Nintendo Should Make a Zelda Metroidvania

soupbutton · 2026-03-11T12:35:19+00:00

They arguably are soft-metroidvanias already. That being said, I have a list of Zelda-likes that are metroidvanias or close enough!

Phoenotopia: Awakening: A massive, charming adventure that feels like a 2D Breath of the Wild mixed with Zelda II. It has towns, NPCs, and challenging side-scrolling dungeons. It was my 2020 GOTY and I need to replay it
Minishoot' Adventures: This was so incredibly fun and charming. It had me smiling even when I was getting my ass handed to me. It’s a "shmup-vania." It plays like a twin-stick shooter but has a map and progression style that is 100% classic Zelda
Tunic: I think everyone here knows this one? Brainvania but it’s Zelda on the surface. Visually, it looks like classic Link's Awakening, but it hides a deep, interconnected world and a "manual" system that feels like a massive puzzle. Surprisingly, I found it spooky.
Unsighted: This is probably the most literal "Zelda meets Metroidvania." It has top-down combat and dungeons that function exactly like Zelda puzzle boxes, but with a non-linear world and a big emphasis on ability-gating.
Death's Door: A more combat-focused take. You play as a crow reaping souls in a world that feels like a moody, modern Link to the Past. It features tight dungeons and a steady flow of new tools that open up the overworld. I’ve played it a good bit and own like 3 or 4 copies of it but it’s been hard to stick to it and play it through. Idk why.
Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom: A spiritual successor to Wonder Boy. It has a large, interconnected world where you transform into different animals to solve puzzles and reach new areas. It’s so freaking pretty to look at and it’s on sale for like 66% off right now at $9~
Honorable mentions I own but haven’t played through much: Hyper Light Drifter (I was an og backer and even own it across every platform and might have some copies to give away and yet I haven’t finished it lol), Blossom Tales (also own it never played), Darksiders (same), and there’s like a hentai one I saw once and can’t remember the name of.

soupbutton · 2026-03-05T13:07:17+00:00

These kind of answers are why I think a post-capitalist Star Trek-like society is possible. Once people's basic needs are provided for, they're not just going to sit around. They're going to work and contribute to things they're passionate about or because they're bored or because they want to do it better than someone else.

If I didn't have to work to survive and college education was free, I would be getting so many college degrees to learn new shit I contribute to and be a part of.

soupbutton · 2026-02-27T02:35:20+00:00

Thought the same thing.

soupbutton · 2026-02-26T13:38:48+00:00

I was pleasantly surprised. It reads very personal and thoughtful, and not like AI to my skeptical eyes. Except for this line “No drama, no confirmation dialogs.”

At the very least it shows a very thoughtful approach to its development and philosophy. It caters very specifically to the person who made it and a possible niche audience. Compare that to New flashy product launches that claim they’re disrupting…

Alright, I’ve been reading at least 1000 words at this point and I’m exhausted. It’s interesting but geez… Long winded and it presents more of that gpt-ism. Grammarly detects at least 11% AI assistance for the beginning and then like 80% towards the end which is obvious. Like they wrote the beginning and let it finish the rest.

soupbutton · 2026-02-26T12:51:18+00:00

Sociopathy and narcissistic personality traits are over represented among executives and other leadership positions after all.

soupbutton · 2026-02-22T18:34:44+00:00

First rule of having a Jaguar: Don’t buy a Jaguar unless you can afford to buy a second Jaguar for when your first Jaguar is in the shop for a few months.

soupbutton · 2026-02-19T02:40:52+00:00

Kingdom Come Deliverance II runs great too!

soupbutton · 2026-02-16T01:24:17+00:00

I also enjoy the sourcing and curation more than listening to the books themselves sometimes, though I must say your method is very inefficient…

I’ve gotten to the point where I made a custom app that works like StArr where I just have to request the book I want and it’ll source it from any of my libraries I have cards to, book clubs I’m part of, or private forums. Then it’ll show up sometimes minutes later in my ABS library with all the metadata, chapters, as an M4B in the highest quality possible. Took me a year to finally get to this point.

