Nargad's Trail: Argon's Evil Lair - Remade

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(19.26 MB) Genre: Story-driven Added: 12 Jun 2023 Downloads: 32 Rating^[?]:

Hey everyone,

Here's another demo of the Argon's Evil Lair remake, by now 3 years in development. In this demo the first 4 levels are available, so about half the quest is playable now. I'd really appreciate any feedback or criticism!



Made for ZC version 2.55 alpha 113 nightly 2023-05-03, which you can download here: https://github.com/A...htly-2023-05-03

Story
Longer ago than tales can tell the powers that shaped the universe were harnessed in relics of immense power. With the relics one could perform the strongest magic, distort time and manipulate existence itself. Time and time again the relics would fall into the possession of evil minds, causing warfare and tyranny across the world.

To combat the terrible destruction of the relics they were hidden far from humanity and ages later most knowledge of the relics had vanished. However a wicked young boy was lucky enough to get his hands on a rare and ancient book. When reading the stories about the Orb of Fierce, the most powerful relic, he became obsessed by its alleged power.

That boy grew up to become a powerful and feared wizard, often referred to as Argon the Dreadful. Popular amongst wizards he was well known for his lair, where magic could be practiced freely and what could be considered a place of cruelty and villainy. With such might and influence Argon was determined to find the Orb of Fierce, no matter what.

Around the same time, a young boy in the town of Millton just became 18. Old enough to get his own equipment and travel the lands of Krelaila as a free man. This is when the story begins of Nargad's Trail...

Features

• 7-12 hours of gameplay depending on your playstyle
• 4 large overworlds
• 4 large dungeons
• 4 scripted custom bosses
• Early access to 2 new worlds
• Several sidequests
• Several mini-dungeons
• Many useful collectibles
• Implements many v2.55 features
• Story driven, but light on text
• Many funny, interesting or bizarre characters to meet
• Immersive music and graphics
• NPC sound effects
• Many custom enemies
• Custom quest and collectibles log
• Complete the dungeons in any order you’d like
• Optionally skip the intro dungeons, but I won’t tell you how!

Changes compared to the original quest

• The entire quest is completely reworked for much better gameplay
• Very well tested to prevent bugs
• Texts with proper grammar and spelling
• Areas have been expanded and are more interesting to explore
• Areas are much more pleasant to navigate
• Bosses are now scripted and more difficult
• Maps (including spacebar map) for pretty much every area in the quest
• More recurring NPCs have been added
• Much additional content has been added
• Better and more story building
• Getting the primary collectibles now also give you a nice reward
• Story has been revised and is now more pleasant to experience
• Reworked with the Nargad’s Trail tileset

Tips & tricks
If you can enter a dungeon you also have the items required to finish it
You can complete the dungeons in any order you’d like
You can’t collect enough Void Charms in the demo to achieve something
Saving puts you back at the last village or dungeon you were at

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Credits
Creator
Twilight Knight

Testing
Alex
Angelo
CastChaos
Dave
Peter

Tileset
Radien (Dance of Remembrance)
DemonLink (DoR Hybrid)
Sheik, Supindahood & Linkus (Firebird)

Loose tiles
Anthus
Ether
Evile
Jupiter
Linkus
link3505
Maxim (Spriters Resource)
NoeL
Prince MSC
Rebecca Magar (title screen background)
Sheik
Zemious

Scripts
Avaro
Colossal
Deathrider
Demonlink
Emily
justin
Moosh
MoscowModder
Mr. Z
Saffith

Quest design help
DarkFlameSheep (LP original quest)
Deathrider365 (LPed original quest)
SurrealCanine (LPed original quest)
Judasrising
CastChaos
Gnugget
Dave
Alex
Peter

NPC Voices
Dave
Alex
Twilight Knight

Other Sound Effects
Diverse Zelda Games | Diverse artists (ripped by HelpTheWretched)
Banjo Kazooie | Grant Kirkhope (ripped by someone42)
Stronghold Crusader | Robert Euvino
Warcraft II | Glenn Stafford
Cliffs of Dover | Eric Johnson (guitar sfx)
Minecraft | C418

Midi sequencers
Banjo-Paste
Breno Botelho
Chibi Vegetto
Daniel Witt
Dr. Fruitcake
Forrest Riedl
Jayster
Jay Reichard
Jorge D. Fuentes
Jrlepage
King Meteor
Lance
Link the hylian hero
Matze
Omar
Paper_Luigi
PL-7764
Pesmerga
Sander Otten
SinclairC
Sirius
Tony Thai
Tsu Ryu and Sailor Raika
WVPman

Special thanks
CastChaos
ZC Devs
Nintendo
Rare