@unlucky_Gurl_ No, this game was never im production. The Nibris case was quite notorious in Poland at the time. It was nothing more than an outright scam.
I mean, for how creatively bankrupt many western AAA companies objectively are, I haven't seen any creative innovation from China to counter that trend. And using yet another 3rd person action game as your example is kinda stupid as fuck.
IGN China calling western games 'cookie cutter' is big talk for a country that is only known for outputting stolen-idea blind-bag gachas and shittier versions of Sekiro.
Hideo Kojima says people who have never played Death Stranding but call it "a walking simulator" are proof that social media can form hivemind narratives.
He finds it "scary" that AI may one day shield people from being exposed to differing opinions.
https://t.co/VobdrkHIwV
Castlevania went to sleep as a Japanese gothic tragedy, and woke up 12 years later as a western reddit cartoon.
There's no talent or imagination in this field today. Every piece of fiction is being homogenized into the same safe, sterile, simplified, sanitized, softened slurry.
Silent Hill (1999) director Keiichiro Toyama believes a SH1 remake would be harder to pull off than Resident Evil.
His approach would be to "make it different to games nowadays" and "what I've done before" because "Otherwise I wouldn't understand why I'm even doing it."
I hate that people's only exposure to this game sometimes is these optional minigame side levels and they act like the entire game is just UE assets slapped about like this when the actual game is just that and genuinely fucking awful
As much as I enjoy JRPGs today, so much damage was done from disingenuous media outlets destroying the reputation of many great games on PS2, there are still long ways to recover.