Eldon Ring is a huge open world game full of unique bosses, esoteric quests and cryptic secrets. What would the Game Boy version of that game look like? One fan was determined to find out.
A Twitch user using shintendoTV announced their intentions via a recent trailer, which was Eldon Ring subreddit (via IGN). It shows you tumbling through an 8-bit game early in the game. Eventually, players encounter a grafted scion that looks like a scrapped Pokémon. Then the “You’re dead” screen appears. “Should throw a pokeball at that mf,” one person quipped on the subreddit.
ShintendoTV is using retro game creation software GB Studio 3.0 for projects and streaming development on Twitch, where you can watch them build the world block by block. Hoping for a playable version of Limgrave, Eldon Ring, the end of May. FromSoftware’s version is filled with so much stuff that players don’t have the problem of hour after hour discovering everything it has to offer. We’ll see if ShintendoTV’s demake is just as dense. They recently announced the addition of work tree sentinels.
Part of the charm of demakes is taking something modern and massive and giving it a nostalgic and simple look.Interestingly, by far the ShintendoTV project that reminds me the most is final fantasy adventurethe confusing name of Square Enix’s first entry mana series. year 1991 Zelda– Just like the Game Boy, it also takes place in a vast, open world full of weird NPCs to talk to and level up through character builds.
There aren’t many similarly complex demakes out there (one notable exception is the PS1-looking version blood source complete kart race), but if any modern game can command it Eldon Ring. The latest Soul Source has been loved by critics by far more than Best selling game to dateit even spawns its own lore outside of the game when people meet real-life legends in its online multiplayer mode.