#also more elaborate and multi-room puzzles - and give each dungeon more of a unique puzzle style/mechanic

[anarchopuppy]

Did nobody play Cadence of Hyrule??? I can't even find a decent walkthrough or wiki for it, and I can't remember the last time I had that problem with any game, including niche indies

This game is incredible y'all. No game I've played has felt more like the best parts of pre-3D Zelda, including games intentionally meant to and even the Link's Awakening remake. And it manages to do that while being procedurally generated, too. I've been having a gay old time with it

I get the impression that a lot of people bought Cadence of Hyrule and either didn't try it or didn't get very far, then forgot about it. I and a few of my friends did at least, I don't remember if another bigger game came out right after or what. Anyway, if that's you, give it a try, it's fun. And finish Tears of the Kingdom too, the last boss alone is worth it

#pops talks zelda #this isn't sponsored or anything obviously #just a psa since i'm having fun and want y'all to have fun too especially if you already paid for it #i really hope it gets a sequel somehow #there's a lot of potential left to explore in a zelda game like this #especially the dungeons - there's almost no verticality to them like there is in LttP #just stairs like in Z1 #having dynamic procedural interactions between floors with tiles falling out and stuff would be incredible #also more elaborate and multi-room puzzles - and give each dungeon more of a unique puzzle style/mechanic #there's some of that but not enough #making keys scarcer and dungeon-specific like LttP would also help make the spaces feel more interesting #i'm glad that at least one game in the time since Z1 has tried the 'keys as a global resource' design again #i think it was interesting and worth it - but for procedural generation i think it undercuts the design #makes the world feel kinda like a continuous blob rather than distinct dungeons and overworld #which isn't as fun #sorry for rambling i'm crossfaded lol <3 #WAIT i'm not done i know no one's reading this anymore but i don't care #i also love that there are distinct multi-screen areas like towns and lake hylia and death mountain and just random stretches of grass #but those areas don't really have a lot of variation between playthroughs if any #have random sections/areas within the multi-screen zones! #have different variations of the same zone of different sizes to swap out between seeds! #have towns and zones and even dungeons that only appear on some playthroughs #there are more than enough locations to reference just in BotW alone! #oh man cadence of hyrule 2 botw edition kinda like what they did with hyrule warriors would be so sick #spike chunsoft hire me i'm single ;)