Also, I don't think there are any laws in Japan when it comes to using another IP's characters (regardless of how many) in a doujin game, so this should be fine. I think most companies find that litigation doesn't benefit them and if anything, this is probably free advertising.
Didn't Fighting Girl Sakura originally start out as a game featuring Hibari from Senran Kagura and get taken down because of that? I see Doujin games often getting away with a character's likeness as long as part of the named is made ambiguous, but this is pretty clear.
Don't get me wrong, I'm hoping the best for this game, but I'm nervous about how it really isn't trying to hide where it's pulling from.
Didn't Fighting Girl Sakura originally start out as a game featuring Hibari from Senran Kagura and get taken down because of that? I see Doujin games often getting away with a character's likeness as long as part of the named is made ambiguous, but this is pretty clear.
Don't get me wrong, I'm hoping the best for this game, but I'm nervous about how it really isn't trying to hide where it's pulling from.
Coming mid-Feb
This game can't come soon enough.The release is planned for 2/16, though of course there's no guarantee of that.
I have yet to see an fan made game based off an SE game get taken down in the long history of FF and Dragon Quest H games. And more than a few use the original character names.
Some IP's are anal about it but most aren't cause they know how just how big doujins are. Nintendo is the only one I've seen that goes after and that's only for rom hacks.
Most devs change the names just to be safe, but in all honestly I seriously doubt most IP holders even give a damn.
Holy bals why is there not a demo of this? It looks sooo good.(Just watched the video)
It also has my 2 favorite FF chicks in here! Tifa and Rydia. Beatrix would have been nice.
Is that skit system I see in the trailer, a la Tales?
You know, thinking about this and the Senran Kagura game, I think both were problematic because they used actual assets from those games. I guess likenesses are fair game as long as it's not the original art, which is good news here.Wasn't Pretty Warrior May Cry removed because some sort of copyrights problems? I vaguely recall reading something like that but honestly that would be stupid considering the huge amount of DQ hentai games on DLSite...