Neutopia FINISHED! 7/10 It is an adventure game made in 1990 by the now defunct Hudson Soft for the TurboGrafx-16 known in Japan as the PC Engine. The game took a lot of water from the original The Legend Of Zelda on Nes/Famicom.

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But that's not a bad thing, on the contrary it manages to be original! It has the same idea of ​​getting key items to defeat the big bad.

Here we control Jazeta, the hero of this story (I can't get used to his strange name 😅) and his objective is to save the princess from the clutches of Dirth where one day in the dead of night the sinister villain kidnaps the princess, Dirth is nothing more nothing less than the Demon King of the story, where he was born from people's impure thoughts and hatred, is it a cliché? YES! Is it bad for that? NO! I like clichés and happy endings and that will never tire me.

But Neutopia was fun here we will have to collect 8 medallions scattered around the world to have enough power to defeat the great evil.

It's a game that makes you angry but you CAN finish it and see the credits, it's almost like a Roguelike of the time, you lose a good amount of money if you have a Game Over, the healing items are super expensive! The scarcity of life recovery hearts, which here are cherries, is very difficult to get these drops from monsters.

The battles are an interesting point, no boss is repeated! Everyone has unique attack patterns and the penultimate boss of the game gave me stress because he seemed invincible! How much damage must I have done to him?! I don't even know...

The positive points of Neutopia are its songs, seriously! Congratulations to the game sound team! The game is divided into 4 areas that have 2 dungeons, each area has its own music, and ends up fitting well with the themes and as the game spends a good part in the central areas of each world, until you reach the main dungeons the music does not become annoying is pleasant to the ears, another positive point is the addition of the compass, throughout the game the NPCs tell you to be guided by the compass it is really useful and points out where the evil is coming from so I wasn't lost where to go as it is quite responsive.

The negative point is not even that the game was inspired by the original The Legend Of Zelda but that it took the bad things from the original Zelda, our hero uses his sword but it only works forward, it's like he was sharpening a knife instead of a sword this is typical of games of the time, short-range weapons, so if your sword doesn't hit correctly you can miss the enemy and the infernal noise when you have low health also brought... NO NEED TO SIGNAL THAT I'M DYING! And out of curiosity, the game took the same idea as the original Zelda of blowing up walls and burning trees to be able to enter the residents' "houses" there are no traditional houses, the few buildings are dungeons or a main area and certain points of reference all live in caves , was it one of the ways to survive the monsters? You know, I'll never have an answer.

But my final considerations are that Neutopia was an interesting game that used the original The Legend Of Zelda as inspiration but managed to have its own identity, unfortunately the game was lost in time and you wouldn't be able to afford a TurboGrafx-16, much less the game , the most accessible way nowadays and the one I used was to use it on the Wii's Virtual Console, but you can use other alternative means such as emulation, unfortunately the game was abandoned and was never re-released, there is a sequel to the game called Neutopia II, it seems to be I'll talk about it much more fully in the future.
If you're a fan of Zelda like me and wanted to see how games at the time were inspired by famous franchises and in the 90s what there were most were games that were inspired and tried to copy the ones that worked.

Regarding recommending the game, it's because of your curiosity if you played it or are going to play it based on this post, tell me what you thought of the game, I'll be curious to know about your adventure.