The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales Review - A Near-Perfect Zelda-Like

Zelda-likes, over the years, have been content to borrow heavily from their core inspiration: green-clad heroes, swords, dungeons with plenty of locked doors and convenient keys that drop from ceilings, all that good stuff. The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales is not much of an exception: you have vitality receptacles that require four heart pieces shards of life to create new ones, maps that get revealed piecemeal as you cross boundaries, and your first weapon is, indeed, a sword. But it also makes twists to the formula that turn it into something entirely its own - chiefly, a four-era structure that turns one modest world into something that feels twice the size and gives it a palpable history to explore.