I just got Link's Awakening off the eshop. What am I in for?

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Anonymous Sun Mar 8 23:45:12 2015 No.2279213 [Reply] [Original]

I just got Link's Awakening off the eshop. What am I in for?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 8 23:46:50 2015 No.2279215 This is a troll thread, right? Because I feel trolled.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 8 23:46:58 2015 No.2279216 It was all just a dream.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 8 23:48:14 2015 No.2279217 What's your wife think about it?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 8 23:48:58 2015 No.2279219 A retro feel

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 8 23:50:39 2015 No.2279221 It's fucking short https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd4VohLvWLA

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 8 23:54:25 2015 No.2279230 >accidentally press B when too close to a rock >WORDSWORDSWORDS

Anonymous Mon Mar 9 00:07:37 2015 No.2279242
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>>2279213

Easily the best music in the series.

Face Shrine, Manbo's Mambo, and Tal Tal Heights are some of the highlights.

Full version of the Ballad of the Windfish is the best song in the series

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 9 00:15:03 2015 No.2279248 >>2279213 >eshop >>>/v/

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 9 00:18:25 2015 No.2279251 >>2279248 >17 year old rom >>>/vr/

Anonymous Mon Mar 9 00:57:48 2015 No.2279297

>>2279248
wtf vr talks about emulation all the time. why the sudden autism

youre in for a great zelda game op. i prefer oracle of seasons as far as game boy zeldas go but link's awakening's still one of my favorites. there's just something magical about it

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 9 01:10:10 2015 No.2279315 your gf is a whale literally

Anonymous Mon Mar 9 01:30:33 2015 No.2279356

One of the best Zelda games ever made! Is the eShop rom the DX color version like in your picture, or is it the original GameBoy version?

>>2279215
>>2279216
>>2279217
>>2279219
>>2279315
I haven't been too active around here in the last few months, but it sure seems like there has been a degrade in the quality of contributions since then...

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 9 01:35:10 2015 No.2279360 >>2279356 Eshop isn't retro. Go fuck yourself.

Anonymous Mon Mar 9 01:39:50 2015 No.2279363

>>2279213
People often compare it to ALTTP the same way people compare MM to OoT. The game is different, and it's a good thing. Speaking solely about the content, it's easily one of my favorite games in the series; Good music, comfy graphics (with the non-dx version), and really good gameplay. It's easily a 10/10 in my book.

Try not to spoil too much of the game before you play it. I only picked it back up in my 20s, and didn't beat it until last year. Not a day before that did I ruin the ending for myself.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 9 01:47:11 2015 No.2279369 >>2279360 the computer youre posting on isnt retro!!!1 take your autism somewhere else

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 9 01:50:50 2015 No.2279375 >>2279360 derp

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 9 06:11:45 2015 No.2279739 >>2279356 >muh circlejerk

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 9 06:25:32 2015 No.2279756 >>2279356 Yes, the VC version is the DX version.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 9 06:48:49 2015 No.2279791 >>2279375 >derp What YEAR is this again?!

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 9 06:50:51 2015 No.2279797 >>2279791 2002 why?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 9 07:14:08 2015 No.2279824 Objectively, it is the best Zelda game made specifically for a handheld, in my opinion. Also try to ignore the trolls. Whining in emulation threads isn't enough I guess.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 9 08:29:29 2015 No.2279904 >>2279824 >Objectively >in my opinion.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 9 08:37:16 2015 No.2279910 >>2279824 I prefer oracle of seasons, but link's awakening is extremely extremely good yes. So mostly what this poster said.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 9 08:39:16 2015 No.2279914 probably the easiest of the 2D Zelda games and probably the best Zelda game to get into the Franchise

Anonymous Mon Mar 9 12:18:48 2015 No.2280161
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What's happened to this board in the last month? I swear things have gotten a lot worse very recently. Did something happen on /v/ to cause an exodus?

In response to OP, you're looking at a very robust game with occasionally obtuse puzzles, and it remains one of the best Zelda games simply because you get a fucking pet chain chomp to follow you around and wreck shit. But the real answer is that you are in for something you were interested in enough to buy and play, so you should play it.

I'm pretty sure it's like one guy shitting up about eshop purchases, but you guys need to remind yourselves that just because a site online has tons of these games for free, it doesn't rob them of their value. Frankly, the 5-7 bucks Nintendo wants for them are very reasonable if you don't mind it being a virtual box on a modern machine.
I'm not bashing piracy (in fact I have a GBA flashcart being shipped to me now), but you shouldn't bash people who don't want to pirate.

Anonymous Mon Mar 9 12:52:52 2015 No.2280207

I am a huge fan of Zelda 1 and Link to the Past, but LA didn't entice me at all, which leads me to believe it's a hit and miss Zelda title, but that doesn't seem to be the norm on the Internet. I'd say try it out properly even if you don't initially don't care for it, perhaps that was my mistake.

