Weirdness: Soon You'll Be Able To Save Hillrule From Lord Gearon In Bike Of The Wild

I'd play it!

Wew

The developer really likes the Unity terrain editor huh.

It looks horrible.

Not all creative endeavours yield reward.

This is unspeakably bad.

Free bike! Challenge accepted

@Kalmaro That tells me so much about you.

No! So many bad puns! April fools was several months ago!

@G0dlike Slaps forehead.

Involves you giving them £5.

Hate to break it to ya sonny, but there ain't no bike to be having.

@GameOtaku Those were PUNS?!

@HappyMaskedGuy haha, I was joking. I honestly can't imagine anything worse than playing this tripe.

This looks horrendous! Nintendo have done a pretty good job of keeping genuinely bad games from the Switch eShop so I hope it turns this game away at the door. The dev was even boasting that it's uncompletable! Steam is brimming with tat like this, and that's where it should stay.

With the endless quality great games out, I don't have time for crap rip off games like this. Is it April already?

Aaaaagh....!!!
A Ghost Bikerider !!!

It's beginning, all the newbs are associating more with the open world spinoff than Zelda itself. I don't really hold many elitist mentalities either, it's just distressing to see all these not-Zelda-fans or people who've only played Breath of the Wild who couldn't even realize to care about the metroidvanian puzzle progression holding it up as the 'best Zelda game ever' when it's barely even a Zelda game to begin with.

I almost wasn't able to see the difference.

This is amazing😂

@Haru17 it arguably is the best though I'd say it is too three for sure and to say it is the best is a fair statement

Isn't being uncompleteable something that fails console own QA tests these days, unless it is purely a score chaser experience with no actual end?

Unbeatable because it's unfinished, most likely.

You know they picked bikes because you don't have to animate them

Judging by the video I'm giving it a 1/10.

Link is on a bike. Zelda is on a bike. The whole game is on a bike! GET IN THE SHIP! GO! GO! GO!

@Haru17 Wait are you saying Breath of the Wild is a Zelda spin off?

I like open world driving games, but they'll really need to spruce up the graphics for me to be interested.

@Haru17 I agree BotW is by no means the best Zelda game. I always said its an okay open world game and an okay Zelda game. Not great in either respects, though both aspects combined make for a good game.

Seems to me almost a joke Are we sure it isn't? That video was laughably poor, haha... how could they possibly launch something called "a game" in Nov. Unless it's just a non-impressive tech demo for something I clearly don't care about. (Sorry devs if you were sincere with this effort!)

While the whole pun thing is silly and the game looks really basic, I would be down for an actualy BMX biking game along the lines of a matt hoffman's pro bmx or dave mirra freestyle bmx, those games were great along side the THPS series

Looks like something a teenager has made in their bedroom.

Nice font.

faints

@Haru17 "I don't hold many elitist mentalities"

Heh.

There is no curse in the tounges of Gorons, Zora, or Hylians for this treachery.

Klink is the name of a Pokemon; Immediate C&D.

I kid, I kid.

Y'know, I haven't messed around with Unity in a couple of years, but I'm pretty sure I could come up with something better than this.

-___- *facepalm

FINALLY, a bike adventure game! Glad The Most is reaching for this untapped market... <_<

@Moon I thought similarly. "The first to get past all the game-ending bugs gets a free bike."

....Uhhh...o_0

Now we just wait for a Link mod.

I- I'm not crying. I just have something in my eye.

@HappyMaskedGuy As does your post.

@DarkCojiro Well, they allowed games like Vrooom on the eShop. /shrug

Well.

I'll be.

@Jeronan. And it remains a blemish on the eShop. The Wii U's eShop suffered with nonsense like this so I can only hope Nintendo have learned their lesson. I can only hope that Vrooom was accidentally approved by an intern on their first day.

Lol, this is an even better parody than Ittle Dew.
For that price I might actually buy it.

Please be a joke

Lol, so this is the second part of the season pass! Thanks Nintendo!!

@Kalmaro I'm intrigued! Tell me more 👳

@HappyMaskedGuy You first!

@Kalmaro This suddenly became a high stakes scenario

@HappyMaskedGuy My body is ready.

