Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore

Overview

Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore is a platforming interactive animated adventure video game developed by Seth "Dopply" Fulkerson as a spiritual successor to the Zelda CD-i games, infamous online for their low-quality and unintentionally comedic full animation cut scenes and poor gameplay. The game was announced in mid-July 2023 and garnered excited reactions from many online, inspiring fan art and memes featuring the characters from the trailer. It also inspired YouTube Poop (YTP) animations, similar to how the Zelda CD-i games inspired YTP animations in the mid-2000s.

History

On July 12th, 2023, the LimitedRun and GameTrailers YouTube^[1][2] channels posted the premiere trailer for Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore, an upcoming platforming game described as an "interactive animated adventure" (shown below). The game takes inspiration from The Legend of Zelda games on CD-i, Link: The Faces of Evil and Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon, with both the cutscenes and platforming gameplay resembling the CD-i games. The game also features voice work by Jeffrey Rath and Bonnie Jean Wilbur, who voiced Link and Zelda respectively in the CD-i Zelda games.^[3][4] The trailer features scenes directly inspired by cutscenes in the Zelda-CDi games, most notably a shopkeeper inspired by Morshu.

The trailer gained over 72,000 views and 31,000 views respectively in five days. The game's trailer was shared by its promotional Twitter^[5] page, @ArzetteGame, that day and the @LimitedRunGames Twitter^[6] page, the latter garnering over 10,000 likes in five days.

Online Presence

On July 12th, 2023, the day the game was released, people began posting fan content referencing it. That day, Twitter^[7] user @Jawmuncher posted a meme captioned, "Youtube Poopers coming out of retirement to sentence mix the Arzette Cutscenes," garnering over 1,700 likes in five days. On July 13th, YouTubers^[8][9] ProTayToe's Meme Stache and Tukepuikko posted YTPs using the game's cutscenes, garnering over 9,100 and 4,600 views respectively in four days (shown below, left and right).

On July 13th, Twitter^[10] user @ posted a redraw of the Zelda blanky mode meme depicting Arzette wrapped in a blanket, garnering over 1,200 likes in four days (shown below).

On July 14th, 3034, YouTuber^[11] Vo Memes posted a YTP based on the game, garnering over 17,000 views in three days (shown below).

On July 15th, Twitter^[12] user @FakeLicensedGam posted a mockup of a CD-i game cover for the game, garnering over 840 likes in two days (shown below).

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