{"id":55990,"date":"2018-10-19T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T09:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/10\/zelda-inspired_hazelnut_bastille_wants_to_bring_snes_magic_to_switch_kickstarter_coming_soon"},"modified":"2018-10-19T09:15:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T09:15:00","slug":"zelda-inspired-hazelnut-bastille-wants-to-bring-snes-magic-to-switch-kickstarter-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/10\/19\/zelda-inspired-hazelnut-bastille-wants-to-bring-snes-magic-to-switch-kickstarter-coming-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelda-Inspired Hazelnut Bastille Wants To Bring SNES Magic To Switch, Kickstarter Coming Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c5d5b97113145\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c5d5b97113145\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The last few years have seen a steady rise in retro-style games flooding the modern market, with the Switch already being home to countless 8-bit and 16-bit adventures all desperately trying to pull you in with their nostalgia-inducing ways. Sometimes, these games are truly something special (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/octopath_traveler\"><strong>Octopath Traveler<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/owlboy\"><strong>Owlboy<\/strong><\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/messenger\"><strong>The Messenger<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; here&#8217;s looking at you) and this upcoming title from Aloft Studio could well follow in their footsteps.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hazelnut Bastille<\/strong> clearly takes a huge amount of inspiration from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/legend_of_zelda_a_link_to_the_past\">The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past<\/a><\/strong>, and perhaps the Zelda series as a whole. As you can see in the trailer above, everything from the graphical style, the use of items, the gameplay, and the soundtrack, all provide an instant throwback to Link&#8217;s early adventure. The game&#8217;s story follows a young girl who finds herself going on a quest to distant lands, braving terrible odds in the hopes of finding something that was taken from her.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll find yourself playing through all the gameplay elements you&#8217;ve likely come to expect, such as combat, puzzles, side quests, and dungeons, and the team behind the game has revealed that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/secret_of_mana\"><strong>Secret of Mana<\/strong><\/a> composer Hiroki Kikuta has leant a hand to the project as a guest appearance.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"Hazelnut\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4527697684bb1\/hazelnut.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4527697684bb1\/hazelnut.original.png\" alt=\"Hazelnut\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Hazelnut\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/fee7f99483e5b\/hazelnut.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/fee7f99483e5b\/hazelnut.original.png\" alt=\"Hazelnut\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"Hazelnut\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/da8d9e2f3c9c0\/hazelnut.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/da8d9e2f3c9c0\/hazelnut.original.png\" alt=\"Hazelnut\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Hazelnut\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/fa46906fe9ec7\/hazelnut.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/fa46906fe9ec7\/hazelnut.original.png\" alt=\"Hazelnut\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>A Kickstarter for the project will be going live on 23rd October at 5am PT \/ 8am ET \/ 1pm BST \/ 2pm CEST, and you can find out lots more about the game from its <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aloftstudio.com\/hazelnutbastille\">official website<\/a> if you&#8217;re interested. The studio has <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/AloftStudio\/status\/1052928442503766017\">confirmed<\/a> that physical copies of the game will be available to backers, although specific details likely won&#8217;t be revealed until the campaign goes live next week.<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you like the look of what you see from the trailer and images above? Are you considering backing the project to help it come to Switch?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] The last few years have seen a steady rise in retro-style games flooding the modern market, with the Switch already being home to countless 8-bit and 16-bit adventures all desperately trying to pull you in with their nostalgia-inducing ways. Sometimes, these games are truly something special (Octopath Traveler, Owlboy, and The Messenger &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}