about arms' inspirations, so cool man. having these tidbits of history out there is really important!

Great title, topic, chill vibes. Subbed bro

It's my pet theory that Splatoon is directly inspired by Ratchet & Clank. I just wish someone would ask Nogami about it fr.

Man you might have just made me realize why I actually liked Starfield.....because of Xenoblade X! lol Great video.

I assume that BotW's Korok puzzles had to be inspired by the Riddler Trophies in Arkham. You solve both of their puzzles more or less the same way I'm just glad you brought this topic up since certain people ignore western releases despite the devs learning a lot from them & giving them an even more gamey twist than what they had before.

Whoa a great topic, innovation has always dominated the conversation for Nintendo stuff. I wanna mention that they also don't just take inspiration solely from games. They'll just take tried and true concepts that exist in real life and make that a game. Thinking about the Iwata asks for Style Savvy from Syn Sophia where they talk about simply copying how the fashion business is in real life.

Funny you compare totk to fortnite and that makes sense but I thought people compared it to banjo kazooi nuts and bolts lol

Awesome video! Gaming is an iterative medium where innovation mostly comes from taking an idea flirted elsewhere and truly making it work. For example, Super Mario Bros. is not the first side-scroller game made - games like Pac-Land came first. Miyamoto himself said that Pac-Land was in some way an inspiration for SMB1, mostly in the sense the background should be blue in his own words. What makes SMB1 so crazy is that it combined side-scrolling WITH complex momentum-based gameplay, being a gigantic leap forward on its own. Stuff like that is always fascinating to read about. Learning the inspirations and influences behind your favorite games is always a super enjoyable thing that can also help broaden your gaming tastes as well.

great topic for vid, don't see many other people talking about this! for me, i think animal crossing new horzion's use of crafting is definitely inspired by other games though i'm mixed on the results lol

Great video, one of the unconfirmed influences I noticed was the anti grav mechanic in Mario Kart 8, technically Crash Nitro Kart was the first to do that but I would say Nintendo definitely expanded on it further.

The potential influence of Fortnite (and/or PUBG for the "skydiving" part) on TOTK is one I wouldn't have thought of. Sticking with BOTW/TOTK, the "climb anywhere" system may have inspiration in the Assassin's Creed franchise or maybe the open world Spider-man games. Those are the two that come to mind when thinking of more open-ended climbing systems that contrast with the ones used in games like Uncharted, Tomb Raider or Horizon Zero Dawn. The glider may also have inspiration from the parachute in Just Cause, which is a key traversal tool in those games.

Good video. Your topic got me thinking of other ideas Nintendo was inspired from, and it's actually harder for me to figure out what else they borrowed. I guess you can add in SNK's fighting game influence on Smash Bros? Though I'm not sure if Sakurai lifted any specific mechanic from any of their series.

Excellent video!

This was an awesome vid.

Love your content! Looking forward to Dynasty Warriors: Origins, Doom: The Dark Ages, and Trails in the Sky Remake. On the indie side, looking forward to Blade Chimera, VISEGUNNE, Neon Inferno, Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound, and hopefully Hollow Knight: SilkSong 😆. The Nintendo reveals will be interesting for sure.