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723: Tokyo Game Show 2025

Retronauts · October 20, 2025

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And like, it's an interesting thing because like, you know, I've heard people like kind of badmouthed it and then I'm just like, well, you don't, you can't copyright a fighting system in a game like, like, it's not like, Oh, we got to pretend that Neo no longer exists because Dark Souls exists, right? You know, you can have games based on a very similar kind of system and have them be good. ...

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... watchdogs meets grant that thought, oh, meets Spider-Man meets all this stuff. That's exactly what it is. It is like unabashedly. The main character has basically venom, venom's powers from Spider-Man 2. Like that's or the, you know, the symbiote suit powers from Spider-Man 2. Yes. And like, it's an interesting thing because like, you know, I've heard people like kind of badmouthed it and then I'm just like, well, you don't, you can't copyright a fighting system in a game like, like, it's not like, Oh, we got to pretend that Neo no longer exists because Dark Souls exists, right? You know, you can have games based on a very similar kind of system and have them be good. And the fact that we just haven't had a Spider-Man clone or haven't had a, well, recently haven't had too many GTA clones, you know, I mean, we had Saints Row back in the day, but we haven't had anything really super GTA like recently, you know, I don't think it's bad. ...

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