Blossom Tales: The Sleeping King will be available on December 21st, 2017, console-exclusive for Nintendo Switch.

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"Explore a vast open game world in classic action-adventure fashion as Lily, Knight of the Rose! Slash your way through monster-infested dungeons to save the Kingdom of Blossom from eternal darkness."

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"Collect unique weapons, spells, and more during your journey to take down powerful bosses and solve clever puzzles.Be part of a vivid, dynamic story passed down from grandfather to grandchildren by influencing the course of events yourself!"

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Blossom Tales Official Site

 

[Deboog]

I'm all for Zelda clones, but some of those rooms are one for one copies of rooms in ALttP. Cmon...

 

[godreborn]

so many good games on the switch or coming to it. I'm now hyped for this one. now, I just need to get a switch. I'll probably be able to get one next year.

 

[Chary]

Looks more like A Link to the Copy-pasted Assets. Hopefully it's more than just that, though.

 

[Kioku]

Well, if this is as close to 2d Zelda as I'll get on the Switch for now? I'm down.

 

[Meteor7]

I played the demo for this on PC, and I was really unimpressed. It was a while back, but I think I remember the movement feeling awkward, the pacing much too slow, and the writing trite. The demo's still on Steam, for any who are interested in the game.

 

[OvOvO]

heavily inspired by alttp which is a good thing.

 

[DarthDub]

They also made Oceanhorn, so take from that as you may.

 

[Deleted User]

• From a cursory glance, it looks like the game abides by color limitations that the SNES could reasonably handle. That's a plus.
  
• Sprites in the game seem a bit too "bouncy," especially for a game that's apparently trying to pay homage to an SNES game. If this game was made in the 1990s on SNES hardware, I doubt the developers would bother implementing these visual cues. This, combined with a decidedly un-detailed character sprite, make the game look a little too close to the hip, retro, indie, 8-bit pixel art craze that seems to have exploded during this generation. It just rubs me the wrong way when games try to look old, yet have large and obvious breaks from the technical limitations of the consoles they're trying to copy the look of made for little reason whatsoever. While Undertale is hardly an example of good pixel art and staying within the restraints of systems like the NES, at least it's deliberate in breaking those limitations to produce an effect or elicit a response from the player.
  
• Particle effects seem to be just huge pixel blobs moving around on-screen. At least try to make more detailed effects. Use dithering or something, for crying out loud.
  
• The music seems to be an odd combination of NES and SNES music. While the NES touch makes it look like it's trying too hard to be retro, it's a cool and catchy composition nonetheless.
• Modern lighting and shader effects. They seem off on a game trying to look so decidedly pixelated. This goes into what I was saying about hip, retro, indie, 8-bit pixel art games that I see so often these days.
  
• Mapping items to buttons, a la Oracle of Ages/Seasons? I'm down with that; it was one thing the original ALTTP didn't do.
• Gameplay-wise, it seems too close to the Zelda games for comfort. Maybe that's intentional, but, unfortunately, most people I know would rather just play Zelda. Give people a reason to play this game over Zelda, be it a gameplay mechanic, art style, just anything. Kudos to the devs if this is their first game, it's great for a first attempt at a commercial game, but for future games, you need to offer something that several hundred other games aren't already trying to sell.

Sorry if I sound like I'm being an armchair developer here, but this game seems to fall into a lot of pitfalls that modern indie games trip on. Feel free to take what I have with a grain of salt, though.

 

[sup3rgh0st]

The first song that plays is straight from a Royalty Free site... http://freemusicarchive.org/music/V...ager_-_Songs_from_an_Unmade_World_-_03_Shrine Hope that doesn't reflect anything else from the game; it looks like my kind of game.
!EDIT!
Looks like I was right! And it's all legit! The composer has it listed on his website http://visager.us/video-game-audio/

 

[YamiZee]

Isn't this a bit too close to Zelda? Isn't this too similar to even be legal can't they get sued or something

 

[KingVamp]

When some of the people that were against female Link/Linkle said, "make your own game", I don't think someone would take it to heart.

 

[Kioku]

When some of the people that were against female Link/Linkle said, "make your own game", I don't think someone would take it to heart.

It'll be interesting.

 

[jt_1258]

seems like a quick cheap buy for me of the eshop for more zeldaish fun

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When some of the people that were against female Link/Linkle said, "make your own game", I don't think someone would take it to heart.

at least the character in this game seems cuter then Linkle, sorry nintendo but ya kinda lost there

 

[Thirty3Three]

LOOKS SO GOOD.

 

[Bladexdsl]

zelda ripoff with shitty gfx no thanx

 

[Deboog]

zelda ripoff with shitty gfx no thanx

I actually think the graphics (and the music) look fantastic.

 

[Kioku]

zelda ripoff with shitty gfx no thanx

Help! I need a troll translator!

 

[KingVamp]

at least the character in this game seems cuter then Linkle, sorry nintendo but ya kinda lost there

To be fair, Nintendo didn't directly make the character. If Linkle shows up in future games, she probably will be reimagined just like Link's bike.

 

[Bladexdsl]

Help! I need a troll translator!

typical murcian idiot doesn't agree with something so call them a troll. pretty much what you can expect from the I-DRONE GEN gtfo on the list!