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

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(19.55 MB) Genre: Story-driven Added: 10 Apr 2022 Downloads: 35 Rating^[?]:

Changelog
Version 1.3 (2022-04-10)

• Fixed small chance of being stuck falling in Skyland Meadow
• Fixed a broken void charm
• Fixed inaccessible area in Skyland Meadow
• Argon's Lair Amelia location easier to find
• Fixed the Lens of Truth cave for players who already triggered it in an earlier version
• Improved some SFX
• Made bombable wall in Force Caves a 2 way secret
• Fixed some typos
• Made shop discount in Historia Campsite more obvious

Version 1.2 (2022-04-02)

• Abram's quest reward fixed
• Boss hitboxes fixed (I didn't know Ghost_Transform resets the offsets)
• Thundercracker nerfed a little bit
• Can no longer get stuck jumping across some water
• Fixed being able to avoid Argon's welcome speech
• Added snowy footprints in the snowy Argon's Lair area
• Improved the snowy footprints GFX
• Fixed being able to talk to an Argon Crystal door while having the quest log open

Version 1.1 (2022-03-31)

• Fixed a bug with the cave in Millton graveyard
• Fixed a bug with bombable walls in the prison
• Fixed a tutorial string playing twice in the sewers

Play with 2.55 alpha 104! Preferably the nightly build of 2022-03-24. Download it here

Features

• 4-10 hours of gameplay depending on your playstyle
• 3 large overworlds
• 3 large dungeons
• 3 scripted custom bosses
• Several sidequests
• Several mini-dungeons
• Many useful collectibles
• Implements many v2.55 features
• Story driven, but light on text
• Many funny, interesting or downright bizarre characters to meet
• Immersive music and graphics
• NPC sound effects
• Many custom (mostly scripted) enemies
• Custom quest log
• Complete the dungeons in any order you’d like
• Optionally skip the intro dungeons, but I won’t tell you how!

In contrast to the original

• The entire quest is completely reworked with more attention to pleasant gameplay
• Very well tested to prevent bugs
• Texts with proper grammar and spelling
• Overworlds have been expanded and are more interesting to explore
• Dungeons are now easier 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
• 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

Credits
Remake creator
Twilight Knight

Original quest creators
CastChaos
Twilight Knight

Testing
Angelo
CastChaos
Dave

Bug reports
DarkFlameSheep
Deathrider
Moosh
ZachAttack
Shane
jwex001

Tileset
DemonLink (DoR Hybrid)
Radien (Dance of Remembrance 1.0)

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

Scripting help
Avaro
Colossal
Deathrider
Demonlink
justin
Moosh
MoscowModder
Mr. Z
Saffith

Quest design help
DarkFlameSheep (LP original quest)
Deathrider365 (LPed original quest)
SurrealCanine (LPed original quest)
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

Special thanks
ZC Devs
Nintendo
Rare

Midi sequencers
Banjo-Paste
Breno Botelho
Chibi Vegetto
Daniel Witt
Dr. Fruitcake
Forrest Riedl
Jayster
John Stacy
Lance
Matze
Paper_Luigi
Pesmerga
Sander Otten
SinclairC
Sirius
Tony Thai
Tsu Ryu and Sailor Raika
WVPman

Music
Millton | Niedel - Masahiro Andoh (Arc the Lad II)
Story | Here Comes Trouble - Grant Kirkhope (Banjo-Tooie)
Title | Gruntilda’s Lair Remix - Grant Kirkhope (Banjo-Kazooie)
House | On Hold - Silent Partner
Cave | Ticker’s Tower - Grant Kirkhope (Banjo-Kazooie)
Great Kingdom | Dragon Mountain - Yasunori Shiono (Lufia II)
Argon’s Estate | The Island in the Void - Yasunori Shiono (Lufia I)
Prison | Grunty Industries Basement - Grant Kirkhope (Banjo-Kazooie)
Amelia | Lilycove City - Go Ichinose (Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire)
Sewers | In the Hall of the Zombie King - Grant Kirkhope (Banjo-Tooie)
Vazir | Potion Shop - Koji Kondo (TLOZ: Ocarina of Time)
Argon’s Lair | Gruntilda’s Lair - Grant Kirkhope (Banjo-Kazooie)
Attack | Horde Victory - Glenn Stafford (Warcraft II)
Snowhill Valley | A Snow Light - Motoi Sakuraba & Shinji Tamura (Tales of Symphonia)
Lothario | Cooltrainer - Go Ichinose (Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire)
Historia Peak | Freeze - Motoi Sakuraba, Shinji Tamura & Ryota Furuya (Tales of Phantasia)
Historia Glade | Frappe Snowland - Kenta Nagata (Mario Kart 64)
Historia Campsite | Lavender Town - Junichi Masuda & Go Ichinose (Pokemon Fire Red/Leaf Green)
Cogflake Citadel | Wally - Stephen Rippy (Age of Empires)
Golem Twins | ???
Boss Defeated | Jingle 4 - Saia Hyōseki (Moon Whistle)
Force Essence | Twilight Knight
Engine Room | Machine Room - Grant Kirkhope (Banjo Kazooie)
Skyland Meadow | Fungi Forest - Grant Kirkhope (Donkey Kong 64)
Fracture Nest | You Can Hear the Cry of the Planet - Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy 7)
Thundercracker | Fighting Thunder - Go Sato (Raiden Trad)
Grayscale Field | Main Action Area - Yoshio Hirai (Startropics)
Alphaville | Field 2 - Keiichi Suzuki, Hirokazu Tanaka (Mother)
Saturatio Wastes | Koopa’s Road - Koji Kondo (Super Mario 64)
Rocket Hideout | Pokemon Blue/Red (Junichi Masuda)
Von Heraldzaft | Boss - Koji Kondo (SMW2: Yoshi’s Island)