"I agree with him/her that there's really few games out there that mimics the game mechanics of zelda."
I guess I take two general issues with that statement. The first is that the author's criterion, or yours, about what constitutes "very few" is vaguely defined. How many would be "more than a few"? I'm really not trying to pick nits here. I very much understand and appreciate your main point. But it seems as if the comment section of this article is brimming over with examples of Zelda-like games (whether or not they are true "clones" is also vague and subjective).
Second, do we really want games to be "mimicking" Zelda? Is that a goal we're generally in favor of? Personally speaking, I'm completely content to let Zelda be Zelda, and let other developers and publishers try to break different ground in different areas. If we're generally in favor of an expansion of the Zelda-type subgenre of Action RPGs, that's fine. But why must games in this subgenre have to "mimick" Zelda in order to meet our needs? By very definition, isn't the attempt at mimicking Zelda going to doom those games to being second-rate Zelda clones?
I guess I take two general issues with that statement. The first is that the author's criterion, or yours, about what constitutes "very few" is vaguely defined. How many would be "more than a few"? I'm really not trying to pick nits here. I very much understand and appreciate your main point. But it seems as if the comment section of this article is brimming over with examples of Zelda-like games (whether or not they are true "clones" is also vague and subjective).
Second, do we really want games to be "mimicking" Zelda? Is that a goal we're generally in favor of? Personally speaking, I'm completely content to let Zelda be Zelda, and let other developers and publishers try to break different ground in different areas. If we're generally in favor of an expansion of the Zelda-type subgenre of Action RPGs, that's fine. But why must games in this subgenre have to "mimick" Zelda in order to meet our needs? By very definition, isn't the attempt at mimicking Zelda going to doom those games to being second-rate Zelda clones?