LttP is my favourite Zelda, and possibly my favourite game of all time. It does everything perfectly, and sets up a whole boat load of staples that the following games would also use. It's all about the dungeon design to me, and those are sublime, making you think and work out how to get around some of the layouts using the tools you've acquired.
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So anyway, I kind of agree that LttP isn't that great in a variety of ways, but what's it supposed to be then? It's not an arcade game, and it's not a point 'n' click Adventure game. It's not intended to be difficult. Within the genre it carved out it does pretty well. I think Super Metroid eclipses it in playability and in the refinement of cinematic feel for this kind of game but that's, again, a different kind of game (and also made with the benefit of a few years' development).
To put it simply, some will see the series' reliance on the action game format as holding it back from showing the potential of its puzzles (the various minigames and post-game exploration available for various titles over the years have attempted to fix this somewhat), and others will see it as making things look too easy, and too casually playable. But I think those criticisms miss what it's trying to do. If there is one thing I would change about it, I'd knock out some of the text and make it seem a bit more mysterious, a little bit closer to the Demon's / Dark Souls games. But hey, there's always Majora's Mask if you want mysterious. It's good to have a lot of variety.
Some other ideas: Golden Axe Warrior, Sylvan Tale. (SMS and GG respectively; ROM translation available for Sylvan Tale.)
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Thanks for the tip.
I just ordered a copy of Sylvan Tale complete.
Huh, no one's mentioned the Oracle games yet. Curious.
I would put Link's Awakening ahead of ALTTP, myself. It just feels like there's more to do between dungeons, whereas in ALTTP, your sole purpose seems to be to wander on down to the next dungeon.
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Nothing wrong with not liking it. This game does feel a bit overrated sometimes.
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Im happy about this turn the thread has made, very funny screen shots!
This is now a pony thread.
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I really liked Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past on the SNES, I didn't obsess over it like some people did back in the day but I loved it all the same. Honestly, I prefer the "light" world to the "dark" world and usually will play up until you beat everything in the light world and then stop, it's just more fun that way for me to do that for whatever reason. But I have played the whole game through probably about 5 or 6 times since the early 90's when I first played it. I really liked Ocarina of Time too and would say my memories with that game were a tad bit better than with A Link to the Past, that game was simply awesome and they're both really close to eachother on my all-time list (Ocarina #30/Link to the Past #33).
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