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At this point no one can act surprised when they receive a cease and desist. I wish creators like this would spend their time making their own games instead of piggybacking on established IP, but they continue to do it because it garners headlines like this. In other words, they’re trading on Nintendo IP for promotional reasons. If they swapped the player character and the level design, far fewer people would hear about it.
Financially stupid is entirely relative to someone’s financial situation and their level of obsession with Neo Geo. Also it’s $1,893 against the current extremely favorable exchange rate.
No, I’m not gonna buy it. Just saying.