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The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening |OT| The Ballad of the Wind Fish is charting again!
Juke Joint Jezebel
Member
For the shells, keep a few things in mind.
-2 are earnable for catching different fish in the fishing minigame
-2 are earnable in the crane game.
-1 is earnable for getting a good time in the Rapid Race course (Save before playing and reload if you don't succeed to keep your money as failure is pricey)
-1 is earnable by doing the first page of custom dungeons in Dampe's Shack
-1 is found after completing the trading sequence to get the magnifying glass.
-1 is earned after talking to Christine after doing her errand.
-Face Shrine and Eagle's Tower have 1 each as well.
So that's at least TEN alone that aren't just laying around in the overworld. Keep these in mind to avoid aimlessly wandering around to search for them if you've dug up and uncovered all the shells on the map.
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jshackles
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TheDuskwalker
Member
But we all already Know this since Game boy Original Game.
Also they call you THIEF.
I Give thank you NIntendo to not censored this.
So please Nintendo Launch a Marin Plush or Amiibo at least... im ready to get it.
Heimdall_Xtreme
Jim Ryan Fanclub's #1 Member
TLZ
Banned
I never played the original, so this was quite a WTF momentBut we all already Know this since Game boy Original Game.
Also they call you THIEF.
I Give thank you NIntendo to not censored this.
So please Nintendo Launch a Marin Plush or Amiibo at least... im ready to get it.
Kamina
Golden Boy
Hero Mode (Harder Mode with no Heart drops) is available from the start.
Then there is the custom dungeon building feature.
RainblowDash
Gold Member
I'm about to start dungeon #6.
Absolutely loving everything and how it stays faithful to the GBC DX version as well.
Absolutely loving everything and how it stays faithful to the GBC DX version as well.
Point'N'Click
Banned
The performance is absolute dogshit. How did Nintendo think this is acceptable?
Even locked 30 would be better.
Hampering an otherwise fun experience so far.
Even locked 30 would be better.
Hampering an otherwise fun experience so far.
HitCtrlAltDel
Member
This game has been the perfect little travel companion. I’m traveling from Maui to NY, so a game based on a small paradise island is great.
I played this game a million times as a kid and beat it a couple more times as I’ve gotten older. I’m glad to see that the devs respected the original. Now I’m kind of hoping they do the same thing to the Ages games as well. For some reason I could never get into the Game Boy originals, but a remake in this style would definitely interest me.
I played this game a million times as a kid and beat it a couple more times as I’ve gotten older. I’m glad to see that the devs respected the original. Now I’m kind of hoping they do the same thing to the Ages games as well. For some reason I could never get into the Game Boy originals, but a remake in this style would definitely interest me.
cafevincent
Neo Member
I don't get it. When I die I get resurrected in the same exact spot. Doesn't that make lives and energy pointless? is this not an issue for you guys?
Makes me think maybe I made the wrong choice going for hero mode, if in any case I have virtually infinite energy, then in hero mode I would just be looking at the game over screen more often...
Makes me think maybe I made the wrong choice going for hero mode, if in any case I have virtually infinite energy, then in hero mode I would just be looking at the game over screen more often...
Tevious
Member
You had the medicine cream stuff that revives you on death, like ferries do in the other games. (Ferries just restore about 6~8 hearts or so.) You get it from the lady that lives in the house next to the witch hut or inside some chests for some of the dungeons. Once you die, you lose the cream.
Thurible
Member
They are a cute little pair (Marin and Link) aren't they.
I want this marin!!!
And my kat... i still loyal too her xD
cafevincent
Neo Member
No, just the normal death. I click retry and I spawn at the same location as if nothing happened.
mcjmetroid
Member
So now that the usual 9/10 reviews are out and some of you have finished it.
Is it worth full price?
I mean it's either me getting this or astral chain to satisfy me for a while and im leaning more towards astral chain.
I'm getting the feeling all you see in the vids is all you get.
Is it worth full price?
I mean it's either me getting this or astral chain to satisfy me for a while and im leaning more towards astral chain.
