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BY2K · Aug 22, 2016

Thanks to @RobotBrush on Twitter for bringing this to my attention.

http://oceanhorn.blogspot.ca/2016/08/oceanhorn-2-in-development.html

The boy has grown up? That’s right! But he is a different boy altogether! Oceanhorn 2: Knights of the Lost Realm is set in another time period on the Oceanhorn timeline. The game has a new Hero, a boy who has been trained to become a Knight of Arcadia.

Oceanhorn 2 will be built upon the same elements that were the heart and soul of the first Oceanhorn game: exploring a colorful world, a deep backstory with secrets and twists, amazing music, and most importantly – classic Action RPG gameplay with items, puzzles, battles, and badass bosses!

The game is played from a third person camera angle that will take players right into the heat of action and allows them to explore even the smallest details of Arcadia. Our battle system consists of sword fighting, utilizing powerful spells and finding creative ways to use various items that Hero discovers on his travels.

One of the key items in the game is the Caster, a gun that shoots magical projectiles! It will have many uses on the player’s adventure, from puzzle solving to luring enemies and casting directed spells.

Reminds me a LOT of Skyward Sword.

AAMARMO · Aug 22, 2016

Zelda BOTW got robbed.

-MB- · Aug 22, 2016

AAMARMO said:
Zelda BOTW got robbed.

You mean Skyward Sword right?
Since it borrows the gfx style from that.

jdstorm · Aug 22, 2016

Will be interesting to see how they justify this title since

Oceanhorn is the name of the final boss you destroy in Oceanhorn

Happy to see indies filling the void of fun family friendly action adventure games on Non Nintendo platforms

Edit: Oceanhorn is definitely worth a play through, and if you are looking for another fun mostly overlooked IOS game of the time. Air Mail is an incredibly charming action adventure flight sim worth a look

http://www.metacritic.com/game/ios/air-mail

Killyoh · Aug 22, 2016

They had the benefit of the doubt for the first one and the Wind Waker resemblance but c'mon that's straight up Breath of the Wild

kulapik · Aug 22, 2016

It looks like it might be a console game, but who knows.

No Uematsu or Ito this time around, it seems.

BY2K · Aug 22, 2016

Killyoh said:
They had the benefit of the doubt for the first one and the Wind Waker resemblance but c'mon that's straight up Breath of the Wild

Looks more like Skyward Sword to me.

But that weapon that shoot magical projectiles that has a light blue shine... I mean, c'mon now.

Chobel · Aug 22, 2016

A sequel to that Wind Waker clone? Which Zelda they'll clone this time?

TheMoon · Aug 22, 2016

guys, this looks nothing like Skyward Sword, get your eyes checked

totally different art style.

F4r0_Atak · Aug 22, 2016

I just hope the Art Direction will be consistent in this sequel. Looks dope so far!!

kulapik · Aug 22, 2016

The world of Oceanhorn has grown and so has our team. The core team working on Oceanhorn 2 is now a team of five!

Heikki Repo, Creator and Lead Artist
Jukka Viljamaa, Lead Programmer
Antti Viljamaa, Lead Programmer
Kalle Hämäläinen, Graphics Programmer
Miko Kiuru, Game Artist

Also, Kalle Ylitalo will return to compose soundtrack for Oceanhorn 2 and the famed sound designer and foley artist Tapio Liukkonen will be in charge of the audio experience.

ScientificPizza · Aug 22, 2016

Man, I really gotta get around to playing that first one

FelipeMGM · Aug 22, 2016

jdstorm said:
Will be interesting to see how they justify this title since

Oceanhorn is the name of the final boss you destroy in Oceanhorn

Happy to see indies filling the void of fun family friendly action adventure games on Non Nintendo platforms

Here, this might answer you in some way.

The boy has grown up? Thats right! But he is a different boy altogether! Oceanhorn 2: Knights of the Lost Realm is set in another time period on the Oceanhorn timeline. The game has a new Hero, a boy who has been trained to become a Knight of Arcadia.

Chobel · Aug 22, 2016

Graphically it looks astonishing though.

ZeroX03 · Aug 22, 2016

Well at least they're not shamelessly copying Wind Waker anymore......

Hero_of_the_Day · Aug 22, 2016

ScientificPizza said:
Man, I really gotta get around to playing that first one

Me too. Keep meaning to get it and just never have.

purseowner · Aug 22, 2016

The UI is straight-up copy/pasted from Breath of the Wild.

jdstorm · Aug 22, 2016

FelipeMGM said:
Here, this might answer you in some way.

