Arzette is a really, really good game. It's an homage rather than a parody and I'm happy it exists this way. It shows us in an alternate timeline, the Zelda CD-I games could have been great & that there was something special about them

Put aside how they "ruin" the characters, add just a little polish & you can see how charming they could be. Make the levels more intuitive to navigate and you can see that the levels were always beautiful. And if the CD-I soundtrack just added... Actually, that was the one thing that always slapped about the CD-I games, but Arzette's OST rocks, too!

But even on its own merits the game still succeeds. It's almost like a mini-metoridvania with a level selector rather than an interconnected world, but you still get that same gameplay loop of starting out weak, getting the hang of the game, and by the end you're crushing every enemy on your path to the end.

Arzette is a short game, but well worth every ruby you spend on it. If I had to sum it up in one word it is, unironically, good.

I am surprised at how legitimately good this is. But it reminds me more of Shantae than Zelda CD-i. But thank you for retaining the creepy charm of Faces & Gamelon while making the writing stronger, to the point that Arzette makes quite a transformation through the game.

I would suggest going for 100%, because of how cool the unlocks for finishing everything are. Easy recommend. I can only hope this is sourced in future YTPs, as most people have said.

Also, as much as I don't like Limited Run, they made a replica CD-i controller that works on PC and Switch. And god bless them for doing that, that's brilliant.

love the game, this is easily one of the best Metroidvania games that I’ve ever played, but god, did it HAVE to have a text to speech AI voice actor for one of the NPCs? I know it was an overlooked detail according to interview with the Devs but that’s so fucked regardless. any kind of AI invading into the video game world is vile and disgusting, regardless of intention. hopefully it’ll be out of the game soon but even releasing a game with something like that still in the final version is just straight up unacceptable.

UPDATE: it's been patched.