Adorable Chinese Dinosaur Shamelessly Rips Off Mario Galaxy

[John Funk]

Adorable Chinese Dinosaur Shamelessly Rips Off Mario Galaxy

Chinese PC game Duludubi Star may look a bit familiar to people who played the excellent Super Mario Galaxy - disturbingly familiar, in fact.

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Okay, to be fair, this isn't the first Chinese clone (in Chinese, shanzai) of an already-existing game shamelessly copies-and-pastes [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/91426-The9-If-You-Cant-Have-WoW-Have-A-WoW-Knockoff] - but for the love of Yoshi, guys, could you be a little less obvious about this one?

Duludubi Star is a PC platformer starring a cute little baby dragon-thing as he leaps his way around spherical planetoids, flies through the stars, and fights a guy who looks strangely like Petey Piranha. Oh, and he collects stars. From the worlds to the very familiar-looking puzzles to the camera angles used as the protagonist soars from section to section, this is unmistakably Mario Galaxy. I mean, seeing how Galaxy was (in this writer's humble opinion) one of the best games so far of the generation, you could have certainly picked a worse game to rip off, to be sure.

I lived in China for half a year while studying abroad, and this is one of the most shameless rip-offs I've seen from the company yet.

(Via Kotaku [http://kotaku.com/5414999/is-this-game-ripping-off-mario-galaxy/gallery/])

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[hazabaza1]

Even getting the stars looked similar.
SUPER DINOSAUR GALAXY

 

[SovietSecrets]

Well least I won't have to buy a Wii now to play Mario Galaxy.

 

[The Rockerfly]

A dinosaur version of anything has got to be better then the original

In all seriousness, someone will get sued for this

 

[zombie711]

they are going to get sued big time.
hasent any one learned from the great gina sisters on the pc, any mario ripoff on the pc will get sued fast, real fast

 

[ChromeAlchemist]

Cue people defending this game, and everyone else laughing at them, a la H.A.V.E. online. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx23D90sUxk&feature=related]

 

[War Penguin]

Remember the game with Nazis riding Dinosaurs? A game with dinosaurs make it even more awesome no matter what. China just made Super Mario Galaxy even more awesome than before.

 

[Ganthrinor]

I wonder if Nintendo will crush this like they crushed "The Great Gianna Sisters" for the C64 all those years ago.

 

[HardRockSamurai]

Interesting. I was wondering how long it would take for us to see a Galaxy knock-off.

 

[rokkolpo]

that is awful.

i hate how dinosaurs have to steal everyones ideas. (where are the pirates?)

 

[Nazulu]

WOW! Thats really pathetic. I hope they get sued.

 

[Capo Taco]

Chinese and ripoff in the same headline?

That's not very surprising news.

It's not exactly a country that stimulates independent thinking.

 

[Soxafloppin]

Dinasaur planet?

Star Fox Adventure anyone?

 

[Doug]

"China; because after hundreds of years of oppression, we've finally had the last dips of imagination taken from us."

 

[scotth266]

Cue people defending this game, and everyone else laughing at them, a la H.A.V.E. online. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx23D90sUxk&feature=related]

I was one of H.A.V.E's defenders.

I think that this game is a shameless ripoff though.

 

[The DSM]

To be honest it looks ok for a rip-off, its blatent, but at least it doesnt look too suckish.

 

[laura3lizab3th]

Blimey, that is a little to samey for my liking.
But still, its a dinosaur....i can let it ride.

 

[-AC80-]

i smell a lawsuit!