From what I remember of the first game.

The Arcadians were a lost civilisation who lived in a sky fortress, who's civilisation had crumbled and the Hero's lost mother was one of the last Arcadians.

so it will probably be a prequel.

That weapon looks fun. It seems like it will be Oceanhorns Version of the Gravity Gun

Fbh · Aug 22, 2016

I remember reading that as far as Zelda clones go the first one is pretty fun.

So hey, of this is a fun 3D Zelda clone it might be worth a play through

BY2K · Aug 22, 2016

jdstorm said:
From what I remember of the first game.

The Arcadians were a lost civilisation who lived in a sky fortress, who's civilisation had crumbled and the Hero's lost mother was one of the last Arcadians.

so it will probably be a prequel.

That weapon looks fun. It seems like it will be Oceanhorns Version of the Gravity Gun

The Arcadians were a lost civilisation who lived in a sky fortress

Are you kidding me?

TheMoon · Aug 22, 2016

BY2K said:
Are you kidding me?

and the kid trains to become a knight

Killyoh · Aug 22, 2016

BY2K said:
Are you kidding me?

Haha ok now that's definitely Skyward Sword.

jdstorm · Aug 22, 2016

BY2K said:
Are you kidding me?

It's been a while so I might be misremembering a few details but one of the places you go to is called

SKY ISLAND

Here's a link to the Oceanhorn Wikia for more accurate information
http://oceanhorn.wikia.com/wiki/The_Oceanhorn_Wiki

I really enjoyed the first game so I'm excited for the sequel

Easy_D · Aug 22, 2016

So the first one was Wind Waker and this new one is Skyward Sword? The colour palette is near identical

Luigiv · Aug 22, 2016

Cool. Nice to see they ditched the cube terrain for something more conventional. That'll hopefully help this one have better level design than the original.

Parsnip · Aug 22, 2016

Neat, I'll buy it.

Trilobit · Aug 22, 2016

Knights of the
Lost Realm
Arcadia.

Everything about this sounds so painfully generic, but who knows, it could provide some solid entertainment.

ZeroX03 · Aug 22, 2016

Let's just all be glad they skipped the Twlight Princess aesthetic.

jediyoshi · Aug 22, 2016

Hrm third person. Wonder if they'll try to replicate the Zelda lock-on this time around.

CryptiK · Aug 22, 2016

Who cares if its a rip off. The first game was good and this one looks great and at least we are getting another Zelda like game.

James Scott · Aug 22, 2016

The boy has grown up? Thats right! But he is a different boy altogether! Oceanhorn 2: Knights of the Lost Realm is set in another time period on the Oceanhorn timeline. The game has a new Hero, a boy who has been trained to become a Knight of Arcadia.

The Arcadians were a lost civilisation who lived in a sky fortress

This franchise is going from shameless Zelda clone to theft, lol

JayWood2010 · Aug 22, 2016

Maybe put them on Android this time

Hot Coldman · Aug 22, 2016

this is for everyone who demanded Skyward Sword ditch motion controls for a HD release

StereoVsn · Aug 22, 2016

The first game was pretty fun and didn't jump into F2P route on mobile plus dev supported it fairly well. I am in for this one. Hopefully they will do Steam release close to iOS.

As far as cloning, don't care. We need more Zelda like games and these guys are doing more of an homage vs copying, IMO.

venomenon · Aug 22, 2016

Luigiv said:
Cool. Nice to see they ditched the cube terrain for something more conventional.

That was one of the very few things that set it apart from Wind Waker though

Not that I have a problem with it. Liked the 1st, will definitely play the 2nd.

James Scott · Aug 22, 2016

StereoVsn said:
The first game was pretty fun and didn't jump into F2P route on mobile plus dev supported it fairly well. I am in for this one. Hopefully they will do Steam release close to iOS.

As far as cloning, don't care. We need more Zelda like games and these guys are doing more of an homage vs copying, IMO.

Maybe the first game, but based on the little that is shown here, it's a pretty shameless copy of skyward sword from the game's look to the fact that he's a knight in training in a floating island

Violet_0 · Aug 22, 2016

they really do like Zelda
I wasn't really into the first game, though

oh, and please, hire a decent writer. The world/setting/story/characters of Oceanhorn was as generic as they come and from what little we know it looks like they want to continue this proud tradition

StereoVsn · Aug 22, 2016

Violet_0 said:
they really do like Zelda
I wasn't really into the first game, though

oh, and please, hire a decent writer. The world/setting/story/characters of Oceanhorn was as generic as they come and from what little we know it looks like they want to continue this proud tradition

It's now a 5 man team, used to be less. Do you think hey can afford to hire a separate writer?