I'm getting the feeling all you see in the vids is all you get.
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If you die in a dungeon it should spawn you back at the start of the dungeon. All your progress through the dungeon will still be there though. I think if you die in the world it just respawns you one screen back, or somewhere really close.
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Tevious
Member
I finished it and enjoyed it a lot, despite not really caring for the chibi art style too much. I never really played it before, so it was refreshing to have a more traditional Zelda (gameplay-wise) with actual dungeons. It also felt a lot like a Majora's Mask-esque sequel to ALttP. It's probably up among my favorite Zelda titles. That said, for the remake that it was, it probably should have been a $40 game instead of $50. If you don't have a lot of disposable income or the frame drops are going to be a deal-breaker for you, then wait for a sale. Otherwise, if you never played the original before or really loved the original, then go ahead and get it.
WindomURL
Member
In your estimation, does length or hours played to completion dictate the dollar value?
Asking because it's just, when all is said and done, not a lengthy game. There's a bit of extra content that wasn't in the original that can pad things out, but it's in no way a 30 or 40+ hour game.
Only got it on release because I'm a total, irredeemable sucker for the original, which I played through probably a dozen times as a kid. It's an amazing game, but I can't deny that I feel the pang of the price tag as it rapidly comes to a close.
#Phonepunk#
Banned
it's pretty dope. i hear the game is short so i am taking my time, trying to not use a guide, etc. played for 4 or 5 hours so far and i've done 3/8 dungeons, so i'd say 10-15 hours is about right. i definitely see replaying the game because it is so fun to play.
Bioshock Infinite was sold at full price and that game takes 12 hours to beat. Astral Chain says "12 to 18" hours so not a huge difference. this game has a great amount of polish and is a joy to play. if you need more than 15 hours then look for an RPG or open world game.
is it worth it? ultimately, it's a choice you have to make as an individual consumer. it largely depends on how much leisure spending money you have. i make $20 an hour at my job so as long as a game is fun for more than 3 hours it was worth it.
Bioshock Infinite was sold at full price and that game takes 12 hours to beat. Astral Chain says "12 to 18" hours so not a huge difference. this game has a great amount of polish and is a joy to play. if you need more than 15 hours then look for an RPG or open world game.
is it worth it? ultimately, it's a choice you have to make as an individual consumer. it largely depends on how much leisure spending money you have. i make $20 an hour at my job so as long as a game is fun for more than 3 hours it was worth it.
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mcjmetroid
Member
It would ya it's what threw me off resident Evil 2 remake as well.
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
Considering the amount of work and improvements that went into it, I think $49-59 is a good deal for the game: 12-15 hours of gameplay (easily more...) is worth the price of entry / is a fair price for me.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
$39.99 in 1993 dollars. Which adjusted for inflation is about $70 in 2019 dollars.
This game is honestly one of the best remasters I've ever played. They took something completely vintage and a product of it's time, and made it something modern. They kept the original game's charm and made it even more fun to play, in my opinion.
#Phonepunk#
Banned
if you want to buy the Gameboy game, you can still do that. it is around $50-$70 for a complete in box copy. which, yeah, is about the same price it cost new on release. so you can buy that, and play a game with 2 buttons and 4-color black and white graphics, which you will need an outdated piece of hardware for, or play this, with full 3D graphics and sound, and it plays on a current system.
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TheDuskwalker
Member
Or if you don't care about the box, if you want the original you can just get it on 3DS for 6$.
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WindomURL
Member
There's no doubt that it's a great piece of work. I paid full price, knowing the content and length of the game intimately, and it's still been nothing but a good time, albeit short. Someone going in blind would get a lot more time out of it than I did.
It just comes down to where one assigns value.
Ceadeus
Member
Well I might bit one day but at 90$ TX included it's crazy. It's actually my personal favorite Zelda!
Didn't know inflation was this enormous!
TheDuskwalker
Member
*Every old person* "Back in my day a snickers and 3 hookers was a quarter!"
