IROG'S PROFILE

author=kory_toombs
No one plays Link to the Past any more.

I do!

In 2D Zelda, the only way to get the content of a pot is to lift it. Then you hold the pot above your head and the natural action to do is throw it. The location of the pots will make you throw some at the enemy. As they cause more damages than your first sword, you'll feel good about throwing them. Moreover, they serve as range attack before you get the bow. And when you have the bow, you'll be happy to throw them and save your arrows.

OoT introduced Zelda to 3D and change things a lot. Have you ever throw a pot in OoT and hit an enemy with it? Very hard to accomplish, right. So lifting the pot was satisfying because you reveal its content. But the throwing was frustrating because 3D made it so difficult to hit an enemy. The designers brilliantly cut out the frustrating part by giving the player an easy way to get the pot content in a single fast action: swing your sword instead of pickup-then-throw. They also added that very satisfying sounds Kylaila loves so much. All players who discovered the series in 3D probably prefer to smash pots than throw them even when playing a 2D Zelda.

Indeed, in RPGs you could grind to level 99 before facing the first boss. In item/exploration based system, each element that raises the player power becomes reachable only when he/she already own some other items. This makes it easier for the developer to know how powerful the player will be when facing a boss. And design the boss accordingly.

I'm facing some issues with Lya and look at how LTTP addressed them. So I'm a bit in a Zelda mood at the moment.

I payed your game three times, using each save slot. So I didn't test the "erase save file" functionality.

On the first screenshot of this review, you have a wall-pillar a few tiles south from the caked wall. When you walk next to the wall it pushes you a bit away from the wall. Such wall-pillar could prevent bypassing the lava pit in bug07. If it works, wall-pillar would also benefit the pits in the ice dungeon.

You probably noticed that skeletons are static. This is because it was easier to have them reuse Lya's shooting mechanics than building AI and path-finding required to develop moving enemies. Yes, enemies that the player should encounter first are not the easiest to develop. But I'm working on it and melee enemies are coming.

Did you manage to defeat all 24 skeletons so Lya congratulates you?

Does the camera move too fast or too slowly?

I'll go for the Crown of Glass.

author=Liberty
one or none

All my games meet this requirement.