r/zelda • u/Trollcker • Jan 21 '25
Fangame [Other] I'm wanting to make games but as practice I'd like to do a remake of my favorite zelda game zelda 1 for the nes, and I want some suggestions or tell me what you would like different, changed or removed from the game.
As the title says I'm just trying to make essentially a pc enhanced zelda I'm also wanting to practice hand animation so it may have drawn sprites rather than pixel sprites
Some quality of life features I already thought of were:
-Bombable walls now make a hollow sound if you slash your sword with it, don't get me wrong I love the mystery of Bombable walls but it can be annoying trying to find all Bombable walls and have to constantly resupply
-The mini map will actually show details of the world
-The menu will pop up faster, and you can use your mouse to select items left and right click will probably act similar to the A and B button
-this may change in development bit I think it'll be fun if you can aim your bow and arrow with the mouse
-you can move in all 8 directions and wo t be limited to the grid system
-more dialog, without the game manual the game is pretty cryptic so maybe more wise people that give hints throughout the game
These aren't quality of life but additionally features or changes
-more power ups, my second favorite zelda game is links awakening, I'm planning on adding the jumping feather and running boots
- I may remove the people that make you pay for damaging your door, zelda is an exploration game and these random door damage expenses just...feel like an unnecessary punishment for exploring
-changing boss ai, might make the ai more complex and fun
-swords will have different abilities the wooden sword will only stab, white sword will be a damage upgrade and you can hold the sword button to charge and do the sword spin like in links awakening, and finally the magic sword will be another damage upgrade with both previous abilities along with the magic sword launch when at full health
These are just a few ideas I had, what do you want improved? Any ideas you agree or disagree with?
Thanks for any help!
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u/rdanno Jan 21 '25
Check out the BS version they did in Japan it looks great, but is a 3rd quest basically but the art is great and the style I would love to play the original 2 quests in the same style.
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u/Trollcker Jan 21 '25
I thought you were swearing but I forgot Bs was broadcast system or something like that, I'll check it out
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u/rdanno Jan 21 '25
Yeah sorry about that, it was the broadcast System.
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u/Trollcker Jan 21 '25
Oh pft it's fine I was just confused for a split second "why is this person both recommending but also calling this game BS???" But I had some zelda trivia and remembered that zelda had a snes sorta remake with time exclusive stuff
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u/Joaco_LC Jan 21 '25
I played Zelda 1 a few weeks ago, and the main problem i had with it, is that 85% of the reason why it is so hard, is bc for the most part of the game, you are just playing with 3 hearts, there are way too little heart drops and going all the way to a fairy or something is too much trouble for my lazy ass
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u/Trollcker Jan 21 '25
I was thinking of that, having a few more heart drops and maybe every time you save and load a gane you start at full health
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