WHY IS "THE LEGEND OF ZELDA A LINK TO THE PAST" SUCH A GREAT GAME?

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If you have great knowledge of games, you wouldn't be asking for help now would you?

Audrey Hepburn was innovative and good for her time but cannot objectively compare to the bigger budget, improved camera work, and higher polygon counts of actresses today.

I liked Ocarina of Time better.

Never trust a game where the hero never says a single world.







(Unless it's called Legend of Mana -> that's awesome, but compared to the Zelda Franchise not a game where the protagonist is directly involved in the story, a voiceless hero (or heroine) is intended and contributes to a unique gameplay experience.)

Pokémon is alright, because the player character is intended to be kinda like the player him- or herself.

But in the Zelda franchise Link is constantly addressed to, he has relatives, friends and antagonist and he never says a freaking word unless he is being asked to answer a "Yes" or a "No".

I concur. Designing cool and interesting systems is only half the battle. Designing interesting challenges (ie- levels) to pit against those systems is just as important.

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There is a glitch in Link's awakening that allows you to travel to any screen, I forgot how to trigger it but its fun. Did you know that Nintendo was making a Zelda 3 for the nes but it had gotten canceled due to the snes's release? I would love to see Zelda 3 for the nes.

You press Select when transitioning screens. It doesn't take you to any screen, but if done correctly you'll be on the far side of the screen you were supposed to transition into. This can let you skip obstacles without certain tools. If you land inside a wall, you can either jump down back to the map, or jump across the screen. For example, this would let you fight the boss in the second dungeon without getting the Bracelet that lets you pick things up.



The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is a great game for a variety of reasons.

Memorable music and graphics are the simplest to understand. The graphics are cute, and some what plain, but are easy to read, make each screen easy to understand, and use great colour balance. The music is your typical Zelda fare, but still very memorable.

The combat system is relatively flawless. The hit detection is spot on, collision detection isn't often an issue. The maps are open enough that you can manuever and not feel inhibited by the terrain. 8 Directional Movement and a sweeping sword-arc make the combat seem really fluid. In Zelda 1 you spend a lot of time fighting the grid to position yourself and as soon as you get the beam sword you never want to be less than full life because its so much easier and less painful to hit from range.

The combat system also flows into the tool system beautifully. I don't know how better to articulate it than it's perfect.

The game also had a lot of non-necessary but fun to find things. Lots of hidden heart containers, four bottles (only one is necessary iirc), the spells, I think the fire rod was skip-able? Possibly the upgraded bombs? Definitely the upgraded Boomerang, which was awesome the way you get that.

The dual-world system made the world feel like it was twice the size, was handled really well, and created some interesting puzzle solutions. I sort of wish that the dungeons all translated 1:1 between the two worlds, so that there was some dual-world interaction when you were inside a dungeon.

Anyway, it's really a perfect game, and what's more is that its a direct and calculable improvement over it's previous instalments. You might like the earlier games more, but when its broken down to numbers and direct comparisons, it's greater than its predecessors.

TL;DR: Memorable Music, Great Graphic Direction, Tight as Fuck Controls, the right amount of hidden stuff, excellent use of dual-world system, vast improvement over all of its predecessors.

I don't find it hard to answer, Max. I wrote a pretty long post right above yours about why I liked LttP so much.

I can definitely answer why I don't like Ocarina of Time as much, as well!

The dual-world system felt like a fucking chore. Going back and forth was painful. The 3D engine was great and all but so often did I spend fighting the camera, falling off ledges accidently, missing monsters or targeting the wrong monsters with Z-Targeting.

It was a good game, but by no means is it better than LttP.

The dual-world system felt like a fucking chore. Going back and forth was painful.

I fucking loved that! I even wished you could make more use of that. As far as I remember the only time when you had to travel back was to find the "Eye of the Truth" on the well's ground in Cacarico.

But in ALttP you also had to travel to that other dimension after you had beaten the first three dungeons.

I guess I liked OoT Better because it had deeper characters and you met them again and again. In ALttP they were more spiritless NPCs.

I find this game to be overrated! I prefer Link's Awakening and Ocarina of Time. It's still a great game, highly influential, but I found the dungeon design to be lacking and overly reliant on traps. They did a much better job in the next few entries to the series.