Final Fantasy meets Zelda? Yes, please

Let’s be real: There’s no shortage of Zelda-style games to play right now. That’s true even if you’ve exhausted all there is to see in Tears of the Kingdom or Echoes of Wisdom. Indie developers keep finding new ways to refresh the formula, whether it’s fusing it with a Soulslike, making it cozier, or simply shrinkingit down into something more manageable. Now we have Square Enix and The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales, a curiously named RPG that mixes the classic Zelda structure with something that resembles Final Fantasy. And it’s a combination I can’t seem to get enough of.

The Adventures of Elliot is the latest in Square Enix’s “HD-2D” line of games, a loosely collected series defined largely by their visuals, which reimagine pixel art for modern audiences. The other defining trait is every game has an incredibly weird...

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