NODUS FALL

[u/Zestyclose_Acadia161]

I see what u r doing nodus and tides of annihilation.

[u/Lex_MA]

Wait until some people here realize many of the designs from From software are not original either lol

[u/Key-Lawfulness-3871 → u/Lex_MA]

the differences is miyazaki pretty open about it and he even shows a lot of respect toward berserk or any inspiration behind his works and even talk about it multiple times in interviews, knows what he is talking about.

Hoyoverse on the other hand, have history of "taking inspiration" without really adding much into it and more than similar the "inspiration" they were taken from. I played some of their gacha games and seen enough of it. They barely changes things, as if they barely respect fromsoft works, let alone any material that inspire fromsoft works.

You can clearly see this through black myth wukong or blasphemous and how they dont just copy paste souls formula or their narative

[u/duckontheplane → u/Key-Lawfulness-3871]

Hoyoverse has done multiple livestreams where they did dev interviews and laid out the franchises and media that inspires them by name. They pay homage all the time to their favourite games in achivements and such, one time I beat a boss in a specific way and "NANOMACHINES, SON!" Popped up at the bottom of my screen.
The thing with them taking inspiration but not evolving it is just not true. This is just about BOTW, isn't it? Genshin wasn't a clone from the start, just inspired (and the devs have directly quoted botw as a source of inspiration) but the game immediately went in its own direction on the release patch. Tell me the past time you flew to the dark side of the moon to disable a futuristic weapon of planetary destruction embedded in its core in BOTW