Shameless The Last Of Us Ripoff Pops Up On Nintendo's eShop

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Borrowing elements from other games and paying homage to titles from the past is pretty common. However, a The Last Of Us clone that popped up on the Nintendo eShop last week, and is somehow still there, takes that a little too far. The Last Hope – Dead Zone Survival is clearly a little more than just inspired by Naughty Dog's critically acclaimed PlayStation exclusive, and its appearance on Switch has been generating a lot of attention.

You need look no further than the artwork for The Last Hope to see VG Games has simply tried to make a very poor, very unofficial Nintendo Switch version of The Last Of Us. So much so that if the girl in the image were to turn around, I wouldn't be surprised to see Ellie's face. The Last Hope's creators have stopped short of using the names Joel and Ellie, simply referring to their Ellie equivalent as “the girl”.

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“Journey to the library to safe an innocent girl from reckless zombies,” the eShop description reads, and no, that's not a typo, it really does read safe instead of save. The description also hammers home how great its story is. I mean, if it rips the exact same tale as the one told in The Last Of Us Part 1, then that part is technically true. However, at £0.99, I get the feeling The Last Hope doesn't offer the same experience to its players that The Last Of Us does.

Again, the most surprising part of all this is that The Last Hope is still available to buy. Not only has it been up on the eShop for a few days at this point, but it has been getting a lot of attention on social media. I would say none of that attention has been good since pretty much all of it has been poking fun at the Naughty Dog clone, but any attention is good