» Zelda Flash: The Seed of Darkness

You (playing as Link) must complete the quest to destroy the three "Seeds of Darkness" using your sword, shield and a special bomb you will be given.

Explore forests of Hyrule defeating enemies along the way. Slash at plants to find hidden bonuses (and spiders) and open up secret pathways. Find and destroy the three seeds.

author's comments on newgrounds:

I know it lag like hell! The lag is even worst once on the site. But I'm not willing to redo all the project. Also, the shield work only against projectile, so I know it's pretty useless.

Thx everyone for all the review. Some are realy helpfull ... like always some are not.

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I'm the first person here willing to make modification on the difficulty of the game (especialy the boss), but I may no longer update my SWF.

Many people blame me for not being original, or because I haven't put "this" or "that". Everyone compare my work to other Zelda professionnal games, which indeed make my game pretty lame. But when I have created this application, my goal was to make a good, well made, Zelda like game in comparison to other Zelda Flash game. I have also made this game to learn, it is my first game with flash, so it was new to me. Personally, this project is a success.
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This is a new version, harder and now with extra! You may find the source code of my work, well almost all the code ... So those of you who wish to read my programmation, go on!

I have no intention of making a sequel or rework this project at the moment.

Random Comments on newgrounds:

very nice (parasoul) - I wish this were longer. It was a lot of fun for the 5 minutes it took to beat it. The reason this was flagged before was probably because this was a perfect replica of the Legend of Zelda games and people said it was stolen because of that reason. Great job. More missions/monsters would be greatly appreciated.
holy sh*t (slashfirestorm) - How did you make that? Did you use a ROM of Minish Cap and reconstruct it or make it from scratch? Whatever you did, it's good and has the feel of a real game...good job!
(mechinoid) - alrights, the sounds and graphics was awsome, and it's a zelda game, so 9, but it's minish cap so 8...yeaaa...and then interactivity went down because i stopped trying after i lost to the jumping statues about 10 times...yeaa somemore....so over all it was grade A effort and it seems there was much talent put into the flash, but the boss and overall feel didn't really excite me, that is way it is getting a 71/2 out of 10
good! (regurgitaldabsorption) - I don't know how long this game is because I died at those fucking stupid annoying cunts that fuckin jump al over my bomb, but it's obvious you put a lot of effort into this and it's quite fun! I hope you make more like it.
zelda makes me happy (-idle-) - Being a huge fan of the Zelda series, I just had to check out this submission when I saw it on the front page. The presentation was nice, with a litle intro/titles/etc adding to the effect. Graphically, you used sprites, but this isn't a bad thing, really. For a game such as this, I think it's pretty important (even though I'm not a huge fan of sprites).
Soundwise, your submission wasn't bad. nothing too original here, but it's hard to do that when you are making a tribute game I guess. All the sounds were true to the Zelda theme, however, so that was a good thing. I liked the music choices, by the way.

In terms of gameplay, I thought this game was above average. Although it was simple, there wqas enough to keep me entertained. Making the game a bit longer could be good, but it isn't really that necessary. Also, modes of difficulty would be nice, but this isn't really a Zelda thing I guess. I didn't have problems with lag, it was ok, and I couldn't note any major problems in the gameplay side of things.

Overall, I was impresed though. You did the Zelda name justice with this submission. I don't know if you are going to make more, but there is a huge amount of potential here. Keep up the good work Guillaume!
interesting concept () - Overall it was a okay game. Like the person before me said, the game lacks any sort of plot, which takes away some of the enjoyment, at least for me. There's a little introduction that gives a foundation for a potential story, but then the game starts and leaves you hanging. The overall difficulty is moderate, with the forest maze being fairly straightforward and the boss being fairly easy. One thing that did annoy me is that it seemed a little too easy to set the bomb off. I would smack a bush to find a heart, get hit by a bug, and the bomb would nearly get set off!
Graphically, I liked that you used sprites from the newer Zelda GBA games. Some of the sprites still had little white dots around them, so maybe cleaning up the sprites a little would help as well. Sound quality was good overall, music included. So I guess that's all you need to work, but only a little: Plot, boss difficulty, overall entertainment value, and maze building. I give it an 8.25/10, but since Newgrounds doesn't give decimal scores, it gets an 8. The game has good potential, you just need to unlock it.