Neutopia

"It's Legend of Zelda with..... 8 BIT GRAPHICS! Um, Hoo-ray?"

No WAY that Sega would have gotten away with this. If Sega had made a game like this I'm pretty damn sure Nintendo would have called their lawyers and said SUE those BASTARDS! They stole our GAME! But since it was N.E.C. they probably didn't care, not like the TurboGrafix-16 was going to outself their Super Nintendo anyway. At least Nintendo had Zelda 3 not just Zelda 1 with better graphics which is what N.E.C. should have done, make something new and better. BUT NO!! They rip off a game and do an O.K. job but jeeez this is 16 bits time no more of this kiddie nonsense PLEASE N.E.C.!

Story - 4

O.K. there's a guy named Link and his princess Zelda has been kidnapped by mean mean meanie GANON and now he has to rescue her. First he has to find all 8 pieces of the TRIFORCE of bravery or wisdom or something like that and then go to the last maze and kick Ganon's BUTT and then he gets his girlfriend back. O.K. for real now that's Neutopia's story except with some fat hairy ugly guy instead of Link. And a new magic guy instead of Ganon who is actually pretty COOL but not nearly as cool as MISTER EVIL PIGMAN!

Game Play - 7

Same crap all over again. Walk around the overworld find a maze beat a boss and get a triforce or whatever they're called in this game. I think they're medallions or gems or something. It DOESNT MATTER. Just do it like you did before when you were a little kid. You go one room at a time just like before and you even get the same things like bombs and keys and stuff. The whole thing is exactly the same, I actually like the CONTROLS in Zelda 1 BETTER. This fat guy is just kind of hard to move around sometimes when you're fighting a boss and he doesn't have the same sword fighting power as Link. Link is a little KID damn it you're supposed to be a mighty mighty WARRIOR! Oh well Link could kick his butt all over the place. O.K. it's really pretty good because it's just like Zelda, almost the exact same stuff, But come on you should have done SOMETHING different N.E.C. Not just rip off Nintendo!!

Sound - 4

It's O.K. pretty predicatable. Nice cheery outside world music then you go into a maze and it gets scary. It won't get annoying and the sounds are pretty decent too. Nothing that I would recommened buying on CD but still O.K. The boss music is kind of cool and sounds good with the battles.

Graphics - 3

YAY MORE 8 BIT GRAPHICS!!!! Really there isn't anything too cool to see Zelda 1 was almost as good. There are more colors and enemies but everything was cooler in the first one. Some of the enemies even look the same as in Zelda. The bosses are pretty big but sometimes only one or two colors, not too good for 16 bits system.

Conclusion - 6

Well it's Zelda and you just CANT rip on Zelda (unless you want to mess with ME!) but for real they should have done more stuff different. This is just 100% RIPPED. O.K. it's fun but for 16 bits I WANT MORE!!!!

Reviewer's Score: 6/10, Originally Posted: 04/08/01, Updated 04/08/01