Zelda patents Nintendo filed could harm gaming.
Some players still have fond memories of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, but it seems the game’s most lasting legacy might be a negative one, as Nintendo’s filing of numerous patents associated with Tears of the Kingdom’s design could stifle creativity in the gaming industry at large.
Some of the patents Nintendo has filed in Japan, as reported by Automaton, include gaming elements that certainly predate TOTK in function, if not the specific coding associated with them. These include the method by which Link can fire an arrow that triggers his ally Riju to deliver a lightning attack. Arrows delivering additional elemental damage existed in video games long before TOTK, as have mechanics for triggering NPC combo attacks.
Namco's Patent On Loading Screen Mini-Games Made PS1 Era Loading Awful If Tears of the Kingdom does have an ideal way to code moving object and player character interaction, then it should absolutely be used industry-wide. Patenting an optimal coding approach forces all other developers dealing with similar subject matter to use a suboptimal coding approach, which means the games suffer, as do consumers who receive more inferior products.
The Zelda TOTK Patents Harm The Future Of Gaming The way Tears of the Kingdom incorporated on-the-fly crafting mechanics and physics-based puzzles into the traditional Zelda adventure formula helped make it feel like more than a simple Breath of the Wild expansion. Forward-thinking players were likely already looking beyond TOTK, eager to see more games provide the same degree of player freedom and open-ended problem-solving potential.
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