Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

A NEW interactive animated adventure! In this action-adventure game, Arzette must explore the Kingdom of Faramore, slay fearsome foes, acquire powerful items, discover secrets, assist colorful characters, and defeat the evil Daimur!

Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore is a exploration, metroidvania and 2d platformer game developed by Seedy Eye Software and published by Limited Run Games.
Released on February 13th 2024 is available only on Windows in 8 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Norwegian and Portuguese - Brazil.

It has received 826 reviews of which 803 were positive and 23 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.1 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam with a 50% discount, but you can find it for 4.37€ on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore into these genres:

Exploration Metroidvania 2D Platformer Platformer Action-Adventure Female Protagonist 2D FMV Funny Surreal Controller Story Rich Action Hand-drawn Pixel Graphics Stylized Comedy Fantasy Adventure Cartoon

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System requirements

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Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10
Processor: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: 2 GB VRAM
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 2 GB available space

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March 2025

Let me ask you this, mah boi. What is it that all true warriors strive for? This is a very specific game for a very specific audience. I don't think it's worth playing if you're not a member of this specific audience, as the general design enforces a certain level of... crappiness . If you don't know: Once upon a time, some crappy Zelda games got made. No, not the ones on the Switch; on a forgotten console called Phillips CD-I. The games were made by an inexperienced, visuals-first team, had hand-drawn cutscenes and a very distinct style. For some reason, the cutscenes started being used as a source material in a illusive art from called "Youtube Poop"; or YTP for short. The YTP scene transformed these short clips into a cinematic universe of sorts. Yes, I'm still serious, in case you're wondering. The editors, or "Poopers", used carefully cut voice lines from the games to make the characters say all sorts of things. This was way before AI could just generate stuff for you, by the way. The characters started developing personalities, quirks, relationships. The King was a silly, food-obsessed weirdo with presence. The Squadala man became the King's friend and advisor (and a bit of a trickster)... Link went full-on being braindead washed-up hero, and so on. But that wasn't all. People dug up the names of the unnamed-in-game characters; they learned that the MMM merchant guy is called "Morshu", the Squadala man is called "Gwonam", that the King's name is Harkinian and so on. It wasn't long before the voice actors themselves were found... ...but, as with all things, the YTP era came to an end. Many Poopers lost interest, as did viewers. Every now and then a giant wakes from their slumber and drops a new video, and perhaps we're even on the cusp of a new golden age of YTPs; and Arzette could be its herald. The game itself expects you to be familiar with the CD-I YTP canon, but also with the old games themselves. Also Hotel Mario, another CD-I game (yes, that's a thing) - the bonus levels of Arzette are in fact the game's own spin on it, and it fixes one of the main issues what made Hotel Mario annoying to play, funnily enough. Sound effects, general level layout, enemy design, item philosophy; a lot of things are, fittingly, taken straight from the CD-I Zelda games. But, since this game is like a Youtube Poop in itself, it actually manages to make them good ; the design flaws are removed with surgical precision and replaced in accord with sensible game design. If you're interested in the gamedev craft, I recommend watching Angry Video Game Nerd's review of the CD-I and then playing this, trying to catch all the little improvements Seedy Eye Software (so the devs. Also, yes, this is the name) did to make this not only playable, but actually pretty fun. And the story itself - a big part, all things considered - is like a sequel to the games, and to the poops. None of the characters are named as in Zelda, but you can clearly see who's supposed to be who. Hell, many characters staright up use their "original" voice actors, and that's has a very powerful effect. Also, at some point people started making YTPs that were less funny and more... epic. Tragic, even. The mixture of the bizarre visuals and voices mixed with unironically gripping plots (which still manage to be silly) is a very recognisable flavour of late YTP culture, and Arzette is no different. The plot gets surprisingly serious towards the end - but it doesn't cut on the silly, exaggerated animations. Artisanal stuff. I... can't believe I'm saying this, but the game also explores the... ughhh... socio-political aftermath of the events of the Zelda games. Duke Onkeld's "scrub all the floors in Hyrule" actually translates to "many years of demeaning labour". What kind of effects it would have on the person? You get the idea. So yes. Yes, if you've been there, if you remember , then please, play this. It's such a wonderful love letter to the forgotten art. And if you haven't, well, maybe my review convinced you to actually take a look? Many YTPs are lost to time, but lots of good stuff remains, courtesy of archivist reuploaders. Enough. My ship sails in the morning. I wonder what's for DINNER? YOUR FACE [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/42922988/]Triforce of Wisdom promises the reviews can be safely trusted

Nov. 2024

A nifty little game, the platforming is fun, the exploration is fun, the music is great and of course the cutscenes are superb. The best thing about this game though is if you're too broke to get it right now, you could always come back when you're a little mmmmm richer.

Aug. 2024

This game could have easily been just a bunch of second-rate takes on YTP memes and gameplay that's bad on purpose, but instead it really manages to find its own identity while also iterating on the CDi Zelda gameplay formula in a way that makes it actually fun. An incredible achievement.

June 2024

Don't let the memes fool you. This game is solid. A love letter to the CD-i and a great example of how even a "joke game" can be fun. Also Arzette is cute.

April 2024

I've long held a belief that there should be more remakes of outright bad games, just to see if they could get it right the second time. Dopply, Arzette's lead developer, literally did that in 2020, when he released his unofficial remakes of Link: The Faces of Evil and Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon. I don't necessarily believe these remakes magically make those games good, but it certainly made them more playable, and arguably more importantly, accessible. Arzette then represents the actual redemption of the CD-i games. It retains the aspects people actually liked about those games, mainly the bizarre and humorous animated cutscenes and over the top voice acting, while building around the improved gameplay of the remakes. This results in a shockingly high quality experience, and, in my eyes anyway, proves that there was greater potential in the CD-i games than many would care to think about.

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