When HoYoverse, then MiHoyo, first released Genshin Impact and launched itself into a big pit of covid-era gacha money that's snowballed into multiple lucrative games and many more projects in the works, much discussion was dominated by one sentiment: hey, this looks a lot like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. HoYo confirmed that it did want to capture some of that Nintendo magic, and Genshin has since evolved into a more distinct flavor of open-world action RPG that I still enjoy today.
HoYoverse just announced yet another new game, on the heels of the cozy Animal Crossing-like Petit Planet and some unknown fantasy MMO, and my higher brain has failed to keep the following sentence contained: hey, this looks a lot like Control.
