Some of them are specific to Link’s latest adventure, including things like Riju’s lightning ability, which lets the player target enemies with a bow and bring down a lighting strike wherever the arrow lands.
Which isn’t even unique to Zelda, Minecraft did it a decade ago.
These are a stretch, even for Nintendo, and I’ll be surprised if any of them stick. But, then again, I was also surprised (and very upset) by Bamco successfully patenting loading screen mini games (and then hardly ever even using them) back when that happened. So who knows.
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Which isn’t even unique to Zelda, Minecraft did it a decade ago.
These are a stretch, even for Nintendo, and I’ll be surprised if any of them stick. But, then again, I was also surprised (and very upset) by Bamco successfully patenting loading screen mini games (and then hardly ever even using them) back when that happened. So who knows.
it is also known by the more common term “calling in an airstrike”
I am almost certain that there’s a Skyrim mod for that, that’s been around for a decade. It’s trivial.
Frankly, this is stuff that trademarks exist for, not patents. None of this sounds like an actual invention.