Ben Kendrick of Game Rant writes: "‘Bayonetta’ designer, Hideki Kamiya, calls ‘PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale’ a ‘Super Smash Bros.’ ‘rip-off’ but can a ‘rip-off’ still offer fun iteration on a past formula?"
While Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale didn't get the best review, there are still some aspects of the game that deserve some credit.
Though PlayStation All Stars Battle Royale is a bit of a cult classic, it could have been a big hit if it launched in 2022 instead of 2012.
It wouldn't have mattered, Sony would've rushed it out and left it to die. More so now than before with their focus now being on SP narrative driven AAA games.
Oh, but somehow Smash Bros. 64 made it work?
It just couldn’t compete with Smash Bros. and it wasn’t a free-to-play game like Multiversus.
I think it released at the right time. It's just after the success of Smash and Multiversus, it's finally time for a sequel.
I'd be all in on a remake or remaster of the original. I enjoyed it because I didn't sit there and compare every aspect to SSB. I just enjoyed it as it was.
Sony should make part 2 and dump a good amount of money on it. Scrap super only kills and it's bound to succeed.
God of War: Ragnarok has plenty of fun references to PlayStation history, but now fans have discovered a conversation that calls back to PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale — the crossover fighting game released for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita.
That’s interesting. It actually does make it canon lol. He mentioned it in a mainline game. I’d say that’s pretty cool.
Maybe
If you want to be anal about it, just about everything in the consumer industry is a "ripoff" of something. So, if that makes a product 'bad,' then everything in our homes is crap. Gaming just happens to be over-saturated with critics.
No, but it doesn't make it less of a rip-off either.
@KwietStorm - Not like this. They've copied everything down to the art style of SSMB. Not saying it's bad in any way, the game looks to be great. But to deny it's a rip-off is just stupid.
Which aspect is it a Rip-off. Neo Geo combined their fighting frainces. Every FPS is a knock off of Wolfinstien 3D, I know I was there when it happen. Does that make COD or MOH or BF or Mindcraft of Decent or Halo bad?
It should only matter if they aren't try anything new because this reminds of uncharted vs tomb raider both are action-adventure-platformers but differed in that the former is more grounded in reality that the latter.
@jelly Their art style consist of all the games each charter came from .