Metroidvania this and that. I don't care! I want Zelda clones.
Okami, Anodyne, Darksiders. You name it.
What are your favorites? Why don't indies make more?
Zelda clones
Josiah Anderson
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Nicholas White
Alundra is pretty good and fairly challenging.
Asher Martin
Alundra has been on my list for a couple of years now, I've heard the sequel is not very good though.
Ryan Brooks
Ys Oath, although it's an insult to the game to call it a Zelda clone what I'm saying is that if you like Zelda you need to play Ys Oath and Origin
Joshua Jones
what's the one on the left there?
Adrian King
I don't see how Okami is like Zelda but everyone keeps saying it.
Samuel Flores
Alundra is the best
Matthew Parker
Ragnacenty/Soleil/Crusader of Centy, I think those were the jap/euro/us names respectively. The euro version might have a better translation last I remember.
Kayden Flores
there's an adventure time game but the license expired so it's hard to get unless pirated
Hudson Garcia
Soul Blazer, Illusion of Gaia and Terranigma
Aiden Diaz
Haven't played the entire Soul Blazer trilogy but Terranigma is fucking great and everyone should play it
Jaxson Ward
I think the reason there aren't enough Zelda clones is because there are already so few that it gets called out. You can copy an FPS, metroidvania, RPG but for some reason zelda is the only series that gets to have dungeons and puzzles
Christian Price
Crosscode, Hyperlight Drifter and Mages of Mystralia are some great modern indie contenders.
It's hard to make because a Zelda clones survives on its level design, which is harder to do than to randomly assemble a seed of rooms and buff the difficulty up insanely.
Samuel Martin
Dunno man. Besides dungeons and puzzles there's the fact that Zeldas are generally exploration games with top down action. Many of the zelda clones mentioned here barely have any puzzles like terranigma, or at least aren't the main focus.
There's so many elements besides those two that can take zelda as inspiration, like use of items.
Alexander Price
crosscode is fucking amazing but it's not like zelda at all
Mason Nelson
>Mages of Mystralia
First time I hear about this one. Looks neat, but the artstyle looks like an ipad game
Ryder Brown
Crosscode
Brody Martinez
I looked for Zelda in steam and I got this in the recommendations. Wow thanks
Jason Nelson
honestly its because outside of blatant zelda clones, its not really a genre to make like metroidvanias.
for instance hydlide was a zelda game 2 years before zelda
Nicholas Sullivan
It has Zelda like puzzles and backtracking and combat from the Mana series. It's a bit of a hybrid, but in my headspace it's very much like Link's Awakening with a JRPG system.
Mages of Mystralia has a really neat spell crafting element thays used to solve some really neat puzzles. You can really combine runes together to either nuke the battlefield or solve intricately designed mechanisms. I really enjoyed it. Very overlooked.
Dominic Morgan
>its not really a genre to make like metroidvanias
how is it not? all metroidvanias play the same except for the respective gimmicks
I don't see how making a zelda with an unique twist is any different
Anthony Mitchell
>Why don't indies make more?
Because if it even slightly resembles Zelda, tendies go
>REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE STOP COPYING ZELDA!!!!
And no one buys their game.
Jackson Davis
gnk
Ethan Gomez
Why didn't anyone rip off Zelda II
Justin Adams
does Lucah Born of a Dream count as a Zelda clone? I guess that's a stretch since it tries to be more like a dark souls game
Adam Walker
They did. Elliot Quest is great.
Also the first Adventure Time game also did it. Easy to emulate because it's available on the NDS but it's dull as fuck like everything wayforward does
Liam Bennett
Do Bomberman Quest and Tournament count? Also, the more obscure Bomberman Jetters GBA game that is essentially a sequel to Tournament. If they do, they're the only Zelda-esque games I've ever played. Could never get into actual Zelda weirdly enough.
Brandon Sullivan
they are action rpgs and the genre predates zelda.
Bentley Scott
chronicles of teddy is obviously inspired by zelda 2
Nathan Green
ooph, that's rough
Mason Carter
they also copied being hated from zelda 2
Elijah Garcia
Neutopia and Neutopia II on the PC Engine/TG16.
Landon Morris
God of Thunder. It was released in the mid 90s, but now you can play it for free on Steam.
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