Juke Joint Jezebel
Member
Oh, and for those of you who are missing 5 pieces of heart, go do all of Dampe's dungeon puzzles. After beating the first three tabs you'll get one piece of heart AND a heart container. So there's your five pieces right there. Will bump you up from 18 hearts to 20!
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Mochilador
Member
Holy shit, death penalty in a Nintendo game!
Mochilador
Member
I consider replayability more important than the total amount of hours to beat a game.
Some games are shorter but it's very easy to go through them again. Kinda like Metal Gear Rising and Resident Evil 2.
When a game is very long, it's hard to go back into it, even more when it has a lot of filler content and unskippable stuff.
IbizaPocholo
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Shifty
Member
Just finished it up. They did a real nice job on the conclusion of the game, though I think the ending cinematic misses the detail of seagulls flying into the sunset, which is implied to be marin getting her wish after the dream ends in the original. I know it has its own way of implying it, but it felt less clear this time.
I completely forgot that the trading quest is non-optional in the end too
So, final thoughts. I'll lead with the critique:
Framerate. The drops are there, but only when streaming in new areas. In 95% of cases it's rock solid after loading has completed, so this was actually the least of my worries.
The input implementation is bit of a joke. If the analog movement was actual analog movement I could perhaps understand, but forcing you to use the analog when link can only move in 8 directions anyway is ridiculous.
I suspect they put that restriction in place to prevent the player from cheesing certain puzzles with finely-aimed projectiles or jumps, but that could easily have been solved by restricting just those things to 8-way movement instead of Link as a whole.
Two of the triggers being wasted on duplicate inputs instead of extra item slots is also super dumb, because it fails to solve the constant item switching from the original. It mitigates it a bit, but if I had four slots I could do bombs / arrows / roc's feather / hookshot and not need to switch for 90% of my exploration and combat needs.
Messing with the secret seashell quest was also a mistake. The original is one of the best collectible quests around because it doesn't go overboard with the item count (20 shells = reward) and gives you 6 more shells than you need, thus preventing that awful aimless wandering that comes with needing to find just one or two more.
The remake not only adds 24 more shells on top of the original 26, but also interferes with the reward distribution. The 6-shell buffer is gone and the koholint sword comes at 40 shells instead of 20, meaning you're likely to get it way later in the game. It also adds a bunch of extra items like heart containers and custom dungeon chambers for the new dampe content before you get the original reward, which just feels like a piss-take and robs the quest of the simplicity and satisfaction it originally had.
Speaking of the custom dungeon stuff, it's fine. Too simple to be on Mario Maker's level and the challenges all feel like exercises in box-ticking because of how stringent the constraints are, but you could probably get creative in free mode and build something neat. I think it's hamstrung from the get-go because you don't get to build your own puzzles and the objective always boils down to 'get all the chests and kill the boss'.
As for the other new content, the figurines from the crane game are nice enough but ultimately not worth the effort since all you get is a little bit of flavour text for each one and another sodding chamber stone for completing the set.
But, despite those criticisms, it's super faithful to the original, has a lovely aesthetic, and is a remake of a game that's stillgreat arguably the best top-down Zelda all these years later. The small-but-dense overworld is something game developers have all but forgotten and need to bring back, and it's crammed with charm in its design and writing.
Great stuff
I completely forgot that the trading quest is non-optional in the end too
So, final thoughts. I'll lead with the critique:
Framerate. The drops are there, but only when streaming in new areas. In 95% of cases it's rock solid after loading has completed, so this was actually the least of my worries.
The input implementation is bit of a joke. If the analog movement was actual analog movement I could perhaps understand, but forcing you to use the analog when link can only move in 8 directions anyway is ridiculous.
I suspect they put that restriction in place to prevent the player from cheesing certain puzzles with finely-aimed projectiles or jumps, but that could easily have been solved by restricting just those things to 8-way movement instead of Link as a whole.
Two of the triggers being wasted on duplicate inputs instead of extra item slots is also super dumb, because it fails to solve the constant item switching from the original. It mitigates it a bit, but if I had four slots I could do bombs / arrows / roc's feather / hookshot and not need to switch for 90% of my exploration and combat needs.
