The Girl from Arkanya

Good Zelda-like, the sections where you gotta switch between characters and solve puzzle around that are actually quite amusing.

TLDR; short game, needs some QOL improvement, decent game. 6.5/10 The puzzles are the best part of this game, but there weren't very many puzzles. Combat was generic and boring. There are a lot of almost well done aspects of the game, but it's missing a lot of quality of life things. Fast travel is a pain, dances arent practical to use in direct combat, the specials that come with specific dances don't do nearly enough in a fight to ever want to use, you're only allowed to equip two items at a time (very GBA esque, which is over 20 years old), most the items are useless or strongly outperformed by grappling hook and the sash. Not a bad game by any means, but it's still relatively short even if you do sidequests. The actual story is pretty generic, but the interactions with all the characters are unique and anime-esque. Also, I found a lot of bugs when entering load zones with the Sash, or trying to exit a room as soon as you enter. (one time i clipped out of bounds, another time i crashed the game, but most times I would just be stuck on the room border and walk back into the room and walk into the load zone.)

i played a capibruh

This gave me the Link To The Past feel I was hoping for.