Shalnor Legends: Sacred Lands

Can't take the clunky character control and the mentality of this game to pharm gold for upgrades does not help. Maybe for a dollar this game is worth it.

Shalnor Legends is a simple labour of love with classic Zelda-esque gameplay. It's got its ups, it's got its downs; it FEELS like an indie game. It took me years to finish it because I put it down and picked it up again much, much later. I like simplicity. When you pick up the game after not playing it for eight months, you don't have to redo everything just to remember what's going on. The game doesn't hold much surprise in terms of story, but it did well within its own limitations. Simplicity also suggests that a lot of excess weight was cut from the game, which may or may not be true. Upgrading everything (if everything is your goal) is an awful grind, but otherwise it can be a challenge. The hit detection is a bit janky. The game is a bit dated (and was retro when it launched, so still dated). Heroic Mode is for the crazies; base game grind for 100% was bad enough; I'm not going there. But I had fun. For ~$10, I think it's worth it. Part of that is indie support, but part of it is "$10 isn't unreasonable". While I won't be 100%ing the game, having fun was the goal and I definitely did that.

after 100% this game on Heroic mode i Actually in joyed it more then i thought i would even to know in order to 100% this game you gotta go back and forth breaking barrels for like over 5 hours it sounds Tedious i know and for some reason i only new about the fishing mini game after i got full sword arrow armor ability but honestly that's just a mistake on my half

Mais um finalizado, dessa vez, um game mais ao estilo zelda de nintendinho. Ele é legal mas tem um problema: quando o jogo te faz farmar, para mim tem que ser um desses jeitos ou até os dois: ou ser automatico ou ser divertido, ele não é assim nesse caso, é bem chato ficar pegando coin pra poder dar upgrade mas tirando isso é legalzinho e nostalgico.

I recommend this game. Shalnor Legends: Sacred Lands is very similar to an old Zelda game. I used to play The Legend of Zelda The Minish Cap on the Game Boy Advanced and was looking for a game similar to that. So I gave this game a try because it looked like it and it met my expectations. + Xbox One controller works with the game. + The art style is nostalgic. - Sometimes the game freezes. So then I had to restart the game.

I really want to recommend this game, its a fun little Zelda clone with some interesting elements, but when I've played the game for less than an hour and already had the game freeze bug twice, causing me to lose all of my progress , it makes me not even want to continue. If this gets fixed I would totally recommend this game, but until that happens, its not even worth the .99c sadly.

Generally fun, cute little game IF you really enjoy games like 16-bit Zelda, A Link to the Past. The art style and general gameplay is clearly taken from Zelda, but much less fluid and dumbed down. The game has that Zelda charm, and that's why I continued to play. However...there are issues. First off, you must love grinding. Half the game play is simply grinding for gold and material items to make potions to upgrade your equipment. Gold does come pretty fast and furious, but the items are quite expensive to buy. Movement is extremely sluggish and the music is pretty bland and uninspiring. Very little combat needed outside of boss fights, which feel uninspired as well.

It is a fun simply adventure/zelda style game. If it were not for the constant screen freezing i would say that it has a high replay value. Replay value is one of my main criteria of a good game.