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[@Legend64Project]

All sound effects are placeholder :)

[@Tazerboy_10]

😄- Yeah, I kind figured as much!

[@ChainsawGutsfuck2]

What do you think you'll do when you get to the point of adding a soundtrack? Make it yourself? Hire someone? Just wondering.

[@gamedevgaming]

It sounds good expect the loud stomping walk SFX 😂

[@Tazerboy_10]

​@@gamedevgaming Nah, it sounds cool! Plus, that's how the Dodongos walking sounded in OoT and MM!

[@AdrianDrott]

Sounds good but pretty sure they're ripped directly from Zelda. Don't wanna end up in a copyright battle.@@gamedevgaming

[@philltheotherguy1868]

This is the first time I got hyped for this game as a game and not just as a cool prototype.

[@TaelAlchemist]

A small windup for the pounce attack would be nice, it feels a little bit too instantaneous/ non reactable. Might feel unfair if one fights against him. I think looking at Dark souls bosses is a great idea for good visual indicator of moves, maybe the Sanctuary Guardian for this boss in particular. Otherwise great job, love your progress!

[@NaughtyKlaus]

This is literally a Dark Souls 1 DLC Boss.

[@TaelAlchemist]

I mean, I mentioned it, it's called Sanctuary Guardian. And it's not literally it, no lightning attacks or wing blast. There are many chimeras in games, for example Dragons Dogma, they are cool and fun to fight against. @@NaughtyKlaus

[@HateSonneillon]

Looks pretty good, this is going to be really fun. The sliding as he walks is the only issue that stands out to me for animation. For combat design, having an interesting option other than dodge and swing your lantern would be great. Whether its something that heals you, stuns the enemy temporarily, a slow attack that deals big damage, or a ranged attack thats really weak. 2-3 combat options is a good minimum as long as they're each interesting for your combat.

[@Skiloose]

This is incredible, I love seeing this game getting better and better

[@fieryalbino]

That looks pretty fun to play! I like the way they cautiously circle each other and try to strike, dodge, and counter. You have to think and pay attention to every attack.

[@LCWing]

I get so giddy every time I see a new Legend 64 video pop up in my feed! Hands down my favourite indie project Ive seen in years. I loved this sequence, the way the manticore came out of the darkness was REALLY intimidating and cool. The only piece of constructive criticism I would offer is that I feel like the spinning yellow Ztarget is kind of obscuring the manticores face. Which is a bit of a shame since the texture job is awesome. Maybe it could be lowered a bit into it’s torso, to give the manticores face a bit more space? Anyway, keep up the good work! You’re an inspiration.

[@user-wz5gw8ef3w]

there's something about the graphics which feels magical

[@DommoDommo]

Wow that creature design is amazing!

[@RandomNoob1124]

Amazing, simply amazing. I can’t imagine the hard work and passion that’s went into this.

[@Litronom]

This looks very cool! The fighting gameplay sets up a good ground for some awesome dynamic battles! I'd suggest making dodging an attack in the right moment rewarding by giving the player some small buff for a short period. Looking forward to each new video!

[@typryor2227]

That thing would’ve totally given me nightmares as a kid

[@Mcl_Blue]

I'm trying to make a Zelda-inspired game too, and your project is a huge motivation to keep mine going as well. Can't wait to buy your game on Steam. (Don't worry about competition, yours will come out WAY before mine 🤣)

[@rubiksstudios4584]

the animations and enemy model are amazing, great work!

[@minilabyrinth]

Giving me flashbacks to the start of Dark Souls 1 DLC

[@VelvetAura]

This is awesome! Might I suggest experimenting with zooming the camera out during the flight mode? It felt like it was at times obscuring the enemy

[@ChristopherAOBoyle]

I think about your videos everyday man, even a mini devlog is so damn excellent! Loving this new enemy/boss? If this is the kind of enemy quality we can expect from phewee! Even more excited! Great animations, great model and great sound my dude. Wishing you all the best!

