Are there any games on steam that scratch the 2D Zelda itch?
>>739636559It's not the exact same, but the Ys games I've played (1, 2, Origin and Felghana) have a similar top down action adventure kind of feel. It even has dungeons with item/magic upgrades that you can mess around with on the overworld and npcs. But it lacks Zelda style puzzles.
>>739636559Shalnor Legends and Evil Quest. Shalnor feels closer to Zelda, but it kinda sucks. Evil Quest is cool.
I finished Minish Cap last month and was greatly disappointed by it. Is LttP better?
>>739636559Under the Island.
>>739636559word of caution, I've never tried these, I just know about themA pretty obvious NES zelda clonehttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3895180/Azaran_The_Demon_Bottle/Both of these by the same dev, similar to the GB gameshttps://store.steampowered.com/app/1393820/Prodigal/https://store.steampowered.com/app/2513580/Veritus/And chatgpt gave me thesehttps://store.steampowered.com/app/446810/Blossom_Tales_The_Sleeping_King/https://store.steampowered.com/app/1114870/Lennas_Inception/https://store.steampowered.com/app/241320/Ittle_Dew/https://store.steampowered.com/app/1393750/Oceans_Heart/https://store.steampowered.com/app/922710/Knightin/https://store.steampowered.com/app/943140/Sparklite/
>>739636559Perhaps the new came coming out, Adventures of Elliot, which is more of a Mana inspiration though. There's a demo for it now with save data transfer.Not a shill, it just has my interest.
>>739637481>here I typed your question into chat gptNigga why even bother posting. If OP wanted hallucinated results he'd do that himself.
>>739636559Swords of Ditto is pretty good, especially if you have a co-op partner.
>>739639262the links seem to be working though?
Oceanhorn is a Wind Waker like.
>>739636559Neutopia and Neutopia 2. They were originally for the TurboGrafx-16 so almost no one has probably played them, but they're both very strict clones of 2D Zelda. I do recommend. Music is good too.Nintendo started selling them on the eshop back in the Wii era. But if you wanna just fuck around and try the first game out, here's an Internet Archive link where you can play it online.https://archive.org/details/Neutopia_USA
>>739637265Yes.Minish Cap has better combat and art but ALttP has better dungeons, bosses, exploration and music, story is better too.
>>739637265you couldn't handle it, better just give up and become a television and movie fanboy instead you stupid fucking freak.
>>739636559Tearscape and Pipistrello.But I’m replaying the Oracle games and they don’t come close. Tearscape especially is mediocre (no ending, just cuts to credits) but I still enjoyed it.
>>739636559>>739637481Elementalis, a friend of mine has been playing it and she enjoyed it a lot. Haven't tried myself.
TUNICits similarity to zelda is pretty superficial but it stands on its own as an excellent puzzle action adventure
>>739640526I've been playing it and im about halfway through and its pretty good.
>>739636559Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos and Lenna's Inception come to mind. They're okay if you wanna scratch an itch, but nothing exceptional.
>>739637265worse, play the Oracles
>>739640828>when you're in a competition of who's the biggest faggot and an oraclefag comes in
Cross Code kinda but also not at all
>>739637481I will voucher for ocean's heart. I enjoyed it
>>739637265>disliking tMC>>739640828This. Seasons in particular is pure 2D ludo from start to finish.
>>739636559It shouldn't be that hard to make a 2d zelda with 5x bigger world and 5x more dungeons...
>>739637481-Prodigal is top tier. Maybe even too difficult if you're bad at games. -Blossom Tales has nice presentation but is dull. There are no real puzzles, and its very obvious at all times what to do, filling time with a bunch of going-thru-the-motions combat. It's like they played LTTP and didnt really get it.-Lennas Inception is awful. The game is randomized so there are no actual puzzles. Its just a bunch of "push box on button" in randomly generated rooms. Think binding of isaac except much worse.-Ittle Dew is interesting in how you can subvert puzzles, but also feels a bit disjointed because of that. Like you're never sure if you're solving puzzles the intended way or if you're sequence breaking.-Oceans Heart is a solid game with more emphasis on the exploration/sidequest/npc side than these others.>>739638790Adventures of elliot is a jrpg.>>739640336No it's not. The only "Wind waker" like aspect is that you have a level select screen that looks like a guy sailing a ship. There is no actual sailing though, you just pick a location and a little animation of a guy sailing plays and then you're at the location. The game itself is also the same kind of blossom tales esque "no real puzzles" garbage, which they doubled down on making it extremely garbage in oceanhorn 2 which I played for some stupid fucking reason, huge waste of time.>>739640526Elementallis is pretty fun but has a similar issue to Blossom Tales where there arent really any puzzles. However, the elemental powers have enough creative opportunities to get away with being focused more on combat, and there is a large sense of "navigation as a puzzle.">>739640642Tunic is fez type game wearing the skin of a zelda game. It is really good though.
