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Veggie Samurai looks a heck of a lot like Fruit Ninja

Firemint's Flight Control has more than its popping upeverywhere, but now Brisbane's Halfbrick Studios can enjoy that warm "flattering" feeling of having their game idea blatantly copied.
An unabashed rip-off of Fruit Ninja; doesn't do enough to stand apart - Slidetoplay.com
Quantum Squid have brought out Veggie Samurai for the iPad, and it looks like they've made no attempt at disguising this as a Fruit Ninja clone, given the title of the game which mimics the original as well as the trailer. Gaze your eyes at the video below, you'll immediately recognise Fruit Ninja's all too familar slicing game idea, albeit with some extra combos and multi-slice features. All's fair in love and war, and game design, it seems. Unfortunately, the reviewer at Slidetoplay.com has summarised Veggie Samurai as "An unabashed rip-off of Fruit Ninja; doesn't do enough to stand apart", so it's probably worth giving it a miss if you have the original.
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 30/06/10 - 10:55 PMPermalink

That was just shameful. It even seems to attempt to pass itself off as a legit sequel...

-Jordaan Mylonas

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 03/07/10 - 6:36 PMPermalink

Given the proximity of release to Fruit Ninja, it's a good bet this game was in development at the same time.
However, marketing it like a sequel to Fruit Ninja is a bit dirty :P