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The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening | Review Thread (UPDATE: accolades trailer, see threadmark)
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September 19th 2019.
No seriously, it seems most of them are listing framerate issues as a negative so, I'd say yeah, they have impacted the scores.
Uh, excuse me, but a game based on best girl would get constant 10/10s.
You're right, I completely forgot the older entries, it was only from gen 5 onwards
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Or more recently, Control and Borderlands 3. Games that literally just came out and got good scores despite much larger performance issues than this.
Yeah my review, its Dutch but I translated a part of it a few pages back :)
Because we're going from two of the most open Zelda games to the most linear and gated. That'll be a bit jarring for some.
I didn't write our review, but it basically lines up with my thoughts on the game: https://www.rpgsite.net/review/9012-the-legend-of-zelda-link-s-awakening-review
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Sounds about right. It can only score so high being a remake. I'm not usually that person but if someone gives it a middling score that opinion can go in the trash. Links Awakening is too good to be anything less than great.
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I'm glad reviews don't overreact to frame rate. Just briefly say it's there, and users can decide for themselves if they care. Rambling on about it is irritating and pointless since it has almost nothing to do with how good the game is.
Do any of the reviews comment on length? Is it exactly the same as the original?
Do any of the reviews comment on length? Is it exactly the same as the original?
That's exactly it. Context is a thing!
And... preordered. It's coming tomorrow! Never played the original, but I got spoiled about the story in the meantime. No biggie though, I'm excited nonetheless
I think it's Grezzo's first game for the Switch (correct me if i'm wrong), so that might have something to do with it.
Uh, excuse me, but a game based on best girl would get constant 10/10s.
Not the Hilda I was thinking of.
(Give us a Season 2 date already)
I think I got to dungeon 5/6 in Link's Awekening DX? The game was only available at a summer caravan though so I didn't have enough time to beat it all in all.
Also sorta tired of reading all the "Linear is bad" takes. I've preferred the Linear Outings over the Open World take in the Zelda Series.
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The framerate thing is indeed odd. To clarify it more for you folks: it usually happens when you exit a building and get into the open world. Its just a second or perhaps two so it doesnt really impact the gameplay, but its still noticable.
Thanks a lot!
Thanks a lot!
This is a misconception really. There's much more to coding and optimizing a game than just" increasing or tuning down the graphics to make it run better". That is what is easier to understand to the general public, but there's a series of other issues that can cap a game performance. Sometimes the mechanics interact with the overall system in ways harder to predict, the functions may cause others to lag internally, optimization errors can happen where a cascade effect makes the game more than it should, etc.
it's a full 3d game with "2d" camera topdown, the game weights as any modern 3d game.
everything going on screen impacts perfomance as a 3d game with orbiting tpp camera :)
beat me to it hehehe, thanks for the detailed explanation :)
High 80's for basically a 1:1 remake is amazing. It might have got to the 90's if it didn't have the performance hiccups.
LA is, from my experience anyway, one of the more linear games in the series. Not just that you need to get X item and use it on this part of the map to get to the next area (since they all do that), but the game very explicitly directs you go to this or that place. There is also little reason to go places early since you can't really do much there (e.g. the hedge maze), and generally the game is very light on secrets and side stuff. So there's not a lot you'll get out of exploring compared to ALBW or ALTTP for example. They added some more shells to this version at least.
No reason both couldn't happen. This game was largely farmed out to another developer.
It's a 1:1 remake of one of the most beloved games of all time.
Imagine people wanting to go back to bottles in Zeldas for the old formula.
No one but remakes are great too and there's no reason both couldn't happen.
Oof! What a terrible post and you even had to add a silly trademark.
Scores are looking great, which is not surprising considering the game it is based on, so this definitely goes to the must-buy list and as I said in a previous thread, I hope some of the issues will have been fixed by the time I get it. I also hope they let us adjust the blur that borders the screen, it doesn't look good and was very distracting in the few previews I watched.
The performance issues have nothing to do with the chosen graphical style here. It's a fully 3D game, but there is also nothing here that should preclude getting to 60 fps if that had been the focus. I can only presume that stable performance wasn't a high priority for the devs, which is unfortunate. You look at say, Yoshi's Crafted World, which you could also call '2Dish' if you really wanted, and that's a very stable 60, at the cost of image quality, because stable performance was obviously a key design goal.
If we've been getting both I'd agree, but the last truly original 2D Zelda was Spirit Tracks so excuse my "fuck another remake" mindset. Unless you want to count Triforce Heroes.
Game was co devolped by GREZZO.
Just seen the credits. Great game. Was the first time I have played it. I enjoyed it.
Just seen the credits. Great game. Was the first time I have played it. I enjoyed it.
Why would they not be real when you had video of it posted over and over again?
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hopefully either an original game, a new top-down zelda, or getting the chance to work on another nintendo series. i think they've done enough zelda remakes for now.
I mean, ALBW was a direct sequel rather than a nebulous alt-timeline pseudo-sequel but I don't think that makes it not original.