>>739641409I cry for modern 2d zeldalikes. So many of the developers see 2d zelda and go "I could do that!" and they just make a game thats like... a bunch of rooms bolted together, filled with enemies, with no real thought to any of them. They try to make a puzzle, and its something like from a 3 year old's toy. "Here's a button, here's a crate, can you figure out what to do next ???" type shit that never evolves.
Minish Cap is only good if your are into side content and even then the kinstone mechanic is questionableOtherwise if you just go from objective to objective, 5 dungeons is too short and makes the journey feel small even if the dungeons are way bigger than lets say the ones in the GB games.
>>739636559Black Souls
>>739636559There's like a hundreds of that shit in steam. Just filter the right tags.
>>739637481Dont play ProdigalFirst you get some boring story no one cares about, then you have some fun gameplay with 3 different items across 3 dungeons i thinkBut this game has a Romance mechanic that is mandatory, i had a boss asking me questions about my love interest and when i answered wrong i had to redo the boss, i unistalled this shit game afterwards, 50 cent is way to expensive for my lost hours
>>739641409Great insight into these games anon, I appreciate it.
>>739636559>zelda-like curator>look inside>it's mana-like
>>739636559Currently playing Prodigal and it has a similar feel. After Act 2, you can pick one of the babes to romance and marry too.
>>739640969Oraclefag here, these games were the LoZ formula at its peak.
>>739637265If you didn't like Minish Cap, I wouldn't bother with other 2d Zelda unless your distinction between good and bad is that close and arbitrary. They won't be different enough to matter.
>>739636559Minishoot Adventures. The gimmick is that you're controlling a ship but it's structured like a 2D Zelda otherwise.
>>739640969I’m jumping in as well to state that the Oracle games are the best 2D Zelda games. Arguably the best overall.
>>739641065I also agree that Ocean's Heart is pretty good. However, if you're mostly looking for combat I'd skip, it's kind of janky. Dungeons are also nothing special. That game is all about overworld exploration and doing quests.
>>739642102>Remakes never everWhy live...The closer we got was a map some guy made with minish cap sprites.
>>739637016>Theres like 15 Ys games>but they only come out like once every 5 yearsIts suffering having to wait man. At least 10 was kino.
>>739642552>At least 10 was kino.You disgust me and you are not a scholar.
>>739637481I would also like to add my I don't really know if it's good but here anyway.https://store.steampowered.com/app/1447820/The_Girl_from_Arkanya/
Why aren't any of you mentioning Mina?You fucks better buy it
>>739643329The devs pulled the demo from stores just before release. Big red flag in my opinion.
>>739643329im gonna try it for sure but I'm scared it might not be as good as Pipistrello
>>739643329The demo sucked assSouls-like wannabe bullshit
>>739641409>Lennas Inception is awful. The game is randomizedDon't input a seed and you get the actual real game you RETARD.
>>739640969The fuck is your issue?Oracles are genuinely really well made.Minus the goron dance in ages
>>739640439>musicI guess the music that is there is better but holy shit it gets repetitive, there's literally only 1 track for every dungeon. If you suck a little bit and get stuck in some of the puzzles it might get on your nerves.
>>739643508They pulled the demo after only a few days of it being out. Why they would do a limited release demo to begin with is beyond me.
>>739641065It's the bunch of this bunch by a huge margin, can't wait for Hazelnut Bastille in 2040!
>>739642702>You disgust me and you are not a scholar.Sue me, combat was fun and it was nice having a confident waifu that wasnt a goddess in disguise for a change.
>>739636559Try thishttps://store.steampowered.com/app/269770/Secrets_of_Grindea/It's one of my favorite games of all time. It feels like a genuine adventure, full of wonder and fun.
>>739640774Can somewhat vouch for Rogue Heroes. It's extremely unpolished but it's also kinda soulful.If you yourself are interested in similar games, give >>739645839 a try. It's similar but more tongue-in-cheek and way way WAY more polished and refined.
>>739643329Sadly it wasn't very Zelda like, though it looks great and had pretty fun gameplay in the demo. I liked the daggers for being similar to a sword in Zelda.
>>739642270Not OP but I'm wishlisting that one in the hopes of it dropping to a more reasonable price.
