/vr/ - Retro Games

>>7668665
>>7674696
I think you should watch this and it will help put the game in context for the time and to appreciate its strengths.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSDhDY1Xtd8 [Embed]

Pretend that it's 1991. You're a Japanese guy that likes arcade games, and the only thing you own at home game-wise is a television and a Famicom with Disk System. You've played the hell out of the Legend of Zelda and Zelda II and they're your favorite games on the system. You've just purchased a Super Famicom and The Link to the Past is your first game for it.

The technical accomplishments and step up in graphics, game design, and sound would blow you away compared to the best the Famicom had to offer. The goal of a Link to the Past was to translate what made Zelda so great to the new hardware, take advantage of the new hardware and make a great game in its own right.

I don't see how it can be disputed that Nintendo was successful on all fronts and I think it was the best game they had ever made at the time it came out. It's better than all the clones that followed it like Beyond Oasis and honestly better than a good chunk of Zelda games that followed it. Ocarina of Time, bar none the most lauded video game ever, was really a translation of it into 3D.