[@kasane1337]

Looks great - but it's "watch out for _its_ stinger", not "it is stinger" ;-)

[@featheryfemme]

Yeah, I noticed that as well. Small, but important.

[@NaughtyKlaus]

Now it just needs powerful attacks and magic projectiles, so it'll be a true sou- I mean N64 style boss.

[@SebastianGraves]

Your skills as an artist really shining here. Looks great man.

[@12feettall6]

Holy shit you captured the nintendo magic you know their secret. This looks and feels like a nintendo like Zelda 64 game O__O

[@JMRSN]

Looks great! Love seeing your animation work and the style is great as always. I do have a recommendation for when it takes flight: unless the goal is to force the player to break auto-lock, make sure the enemy doesn't fly too high over the player. If the angle is too great, the camera will be forced too low during auto lock which makes the player's model cover up the majority of the screen. From my experience, a good rule of thumb is that the camera should not touch the ground. Take a look at what the Souls games do - typically, flying enemies will remain a large distance away that is clearly visible to the player and quickly dash in to attack, rather than get close while flying to plunge down.

[@jx4172]

This looks excellent! Nice work!

[@BlazeHeartPanther]

Man, that looks cool. Always love seeing what you come up with.

[@Kev.NTheLich]

World feels so uncanny without background music or ambience

[@abbywoodhead2764]

I feal like there could be a ranged attack like hold up the lamp and spit a flame. That or a parry like you can flash the lamp really bright and if you do it when it’s attacking it’s stunned. These 2 move could also double as ways to interact with the environment

[@abbywoodhead2764]

Oh and I shouldnt forget to mention this is crazy cool. I love the vibe of this project I’m just shouting out an idea.

[@iiropeltonen]

I feel The Enemy should project it's intent a bit earlier so you could realistically dodge.

[@Broockle]

ah yes, Anticipation is the technical term for that. Fromsoft very much spoiled us in that regard. Would be cool, but there's other ways to design around it too.

[@SundercoreDev]

I know the sounds are placeholder, but I still love them

[@5days5hearts25]

Been following this project for just several months but I couldn't be more keen on it! Cool enemies like this inspire a lot of imagining on how the combat will evolve as time goes on. Will I get some kind of grapple weapon to hook onto the tail? What kind of weapons or powers could there be for flying enemies? Anywho, every update gets me excited!

[@lewisgreg981]

Great progress man. Can't wait to see what's next. 👍

[@mybrainhurts3727]

You MUST bitcrush those sound FX!

[@grinbrothers]

For a second I thought it said "I'll take flight" so it seemed like the Manticore has ran up to the protagonist, gave his a warning, then immediately whacked him. 0:23 - There we go, there's the flight. Nice that the Manticore doesn't immediately decide to fly up, allowing a couple ground based hits in. I imagine you'll eventually have a projectile attack. The lantern and it's flame seems well suited to the idea. 0:34 - A bit of rolling showcase. Looking smooth and with a clear sound to it. 1:16 - The Manticore flies up after a while as you're close but with hits with scary accuracy if you try to make some distance. A fun challenge to have to deal with. Nice showcase of your work here!

[@Tazerboy_10]

😲 - Dang, this is some really impressive work!

[@player_official_channel]

Keep it up man! Watching you for a year now) your your game ❤

[@onogrirwin]

glad to see you're still alive!

[@KaletheQuick]

This is so nice to see. Ive been working on an N64 inspired art level for a bit and I really hope to get to it. I really think the N64 and PS1 were the last era where hardware limitations really drove the aesthetic. Probably because 'shaders' and graphics hardware got 1- unified, and 2- hardware boosted. Not that the hardware limitations after then didn't drive the visuals of a game, just that it's the last one that has a clear 'this is a particular era' look to it. I mean for god sakes, did you know the sega saturn's hardware didn't draw triangles? It had some square based thing.

[@RW1A]

I think a slightly faster run in the fight like a panic system where your character moves faster in a fight, Looks amazing though

[@HeroGetsu]

Looks amazing homie for sure

[@666killdeath666]

I want that thing to have huge tusks for when it does a dive attack. I think that would look really cool

[@PixelPicklez]

Honey, wake up! a new Legend64 devlog just dropped!

