Nintendo can mine this concept for decades
The draw of demakes is undeniable.
As someone who has played pretty much every retro classic to date, the joy of jumping into a fan-crafted demakejust to see how they interpret things differentlyis a mesmerizing feeling. It’s especially transcendent when you take a 3D or otherwise completely different game and transpose it onto the 2D format.
That’s absolutely what this creator did here with theirZelda: Breath of the Wilddemake in the style ofZeldagames of old likeLink’s Awakening. Ohana Studio (who launched their first game on Steam not too long ago) notes that this is “not a full game,” and that it’s “just a prototype” made out of love for the original Game Boy lineZeldagames. If it gets enough support, they might “make a full non-Zeldasurvival style Game Boy Color style game” out of the concept, substituting in non-Nintendo assets.
Some of theBreath of the Wild-ey things found in the prototype:
It’s a short video, but it should give you a nice little pick-me-up on a Wednesday!
