Zelda-like games.

Post by **AppleQueso** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 7:12 am

Golden Axe Warrior being the Together Retro game for this month got me thinking about what other Zelda clones are probably out there.

I'm sure we all know of huge ones like Okami and 3D Dot Game Heroes, but there surely must be plenty of others. I want to hear about them, especially if they're actually good!

Post by **swiftzx** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 7:18 am

IIRC, Beyond Good & Evil and Darksiders have been called Zelda-esque games.

Post by **alienjesus** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 9:39 am

AppleQueso wrote:Golden Axe Warrior being the Together Retro game for this month got me thinking about what other Zelda clones are probably out there.

I'm sure we all know of huge ones like Okami and 3D Dot Game Heroes, but there surely must be plenty of others. I want to hear about them, especially if they're actually good!

Neutopia for Turbografx is very definitely a Zelda Clone. Other games that I can think of that are definitely zelda-ish (but not necessarily clones) include the Beyond Oasis series on Mega Drive & Saturn, and Golvellius on Master System. I think half the gameplay of Guardian Legend on NES is like Zelda too, but the other half is a shmup.

Post by **noiseredux** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 10:35 am

Final Fantasy Adventure/Sword of Mana

Post by **KDub** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 11:57 am

Though the series is a side scroller more like Zelda II all of the Wonder Boy (well after the first one) are great action RPGs

Post by **pakopako** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 6:23 pm

Noise already mentioned FFA/Seiken Densetsu (and the other titles in the Action-RPG franchise comes close) and AlienJesus covered a bunch more (though I would argue that TGL is an action/adventure/RPG, it's not the same melee/fantasy that Zelda was).

From that other board...

Quintet's Soul Blader trilogy on the SNES (and GranStream Saga on the PSX)
Soul Blazer, Illusion of Gaia (Time), Terranigma

Crusader of Centy (GEN) is an excellent spiritual successor to Golden Axe. (Well, spiritual that you can squee at the fanservice moments.)

Nintendo's own Star Tropics series mirror various Zelda games.

SNK's excellent Crystalis one-shot. (Ignore the NST remake on the GBC.)

And don't forget the Ys series. (Ys III resembles Zelda II in a few ways.)

Post by **Hazerd** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 7:27 pm

I have the perfect game

Gunple: Gunman's Proof

Website · Post by **Hobie-wan** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 7:59 pm

Hazerd wrote:Gunple: Gunman's Proof

Holy crap that looks awesome. I think I need a translated repro of that.

HLTB · Post by **Xeogred** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 8:10 pm

pakopako wrote:Quintet's Soul Blader trilogy on the SNES (and GranStream Saga on the PSX)
Soul Blazer, Illusion of Gaia (Time), Terranigma

Beat me to it.

This thread I made recently awhile back might help too:
http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopi ... 11&t=33023

Post by **BurningDoom** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 8:53 pm

As was pointed out to me on another similar thread here:

3D Dot Heroes on PS3

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