Ziggurat Interactive and Strictly Limited Games announced on March 26“BloodRayne: Terminal Cut Collection (BloodRayne: The Ultimate Collection/Vampire Rayne: The Ultimate Collection)”Coming to PS5 and Nintendo Switch. Collection contains“BloodRayne: Terminal Cut”, “BloodRayne 2: Terminal Cut” and “BloodRayne: Betrayal – Fresh Bites”. But what really sparked the discussion was not the content of the game, but the cover illustration of the art set that came with the deluxe version, because it was questioned by a large number of players for being suspected of plagiarism.
The game hasn’t even started selling yet, so the deluxe edition peripherals are overturned first.
The point of controversy is that the illustration of the protagonist Rayne shown on the cover of the set album was pointed out to be developed by Team NINJA.“Ninja Gaiden II (Ninja Gaiden 2/Ninja Gaiden 2)”The character concept art is highly similar.After comparing the two pictures side by side, the difference is almost only the color change and weapon change:Change the hair color, and change the bazooka and machine gun on the character in the original picture into double swords, butThe character’s posture, clothing outline, light and shadow, and overall composition are almost identical., no wonder players will directly regard it as a copy.
Even the officials couldn’t help but add fuel to the fire
In the face of public doubts,Team NINJA’s official account also responded with “Wait a minute…”, which is equivalent to indirectly endorsing this wave of controversy, escalating the incident from discussion by players to “relevant parties of the original work also noticed”, and the attention instantly increased.
The publisher said it had no prior knowledge?
Ziggurat Interactive later issued a statement stating that the cover used in the promotional image was actually taken from“BloodRayne: Betrayal (Vampire Rayne: Betrayal/Vampire Rayne: Betrayal)”Internal material in the design documents; and admitted that the work heavily borrowed from another artist’s creation, while stating that it was not previously known. In other words, heWe framed this matter as an internal material source issue and tried to cut it into something that was not specially drawn now.But this is also equivalent to admitting that the similarity has exceeded the level that can be overcome by coincidence.