Something is remind someone of something else, so watch out with claims of originality lol.
It's not the claims that make me angry, it's the fact that next to credit was given to it.
NT had said several times that they were "inspired" by other sources and by combining those, giving their own "original spin" on it.
"Original spin" [paraphrased] does not mean "original". It just means that the aesthetics are slightly different. They gave credit. Kamiya wrote it off and said "the graphics kick ass".
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Had it been me, I definitely would have said the same thing.
"Yeah, it's inspired by several sources, but by combining them, I hope to give it bit of my own "original look" as well.
And there's nothing wrong with saying that, as long as you give credit in the first place.
I'm not going to say, "The gameplay will be better", because gameplay, like graphics, improve all the time.
Well, not all the time, but you know what I mean.
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Also, that dialogue has kamiya's fingerprints all over it.
Had it been Clock Tower, Scissorman would've said something like,
"I'm going to CUT... YOU... UP."