Messing with the secret seashell quest was also a mistake. The original is one of the best collectible quests around because it doesn't go overboard with the item count (20 shells = reward) and gives you 6 more shells than you need, thus preventing that awful aimless wandering that comes with needing to find just one or two more.
The remake not only adds 24 more shells on top of the original 26, but also interferes with the reward distribution. The 6-shell buffer is gone and the koholint sword comes at 40 shells instead of 20, meaning you're likely to get it way later in the game. It also adds a bunch of extra items like heart containers and custom dungeon chambers for the new dampe content before you get the original reward, which just feels like a piss-take and robs the quest of the simplicity and satisfaction it originally had.
Speaking of the custom dungeon stuff, it's fine. Too simple to be on Mario Maker's level and the challenges all feel like exercises in box-ticking because of how stringent the constraints are, but you could probably get creative in free mode and build something neat. I think it's hamstrung from the get-go because you don't get to build your own puzzles and the objective always boils down to 'get all the chests and kill the boss'.
As for the other new content, the figurines from the crane game are nice enough but ultimately not worth the effort since all you get is a little bit of flavour text for each one and another sodding chamber stone for completing the set.
But, despite those criticisms, it's super faithful to the original, has a lovely aesthetic, and is a remake of a game that's still
Great stuff
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CyberPanda
Banned
It's time to quit gaming. You're not elite enough.
Juke Joint Jezebel
Member
Collecting a certain amount of sea shells and cashing them in at the mansion eventually gives you an entire heart container over time, and beating the first few tiers of Dampe's dungeons eventually give you a heart container as well. Give those a try.
Spukc
always chasing the next thrill
I got the 2 heartpieces from dampe.
And collected all the seashells?
Do you get another whole heart from dampe instead of just a small piece?
I have no clue what went wrong xD
CyberPanda
Banned
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening Walkthrough - The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening Guide - IGN
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Ceadeus
Member
Good old time indeed, oh yeah.
Juke Joint Jezebel
Member
Yup, 1 heart piece and 1 heart container for beating all first 3 tiers of dungeons.. That's how I got my last two hearts! Also there was a weird glitch where I had to talk to him twice afterwards just to get the last heart to register after getting the container.
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Spukc
always chasing the next thrill
Ahaa damn thanks man
Bootyful
Banned
GameSpot here is doing a trade two games of $15 and get Link's Awakening promotion, so I traded in Sea of Thieves which I don't need due to being on Game Pass, and KH3 which I bought at launch for $40 and didn't even open. Couldn't pass that offer up.
The framerate dips are definitely noticable and annoying. Not sure how reviewers didn't mention it more. Hopefully it gets patched, but at least the music sounds awesome.
The framerate dips are definitely noticable and annoying. Not sure how reviewers didn't mention it more. Hopefully it gets patched, but at least the music sounds awesome.
ExpandKong
Banned
So, so tired of all the “omg $60” comments here and elsewhere. Yes, the original game was $40 when it came out 25 years ago. It was also in three shades of green. Call the police.
Glad I held off on my replay to play this version instead. Framerate issues are noticeable but not a dealbreaker at all for me. Loving the new visuals and remastered music. The custom dungeons are an interesting diversion.
I never did get the stronger sword before, maybe I’ll try this time.
Glad I held off on my replay to play this version instead. Framerate issues are noticeable but not a dealbreaker at all for me. Loving the new visuals and remastered music. The custom dungeons are an interesting diversion.
I never did get the stronger sword before, maybe I’ll try this time.
Vawn
Banned
This is my favorite Zelda game. It's impressive how well it holds up to this day with basically just a graphics update.
The performance issues are frustrating. I am not as sensitive to minor framerate issues as a lot of people, but this is bad enough to bother me. But, definitely not bad enough to keep me from loving the game.
The performance issues are frustrating. I am not as sensitive to minor framerate issues as a lot of people, but this is bad enough to bother me. But, definitely not bad enough to keep me from loving the game.