>>739643508>>739645457Pulling your demo is a FOMO shit. "Oooooh, you better try it now or else you won't get a chance to try it again!".A temporary demo helps you drum up a bit of word of mouth hype the same way game piracy does, and pulling the rug allows you to avoid players that would play your demo - realize they don't want to buy the game, and then not buy the game.
>>739645275>The fuck is your issue?My issue is Oraclefags barking about Oracle games when they weren't even invited to be part of the conversation.How do you niggas even know the guy hasn't played the Oracle games? You didn't even bother to check it just "it's worse play oracle :^)"To me that's textbook definition of faggotry
>>739645275Goron Dance>Subrosian Dance.I will use Save States through each round of that shit.
>>739646512>Buy game>Don't like it>get refundIf we can do this, why not just leave the demo up?
>>739645839Don't let the name fool you, there isn't any egregious grind in there.
>>739646660Because most consoomers don't do it. They impulse buy, meander for a bit, and then don't refund.
>>739646743So that mean they can do anti consumer practices like this? I don't think so.
>>739636559The Myth of a Godslayer is a near perfect ZeldalikeYs Origin and Ys The Oath in Felghana are also very good and have a lot in common with 2D Zelda
>>739645839Secrets of grindea with a jolly cooperator is amazing, think you can get up to 4 players but I doubt anyone here has that many friends willing to play this game with them
>>739646879I'm not defending them, lad, I'm explaining why they do it. Everything is done for a reason, and evil makes sense within the perspective of the evildoer.
>>739643508Probably because they changed the game based on the reception to the demo meaning the demo isn't representative of the game anymore
>>739647184But it has built-in 4 player coop...Doesn't it?
>>739646539It's weird how some people are obsessed with those. The Oracle games are mediocre and a bit tedious.
>>739638790It might be Mana inspired and even have some explicit Mana homages like Rise cameo, but don't forget that the first Mana game on the original Gameboy was pretty much Squaresoft's take on the Zelda series like how Final Fantasy of Square's take on Dragon Quest
>>739636559Its not the same exactly but moonlighter literally stole designs from minish cap.The entrance to the dungeon areas is ripped directly from minish cap dungeon 1
>>739647203what changed?
>>739647576I didn't play the demo myself, I just remember a lot of posters complained about it, then not long after they ended up delaying the game from October to June, so that tells me they probably went "oh shit" and tried to course correct. We won't really know until the game is out if they actually do change it up
Alundra for the PS1.
>>739643329Once someone makes a shortstack mod
>>739648317tell you what, i will if someone rips the sprites of mina day 1it will be out on friday so i got nothing to do
>>739645290Yep that's an issue in ALttP. The music is better but there are fewer songs compared to Minish Cap. If you don't like a song in Minish Cap chances are that you won't hear for much long... in ALttP you'll need to mute or play a song over it.Hyrule field is an egregious one in ALttP, the song really fucking sucks. Ironically they aped the same Hyrule Field from ALttPALttP has the best Staff Roll song in the series and some other great bangershttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJh3D_zX0ToMinish Cap has a much better forest themehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PydqkG0xRZo
>>739649937speaking of minish cap, didnt it get a recompilation recently or something?
>>739645275using the flippers in Ages is also kind of ass
>>739649937Now that I'm hearing I'm noticing that a bunch of songs from Minish Cap are quasi-remix/heavily inspired by ALttP songs(and Ocarina of Time), including Minish Woods that does include some notes from Forest of Mystery unless I'm going insanehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tfQEhwuxEk>>739650182https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2SiMyWGhQgIt's playable
>>739637442I came here looking for this and wasn't disappointed, thank you
>>739650906>PC Demake Hard pass
>>739639262>If OP wanted hallucinated results he'd do that himselfActually he couldn't. People have been retards who don't know how to google for 30 years, and now you want to act like the chatbots are why you can't do productive research.
>>739636559Mina the Hollower.
>>739647576The demo got bad to indifferent reception which is why they pulled it. They realized they were too far in to fundamentally change any of the systems so they just dumped in a bunch of shitty accessibility options so you can design your own experience (do their job for them). Which is just a way of saying they had no faith in their work.
>>739643329I'm somewhat interested, but I'm still pirating it. Yacht Club deserves to go bankrupt.
>>739654469 is completely full of shit by the way, they announced that the demo would be available for a limited time from the get-go, the rest of his post is also total nonsense
>>739639262AI derangement syndrome
>>739636559Everyone play Pipistrello, goddamn it!
>>739640969Gets mogged by Wind Waker toddlerd and Link's Awakening item switching shit eaters
>>739636559U wil never use the minish cap 2 sneak up a cute zelda girls butt ;_;
>>739646539Anon was asking for Zelda game recommendations thoughbeit