[@DarkFlightStudios]

Awesome stuff man!

[@snb_horizons2877]

i cant wait to play this

[@CharoGaming]

Looks good, although unlike the manticore's, the protagonists hits kinda lack impact. Maybe adding particles + a sound effect on a hit would help?

[@3d_pablo]

cant wait for the epic music

[@sethtfp2373]

That is a manticore. 🥰

[@O-san4]

i feel like the pounce needs more anticipation

[@Sockpoppet]

The game is looking great! If your going to be putting us again mythical monsters without a blade, at least give us the ability to cast Quen!😆

[@breadisarting4044]

Bro got cooked, damn

[@MrCompassionate01]

It's moveset reminds me of the Santuary Guardian fight from Dark Souls 1 Artorias of the Abyss DLC. I do love a good manticore.

[@youtubeuser34z]

looking good, the boss looks really scary

[@Pridetoons]

Between this, Gunmetal Gothic, and Give them Hell I can't wait to play the final games!

[@konrad132]

I think the manticore should mark more that's is going to attack. I really like when the game is giving me changes to be good at it instead of random luck. Just my opinion. Keep working, seems like you already accomplished a lot!

[@rafakegamestutoriais5455]

i think the shading in the manticore is not super fitting of the rest of the artstyle, but is an awesome model. Would love to see this with battle music

[@klaus13337]

Amazing work! Do you want to put (the real FromSoftware-like ones) souls-like elements into your game (like stamina + iFrame-based evasion, majestic semi-linear worlds, and challenging bosses [which often need more than 10 tries to get defeated] ?) or is it more like Zelda 64?

[@freakshowjimmyscrackheaddu8255]

love your videos!!!

[@Pakkoyan]

This is wonderful, I love seeing the progress of the game! Really cool boss and the Z targeting seems to be working great with flying enemies! I will say, clearly not a souls player as those rolls were sub optimal XD

[@adamkahmann2937]

This is freakin' sick!

[@chvgcharts]

Love the project, however would love it a lot more if it had more originality and less copying from Ocarina Of Time. It's obvious that's the style you're going for but you can still achieve that same feel whilst being more original.

[@user-kp5hr6tr6k]

Wow! Looks really good:) But i think knockback is a little long, which affects the pace of the battle:( (Sorry for my bad English)

[@Warrenoh]

I'd argue this game still doesn't have an identity of its own. The visuals and aesthetic are amazing, honestly they are amazing. But as far as I can see there isnt a significant gameplay HOOK that makes it different from LoZ:OOT. I do hope you focus on gameplay going forward.

[@kyrobyt]

This starts to feel like a souls like :D

[@cybermats2004]

i love the grqphix

[@therealseanw.stewart2071]

That's scary as hell. I love it.

[@lexzeyfercronus]

Thats a really cool looking model. Side note,have you considered changing the color of the targetingto something like red for hostile enemies?,since yellow feels too much like taken straight outta Oot,considering the targeting even has the same shape.

[@dewww3368]

Looks sick

[@nier704]

very nice!

[@repingers9777]

This project made me interested in blender and unreal engine again. Seeing this kind of game made using ue's blueprint coding is awesome too, whats the best resource for learning blueprint? Besides tons of youtube tutorials lol.

[@frankeeeej]

Royal Skies is a youtube channel that has super duper to-the-point tutorials that don't waste your time. He just did a bunch about UE blueprints. So you can doodle around in Unreal and go "I wonder how I do [thing]" And he'll likely have a 2 minute video about it, it's a great way to learn. He has plenty of vids on Blender too :)

[@Legend64Project]

Honestly, KZbin. It's what I used.

[@Mcl_Blue]

Mathew Wadstein is excellent for learning what each node does. Can recommend RoyalSkies as well. But most of all, any time you watch any tutorial on how to do this or that, don't just recreate whatever's shown to you. Take the time to try to understand what the chain of logic is, what each node is doing and what its purpose is for the final result, build a "node vocabulary" essentially. That, more than anything, will make you proficient at reading blueprint code, and you'll start just knowing how to solve your problems before you even realize it.

