15 Facts About Neutopia

Neutopia is an overhead action-adventure video game developed by Hudson Soft.

Neutopia is widely regarded as a clone of the popular Nintendo game The Legend of Zelda in nearly every aspect.

Neutopia takes place in the distant past in the land of Neutopia – a prosperous and peaceful land in which the people worshipped at a Sacred Shrine and were watched over by Princess Aurora.

Neutopia sends his army of demons to ravage the land, and he captures Princess Aurora and holds her captive in the Climactic Castle, where he would rule over the invading demons.

Neutopia is told that he would inherit the wisdom of his ancestors and win the Princess' love if victorious.

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Neutopia is an action adventure game which features a top-down perspective and labyrinthine exploration similar to that of The Legend of Zelda.

Neutopia received much coverage from various video gaming websites after its release on the Virtual Console, and each drew comparisons to Zelda.

Adam Romano from Defunct Games noted that Neutopia was released two years before The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and said that Neutopia "kept pace with or were actually ahead of the Nintendo curve".

Neutopia said that gameplay and backgrounds remain varied and that "the fire rod weapon is especially fun to wield", but he noted that the things that keep the game from being better than Zelda were repetitive and frustrating dungeon exploring, boring boss battles, long passwords, and several "head-scratching moments" which include references to Judaism and Islam as well as quotes from Star Wars.

Neutopia concluded that the game, while copying Zelda, might be better as it added additional features that set it apart.

Neutopia praised the game for its variety of environments, which he said "helps to combat monotony", but he noted the lack of detail in the graphics itself.

Neutopia criticized the game's sound, in which he said the background music was a series of "grating instrumentations" while pointing out the low-quality TurboGrafx-16 sound chip.

Neutopia praised one of the differences in the presence of the fire rod, which he said "is unlike any weapon the 8-bit Link ever wielded"; he noted the clean, crisp graphics and a good quality soundtrack.

However, he criticized another difference from Zelda, that Neutopia had poor collision detection, saying that it can lead to additional damage to Jazeta, which causes the power of the fire rod to decrease and lead to the annoying "beeping sound" just as in Zelda.

In general, Thomas said that, despite its lack of originality, Neutopia is a good TurboGrafx-16 game which has deserved all the praise it has received.