Review – Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore developed by Seedy Eye Software.
Did Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore truly lived up to the Zelda CD-i’s expectations, is it meme-worthy, or it was finally taken seriously?
Hold the horses, and scimitars. Because I’m about to uncover my most honest review with all the answers + some review curations from other excellent experts with very controversial and distinct opinions.
1.The Music is Impeccable & A Classic
Maybe you will think this isn’t the most important aspect to consider as our first appreciation to the game.
But for me, it deserves all the attention!
If we are comparing this game to Zelda CD-is such as Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon. It means this project could be classified as the perfect match to the 90’s, extremely characteristic kind of game.
Why?
The music aside from being sensational and fun. Indeed reflects that style from those times perfectly.
It sets the ambience in such perfect way. That I felt I was playing another CD-i Zelda game solely for this reason.
And I don’t know what you might be thinking.
But the music and overall sound design can be one of the most crucial aspects to determine if a game or movie could be considered ”good”, or reflect what they intend in the best way possible.
I’m very curious to know your opinion as well. Does music choices truly matters to you?
2. Arzette has brought a lot of controversial opinions
The thing is. If you aren’t familiarized with this type of gameplay and CD-i Zelda games I mention several times through this review.
It could be possible to primarily feel like is a bad game with no interesting aspects, or without a profound reason to actually play it.
But I personally feel you will be missing out in a game that you can tell it was created and developed with care.
With a hand-made backgrounds, colorful characters, and story-rich/funny game. Which I can imagine was a tough thing to accomplish.
Sets this game a part.
There are some gamers that criticized it for being visually unattractive or ”too similar” to the Zelda games.
And it was interesting to see some comments:
Or captivating observations as:
3. Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore a ”love letter” to the Zelda games?
digitaltrends.com wrote an entire article about it. And if you would like to know what they think of the game, you can always check out the link provided!
And I must say that they are talking facts!
Some gamers said that even though those Zelda games were ”terrible” and meme-worthy. Were absolutely better than Arzette.
For reasons such as: ”too spacy with lack of features”, ”the dialogues were too long to keep it up”, ”way too ugly visuals”, etc…
But I don’t think the only reason why Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore exists, is entirely to copy those Zelda games or to be an improved version as everyone is saying.
I think they simply wanted to create an inspired version with it’s own unique voice!
Is fun, lovely, funny, characteristic, and absolutely unique.
4. A feminist game
I mean, this will be considered detestable for a huge amount of people.
And since it was Women’s Day very recently. I wanted to highlight this fact.
Also! As a woman, is super cool to play a game where a female is the leader and heroin!
I don’t think comparing to Zelda games was the most important part to talk through the article, but doesn’t she look like a Gerudo member? I love it!
Hey! Have you seen her scimitar?
This in particular was absolutely beautiful. I adore the scimitar she uses, and makes me feel empowered during the game.
5. Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore – Has an extremely long story
Yes and no!
The dialogues were funny and accomplished an amazing story-rich game.
Aside from excellent frame choices to compile a cinematic story I enjoyed so much.
This is positive for gamers like me that enjoy deeply this type of game narrative and care about it.
But if you prefer more straight-forward games such as Medieval Machines Builders, then, this isn’t for you.
And of course, I understand we really want to keep advancing with the gameplay and being trapped with the same scene for too long, can make us a bit impatient.
Which is something to observe.
As much as I’m a naturally patient person and enjoy these aspects. It could get slightly boring at times.
But not a huge problem for me in particular.
6. Conclusion: Is it worth the trouble & Deserves more than a ”meme-worthy” label?
Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore has space for improvements, that’s for sure.
But for me in particular, covers most of the qualities I look in a good game:
- Strong music choices.
- Excellent platform gameplay.
- Story-rich I mentioned I truly value.
- And dedicated to curious gamers.
I don’t think is by far a meme.
If the idea was to take this game seriously compared to the cd-i Zelda games.
Then, is accomplished!
