I'll wait for the Zelda version and see what everyone says. Especially from people who are like me, that don't like randomly generated levels or roguelikes. Like I think I said, I'm sure it's good just it's probably not for me.
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Cadence of Hyrule - Crypt of the NecroDancer Featuring The Legend of Zelda announced (spring 2019)
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I'll wait for the Zelda version and see what everyone says. Especially from people who are like me, that don't like randomly generated levels or roguelikes. Like I think I said, I'm sure it's good just it's probably not for me.
Well, that's my GOTY for the switch right there. Adore Crypt of the Necrodancer. Finally a reason to dust it off again
For those who aren't great at Rhythm games, it's not as difficult as it seems.
Play as Bard for a bit to get a feel for the movement patterns and game play. He doesn't need to follow any rhythm, enemies only move when he does. I do believe that actually beating a zone with him doesn't advance the game, but it helps tremendously for practice, and unlocking items/collecting diamonds.
I played for like 3 hours last night since I realized I never actually got passed Zone 2. Made it to Zone 3 last night lol
Play as Bard for a bit to get a feel for the movement patterns and game play. He doesn't need to follow any rhythm, enemies only move when he does. I do believe that actually beating a zone with him doesn't advance the game, but it helps tremendously for practice, and unlocking items/collecting diamonds.
I played for like 3 hours last night since I realized I never actually got passed Zone 2. Made it to Zone 3 last night lol
Folks, I realized something a little bit ago:
Gleeokenspiel.
This pun is beautiful.
Not really. BS Zelda can't even be replayed on the original hardware because it was only available during select windows, like the Splatoon timed demos. I can still play my original cart of Ocarina on my N64 whenever I want.
I tried Crypt years ago after hearing amazing things and didn't like it at all, just gave it another chance and I couldn't do it.
Now I'm way less excited. Hopefully the updated visuals make the difference, I tend to put aesthetics over everything else when it comes to enjoying games.
Now I'm way less excited. Hopefully the updated visuals make the difference, I tend to put aesthetics over everything else when it comes to enjoying games.
glockenspiel is like a xylophone. all the bosses in CotN are instrument themed (I think), so it's carrying over to the Zelda bosses
You people are like a Zelda almanacThis is called a Glockenspiel:
This Zelda boss is a Gleeok:
Thus, Gleeokenspeil.
Hopefully the music isn't all remixes of old Zelda stuff. Like, if there are 25 tracks, I'd want 10 of them to be brand new.
All I did was google Gleeok. For some reason I already knew what a glockenspiel was.
I knew glockenspiel too. Had no idea the random hydra looking thing from a past Zelda game was called a gleeok.
They all have ridiculous names. I remember seeing a lot of them in areas in BotW too. In fact Gleeok has a bridge named after it-
There's also a fire breathing dragon named Aquamentus for some reason. And of course Dodongo and Manhandla.
Even worse are the standard enemy names. Bats are Keese, snakes are Ropes, and rabbits for some insane reason are "Pols Voice". I'm convinced whoever named these things was on quite an assortment of drugs.
It's my favorite series, I know a lot of useless trivia about it :P
Most are actually music genre-themed, but yes:
Death Metal (grim reaper with an electric guitar)
King Conga (gorilla with a conga line of zombies)
Deep Blues (chessboard with blues-outfitted queen and king)
etc.
Anyone wants to try guessing some of the music-ified Zelda bosses? I wonder if they'll just go for "Canon" with "Ganon" (much as he was just "Cannon" in Enter the Gungeon). :)
Well we already saw Guitarmos in the trailer. I feel like we're gonna get instrument puns for all of the bosses this time.
I don't know why silly themed puns make me smile, but they do. One of the reasons I love CotD and ETG so much. :)
In this case, I'm mostly using the timeline and the "The Legend of Zelda" label as what determines something as mainline. I see your point, though. It's always subjective.
