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Think Outside the 2D BoxĪs a Zelda clone, puzzles make up a large majority of Hazelnut Bastille’s gameplay. Character designs never look too outlandish or boring for the setting, leading to everything looking like a cohesive and pleasing experience. The character art in the dialog boxes also looks great.

Unlike some other indie games that go for a retro look, everything we saw here could potentially be achieved with 16bit hardware. Smokey oak on the palate followed by sweet notes of maple syrup with a choir of cinnamon, hazelnut, apple and pear. The top-down look and map design might immediately look like something straight out of a classic Zelda game, but it also wouldn’t look too out of place in games like Chrono Trigger.Įvery single sprite in Hazelnut Bastille looks fantastic. Hazelnut Bastille is a topdown adventure game with metroidvania elements which seeks to continue the great lineage of superior design from the mid 90's- the moment in time when mainstream 2D titles reached arguably their greatest level of refinement, in titles such as Super Metroid and Link to the Past. Looking at some screenshots of the game, it’s incredible to think of the amount of care and planning that must have gone to achieve Hazelnut Bastille’s visual style. However, as is the case with these ARPG games, the simple story suddenly turns into a grand tale of adventure, legends, and lost civilizations. To recover this treasure, she’ll embark on a journey where she’ll meet other castaways like her. You play as a young woman who has lost something very dear to her. From the very beginning, it’s clear that the developers of this game tried to best to replicate Nintendo’s visual style while making a modern adventure game featuring some of the quality of life improvements we’ve come to expect from modern titles. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean that the game has to be derivative in any way. The project is being developed in the Unity Engine, in a custom framework built in C, and features its own custom development tools and level editors which allow us to manage environmental art and level design scripting in one.

HAZELNUT BASTILLE SPRITE FULL

Article taken from things first: yes, Hazelnut Bastille was clearly inspired by The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past. Hazelnut Bastille started as a prototyping project in April of 2016, and has been in full time development ever since. No exact date but it will be this year and before Hazelnut Bastille which also doesn't have a date yet. A good reminder it exists, as I imagine plenty forgot they were doing two games. So now the Steam page is live for Dawnthorn, you can wishlist and follow. Players will experience hectic, item-driven real-time combat, and solve puzzles and challenges spanning one single room, or the entire game-world! The experience features over 9 unique dungeons, and a sprawling overworld linking everything together, filled to the brim with rich characters, subquests, mini-games, and dozens of secrets. It features action-adventure style gameplay. I mentioned in our previous article on this, that I thought they were being rather ambitious to do two full-length adventures but hopefully this means they will gain a lot of valuable experience to make both games do well.ĭawnthorn is a topdown, pixel-art ARPG with a character and experience firmly rooted in the 8bit era. View cookie preferences.įree for everyone who backed Hazelnut Bastille at $5+, so it's a pretty sweet gesture. YouTube videos require cookies, you must accept their cookies to view.

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