Comment on I finished Mina the Hollower 100%! (Plus short review)
early_riser@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If I had a nickel for every indie game inspired by Zelda and Dark Souls where you play as an animal I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s odd it happened twice.
Katana314@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think to be fair, Dark Souls was a bit inspired by Zelda. Even at the time, Zelda was not the only exploration game that scrolled screen by screen.
We’ve seen a few games that tried to look way back to the earliest Zelda for inspiration, which is very different from modern, Disneytendo Zelda. Tunic, Dark Souls, Breath of the Wild, Mina, all took that inspiration in a different direction.
datavoid@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Dark Souls is the closest feeling a game has ever given me to Ocarina of Time. In my mind, everything post Anor Londo is basically the “adult” era.
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Yes. I haven’t seen anybody else say it, but everything in Dark Souls took me back to Ocarina of Time like
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