. Hopefully quality of writing will be improved, we shall see.

As to the whole Sword/Knight thing, it's just couple initial shots. Before you guys skewer the dev lets see more of the game. Also, again personally I don't really car all that much. These guys are not stealing assets, they like Zelda and are trying to build another Zelda clone. We haven't had a good one since Alundra before Oceanhorn and considering team size the first game was pretty darn good.

heringer · Aug 22, 2016

No platforms announced?

jdstorm · Aug 22, 2016

StereoVsn said:
It's now a 5 man team, used to be less. Do you think hey can afford to hire a separate writer? . Hopefully quality of writing will be improved, we shall see.

As to the whole Sword/Knight thing, it's just couple initial shots. Before you guys skewer the dev lets see more of the game. Also, again personally I don't really car all that much. These guys are not stealing assets, they like Zelda and are trying to build another Zelda clone. We haven't had a good one since Alundra before Oceanhorn and considering team size the first game was pretty darn good.

Honestly I've always felt that the "Zelda Clone" reputation that Oceanhorn had was undeserved. Sure parts of it looked like Wind Waker and

in early drafts of the script, the hero was going off to save his lost sister. Until the Cornfox team were reminded that WindWaker was about link saving his sister not Princess Zelda and they changed the script to be about their hero's relationship with his parents. Something Zelda never really explores

But Oceanhorn also borrows from other JRPG and Adventure games just as liberally. One of the boss battles feels like the plant boss battle in Metroid prime, their is an Airship moment around halfway through the game. Not to mention the whole Killer Robot motif. While it doesn't do much to differentiate itself within its genre. It Oceanhorn is charming and likeable which I think is what people most enjoy about Zelda games. Hence the comparison

Soren01 · Aug 22, 2016

Looks very good

Ultima_5 · Aug 22, 2016

Was the first game any good? I got it on both iPad and steam during a sale I believe

Sou Da · Aug 22, 2016

So this is a 3D Zelda now?

Shredderi · Aug 22, 2016

Looks damn good visually. I'm interested, shameless Zelda clone or not. As far as clones go, you could do a lot worse than copying Zelda.

SatoAilDarko · Aug 22, 2016

Wind Wake to Skyward Sword huh?

Might as well lean in to it.

BassForever · Aug 22, 2016

I'm okay with this, I still haven't played Ocean Horn but I love the Zelda formula so much I wish more people would do mediocre-okay rip offs of it.

Luigiv · Aug 22, 2016

venomenon said:
That was one of the very few things that set it apart from Wind Waker though

Not that I have a problem with it. Liked the 1st, will definitely play the 2nd.

Yeah, though that just meant it was derivative of Minecraft instead.

But anyway, jokes aside, the cube terrain did the not-particularly-great-to-begin-with level design no favours.

TimmiT · Aug 22, 2016

I've never played the first game, but it seems pretty good and at least has its own look to it. This meanwhile just kinda looks like a rip-off. :X

Like I'm fine with games trying to be the same at other franchises gameplay-wise, but when it just tries to be the same game it just becomes lazy and uninteresting imo.

StereoVsn · Aug 22, 2016

jdstorm said:
Honestly I've always felt that the "Zelda Clone" reputation that Oceanhorn had was undeserved. Sure parts of it looked like Wind Waker and

in early drafts of the script, the hero was going off to save his lost sister. Until the Cornfox team were reminded that WindWaker was about link saving his sister not Princess Zelda and they changed the script to be about their hero's relationship with his parents. Something Zelda never really explores

But Oceanhorn also borrows from other JRPG and Adventure games just as liberally. One of the boss battles feels like the plant boss battle in Metroid prime, their is an Airship moment around halfway through the game. Not to mention the whole Killer Robot motif. While it doesn't do much to differentiate itself within its genre. It Oceanhorn is charming and likeable which I think is what people most enjoy about Zelda games. Hence the comparison

Good points about the overall game direction. In either case it was decent to good game with fairly well done 3D graphics which is fairly rare in indie games.

The sequel should be better with more resources so I am looking toward that. And again, everyone should support more non F2P games on iOS.

Coolade · Aug 22, 2016

Hmm this announcement just made me fire up oceanhorn for the first time. It looks good.

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