Sure Nintendo has licensed out the series to other companies before but the frequency at which they licensed out their entire IP collection is noticeably higher on Switch than past hardware lifespans. I think we're going to see on average 4 Nintendo IP licensed out per year instead of ( I don't have hard numbers here) 1 IP on average per year.
I found it and gave it a whirl, game is really fun, some enemies are difficult to fight such as minotaurs or hordes of skeletons, slimes, and bats. Will
be picking it up here for sure then. Thanks for all your help!
We should start pitching the puns and see how many we get right.
Technotites
Dobongos
OctoRock(ers)
And so on..
Pols Voice are ghosts iirc. With, uh, big rabbit ears and whiskers.They all have ridiculous names. I remember seeing a lot of them in areas in BotW too. In fact Gleeok has a bridge named after it-
There's also a fire breathing dragon named Aquamentus for some reason. And of course Dodongo and Manhandla.
Even worse are the standard enemy names. Bats are Keese, snakes are Ropes, and rabbits for some insane reason are "Pols Voice". I'm convinced whoever named these things was on quite an assortment of drugs.
Their name probably derives from how you could more easily defeat them in the FDS original, by shouting into the microphone on the Famicom's 2P controller. Since the NES had no microphone they were made vulnerable to arrows instead for the western release.
Dobongos is amazing, holy shit. I hope that's what they went for. :D
I honestly never knew the Famicom had a microphone in the controller at all. Very interesting.
This begs the question, was any sort of localization done on the names? You'd think if they knew shouting wouldn't do anything in the Western version then they would probably change the name, right?
But then what will Bongo Bongo play?
Might happen in Japan. Spike Chunsoft is publishing the game there.
I mean, the Oracle games were released on the 3DS, ditto for Link's Awakening DX. Ocarina received a remastered/remade port on the same console. I can literally play Hyrule Fantasy and The Adventure of Link right now on my Switch. These games were never locked in old hardware.
Also I never said anything about canon? Just mainline vs. spin-off.
Also the issue with the format for the BS Zelda games is bigger than it not being available: besides the fact that you had to download them, they literally had live broadcasts that went with them, things had timings based on that, music changes, that's all lost.
It all works out now, cause when they brought them back in Phantom Hourglass, you HAD to use the DS microphone to beat them at all.
This is a bunch of nonsense.
The 3D Zeldas obviously are the same type of game as the 2D ones. They're all action adventure games with an emphasis on item use, exploration and puzzle solving over raw combat and all possess similar overworld/dungeon structures (yes even BoTW has this structure).
Hyrule Warriors is obviously a different game than these, with being an emphasis on linear stages with hack and slash combat and territory control. It's a spin off because it takes some aesthetic elements from the mainline and overlays them over the Musou gameplay.
That gameplay isn't my thing, but visually it's amazing. I'd love a new Zelda game that looks exactly like that.
chill chill chill, I mentioned the 3DS ports in my post buddy, my point is that if your argument was so universal then it would apply even back before the games were ported at all (Link's Awakening on Switch was just announced last month!)
You can ask any Zelda fan before the 3DS was out if they would disallow a game into a series discussion just because it was on a gameboy, a defunct console. Obviously you'd be laughed off the board which is why I don't like the argument that just because a game is hard to access it should lose its status of being part of the series.
Canon wasn't the core of any of my arguments either, I just think people use arbitrary logic to decide whether a game is part of any category at all. Much like you did by arguing that a Zelda game is only a Zelda game as long as it has the name or if it's still playable.
All my arguments are about the usefulness of categories my dude. You're arguing that they should be categories by genres, which I agree is a good way to pile them together, but I would agree with anyones arbitrary category anyway.
My original position was that Cadence of Hyrule is a mainline title much like the Capcom Zelda games because my arbitrary category must allow third-party Zelda games to be part of the mainline series.
I bought Necrodancer to test this out and man, it's a lot of fun. One of the better rogue likes I've played recently
Underrated but appreciated reference.
Can't wait for this game, CofN is in my top 20 of all time, adding Zelda to the mix and thinking of EDM remixes of classic songs gets me so hyped up.