Your friend is right. You better sell it with your own graphic and own idea. I've seen many fangames but most of them are being cancelled or terminated. Have you seen how Street of Rage Remake was dead? Even it's non-profit fangame but it's dead.
To me, Namco is as same as SEGA so you need to be careful about it.
Man, I hate it when corporations do that fan works will never do them any harm. <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_cry.gif" alt=":cry:" title="Crying or Very Sad">
Right, I have been discussing this with my friends this is what names we have so far.
Clock Block
Danger Zone
Cover Shot
Trigger Time
Operation Countdown
Operation ThunderFox
Attack Point
also I feel better about ripping off time crisis now that I know I am not the only one to do it there were 2 TC clones on the ps2 I didn't even know about
endgame (which was just terrible)
https://youtu.be/jUq9RTU4eT4
and
gunfighter 2