Soulslike dev accused of reusing FromSoftware animations
Bleak Faith: Forsaken is a recently released soulslike from indie developer Archangel that resembles a cybergoth take on the FromSoftware formula. How close it is to FromSoftware games, particularly Elden Ring, has become a point of contention as, since its release on March 10, players have begun pointing out just how familiar some of its animations are.
For instance, here's a comparison of Bleak Faith's claymore attacks with those of Elden Ring's uchigatana and straight sword(opens in new tab). And here's a compilation of more animation similarities(opens in new tab), including a character who seems to have some of Malenia's moves, and another who apparently has those of an Abyss Watcher from Dark Souls 3.
While plenty of games have used animations that took inspiration from elsewhere, as with Genshin Impact's widely noted similarities to Nier Automata, these do seem to be in a different category. Rather than resembling FromSoftware games, they look like they've been extracted directly from them using the DSAnimStudio(opens in new tab) program beloved by modders, and then tweaked slightly.
On both Discord(opens in new tab) and the game's Steam forum(opens in new tab), Archangel Studios addressed the accusations, explaining that some of Bleak Faith's animations are assets purchased from the Epic Marketplace and linking to the profile of an Unreal Engine asset-seller named PersiaNinja(opens in new tab). One of the assets sold there, labeled PN Axe Animations, closely resembles the moveset of Bloodborne's Hunter Axe.
«The marketplace was used to fill in generic art and was still edited to fit in the general needs of the art direction,» a developer named Roia said on Steam(opens in new tab), estimating that «about 10% of
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