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The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening |OT| Open Your Eyes
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Doing a no death run. Probably could have done it the first time but so used to fairies reviving upon death. I have a question before I fight the final boss. Does the secret medicine activating count as a death? I probably won't need to use it but I'd like to know before going in.
Finished the game this week and I noticed the slow down it would only happen for a few seconds was very annoying but what a great game
Dungeons 6 through 8 were a real treat! They had great atmosphere and music (especially 6) and the difficulty (7 and 8 in particular) was a nice challenge without causing me to get stuck for more than a few minutes at a time.
Now I'm sad I beat the game lol. I'm not much of a completionist so hunting down seashells and the remaining heart pieces just don't cut it.
Now I'm sad I beat the game lol. I'm not much of a completionist so hunting down seashells and the remaining heart pieces just don't cut it.
It's weird that the secret medicine replaced the fairies in a bottle in the original. Fairies were in the original but you couldn't catch them because bottles didn't exist. But now they put bottles back in the game, but in order to not make them identical to the medicine which was made to replace them, it just simply doesn't work automatically. lol
No big deal. I mean a fairy only heals 7 hearts anyway so they're not as useful in late game when you have many more hearts. I guess technically they replace the potions from LTTP in that it's manual except that, as I said, they only do 7 hearts.
Funny.
Plz give us the Oracle games Nintendo. Don't let this engine and art style be wasted on one game. I never played through them and would love to have a new experience with both of them.
No big deal. I mean a fairy only heals 7 hearts anyway so they're not as useful in late game when you have many more hearts. I guess technically they replace the potions from LTTP in that it's manual except that, as I said, they only do 7 hearts.
Funny.
Plz give us the Oracle games Nintendo. Don't let this engine and art style be wasted on one game. I never played through them and would love to have a new experience with both of them.
Welp, I'm at the egg in my Hero Mode Deathless run. This was very very intense the whole way. I went for the red tunic because I thought the best defense was a good offense, and it actually seemed pretty effective. Got the 40 shells for that power up and all but one heart container.
What a ride.
What a ride.
Ploughed through the game in just a couple days and it wasn't enough, so now I'm replaying Oracle of Ages. Hoping to finally do the legendary OoA --> OoS --> OoS --> OoA sequence for all 64 rings. Haven't ever done it before. The Oracles plus Link's Awakening are probably my favorite Zelda games, though on a given day I might also say ALttP is my favorite.
Yes. You're missing the solution if you're having trouble
Look for the elevation change. It got me too
I know about the spoiler. I just don't want to go out and buy the bow if I don't have to.
Stole it every time in the original. Boomerang doesn't work. Hookshot doesn't work. Has the damn thing been mandatory for this one puzzle all this time? =(
Stole it every time in the original. Boomerang doesn't work. Hookshot doesn't work. Has the damn thing been mandatory for this one puzzle all this time? =(
Beat the game on Hero mode no death run this past week. Excellent remake overall, so many cozy vibes while playing this. It would be even better if not for the frame rate issues. Eagle's Tower remains the best dungeon in the game. Being able to map out the dungeon between each floor is key. Lol I wonder what people's opinion of the Oracle games would be if they ever got a remake. Still need to go back and collect everything in the game but I'll do that eventually.
Only thing I didn't like were the chamber dungeons you collect. I only tinkered with it for a few minutes but it just seems like you're rearranging past rooms you've visited? Pointless filler content if you ask me. Would've liked to see something slightly more new instead, maybe even a brand new dungeon by Grezzo even if it doesn't turn out that good.
Only thing I didn't like were the chamber dungeons you collect. I only tinkered with it for a few minutes but it just seems like you're rearranging past rooms you've visited? Pointless filler content if you ask me. Would've liked to see something slightly more new instead, maybe even a brand new dungeon by Grezzo even if it doesn't turn out that good.
Gave up and bought the bow.
Apparently you can skip the bow in the original by tossing a bomb at the right side wall in the same room. That will get you to the miniboss using one less total key. Due to the changes in the way you throw bombs in the remake that no longer works. Couldn't find a workaround.
Apparently you can skip the bow in the original by tossing a bomb at the right side wall in the same room. That will get you to the miniboss using one less total key. Due to the changes in the way you throw bombs in the remake that no longer works. Couldn't find a workaround.
To be fair, making money is a LOT quicker in this compared to the original. At the point you're at you can make that much in a few minutes.
I beat this last week and was so busy I forgot to post. It's amazing how the ending can still get to me after all these years. LA is a nearly perfect game.
Just finished this, almost everything but 8 seashells and I think 7 heart pieces assuming it's a full double row. It was mostly enjoyable, but not as well put together as, say, re-playing LttP. The 2D elements and weird mixed-in Mario bits mucked up the tone (esp that awful 2d jump). I really enjoyed dungeon 7 and was able to do it without help, which was fun. Dungeon 8 on the other hand, I didn't realize the tile-laying things were controllable so I was stuck for an hour or two trying to figure out what I should do until I looked up a guide and jeez, yeah, that made a lot more sense. Was straightforward after that.
Why were the bosses so easy? I don't know if I died once on the playthrough, had two fairies in bottles the entire time without having to use them until the last boss rush, felt weird.
The claw game had some hilariously janky physics. Daughters and I got a kick out of accidentally knocking things off the moving platforms to cheese their pick up, howling when things would fall out of the claw most of the way there, etc. Definitely worth the jank for the amusement value.
