Topic: Zelda: A Link between Worlds (Got it today!)

[GuyStarwind]

I got enough points but like you said it was pure luck. I just tried to hit the bird a lot.

[shelverton.]

Yeah, well.. I beat the game now so I may just ignore that final heart piece after all. Great game but way too easy. I never died. That's never happened to me in a Zelda game before.

[GuyStarwind]

It was really easy. I hear hero mode is pretty hard so maybe I'll give that a try sometime.

[Belmont legacy]

I absolutely LOVE Zelda even though I suck soo bad at it. I got past all the first 3 dungeons and got the master sword but I came to a halt when trying to find a certain temple because I couldn't find a way to the swamp. XD I'm terrible at finding locations. Lmao

[Dark Nemesis]

I'm halfway through the game and i can say, that even if you have almost all items from the beginning, you can still get stuck, trying to find your way through the map, where to go next.

[Inccubus]

Good. Then at least it's challenging in some ways even if the difficulty was toned down.

[zangetsu468]

I really enjoyed ALBW, and I believe the merge aspect works really well between Light and Dark.

What I believe could be improved:

Integration of platforming, dashing and combat while in the merge form (Zelda II style) rather than just on the final boss
More Environmental effects (remember ALTTP it was raining when Zelda communicated telepathically with Link)
Harder bosses
Harder puzzles (ST's puzzles were more challenging in the final tower)
Where did those Sahasrahla telecom tablets go? Those things were boss
Remove that putrid Lorule Castle stage which makes no logistical sense at all in this game (the final stage should have been making your way to Lorule Castle, not fighting your way through the Castle to Hilda i.e. as soon as Link has freed the Sages and has the TOC, she WANTS him to come to her because she desires the Entire Triforce!)
Put some optional bosses (badass demons) in the game for a challenge
For Christ's sake remove the OOT music from the houses, this is no OOT!!!

All in all the game was solid though, even if I finished the harder temples first. The easier temples like the Water temple felt longer which evens it out.

Gameplay was solid.

I like that the story didn't interrupt the game, but I still deep down wished for a little bit more. Like Why Ganon still had the TOP after ALTTP...
I get that Link wished to restore everything back the way it was, leaving Ganon sealed in the Darkworld (even if he wasn't completely destroyed - which he seems to be in ALTTP as the essence of the Triforce assembles itself infront of Link) and that after the credits roll the Triforce splits again, so eventually I guess Link Zelda and Ganon inherited their respective pieces. I found this interesting.

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

I don't mind the OoT Castle music.
I do, however, miss the ALttP Pyramid, which seems to have gone missing altogether.

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Is Lorule the DarkWorld?  Or just an unusually-similar kingdom in another dimension (like Termina, though Termina isn't at all similar in terms of construction/architecture, just people).

[GuyStarwind]

I'm sure I've said this but I couldn't agree more with leaving the OoT stuff out

[zangetsu468]

I don't mind the OoT Castle music.
I do, however, miss the ALttP Pyramid, which seems to have gone missing altogether.

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Is Lorule the DarkWorld?  Or just an unusually-similar kingdom in another dimension (like Termina, though Termina isn't at all similar in terms of construction/architecture, just people).

Yeah I agree with the Pyramid, just having the whole DarkWorld map and plonking another Castle there which contains enemies wasn't really good enough. Also, it should have been like Megaman as in you should have had to battle all the bosses, not just the 2 from Hyrule.

This was my point about Lorule Castle. In ALTTP you needed to free the Sages to get to Ganon's Tower, then you needed to fight Agahnim (Ganon) who escaped and ran away into the Pyramid... They ripped so much of ALTTP's Darkworld anyway, I don't see why they couldn't create the same Hype and give us one last throwback which would have made Logistical sense.

Instead we got Yuga absorbing Ganon's Pig form along with the TOP (so either Ganon is majorly weakened or Yuga is much Stronger because who the hell would/ could absorb Ganon when you could just take his TOP??)
Then Hilda (stock standard with no Triforce piece) containing YuGanon for the duration of the entire game - which he seems to not be able to break out of
Hilda wants the Triforce, even so you have to enter her Castle, fight your way to her and dodge lava for no good reason other than to lengthen the game (that stuff can hurt you)
Hilda then takes Zelda's TOW
And when Hilda has the TOW, then YuGanon absorbs her too... (But previously standard Hilda could contain him with magic, wtf?)

This didn't ruin the game but it kind of annoyed me, why not just make the ideas simple, ALTTP was built on simple ideas executed very well.

Just make Hilda want to control Yuga> who wants the TOP> which belongs to Ganon

i.e. Hilda wants Yuga to obtain the Triforce for Lorule, she's then betrayed by Yuga who tries to use Ganon, who doesn't take orders from Yuga - turns blue, Kills Yuga and now Link has to fight blue Ganon (as he did in ALTTP). Why give us Purple Ganon with Yuga's Hair? He looks like Obelix, not Ganon.

And in the end I guess you just destroy YuGanon and both die... Yeah

I have to admit I am really at glad the very end just read FIN and not "The Master Sword sleeps... FOREVER!"



PS: Lorule is not the DarkWorld from ALTTP this was stated by Aunoma, it's basically the same thing but Death Mountain and Turtle Rock are different. Also, no pyramid this time :/

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PS: Lorule is not the DarkWorld from ALTTP this was stated by Aunoma, it's basically the same thing but Death Mountain and Turtle Rock are different. Also, no pyramid this time :/

Unfortunately this wasn't helped at all by reusing the Dark world idea. Aunoma could have gotten away with it had he created an entirely new world that we haven't seen before.

[zangetsu468]

Unfortunately this wasn't helped at all by reusing the Dark world idea. Aunoma could have gotten away with it had he created an entirely new world that we haven't seen before.

It would have made more sense if Yuga had turned the sages into paintings to open a portal to the Darkworld in order to resurrect Ganon/ obtain the TOP. Ganon is obviously sealed in the SR by the sages (from ALTTP's ending) so I'm not exactly sure why Yuga gathering the sages in Lorule opened a portal to Hyrule's SR?

Anyhow I think going with how the game was designed, a cooler twist would have been exploring Lorule's SR/ Darkworld in addition to Lorule. But hey, It was a well done sequel, I actually liked it a bit more than ALTTP.