RPG's similar to The Adventure of Link?...

[ED-057]

Legend of Oasis

[Jon]

If you like Link's Awakening,

PLAY CRYSTALIS NOW.

One of the best games ever.

Also a second nod to Faxanadu.

[doctorx0079]

If you like Link's Awakening,

PLAY CRYSTALIS NOW.

One of the best games ever.

Also a second nod to Faxanadu.

Crystalis is better. Faxanadu is just so-so with all the brown and the weird way you attack.

Also have to give a nod to Deadly Towers!!














nah, just kiddin'.

[Diabollokus]

Shining Wisdom on the sega saturn, very good game but you will want a rapid fire or turbo controller! it has a really annoying game mechanic.

[TLB]

I love this NES game and remember beating it, so I'm looking for other RPG's that are similar.

I just started Link's Awakening on the SNES, and it's beautiful! :D I'm wondering if I should buy the Nintendo Power Guide from Ebay, but so far the game seems pretty self-explanatory. I love the Mode 7 maps!

If you like Link's Awakening,

PLAY CRYSTALIS NOW.

One of the best games ever.

Link's Awakening is on the GB and GBC (DX) :O You be talksin' bout Link to the Past, perhaps?

And I second Crystalis.

Not as good, though >_>

[bucklemyshoe]

Y's Ark of Napishtim for PS2

[ArmoredCore]

Alundra 1 and 2 on psx, true gems in my book especially part 1 !! must play

[dave4shmups]

Ys III

*ducks rotten tomatoes*

How is the Genesis version different from the SNES one??

[elfhentaifan]

Y's Ark of Napishtim for PS2

i love you for saying that just now

(and i love your sig)

[ZOM]

Alundra 1 and 2 on psx, true gems in my book especially part 1 !! must play

I second Alundra - beautiful game, cool puzzles.

this reminds me... Landstalker no one mentioned it yet!?
The game is pure awesomeness, way better than Alundra & Zelda combined.

[Ed Oscuro]

I got my Alundra on the cheap 'cuz of JPN ver

But to play it...

I'll have to check out Crystalis then.

Going to throw in a mention of Sylvan Tale for the Game Gear.

Getsu Fuuma Den also sort of has a Zelda 2 But Better thing going for it as well. Also a pretty darn early game from Konami (1987).

[dave4shmups]

I'm surprised that no one mentioned the Star Tropics games on the NES-or are they just not that good?

[Ed Oscuro]

I started playing Star Tropics a bit recently. The second island is definitely a-MAZE-ing (lol), as in freaking indecipherable, and the battle system is truly wretched.

Basically imagine dungeons where Link has to hop from one platform to another. Sure, it still scrolls, and there are also lots of stretches of space where you can run around normally - but the blasted hopscotch tiles reduce the thing to virtually a flickscreen game when you have to deal with them.

I guess I'll continue trying to play it though.

Bonus points to the game for making sea stretch infinitely long in one dimension yet you end up just outside the map anyway.

But anyway, SYLVAN TALE.

[No_not_like_Quake]

Ys III

*ducks rotten tomatoes*

How is the Genesis version different from the SNES one??

Different aesthetically, obviously. I believe the Genesis version is also harder, with the need to kill the second last boss every time you leave the last dungeon, though I might be wrong.

[dave4shmups]

Ok, I have to ask about Ultima: The Black Gate on the SNES-is it worth getting, or is it a butchered port of Ultima VII on the PC??

[Lordstar]

Alundra for the Ps1.
Hard to crack as hell but awesome.

yeah +1 for alundra

[Ganelon]

Ok, I have to ask about Ultima: The Black Gate on the SNES-is it worth getting, or is it a butchered port of Ultima VII on the PC??

It's been heavily butchered so that there's almost nothing you can interact with and nobody in your party. It's basically a dumbed down version of the PC version in both plot and in mechanics. It's competent in its own right as an ARPG but laughable compared to the masterpiece on the PC. About the only good thing with the port is that you don't need to worry about anybody being hungry anymore.

[Mortificator]

With Exult making it easy to run the PC version on modern machines, there's less motivation to play the SNES Black Gate than there is to make origami with your balls.

The SNES adaption of The False Prophet was good, as was the Master System port of Quest of the Avatar, though the classic Ultima games aren't something everyone will enjoy.

[dave4shmups]

Ok, I have to ask about Ultima: The Black Gate on the SNES-is it worth getting, or is it a butchered port of Ultima VII on the PC??

It's been heavily butchered so that there's almost nothing you can interact with and nobody in your party. It's basically a dumbed down version of the PC version in both plot and in mechanics. It's competent in its own right as an ARPG but laughable compared to the masterpiece on the PC. About the only good thing with the port is that you don't need to worry about anybody being hungry anymore.

Ok, thanks for the warning! Why was Ultima VII released on DOS? I know there were versions of Windows before Windows 95.

