Dragon Quest And Legend Of Zelda-Inspired RPG Tanzia Is Headed To Switch This Month

it looks a bit crappy....

Dreadful art style. Nope.

Looks straight out of the N64 era, if it's fun I won't care, I already got burned by Yonder Chronicles so I'll wait for reviews on this one first

So why the Gamecube HD graphics?

And that text flooding the screen during combat...

This game can FRO.

That Skeleton King at the end reminded me a Diablo game series. xD

looks pretty good.

The environments seem to take a cue from early World of Warcraft, and those are some cute Wii-era characters.

A full 3D action rpg is a HUGE undertaking for a fledgeling studio, so I fully support the choice to stick with that kind of graphical fidelity. Also makes it easier to release for mobile phones, if they're going that way.

Looking forward to seeing what this is all about!

Looks almost like World of warcraft back in 2004. Same emptiness of landscape. It has been 14 years however, nowadays this level of detail just looks kinda pathetic.

wow, just wow.
How can they think this is acceptable

Think it looks neat, been playing a lot of 'My time at Portia' and they share the same art style.
Might pick it up on Steam once it's out of early access.

Looks like an Android/iOS game. Given my extensive backlog I don't see myself rushing to buy this.

it doesn't look anything like zelda or dragon quest. lol

"Dragon Quest and The Legend of Zelda inspired"
I don't see either to be honest.
Maybe a couple of palm trees, a beach and blue sky kinda look like Zelda, but even then...
And Dragon Quest? huh

If it was a pre-alpha version we are ok, otherwise it doesn't look too good..

Again people judging game by it graphics... really? And we are all Switch owners.. cmn. For me it looks really cool, in some way reminds me of World of Warcraft. And that is a plus.

I don't mind those graphics. Sure they look like something from early days of the gamecube but they are decent. And graphics aren't the reason why I play video games in the first place. But the artstyle is something I dislike. Those characters don't look appealing. Also that world looks like it's just as empty as Hyrule in ocarina of time.. If a smaller studio decides to make an open world 3D game then they should only make only so large that they can really fill it. Another option would have been to make the game look more like link between worlds or ocean horn.
Anyway the gameplay is what makes a game good or bad (for me at least) and judging by the trailer this will be mediocre at best. The main character just doesn't seem to move all that nice.

I mean, it's ambitious for such a small studio to make a game like this, and I actually like the WoW graphics, but everything else about it looks mediocre. If the combat is deep and challenging, it has a good story, and a good price tag, I'll look into it.

Looks alright to me, will wait for some reviews first tho.

The hoards of enemies and aesthetics remind me of Kameo: Elements of Power. Visually it looks like an early 360 game as well. I like the character designs, but it looks like an early Kickstarter game instead of something that is getting a full fledged release in a few weeks.

I like the look of the main character, but nothing else.

I only clicked on this article because I read the heading wrong. I thought it said that Dragon Quest was coming this month, as well as a Zelda inspired RPG. Now I just feel silly.

This is in Early Access on Steam and people seem to think it is fine. Seems like a cheap clone to me at this point - who knows.

Comments on this website are so funny. 99% of people on here are always hootin and hollerin over how great all of those retro 8 bit games look, like Shovel Knight, but you get something that looks like a Gamecube game and everybody comments how bad it looks.

This game looks good to me. Reminds me a lot, maybe too much, of Tak and the Power of Juju. That game had a couple of sequels which weren't much better but this looks like it would scratch that itch.

@Agramonte Cheap clone of what? It looks a lot like Tak to me, maybe PS2 game Ty the Tasmian Tiger. I'd play any 3D platformer back then.

A lot of people said WoW but I've never played that or any other MMO, I'm anti-social. I don't see Zelda or DQ at all, but that's par for the course these days on here.

Will keep an eye on this.

Not very interested myself but I hope the game still sells well.

Graphics aren't amazing but good enough in my book as long as teh gameplay is smooth and fun. Interested in this for sure

Can’t understand the hate with this game. Sounds like all got offended by the reference to Zelda. My position here is if the game has been properly priced or not. Looks like my type of game but looks pricey right now. I also don’t like to text during the fights. Wish the best for this and every game out there.

Pretty sure I read they were inspired by World of Warcraft and haven't seen anywhere anything about dragon quest or zelda. For someone who enjoys the casual aspects of leveling in wow this might be a good inexpensive switch option. But if anyone expects something like zelda based on this article's inaccuracy they could be disappointed.

This looks very cheap

@genericsimon The funniest part is knowing just how picky some people are. A game like this comes out every week, but people tend to nit pick about which one to complain about. Some get a pass, and some don't.

People: Graphics are just a visual style - nothing more and nothing less. Just because it's 2018 it doesn't mean that games HAVE to look a certain way. Again, it's just a style.... similar to pixelated titles. So relax and enjoy the darn game. Or don't.

Hm... When someone says Dragon Quest meets Zelda, I immediately think of the Ys series.

Also immediately felt there is a lot of emptyness in the game along with less details, but hey it can still be a good game.

Huh I also think it looks fine, nice even. Bright colours perfect for a Nintendo console release and the sparse (ish it doesn't seem that bad at all) environments suit imo.

Main character design is very nice also. Although a cross between alien and tribal it's something that can take ages to get right and some big studio's caharacters don't even look as good.

Only thing that bugs me is that ruddy wall of text. You'd hope there would be a setting to turn that off.

There is a lot of love for this on Steam so we'll see. I don't mind the graphics - just a certain look of a certain time - but in HD.

I'm ok with that. In fact I'm quite fond of the art-style and have already seen fair worse on Switch.

I don't get what everyone is complaining about here. I think it looks pretty good considering it's from a small indie studio.

I won't say it looks bad. I guess it looks ok for a low cost game. The problem comes with the gameplay itself... I don't know, it looks too much like an indie game, with that camera movement and so... Let's wait for the review first, and then we can decide. There are many good games coming this summer, so it's definitely not the best time for this, but we'll see, maybe it's a gem and it's totally worth it.

Kind of looks like a single player mmo, but could be interesting. But how is it inspired by Zelda or Dragon Quest?

Cya
Raziel-chan

well that looks cool

Nonsense. I bet a Nintendo Life relative begged for promotion of this game with the words "Zelda" and "Dragon Quest" included in the headline.

Looks like one of those awful mmos tbh.

There's no pre-order discount on either the US or UK eshop !

Well going by the trailer it looks awful, and trailers are really meant to show the best parts of a game to make you buy it. Will be interesting to see what reviews say.

Hmm, not convinced.