How can we tell if assets are stolen or bought?

Originally posted by 真 MUTANT OVERLORD:

How can we tell if assets are stolen or bought?

thats why Im not curator, but submitter - its all require deeper research. But if person, I linked in op, right - then Im unsure, that permission to use those sprites can be sold.

@Mutant if as that player reports they are ripped from old games like Contra and Ninja Warrors, then like hell they were bought!

Originally posted by DaveQB:

@Mutant if as that player reports they are ripped from old games like Contra and Ninja Warrors, then like hell they were bought!

I am not saying they are stolen but also I am not saying they are bought.
Did anyone got evidence?

Can't tell from the screenshots in Steam will need to look at them in the web and do an image search. The Trump character looks out of place and I don't see any characters that look exactly like those other games but will have a look.

From an older gameplay video dating back to April 2017, I could identify stuff ripped from Metal Slug, either directly or retouched a bit: the helicopters, the bomb crates, the "Mission Complete", the "thank you" voice sample, the victory jingle at the end of the stage. Another video from a November beta showed different helicopters and better explosions, but in general the visual assets clash badly with each other and many parts look like they belong to other games or were retouched.