Yeah I was thinking the same, I could ignore it in al the other forms but here they’re so sloppily done that it looks like Waluigi in disguise.

I love deinonychus and I get they wanted to use the name “raptor” which sounds more ferrocious. Though why they didn’t just go with the Utah raptor I’ll never know since they hardly ever say the “veloci” part of the name in the movie at all.

Thank you so much, I have waited YEARS to have context for this reference

Part of the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special

You forgot one

Or what happened to awesome themes and avatars. I swear everytime I go through the list it’s just tons of badly done anime ones, bad airbrush art, busty women and awful photoshopping of cats.

This is certainly true - honestly I think their design philosophy with the franchise is that these games are strictly for the fans of the franchise they’re based around and they are expected to know the material and characters already.

Most Japanese know the story of the warring states period so there isn’t a lot of…

I considered adding Winter Soldier (which runs against Guardians for my favorite of the films) for just the reason you said, taking it so far in the direction of political thriller helped make it stand out against other super hero films.

The United States and Japan are both signatories of the Berne convention, signatories agree to protect copyright in each respective country with a series of fundamental rights given to the holder that are universal (to oversimplify it). - there are exceptions to this, the US does not have rights of atribution which…

There are two easy solutions to this that Nintendo could have pursued without raising all this ire.

1) Send them a C&D or request to just no longer use trademarks. Since trademarks are symbols this is actually fairly easy to comply with for a fan game. I looked into what trademarks Nintendo has on Metroid (there are 8…

Copyright’s yes but the term metroid is not a copyright but a trademark.. It’s the difference of somebody using metroids in their own fiction or even using the name (imagine if the new D&D expansion included creatures known as Metroids which were jellyfish like entties with three brains in their body and drained mana…

This is true, they could offer to license it to them which then falls under contract law which would change the analysis massively. Even though AM2 was made earlier you could offer to have them license the name and work it out.

As a transformers fan myself this is very similar - it’s also noticably why none of the third party companies call their characters by names that match their counterparts. Hasbro has many of the Transformers names trademarked - the characters thesmelves can not be so they fall under copyright law, not trademark. And…

YEs, but trademarks are built in to it still. It is possible to make fan works without using trademarks actually. Funimation recently stated that fan art was okay so long as it didn’t use their trademarks

No, because the Green Hills game does not use any trademark assets from what I’m seeing - only copyright which doesn’t require diligent enforcement

Marvel is very good at making competent, enjoyable but disposable films. I would argue the only exception is Guardians of the Galaxy for making an exceptional revival of the space opera film which had been dead for a while.

Yep, this has always been my core isssue - they have a soundtrack that at most just gets the job done but in no way is attemping to ecome memorable. Hell, the closest one I can recall is the theme for Guradians of the Galaxy and even then I only get about two bars in when I realize I’ve suddenly transitioned to…

Someone else pointed it out but the Sonic game isn’t called “Sonic” but rather “Green Hill Zone” which Sega likely doe snot have a trademark on. The creators were careful to avoid trademark territory and characters cannot be trademarked unless its a symbol and even then it only covers that particular pose - IE the…

Trademark law is at play (the term metroid was used which is trademarked).

A DMCA takedown notice is still the appropriate remedy here since the game is a deritiave work of Metoird which Nintendo has the exclusive rights to make - but Nintendo’s reasoning behind it likely does include the concern over the trademark as…