Why were the bosses so easy? I don't know if I died once on the playthrough, had two fairies in bottles the entire time without having to use them until the last boss rush, felt weird.
The claw game had some hilariously janky physics. Daughters and I got a kick out of accidentally knocking things off the moving platforms to cheese their pick up, howling when things would fall out of the claw most of the way there, etc. Definitely worth the jank for the amusement value.
It's a double row but you're only missing 3 pieces + one full container that's a prize for something.
Might have been already asked before but I'm stuck at the fourth two shovel challenge in dampé's hut. Connecting Chambers 2 or so. I can't for the life of me figure out how to place staircases in a way that they connect how I want them, the game always seems to choose a random connection that leads to Chambers not being connected.
I really enjoyed game. Overworld and dungeon design far superior to WW, TP, and SS. If a new Zelda returns to a similar formula , this game is blueprint, not those 3.
The ending really got to me. Genuinely made me emotional. As someone who's had meaningful connections that have faded or ended due to distance and separation and life in general, Marin's "don't forget me" hit me hard. I literally heard that said to me IRL a few months ago in a teary and painful airport farewell.
The ending really got to me. Genuinely made me emotional. As someone who's had meaningful connections that have faded or ended due to distance and separation and life in general, Marin's "don't forget me" hit me hard. I literally heard that said to me IRL a few months ago in a teary and painful airport farewell.
I finished the second dungeon and am lost on where to go next. The telephone mentions bananas and feathers, neither of which it seems I'm yet able to obtain. Can I find canned food somewhere? I'd like to be guided without outright having the solution explicitly spoiled.
You have to talk to everyone in the village to obtain the canned food. Really, everyone.
I thought I had done that, but I'll try again after work. Thanks.
No problem. I can be more concrete if it's still unclear after that.
Now, meanwhile I'm still cursing at that stupid Dampé challenge. I don't want this to be the first Zelda where I didn't finish with all Items and hearts... Is there any system to how stairs connect? This is driving me nuts.
Stairs will link the closest pairs whenever possible. It's kinda dumb, but with that in mind you can make proper paths for some challenges.
Or just jump and shoot. It's pretty obvious your arrows aren't lining up correctly without it.
Any reason to try Hero mode (new ending, etc...)? I kinda enjoyed the game but ultimately found it pretty meh (and I love top down Zelda games)...especially the dungeons. I probably wont play it again anytime soon unless Im really in the mood for top down Zelda.
Only difference is the enemies harm you more and there are no heart drops at all.
Just finished Dungeon 7 - that was a doozy, though somewhat anticlimactic. Once I got to the boss, I thought 'Wait, it's over?'
This is my first time playing LA... I can see why people think this game is special. It really is tightly crafted for the most part, and the story sticks with you. I'm quite amazed a game of this caliber came out on the dinky Game Boy all those years ago.
I can see it very much being a 'comfort' game for me in the future - there's something so warm and welcoming about the world and the characters in it, and it's the type of title you'd want to come back to. It's also so god damn nice to look at, and I can't stop listening to the soundtrack... I think my only qualm might be that a lot of the songs are so well done, but you never spend enough time in one area to hear it all the way through. Tal Tal Heights and Mabe Village tracks are very much a victim of this... I didn't realize Tal Tal Heights had a trumpet section until yesterday!
This is my first time playing LA... I can see why people think this game is special. It really is tightly crafted for the most part, and the story sticks with you. I'm quite amazed a game of this caliber came out on the dinky Game Boy all those years ago.
I can see it very much being a 'comfort' game for me in the future - there's something so warm and welcoming about the world and the characters in it, and it's the type of title you'd want to come back to. It's also so god damn nice to look at, and I can't stop listening to the soundtrack... I think my only qualm might be that a lot of the songs are so well done, but you never spend enough time in one area to hear it all the way through. Tal Tal Heights and Mabe Village tracks are very much a victim of this... I didn't realize Tal Tal Heights had a trumpet section until yesterday!
It's much much harder on the GameBoy. For one thing you can't spam hit him as much as you can now. You only get a few hits in per chance. Also if he blows you off the top on the GB you have to start the fight all over again. On the Switch version the battle just continues when you climb back up. So yeah, it's much simpler now. Though I'm glad because I hated that fight on the GB.
Anyway, so I discovered on my third playthrough the other day that the Ghoma mini-boss on Level 5 is apparently optional? I ended up not even having to go into that room which only served as a way to get to the upper part of the previous room where there's a stairway down. Why does that boss even exist? I didn't even touch the room and was glad for it because I find that boss tedious anyway. Not sure how I stumbled onto it. I just ended up somehow bypassing it. It's not like it gives you an item. It's just a barrier boss fight that ends up being unnecessary. lol Only took 25 years to figure that out I guess.
I was referring more to the dungeon itself, rather than the boss. I don't know, for some reason I was expecting one more floor (not based on any personal expectation, I think I just misread the dungeon map)
If anything it made me appreciate just how intricate and well made the GameBoy game was...wow they really went all out for a GB game.
Remake was so so
Remake was so so
I totally agree with your sentiment.
I honestly prefer the Gameboy version just because the scope and accomplishment of this game on such old hardware is not only endearing to me but damn impressive.
Insanity. The game is improved in every way. The original requires you to go into the menu like every 15 seconds.
I'm totally ok with that and never found it to be a hindrance to my enjoyment. I still loved it back in the day that way and even now it's not something that bothers me. I know it may sound crazy to ya but I even like the chiptune music in the original more so than the remakes tunes. They're more up beat.
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