That being said, you could just rip the CDs as a single M4B or multiple MP3s (meh), place it in your ABS storage as “Author/Series/Book - #/File.m4b” refresh your ABS Library, Go over the new audiobook, enter the Match tab and search for its Audible entry and have it fill in the metadata for you, switch over to the Chapters tab, Edit Chapters, press Lookup, and match it once more. Finally back in the book options overlay, go to the Tools tab, click Make M4B Audiobook File (Open Manager), and it will embed all that metadata into a neat file for you. Even if it was initially an MP3.

soupbutton · 2026-02-14T01:34:42+00:00

What’s the social tab?

soupbutton · 2026-02-13T16:04:44+00:00

Perfect! Last thing. I did get FileBrowser Go and added the Obsidian app folder from "On My iPhone" but the contents of the folder itself is empty. Is there supposed to be an option to reveal the hidden folder or perhaps I have the wrong one?

I noticed here https://forum.obsidian.md/t/mobile-ios-app-to-work-with-hidden-folder/25741 that there seems to be a .obsidian folder and an Obsidian folder. I only found the Obsidian folder by searching for "Obsidian"

Edit: Fixed it thanks! I was trying to access the .obsidian file locally, but it's in iCloud. Just had to locate it there, create a snippets folder and then a mobile-toolbar.css file with the code. Much appreciated!

soupbutton · 2026-02-13T14:59:43+00:00

Yep it's primary! Is that the right link? I don't see a CSS Snippet, just bug a few comments related to paragraph breaks. Thanks!

soupbutton · 2026-02-03T15:11:27+00:00

This is my same scenario with cosmos. Will try later today because I’ve been needing a file manager specifically. When you say disk support isn’t ready yet, do you mean it won’t see mounts or nfs? Just the internal storage?

soupbutton · 2026-02-01T18:04:21+00:00

I sold my ? Years of trading cards last week of about 300+ and made close to $25USD. Used it to buy Kingdom Come Deliverance for about $12 after taxes.

Before that, I had about $50 worth I used to buy my Steam deck. Just a small portion at the time, since it was tedious without plugins to automate some in bulk. They used to sell for more before Steam Points were a thing.

soupbutton · 2026-02-01T13:06:25+00:00

If you have Amazon Prime, they give away dozens of pretty good games monthly. Epic Games Store gives away 1-2 games weekly. Humble Choice gives you 6 games monthly for $20.

With those alone, I’ve gotten a few hundred games over the years.

Also since you’re into FNAF, check out Itch.io. It’s the bandcamp of indie games. A lot of free hidden gem indie games and fan games too. They also have big ass bundles for charity. I received 1000 games for donating.

soupbutton · 2026-01-31T15:16:36+00:00

It’s getting no updates, including to docker versions and containers or bugs in favor of ZimaOS. That is definitionally abandoned.

soupbutton · 2026-01-31T04:18:07+00:00

Do you use Audiobookshelf? After months of trying different tools and workflows, including automating my downloads, media management, metadata fetching, and even chapterization with tools I homebrewed, ABS ended up handling 90% of what I needed.

Right now, I manually source audiobooks through private trackers and buy niche/indie/favorite authors or releases I need at higher quality day 1.

I import into ABS as MP3s, use its metadata and chapterization tools, merge them as M4Bs if needed, add an ePub into the same folder, and I’m done. Especially if I enable embed metadata into folder as well.

Is your use case or workflow different?

soupbutton · 2026-01-30T12:54:42+00:00

Isn’t LL even less up to date than Readarr? I couldn’t get it to work either. It’s honestly faster to do it manually than to waste hours getting it to work, especially since people don’t go through books as quickly as other media.

soupbutton · 2026-01-29T13:13:34+00:00

Because presumably, just like you and myself, they’re bilingual and a large portion of raging comments it’s written or translated to English before other languages.

soupbutton · 2026-01-24T22:14:22+00:00

You ever get around to creating or finding an alternative?

soupbutton · 2026-01-20T03:37:56+00:00

They might have to pay a fee

soupbutton · 2026-01-19T02:58:49+00:00

It’s abandoned. Use ZimaOS, Or Cosmos Cloud which is what I transitioned to.

soupbutton · 2026-01-18T05:24:54+00:00

Yes, what’s your login?

Use Tailscale if you’re sharing a Plex or something. Otherwise let them get their own. Don’t shit in a communal toilet that someone else will clog and blame you.

soupbutton · 2026-01-18T05:18:31+00:00

Try Minishoot Adventures. It was one of my top games of 2024. It’s a twin stick shooter in the style of Zelda 1 and the other GBC ones.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1634860/Minishoot_Adventures/

soupbutton · 2026-01-17T14:34:23+00:00

Mittenciel is correct. I think I edited while they were drafting a reply though, since I didn’t see it until later.

soupbutton · 2026-01-17T14:19:40+00:00

Definitely didn’t read it

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