Pyrian on 3/12/2018 at 21:17

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...Those two look virtually identical.

desin on 3/12/2018 at 23:27

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Outcast
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHbXtaVQ49Y)

demagogue on 4/12/2018 at 06:58

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I asked about a Zelda clone that mixed top-down and side scrolling (http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=123089&page=4&p=1774323&viewfull=1#post1774323) before, with (http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=123089&page=5&p=1774689&viewfull=1#post1774689) this follow-up. I think it may have also been for a hand-held console, the player-character was blue, there were upgrades and multiple weapons, I remember a castle past a green foresty area going S or SW in the map (strangely specific memory). You had to get upgrades to fight the later bosses.

The thing is now it's been so long that my memory I had of it when I asked then is about gone. Somebody said Govellius, but the graphics are too primitive. I convinced myself to accept it then, since I didn't see any other good contenders, but it never felt right... It's interesting I'm going by my old clues from that thread kind of blind, though, since I don't remember that much now.

Anyway, just in the little research of "Zelda clones" for this post, Legend of the Golden Axe was looking really familiar, but I don't see side-scrolling (which is why I probably rejected it the first time around), but that led me to its sequel Ax Battler: A Legend of Golden Axe. It's checking a lot of boxes just on first glance: 2nd gen graphics, blue p.c., top-down world looks right, side-scrolling missions, new weapons and upgrades including of course an axe (which I remembered in my older post but not now), for a handheld console (Sega Game Gear... I think I forgot that earlier, but I remember it now), and even the castle past the foresty area SW. I'm going to watch a playthrough or find a way to play some of it to confirm it... It's definitely beating Govellius already.

It's an interesting game to play trying to figure these things out by old memory, with strangely very specific and concrete clues, but in the back corners of the game that make it hard to search for.

Edit: I didn't mention why I cared about it. It's a game I played when I visited my cousin, he rented it from a shop for the week (which used to be something people did. Hard to imagine that today.) So it's tied up with the happy memories I have hanging out with him & helps explain why I'm really lost as to system, date, title, etc...

I knew it couldn't be Govellius, not only because the graphics weren't up to snuff, but because when I played it recently, it just wasn't really fun, not like this game in my memory. Yes, nostalgia affects that kind of thing, but maybe not to that extent.

icemann on 4/12/2018 at 15:30

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Golden Axe Warrior was excellent as well. Better than Zelda 1 by a long shot. Excellent music as well. HIGHLY recommend it.