[@AllExistence]

Boss moves are supposed to have some telegraphing. The way it is now, even you, who made it, can't dodge it at all.

[@randomrants148]

I was born in 2000 and as kid I know someone still have the n64, but I forgot who had it... anyways I am retro kind of person.

[@melongraffers4884]

looks great. the physics on the lantern really breaks the immersion for me however, though that might just be me

[@Feefafoozle]

Daaaang! Nice!

[@user-kr6rp9bt3h]

Nice chimera monster

[@Mcreator121]

looks awesome! Did you ever show how you made the targeting system?

[@Jaegerwald]

THATS SO COOL

[@kristoferkrus]

It seems difficult, but you have really managed to get the Zelda Ocarina of Time feeling down! Impressive! Btw, how do you model the AI? Do you use behavior trees?

[@xraymone]

sick

[@GHOULSPBS]

EXTREMELY SCARY

[@simonjiha3434]

The manticore has a weird haircut. It seems like it has got Mufasa hair, rather than a lion's mane. It is mildly distracting.

[@Cumlet]

Oh my god this is so fucking cool!!

[@majestichotdog1195]

i mean it needs animation work but the thing do be working

[@teo2805]

The lighting in general is too fluid and so are the physics of the lantern, kinda hard to remember it's meant to be retro with those

[@teriyaki_chicken]

are there gonna be ranged attacks in this game?

[@lanefaulhaber875]

Do you move the enemy using the animations it has? Or do you layer animations onto the movement the enemy has through a script?

[@kraythen1267]

Pog

[@m4r_art]

How far would you say you are in terms of development? How long until release date?

[@SovereignVis]

Yeah, needs some good boss fighting music too it. Also I think the Manticore seems very out of place for this game. I'm pretty sure I have watched all your dev videos so far, and from what you have said and shown with the game, the story is mostly about the hero fighting against evil spirits and the undead. The Manticore looks more like a normal living monster and not a evil spirit or undead zombie like monster, so it kind of looks out of place. I think you should retexture it so it looks more zombie-like with rotting flesh and some bones showing, just like the Undead Hydra. Also be sure to mute the colors a bit to give it that dead and decaying look. The current colors look way too alive and well for an undead monster. 🙂

[@ChillingStreams]

Zelda 64 plus!

[@dongodongo12]

How did you learn blueprints? I'm inspired to make stuff like you do!

[@WarDogMadness]

Its an epic feat of game desigin how does a greek manticore get to japan. Or is the game just a mix of fantasy myths.

[@TheLotroNerd]

Needs some music!

[@tylanyofi674]

Here and idea for a boss what adout a giant lizard inspired by Helmsaur for the legend of zelda in case in Crystal and at first you won't even know it an enemy, your just think it an Mountain cover with crystal until it attack. I imagine that you have to break through it crystal or how about you can take some inspiration from the Helmsaur from a link to the past and have that giant lizard have a volcano on it back instead of crystal

[@CoreyFarr]

This is looking so great! I've been following since the beginning. I tried contacting you a couple times on Facebook Messenger but never heard back, so I'm not sure if you received those. Do you have an email or Discord you'd be willing to share? I'm a composer specializing in medieval fantasy stuff and I'd love to send you my demo reel and pitch you some ideas. I just can't share links in KZbin comments so I need a way to get in touch with you directly.

[@StrawberryNUKE]

I know it's silly But can you add a "tail cut" I saw you target the tail and I got sanctuary guardian vibes

[@geurworx8164]

dark souls, but the enemies don't tell what and when they are attacking

[@CloudlessStudio]

Sanctuary Guardian

[@_loss_]

broooo

[@Danarogon]

That's one fucked up looking Simba. The bugs he ate finally caught up to him I guess.

[@cansado2287]

hello

[@tylanyofi674]

What is the protagonist name

[@JONAClDE]

can this game get any cooler