Zelda A Link To The Past: A TERRIBLE game!!!

Ugh. I downloaded The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past off the VC expecting it to be incredible. People praise it so greatly I was almost positive I would love it. Wrong. How can this stinker even hold a candle to Ocarina, Majora's, Wind Waker, or Twilight Princess? There are so many problems with this game:

1) The combat system: This is truly awful. Fighting enemies is so tedious and hard. When you get close enogh to slash an enemy they just charge you. This is made worse by the fact that Link moves like a snail while swinging his sword. And then once you get hit...you FREAKIN TURN INVISIBLE! WTF is up with that?! So you get hit and then you can't see where you are. This leads to the enemy just annihilating you. It's ridiculous

2) The horrible overworld: The map sucks. The world sucks. On the map it's impossible to see if your desired route is blocked by trees and this leads to wandering. Lots of wandering. The freakin trees create mazes that are extremely frustrating to navigate. There are so many other needless obstacles like rocks and poles.

3) It is so uncompelling: Why do I want to druge through this agony? To encounter even more frustrating gameplay and bad story/dialouge? The puzzles are easy; the real challenge is navigating the overworld. And the story is a complete bore. So Link gets a message in a dream and then suddenly rushes off to save the princess (that COULD have been just a dream), putting his own life in danger? And there is absolutely no backstory. You go save the princess and then WOOSH your a hero. You think people would be a little more secrective with revealing the location of the Pendants (or medallions or w/e) and the Master Sword.

A complete waste of money. I should have bought Kid Icarus or Kirby

1) The combat system: This is truly awful. Fighting enemies is so tedious and hard. When you get close enogh to slash an enemy they just charge you. This is made worse by the fact that Link moves like a snail while swinging his sword. And then once you get hit...you FREAKIN TURN INVISIBLE! WTF is up with that?! So you get hit and then you can't see where you are. This leads to the enemy just annihilating you. It's ridiculoussk8ter33157

You do know it came out more then a decade ago, right? Dark_Knight6

Ugh. I downloaded The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past off the VC expecting it to be incredible. People praise it so greatly I was almost positive I would love it. Wrong. How can this stinker even hold a candle to Ocarina, Majora's, Wind Waker, or Twilight Princess? There are so many problems with this game:

1) The combat system: This is truly awful. Fighting enemies is so tedious and hard. When you get close enogh to slash an enemy they just charge you. This is made worse by the fact that Link moves like a snail while swinging his sword. And then once you get hit...you FREAKIN TURN INVISIBLE! WTF is up with that?! So you get hit and then you can't see where you are. This leads to the enemy just annihilating you. It's ridiculous

2) The horrible overworld: The map sucks. The world sucks. On the map it's impossible to see if your desired route is blocked by trees and this leads to wandering. Lots of wandering. The freakin trees create mazes that are extremely frustrating to navigate. There are so many other needless obstacles like rocks and poles.

3) It is so uncompelling: Why do I want to druge through this agony? To encounter even more frustrating gameplay and bad story/dialouge? The puzzles are easy; the real challenge is navigating the overworld. And the story is a complete bore. So Link gets a message in a dream and then suddenly rushes off to save the princess (that COULD have been just a dream), putting his own life in danger? And there is absolutely no backstory. You go save the princess and then WOOSH your a hero. You think people would be a little more secrective with revealing the location of the Pendants (or medallions or w/e) and the Master Sword.

A complete waste of money. I should have bought Kid Icarus or Kirby

sk8ter33157

and the graphics are just horrible! they look like last-gen.. i've never seen such a bad game! :|ShakeNBake1491

Seriously? How old are you? If you think the combat system in A Link To The Past is lacking, Kid Icarus isn't going to blow your mind. I ask how old you are because if you weren't "around" to play SNES or NES games in the 80's and early 90's, you're probably wasting your time downloading anything on the VC. radnasty

one of the best 2d zelda adventures imo. ALTTP isnt **** compared to OOT or TP, but it is still great.EDIT youll also have to consider that this game came out over a decade ago.

dude how old are you? link to the past is old and its still hella fun, all you probably care about is that graphics maybe? kid icarus is an old ass game and i still enjoy playing it so why would lttp be any different?

I don't know why people make topics like this just to piss people off...
Masoncale

I don't know why people make topics like this just to piss people off...
Masoncale

I just think that there is nothing to gain by flaming a NINTENDO game in a NINTENDO forum....

Except maybe people telling you that you are wrong. Just saying >.>
Masoncale

fact is NO true gamer would diss gaming history.. If it wasn't for old school LoZ, games would not be where they are today.ArmoJan

[QUOTE="ArmoJan"]fact is NO true gamer would diss gaming history.. If it wasn't for old school LoZ, games would not be where they are today.sk8ter33157

Notice how I made no mention of 'Dated Graphics." Actually I really like the style and look of the game. And about the combat system: I am not expecting a huge, deep combat system. But at least give me something adequate. Enemies can pwn you so easily. And the turning invisible thing is a huge flaw. And I do appreciate many games form the VC, even though I was born in the 90's. All the Marios, Castlevania etc....I have fun playing a bunch of VC games.sk8ter33157

I like how people say the game is hard and its a bad game for it. I say they need to bring that challange back Found OOT and TP way easy I want the challange back in zelda or at least a hard mode :PArisugawa00

[QUOTE="Masoncale"]I just think that there is nothing to gain by flaming a NINTENDO game in a NINTENDO forum....

Except maybe people telling you that you are wrong. Just saying >.>
sk8ter33157

Seriously? How old are you? If you think the combat system in A Link To The Past is lacking, Kid Icarus isn't going to blow your mind. I ask how old you are because if you weren't "around" to play SNES or NES games in the 80's and early 90's, you're probably wasting your time downloading anything on the VC. radnasty

You're asking too much for an old game. A backstory. Buddy, before the year 2000 games didn't have stories. Stories took away from killing stuff.

You can't compare LttP to a 3D Zelda, they are far too different. Lttp has the best puzzles in the series, that's why it's great. Don't go wandering the VC for a game that meets today's standards, you won't find one. That's what the GS reviewers do, you just can't play a game from the VC and expect it to hold up against current-gen games.

All I have to say is, and I dont know how old this kid is but....if he lived during the golden age of these SNES games he probably wouldn't be saying it sucks. I mean I was in my prime childhood video game age when this game got released and at the time it was amazing. Nobody cared about the overworld maps and what not. It's a classic. That is all.KevanSmoliak

Judging from his first point, This Is in Order


LMAO!!!!!!!!!!
WhammyXC

[QUOTE="radnasty"]Seriously? How old are you? If you think the combat system in A Link To The Past is lacking, Kid Icarus isn't going to blow your mind. I ask how old you are because if you weren't "around" to play SNES or NES games in the 80's and early 90's, you're probably wasting your time downloading anything on the VC. geoffmehoff

And the graphics look like something they would buy 20 years ago.:|Viewtiful-GaMeR

[QUOTE="geoffmehoff"][QUOTE="radnasty"]Seriously? How old are you? If you think the combat system in A Link To The Past is lacking, Kid Icarus isn't going to blow your mind. I ask how old you are because if you weren't "around" to play SNES or NES games in the 80's and early 90's, you're probably wasting your time downloading anything on the VC. sk8ter33157

If the ennemies are keeping owning you, it's because you suck at it. PERIOD. I can beat this game again and again. Have you tried at least the original LOZ? If not, try to beat the second quest. Skip the first quest by just typing ZELDA. You'll be on the second quest. I had more hard challenges on the second quest of LOZ than ALLTP.