Feature: What Is The Zelda ‘Formula’? We Break Down The Secret Recipe

12 ingredients that make a game feel like Zelda.

Have you ever played a game and thought, “This feels a bit like Zelda?” Only the other week, we described the excellent Eastward as “quite a bit like a 2D Zelda game”, and the PC/Xbox game Death’s Door — a title that our sister site Pure Xbox called “a 2021 GOTY contender” when awarding it a 10/10 score back in July — evoked a similar response in reviewers. It’s an influence that goes across all platforms, which is unsurprising due to the extraordinary history and prestige of Nintendo’s series.

Read the full article on nintendolife.com