Newly arrived Kickstarter title “Victory Belles” has quickly come under fire due to its obvious lift of the highly similar ship-girl browser game Kantai Collection, an event that has many bewildered as to how the developers thought they could get away with it unnoticed – especially with KanColle’s absurd popularity and the rather blatant effort…
The upcoming Web/iOS title boasts anthropomorphized ship-girls that players can use in naval skirmishes, the same main feature of Kantai Collection that the rather cocky Black Chicken Studios have not even bothered to alter in the slightest.
The Kickstarter pitch video for Victory Belles, replete with an English voice-cast to add further fuel to the flames:
More samples of the game’s “questionable” voice-work:
Victory Belles has managed to amass over $5,000 in Kickstarter pledges in a mere two days, suggesting its copycat fleet may yet pose a threat to the mighty KanColle.
I love how Sankaku is desperately trying to s♥♥t all over this project. Like “how dare they defile the sanctity of KanColle?!?”
It’s exactly because Japan and the game developer are a bunch of assholes that people around the rest of the world have to take it upon themselves to satisfy a demand that’s not being met.
They severely underestimate the popularity of the KanColle game outside of Japan. Frankly, they don’t give a s♥♥t at all. Even the sight of people willing to shell out 5K for a westernized copy cat doesn’t encourage them to attempt to reach out to other audiences.
This is also the same game developer who made the Monster Musume game. Monster Musume is insanely popular in the west; easily moreso than KanColle. Hell, every new volume of MonMusu makes the NY Times best seller list. Yet they don’t care about releasing that game outside of Japan either.
Mutsu would sink all of those belles.
Es ist Zeit für RACHE! Wir mussen die Juden ausrotten!
Well this happend because the dumbass asian games companys still think to West is a urban legend full of dragons and dwarfs.
Dragons and dwarfs LOL XDXDXDXD
“Plagiarism”, “copycat”, lol
And I thought people here are at least of average intelligence. Apparently you guys are just a bunch of weebs.
I guess Doom is just a copy of Wolfenstein 3D, CoD is just a copy of Battlefield, Warcraft a copy of Dune 2000.
Idiots will be idiots I guess.
All the games you’ve listed look totally different from one another, with different plots. This could easily be mistaken for Kantai Collection. If Strike Witches came out after Kantai Collection, I wouldn’t call it a copycat or plagiarist. This is a blatant rip.