[Ganelon]

Windows 3.1 and earlier were not known as good gaming platforms. Not much point in coding a Windows application when DOS was fully compatible at the time (until Win 98)

[Ed Oscuro]

The move from XP -> Vista was nothing compared to the decade-long (so it felt) move from DOS 6.22 to 7.whatever bundled with GUI Windows, and finally to a point of reasonable stability with Windows 95. The only way DOS compatibility got "fixed" was by waiting until the only applications people would want to continue using were games and then killing it off entirely (same deal later on with classic Mac apps on the newer OSes, AFAIK).

[dave4shmups]

Interesting. I'm so used to GUI's, because we had a Mac Plus (and then a Compaq, and now our Sony Viao) that I don't think I'd know what to do with DOS!

Seriously, I wish there was an Onlive for old PC games-in other words a pay download service where you could play older DOS games on your PC, using your GUI. There is Direct to Drive, but I don't think they do any DOS games.

[Ed Oscuro]

DOS is pretty EZ actually. You just type stuff.

Although I'm bad at the configuration aspect, but many games I need to run from DOS come with their own configuration tools (I tried using the configuration tool with the SSI Silver collection, i.e. Gold Box games, and it failed to put one program on the disk for some reason, so I'll have to try again). The old DOS machine I've been using recently could be a mess since I swapped out the old Aztech card and put in a Sound Blaster but didn't change the configuration (so it can be restored quickly + accurately), but it actually works fine. Windows 95 just complains about an error in the configuration when it's loading, but that seems to be it. Oh, the SB software also pops up a splash screen when I start Sim City in Windows, which sometimes kills the sound, but that's just a few seconds of annoyance.

[undamned]

Well, if you enjoyed A Link to the Past on SNES (I'm assuming you still have a SNES?), Soul Blazer is an excellent Zelda style game. You could knock it out in a weekend if you were really into it, but it's just a great game. It's by Enix before they went the way of the dark side.

And as many have mentioned the Ys games, if you have a decent PC, "Ys Oath in Felghana" is a Zelda fan's playground. I can't praise it highly enough. Gamepad support is perfect so you won't even feel like you are playing a PC game
-ud

[it290]

Interesting. I'm so used to GUI's, because we had a Mac Plus (and then a Compaq, and now our Sony Viao) that I don't think I'd know what to do with DOS!

Seriously, I wish there was an Onlive for old PC games-in other words a pay download service where you could play older DOS games on your PC, using your GUI. There is Direct to Drive, but I don't think they do any DOS games.

http://www.gog.com/

[SuperGrafx]

That Rambo game for the NES is very similar to Adventure of Link. It's got the same side view presentation, you get experience for killing enemies, and it's a fairly lengthy game.

[PainAmplifier]

I love this NES game and remember beating it, so I'm looking for other RPG's that are similar.

I just started Link's Awakening on the SNES, and it's beautiful! I'm wondering if I should buy the Nintendo Power Guide from Ebay, but so far the game seems pretty self-explanatory. I love the Mode 7 maps!

If you are looking for something similar, look no farther than Neutopia 1/2. For the Turbo/PCE, this game is so similar it almost reaches pure 'ripoff copy' status...except it's still unique enough that it stands on its own. (Kind of like comparing Doom to Unreal)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7CG2RrmjcU

If you are looking for a pure Zelda gameplay fix, this does the job and then some. It's what Zelda II *should* have been. Not that Zelda 2 was bad, it was a good game on it's own...but the side scrolling never quite felt right compared to the overhead view in the first game.

[Ed Oscuro]

Just finished Secret of Evermore, US version...all I can say is LOLZ. It may be the case that the European version is slightly bugfixed and balanced over the original US release...I hope so.

A bit of a shame to come to the end of the game and get that "all dressed up and nowhere to go" feeling. Not a bad ending, just a lousy endgame (up to the final boss that is).

[dave4shmups]

Interesting. I'm so used to GUI's, because we had a Mac Plus (and then a Compaq, and now our Sony Viao) that I don't think I'd know what to do with DOS!

Seriously, I wish there was an Onlive for old PC games-in other words a pay download service where you could play older DOS games on your PC, using your GUI. There is Direct to Drive, but I don't think they do any DOS games.

http://www.gog.com/

Oh that is too cool! Thanks for the link! And thanks UD for that recommendation. Yeah, I briefly emulated Ultima for the Master System and I really enjoyed it! This thread has the most positive comments on Alundra 2 that I've ever read.

Not that similar to Zelda, but the NES Wizardry games look great, unlike most of the ports of SSI games.

Oh yeah, I LOVE this old game!: http://www.fargoal.com/ More then worth the $10 donation!

[Damocles]

Anyone have the original kanji for Sylvan Tale? I'm having trouble searching for it on Y!J