Video game "vibewashing" is very active in practice. (Modern Vintage Gamer did a video recently on that: https://youtu.be/mYZPHdKKMaI).
A quick look on Quiver (https://quiverlauncher.com/) reveals quite a few recomps of Nintendo games, including big franchises like Mario and Zelda.
That these aren't getting lawyer-bombed into oblivion is quite revealing in my opinion, as if it was somewhat in the interest of by corporations that "vibewashing" remains legal.
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DrYak
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