Seorang sutradara film menuduh Capcom meniru salah satu monsternya untuk pertarungan bos Resident Evil Village.
Dutch director Richard Raaphorst said the Sturm boss found in the recently-released Resident Evil Village is a “one-to-one” copy of a monster he created for his 2013 found footage horror film Frankenstein’s Army.
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Frankenstein’s Army features a hulking humanoid with a propeller for a head. It’s eventually taken down by a group of soldiers in an explosion of flames. You can see the scene in the video below:
Resident Evil Village features a boss fight with a monster called Sturm, who is encountered at Heisenberg’s factory. This equally hulking humanoid also has a propellor for a head, and is defeated in an explosion of flames. You can see the boss fight in the video below:
“This is just one-to-one, really,” Raaphorst told Eurogamer in an interview.
“Adegannya sama seperti di film saya, hanya saja di film saya Anda harus melepaskan tabung bahan bakar. Itulah satu-satunya hal yang hilang. Tapi semuanya terbakar, lalu meledak, dan kemudian berputar melalui kamera – semuanya sama saja, kok. Bahkan lingkungannya, keseluruhan palet warna. Sepertinya animasi untuk film saya.”
Raaphorst said Capcom has at no point approached him, and that he only found out about the similarity after he received messages from fans on 7th May – the day Resident Evil Village went on sale.
“At first I felt pissed,” he said. “Then I felt proud. Now, I see all the reactions and I feel pissed again, and insulted. It’s so difficult to come up with a great design. It’s really hard to actually think about something that communicates as a cool design. It’s not just that ideas are floating around that you can grab. It’s actually hard labour. Then they just grab it and put it somewhere in the game.
“It’s creative abuse.”
Raaphorst told Eurogamer he does not expect to receive any royalty payment from Capcom because he does not own the rights to the film. Those creative rights are owned by MPI Media Group, the American movie finance and distribution company Raaphorst partnered with to get Frankenstein’s Army made.
But he would like a credit in Resident Evil Village. Raaphorst said: “I am exploring my options.”
“If they had asked me, ‘hey, Richard, we’d love to have your design in our next Resident Evil, and we will give you a credit or some kind of royalty payment,’ I would have been honoured and flattered and proud. It would have been a super positive experience.”
