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The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening | Review Thread (UPDATE: accolades trailer, see threadmark)
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bummer, that was one of the changes i wanted in this remake. oh well.
So there's actually people in this thread who are pissed that the reviews aren't bad? lmao love it....
I never played the original, and this remake looks and sounds amazing. Had already bought the digital version a month ago, so the great reviews are icing on the cake. Can't wait for tomorrow!!!!
I never played the original, and this remake looks and sounds amazing. Had already bought the digital version a month ago, so the great reviews are icing on the cake. Can't wait for tomorrow!!!!
Nintendo isn't exactly immune to technical issues. Reviewers (and gamers in general) have just become more sensitive to them.
Yeah, seems they really kept the remake to the original true here.
More than you think, probably. There were a lot of great games on it!
Sometimes I wish I were you ;D It's a Masterpiece and I'm sure you will've alot of fun playing Zelda: Link's Awakening :)
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Yup exactly. Instead you have the dungeon creator house. They also changed the seashell rewards. You get an seashell finder too.
Really, with Nintendo you could go all the way back to the NES days. They aren't perfect, nor should they try to be.
MC score is at 88 now !
This pleases the Owl a lot.
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Hoot! Hoot!MC score is at 88 now !
This pleases the Owl a lot.
I imagine a bit more time would have been enough. Performance issues often times have nothing to do with the "power" of the console.
Is this for sure? Because that would be 9 pm for me which would be dope!!
Great reviews! I'm hoping that by the time I complete Astral Chain (and a couple of other games) and buy this, the performance issues have been ironed out.
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mario maker 2 - 88Fantastic reviews
Great way to end the summer for Nintendo, great season for them
marvel ultimate alliance 3 - 73
fire emblem three houses - 89
astral chain - 87
link's awakening - 88
in exactly 12 weeks
crazy output from a single publisher
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speaking of game boy remakes, i really think they can do something special with super mario land. of course it can't be 1:1 like link's awakening and has to be greatly expanded, but a 2D mario game outside of mushroom kingdom, with all the crazy enemies, powerups, etc of the super mario land games would be great.
Yeah but it was completely revamped. It's not a 1:1 conversion. The original isn't fun to control anymore.
Well shit, my evening just got 1000 times better! Thanks :-)
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Do you always skip games that have some frame rate issues?
No. BotW had some framerate drops in random areas at launch, still has some in the forest area. Xc2 was criticized to lower the resolution to really low numbers in handheld mode. FE 3H looks and performs way worse than most 1st party Switch games.
I'd love to see Wario Land get some love. One of my favorites on the system.
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yeah true, wario land deserves another shot on the switch. but there has been wario land games since the gameboy, the world of mario land was completely abandoned.
Odyssey was kind of this, and I expect a Odyssey 2 game to be even crazier tbh.
Has it? I would argue that major new 3D entries get in the way of Nintendo making new original 2D entries more than anything else. The big reason both remakes and new 2D games haven't consistently happened alongside each other is because a remake of a beloved 2D classic Zelda is a sure thing that can be turned around fairly quickly because you already have the exact template for the game you're making and I think Nintendo (justifiably or not) views a new completely original 2D Zelda as less of a sure thing and something that they would need to do internally which would potentially mean devoting way more resources to it than they would want. I guess Nintendo could outsource most of the development to some external dev team but I have far less faith in an external team making a good 100% new 2D Zelda game than if they were to just remake a classic one.
I'm sure that they could turn out new 2D Zelda's more quickly than they have been but I don't think any of us want 2D Zeldas to go the way of 2D Mario. Either way, I think remakes like this selling well will only help reinforce that there's an appetite for 2D Zelda. If anything, I think new 2D Zelda's getting made is less likely to happen without remakes like this one existing. I think this game will absolutely open the door to a 100% new 2D Zelda; it's less of a question of if it will happen and more like when will it happen.
Sounds like a great title after a performance patch and a price drop. I'll probably pick it up around Black Friday during a buy 2 get 1 free sale or something similar.
I usually hold out until its fixed or get it on pc if possible. I just pucked up a switch so I have lots to keep me occupied in the meantime.
It bums me so much to read reviews talk about the game design like it's not viable today, that's it's too old fashion. I will always think old school Zelda is better design than BOTW.
BOTW has had only one game. I would wait to see what they can do on a second go.
First Zelda to Link to the Past was an amazing improvement on the design. (Skip Zelda 2 cause it's a side scroller)