I came across this and liked the art style, and thought it might be fun to pop into a modern 3-hour retro styled Zelda game that evokes the gameplay of Link's Awakening or Oracle of Seasons. On the one hand this game succeeds tremendously in being an imitation, but it's about as flavorful and substantial as a water cracker.
There's not much here to speak of, no story to sink your teeth into, dungeons and puzzles are very straightforward and lack much of a challenge, and while the gameplay is as smooth gameplay as would expect from something like this, it feels like a carbon copy of any other game in the genre. Overall the world layout is well designed (aside from one spot where I got stuck and had to restart the game). It's just very unambitious, and I think that's a bigger sin then if the game didn't play as smoothly. The high point of this game is the spritework and atmosphere, at times it hints at having a personality, but ultimately this game does nothing to distinguish itself. I'm sure it is a satisfactory miniature Zeldalike experience for many people but I hope the developers challenge themselves to do something more with their next game.
There's not much here to speak of, no story to sink your teeth into, dungeons and puzzles are very straightforward and lack much of a challenge, and while the gameplay is as smooth gameplay as would expect from something like this, it feels like a carbon copy of any other game in the genre. Overall the world layout is well designed (aside from one spot where I got stuck and had to restart the game). It's just very unambitious, and I think that's a bigger sin then if the game didn't play as smoothly. The high point of this game is the spritework and atmosphere, at times it hints at having a personality, but ultimately this game does nothing to distinguish itself. I'm sure it is a satisfactory miniature Zeldalike experience for many people but I hope the developers challenge themselves to do something more with their next game.