Some fans have pointed out that Temtem is closer to a Digimon MMO, but when you’re talking about a game where you wander an area in order to capture creatures so that you can battle other trainers, we’re not going to split hairs. Hokko Life was announced just weeks after the debut of Temtem, a game that can best be described as a Pokemon MMO developed by an indie dev team in Spain. The debut trailer teases a few differences and modern flourishes: it doesn’t look as refined as an Animal Crossing game (it’s the passion project of a single developer, Robert Tatnell), but it does offer things like mouse-enabled precision movements, which are not really possible in the official Animal Crossing games due to Nintendo’s dependence on controllers. It looks like a cute title that allows you to move into a cartoonish village, interact with the animal locals, design your home, and…okay, it looks just like Animal Crossing.

The result is PC games that closely resemble Nintendo properties without any of the copyright infringement.Ī game called Hokko Life is set to debut on Steam this year. Yet, this year, a new breed of Nintendo-inspired projects may have found a way to preserve the passion of those previous works while avoiding Nintendo’s considerable legal reach by avoiding the company’s IP altogether.

Nintendo fans have demonstrated their desire and ability to create new entries in beloved Nintendo franchises that adhere to the quality standards of the originals, but time and again, Nintendo has chosen to shut these fan games down.

mod known as Project M was discontinued partially due to its creators’ worries over potential legal troubles. Nintendo gave an HD remake of Super Mario 64 the same treatment, while a beloved Smash Bros. That same year, Nintendo struck down a project known as AM2R (Another Metroid 2 Remake), which brilliantly re-imagined the Game Boy game Metroid II: Return of Samus. In 2016, Nintendo worked to remove all download links for Pokemon Uraniu m: an ambitious fan-made Pokemon title that rivaled the originals.

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