Os desenvolvedores de Crypt of the Necrodancer conseguiram de alguma forma convencer a Nintendo a permitir que eles fizessem um spin-off de Zelda numa collab com as mecânicas de seu hit.

Tecnicamente o jogo tem muito mérito, mas eu pessoalmente achei ele tedioso. Jogar no modo clássico, ritmico, é chato e constantemente te obriga a ficar se movimentando conforme a batida, o que não é satisfatório.

No modo especial, livre, a cadência (trocadilho intencional) do movimento é ruim, pois trava o movimento como se você estivesse andando num tabuleiro de xadrez o tempo inteiro.

Pra piorar, as dungeons e desafios são bem genéricos-"zelda", no sentido que todas parecem um arremedo sem muita inspiração dos jogos 2D da série.

No fim das contas acaba sendo um jogo um bocado medíocre. Abandonado sem pena.

Crypt of the Necromancer is a goddamn masterpiece, but this... hoooo boy.

The move from a rogue-lite to a fully explorable world doesn't really fit right - due to the size and the lack of anything to do but kill things, a lot of the world becomes essentially needless, as why waste time & resources clearing a screen just to get a probably-useless item? The game only fell into place for me within the dungeons, which were essentially just standard levels from CotN. When you've got to work the space with enemies and projectiles in conjunction with your weapons - beautiful stuff.

Actually, the amount of weapons/items also seems bit much. A lot of them I just didn't use as other's seemed to do the same thing in fights (why use the Boomerang over the Longshot?).

Even the soundtrack is so-so compared to the godly OST from Crypt - yeah, some of them sound good but you'll be hearing them so often they quickly fade.

At it's core it's still a good game, but I just don't think it achieves everything it could with this mash-up.

Biggest criticism is that the main mode actually has the inverse of a difficulty curve; the game starts out challenging and intense, but you soon get so many power ups and potions and buffs that by the end of the game you can pretty much just tank through everything without much thought. It's sad that early on I felt encouraged to learn enemy patterns, whilst by the end of the game putting in any effort to learn new patterns felt unnecessary.

In general it was pretty fun and charming, though, and this re-envisioned Hyrule was a lot of fun to explore. Worse than Crypt from a gameplay perspective, but the added flavour makes the experience worthwhile regardless.

this game is basically a loveletter to people who are already necrodancer fans, and is a nice little side game for people who are fans of zelda. it takes the elements of necrodancer and puts it into a zelda fashion so it has a much larger, more open world compared to the linear dungeon layout of necrodancer, which works almost TOO well with the gameplay style. like with necrodancer, you're still going to need to be rhythmically able to be able to play this game properly, as the beatless mode practically turns it into a very weird chess-like game of zelda. the game is even more replayable than necrodancer is, and has more polish and better sprite art, along with original music and fantastic remixes of existing zelda songs. if you're a zelda fan, play the demo to see if you're into it, and if you're a necrodancer or rhythm game fan, absolutely get it