@Haru17 Breath of the Wild was a refreshing return to the original Zelda formula: drop you into a world with no direction other than save the princess and let you figure it out. The original Zelda formula was broken by Link to the Past's need to hand hold and guide you that got progressively worse with each version that followed, and Breath of a Wild was a modern return to the roots.

@Darknyht The original Zelda is a 2D 8-bit game that could be made in flash today. Breath of the Wild's nostalgia-angled marketing doesn't make it the successor to that, it's a new 3D game. It actually takes the western open world formula, takes out all the story, expands the world past the point it can be filled with meaningful content by then, and populated with fetch quests and repetitive tasks.

@Darknyht At least the original had actual dungeons

"Hey kid, keep it wheel"

Pretty sure the appeal of this is based purely on intentionally making it ridiculous and corny. If nothing else at least it's guaranteed to end up as a meme.

I... I... (speechless)

Is it April already ?? Why would u pay £5 for this ? From the limited footage which doesn't show any gameplay . Looks dreadful and agree no one is getting a bike as a prize

C&D letter from Nintendo in 5...4...3...2...1....

Instant buy. Excellent price for a stellar meme

@Haru17 No. You don't get get to decide what makes a Zelda game a Zelda game. I don't get to decide where the Fallout franchise goes either. If the people in charge of the IP make a game and say it's that specific IP, it's that specific IP. They own it, after all.

Everyone was complaining about how stale Zelda was, now everyone complains about change. What a toxic and disgusting fanbase.

Joke game equivalent of a making a C-Grade movie - could be worth the 5 bucks for what it is, if it is geared to make a funny laugh and succeeds.

Pass. Even as an attempt at humor, it fails miserably.

@Tarvaax You can have your own opinions. If you were sure of them and not insecure in some respect, though, I doubt you'd say really defensive stuff like, 'u don't get to decide what's a Zelda game.' If you want to find people to agree with, go read reviews. You opinion isn't special or unique, nearly everyone buys the '10/10, return to the roots, best Zelda ever' marketing of Breath of the Wild.

Now if you actually look at what fans have been talking about, many recognize the drop in quality in Skyward Sword that was fixed a bit in Breath of the Wild. Unfortunately, Breath also murdered any gameplay diversity the series had along with the story, characters, main quest, and dungeons.

But please, keep 'u don't'-ing me. I'm sure you'll find that rewarding in some aspect.

Well, that's one way to get around trademark infringement with a fan game. After all, you're allowed to profit off a parody work without seeking permission under U.S. Copywrite Law (although Weird Al seeks permission anyway in order to maintain good relations within the music industry).

@Haru17 The original 8 Bit game (and especially the sequel) were larger than was reasonable and full of empty spaces with little to do in them. Both had a story that consisted of the text in the manual and a few blurbs from the few NPCs. Both left it to the player to write the narrative and fill in the blanks.

As for Breath of the Wild's story, it is told masterfully in my opinion. You are presented as a person who lost their memories and placed into a culture that has had it's cultural identity destroyed. Despite that you can find the threads of the past in the desolation. The main story itself on of courage and hope. The player, through his avatar, roams the land restoring hope to those he meets while building the courage/strength to face his destiny.

In my version of the game: "Link came off the plateau only to run from his destiny. When Impa told him to think about it and came back, he didn't come back for a long time. Instead Link went south and lived on the beach, helping those around him with monster incursions. He hunted and cooked, challenging shrines to find equipment and gear. He eventually climbed the mountain and found a goddess without a sword and got lost into a wood where a tree reminded him of the destiny he bore. Armed with the sword he had lost, he returned and faced the challenges before him and slowly he remembered his past. Once Link regained his allies, his memories and met new friends and allies; he went on to rescue his true love from the monster that had trapped her."

In the Master Quest version of the game, my Link is a amnesic warrior who is partially cursed by the armor he wears to rage like a berserker at the foes he meets. There is no stealth or running, just rage at the sight of those that destroyed his homeland. Needless to say, it is making my third time through much more interesting.

But then I have none of that if Nintendo followed the Link to the Past model instead of the original.

3DS and I will pick this up

Why?

Five bucks?

Get it on Switch and I'm in.