You would be forgiven for mistaking the above screenshot from the SNES classic, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past but it’s actually from a Sega Genesis game called the Crusader of Centy which was designed as Sega’s answer to Nintendo’s third Zelda game. Well if that isn’t Zelda then I don’t know what it. You’ll explore a vast, inter-connected world, traverse menacing dungeons and fight massive bosses using items you found in said dungeons. While the Ys series has many more RPG elements than what is typically found in a Zelda game the combat and game layout are clearly inspired from Link’s adventures. So now is the perfect time to get your classic-Zelda on when taking a break from the modern one.

While not many gamers on this side of the ocean picked up the TurboGrafx when it was in stores, both Neutopia games have since been re-released on the Wii Virtual Console and the first is also available on the Wii U. Neutopia and its sequel Neutopia II may play a lot like the NES Zelda game but they carve their own path by offering a more mature and open-ended quest than Nintendo’s game. This often forgotten TurboGrafx-16 game is basically a carbon copy of the original Legend of Zelda, but that doesn’t mean it’s not any good. So let’s all take a break from playing Zelda, to talk games that are like Zelda with our list of the Top 10 Zelda Clones. It can often seem like Nintendo are the masters of the action/adventure genre, as every mainline Zelda game since… well ever has been an absolute masterpiece but other companies are have often shown that with a bit of creativity they can turn their own franchises into their own Zelda clone.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has been out for exactly one week and already it’s garnered a ton of praise from the press and gamers alike.

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