Cadence of Hyrule: Finally, a good Zelda randomizer

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Of Zelda and Link, which will you main?
	Zelda
	Link

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Roluth posted:

I'm excited for this, but I have to say this one more time...

The existence of this game is a complete paradox to me. How in the world did somebody convince Nintendo executives to let an indie developer touch one of their IPs and make a crossover?

I can't be bothered to find the article but the story is crazier than you'd think. IIRC the devs wanted to maybe add a Zelda character as DLC for their next Necrodancer game, but when they asked Nintendo about it they were instead asked "why don't you just make it a Zelda game?"

it was Nintendo's idea

e: beaten

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abraxas posted:

Well it's 15 minutes past midnight in Germany here and they just put up the new Larry game and Radiation City, whatever that is. Guess it's not getting a midnight release Gonna have to go to bed and then obsessively refresh the eShop at work all day.

not only that but Cadence is still listed as "Planned release date:" instead of "Playable from:" :tinfoil:

I need it nowwwww

# ¿ Jun 12, 2019 23:18

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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa :dogcited:

# ¿ Jun 13, 2019 19:18

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I've already died like 5 times loving up Nayru's Love

game is so gooooood

# ¿ Jun 13, 2019 19:36

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Frankston posted:

The two damage spear seems hilariously overpowered, I'm running around with 70-something diamonds and over 1000 rupees and nothing can touch me.

same, except three times as many diamonds and rupees

I died over and over until I could start a run with a spear, I've been using it since and nothing can touch me. I've explored most of the map now and done a couple of dungeons, game is loving awesome

American McGay posted:

Oh poo poo the windmill song is in this.

d'ya like jazz?

# ¿ Jun 13, 2019 22:49

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Reveilled posted:

Also no additional characters so far as I can tell, just Cadence/Link/Zelda.

not true

I'm stuck right now. Killed the 4 bosses but can't progress further, I know I need some sort of Hibiscus Potion but I've explored the entire map and have no idea where to find it. Even the hint system isn't helping, since it's just pointing me to Link

# ¿ Jun 14, 2019 00:29

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thanks, everyone

Reveilled posted:

Re: potion
it's under the big grave in the village

Re: characters, who? How? I guess I missed them.

there's at least one you can unlock by giving deku seeds to Tingle

another question: there are a couple of spots where the map tells me there's a hidden entrance and/or chest (death mountain) but there's no cracked wall or other obvious entrance. Any idea how to find them?

# ¿ Jun 14, 2019 00:46

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Coxswain Balls posted:

Holy poo poo, and from mklachu no less.

holy poo poo I missed that

that's incredible :allears:

# ¿ Jun 14, 2019 01:32

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just beat the final boss :toot:

# ¿ Jun 14, 2019 02:42

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Pollyanna posted:

Oh god, what the hell do I do when a huge group of enemies surrounds me?

pretty sure the only answer is "don't get into that situation in the first place" :v:

e: the file select screen makes it look like there are 5 characters, has anyone found that many yet?

# ¿ Jun 14, 2019 04:08

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Roluth posted:

I did the thing, and all I got was a stamina upgrade.

# ¿ Jun 14, 2019 04:42

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ImpAtom posted:

I can't imagine how you say half those items are pointless. the feather alone lets you take hilarious shortcuts

Not to mention how insanely overpowered it is once you get the down thrust, since you can jump on an enemy and then just jump from head to head completely invulnerable :haw:

# ¿ Jun 14, 2019 17:41

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Elvis_Maximus posted:

Same here, though I'm still going through my run. How do you make the jump actually jump in a useful way? Do you have to charge it or something?

well, if you've got the down thrust you can jump on top of an enemy and use it a springboard, you can skip a lot of stuff using that

unrelated: I saw some people saying that you need rumble for this game because of the Lost Woods - I played with rumble turned off and it just changes the Tingle Dowser to make sound instead. You do not need rumble :eng101:

_{also I went through the place before getting the item anyway...}

# ¿ Jun 14, 2019 19:24

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Jose Oquendo posted:

Ok so I feel totally lost in this game. Once you pick your character, what the gently caress do I do? I just feel like I'm wandering aimlessly. I haven't found any dungeons yet. I know the maps are random, so you can't tell me exactly what to do, but which dungeon should I hit first? Where is it generally located, like what area.

I'll take any nudge in the right direction.

the map fills in as you explore it so as long as you're exploring around you won't really get "lost"

as for the dungeons, they're in the swamp, death mountain, the desert and near the castle

# ¿ Jun 14, 2019 23:33

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RyokoTK posted:

Permadeath mode seems to have a higher base level of difficulty than regular, or maybe it's the difference between story and single-character. The shops are twice as expensive and late-game palette swaps were spawning right from the start. Getting a palette-swapped Lynel in the first screen right of Link's house was a bit of an eye-opener.

I beat the regular game with four total deaths but I've died at least ten times without even finding a single weapon or completing a heart container. It's tough.

that explains it, I did feel like it was a lot harder

which is to say... I made it more than 2 screens only once in half a dozen attempts

# ¿ Jun 15, 2019 19:30

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explosivo posted:

I'm replaying Necrodancer now after buying it again on switch for $4 and man, there are some real bad soundtracks in there.

when you say 'bad' you mean that as in 'bad rear end' right

I'm attempting permadeath runs now and so far the furthest I've gotten is like... five screens. They ramp up the difficulty hard when you can meet enemies that pretty much one-shot you right out of the gate.

# ¿ Jun 15, 2019 23:39

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Unlucky7 posted:

Speaking of Necrodancer, I got it on sale for switch and should I go through that before getting Cadence, or are they different enough that I could go back and forth if I wanted to?

they're different games, and you don't just "go through" Necrodancer what with it being a roguelike and all :v:

both games are fantastic and you should play both imo

# ¿ Jun 15, 2019 23:53

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Zoig posted:

In fact, in terms of difficulty, if you wanted a curve cadance is way easier, even including permadeath because it has some really nasty characters you can play as, and its expected of you to try to beat the game playing a character that dies in one hit, can only use a dagger, and will instantly die if you miss a beat.

while Cadence is a lot easier, I do wish they would have spread the difficult out a bit more (and hopefully that's something that can happen in an update!)

right now the difficulty is extremely frontloaded, even more so in permadeath mode. At the start of the game you're struggling with little health and a bad weapon, but by the midgame when you've got a few extra hearts and a better weapon the difficulty all but disappears. In my first playthrough I ended with something like 5400 rupees and 250 diamonds :v:

# ¿ Jun 16, 2019 00:35

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Deviant posted:

Well, that solved his problem. I'm still confused as gently caress as to where my two pieces of heart and Ice Rod are though. I'm gonna have to check every map panel for bombable caves and tingle secrets.

it'd probably take less fuckin time to replay the drat game with a different random seed.

hasn't been confirmed yet but it might be that some maps generate without 100% of the items and heart pieces, fwiw

# ¿ Jun 16, 2019 05:23

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# ¿ May 16, 2024 08:53

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SynthesisAlpha posted:

Yes yes you are. Maybe the broadsword and flail are easy to gently caress up and lunging with the rapier can land you in trouble.

But spear? Spear is life dude. It's dagger but you don't have to be next to a baddie. There's no accidents because it's just straight ahead. It's safe and wonderful and wins you the game.

Spear is just an organic way of letting people enable easy mode

I died over and over until I could start a run with the spear and then completed the entire game without dying

# ¿ Jun 20, 2019 17:54

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