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Blossom Tales 2: The Minotaur Prince
The Minotaur King has returned...and it's all your fault! Lily's back for a new "classic" action-adventure set hundreds of years after The Sleeping King! Grandpa’s latest tale takes you on a journey through haunted forests, pirate shores, and other mysterious lands across a vast open-world! Charming towns, terrible enemies, tricky puzzles, and pow...
Details
- Released
- August 15, 2022
- Developer
- Castle Pixel, LLC.
- Genres
- Puzzle · Role-playing (RPG) · Adventure · Indie
- Publisher
- Playtonic Friends
- Platforms
- PC · Xbox One · Switch · Xbox Series X|S
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The short version of this review is that Blossom Tales II: The Minotaur Prince is an amazing 2D Zelda clone. It might be the best 2D Zelda clone, easily challenging The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening as the Switch’s best offering.
Fun fact – because of the roaring success of the initial entry in the Blossom Tales franchise, financial stability was given to Castle Pixel LLC. It sold gang busters due to paying homage to The Legend of Zelda. That alone isn’t enough to sell a game, but being a delightful romp certainly is. I recall purchasing that title solely on word of mouth and nothing else. The screenshots and colourful pixel art didn’t hurt, though. As a thirty-three year old man, I was immediately warped to my ...
Modern homages to classic video games often go one of two ways: They either stick close to the gameplay conventions to which they are paying tribute, or they expand the original games’ styles in meaningful and innovative ways. Blossom Tales II: The Minotaur Prince, like its 2017 predecessor, is more the former than the latter, adhering closely to the classic Legend of Zelda blueprint, most notably that of A Link to the Past. Despite this lack of innovation, Blossom Tales II still manages to capture many of the acclaimed elements of what many consider to be one of the greatest video games of al...
I love when long-awaited sequels to indie treasures release and Blossom Tales II: The Minotaur Prince certainly doesn't disappoint.