The fight between inspiration and copy is one of those issues that will never end in the video game world. In the end, whether you are good or bad when evaluating it, probably the most important thing is to see to what extent there are ideas traced in great detail. The one from Half-Life and Akira
A few years ago someone noticed that the elevators in the first Half-Life They were quite similar to those that appeared during the first part of Akira
After a video was published in which enough images were put face to face to understand to what extent the reference was accurate, one of the game’s level designers stepped forward to admit that, indeed, when creating that area, was completely inspired by Akira
The result, not only of the elevator but also of another area of the game, as well as the aforementioned confirmation by the designer Brett JohnsonYou can find it in the video that we show you below.