>>2280161
>What's happened to this board in the last month? I swear things have gotten a lot worse very recently.

I have been wodering the same thing.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 9 12:58:49 2015 No.2280212 >>2280161 >>2280207 /vr/ dies last month, in case you too weren't here for the Non-Retro Shitstorm Wars, it died twice last month only actually, we keep going downhill like this and we'll be in /pol/ meltdown in no time.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 9 13:00:34 2015 No.2280214 >>2280212 I more or less viewed those as a constant, with the only new development being the surge in assertion from the GBA crowd.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 9 13:18:37 2015 No.2280238 >>2280161 Most people here just aren't as blinded by nostalgia as you are and look at games objectively. Deal with it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 9 13:29:02 2015 No.2280246 >>2280238 My opinion on any games isn't even being discussed right now. You are a poor troll.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 9 14:51:23 2015 No.2280346 Save those rupees, the bow costs 980

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 9 14:55:18 2015 No.2280349 >>2280207 >I have been wodering the same thing. since moot said it's the best board in his q&a the shitposters have invaded.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 9 15:01:53 2015 No.2280364 >>2280161 If I legitimately never paid money for the original game in the past, I'll throw 3-7 dollars at the eShop version. I don't see the flaw in this. You can only gloat about roms if you've actually bought the game before.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 9 15:03:20 2015 No.2280369 >>2280349 >since moot said it's the best board in his q&a the shitposters have invaded. Is this a meme, because a lot of people didn't sit through that shit and will actually believe you. He said it about /a/.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 9 15:05:46 2015 No.2280372 >>2279213 One of the most underrated Zelda games ever. It's great, especially if you like Zeldas like LttP

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 9 15:20:24 2015 No.2280390 >>2280346 >paying for the bow Don't care what anyone calls me or being banned from the shop under penalty of death.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 9 15:26:50 2015 No.2280398 My god, what "retro feel" threads have wrought... /vr/ is getting terrible

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 9 15:43:54 2015 No.2280430 >>2280161 >Frankly, the 5-7 bucks Nintendo wants for them are very reasonable Spoken like a true Nintendrone.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 9 15:45:01 2015 No.2280432 >>2280214 GBA isn't Retro. And DreamCast shouldn't be Retro either. They're both 6th Gen. 6th Gen isn't Retro.

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Anonymous Mon Mar 9 15:48:07 2015 No.2280438

>>2280346
>>2280390
Not sure if it has been fixed in DX, but you can get the bow for much less. You need at least 980 rupees to purchase it. Once you buy it, immediately walk out and bring up the save menu, save the game, and restart. Since the price is detracted one rupee at a time (as in, it doesn't instantly detract 980 from your total), you will be able to pay for it for much less than the asking price.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 9 15:49:52 2015 No.2280443 >>2280438 It's not like you even ever need the rupees for anything else.

Anonymous Mon Mar 9 18:31:22 2015 No.2280729

>>2280432
I never said it was, pal. I'm just reporting my observations. Don't turn this into one of those threads either.

The main issue with this board is that people from /v/ are migrating over and bringing the /v/ attitude with them. This isn't really a place to be confrontational about vidya. All the polarizing controversial stuff to talk about happened at least 15 years ago, there's no reason to get pissy about it. All console wars have been decided. Someone earlier in the thread called me a Nintendrone for saying a company should be able to charge for their product, and collecting has made me idort as fuck. Is it so hard for people to just get the fuck along and talk about vidya?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 9 19:26:39 2015 No.2280835 >>2280432 >6th gen stop organizing things by generations you underaged fucking retard. I agree with you that they aren't retro but "muh generations" is pure shit for the autists. Take it back to wikipedia you little faggot.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 9 19:27:00 2015 No.2280836 >>2279213 OH, WHAT A WEIRD OBJECT! THERE MUST BE SOME WAY TO TACKLE THIS OBSTACLE!

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 9 19:28:05 2015 No.2280838 >>2279215 No you're just old.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 9 19:46:52 2015 No.2280859 >>2280835 The fucking board rules organize things by generations.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 9 19:49:11 2015 No.2280862 >>2280836 Wow! This looks pretty heavy! You won't be able to lift it with just your bare hands...

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 9 19:50:56 2015 No.2280863 File: 57 KB, 503x503, happy mask.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2280835 >He thinks Wikipedia invented generations heh.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 9 20:30:07 2015 No.2280919 >>2280862 You've got the Compass! Now, you can see where the chests and Nightmare are hidden! This Compass has a new feature — a tone will tell you if a key is hidden in a room when you enter!

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 9 21:26:24 2015 No.2280979 >>2279242 Not mentioning the game over screen. Fag.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 01:08:56 2015 No.2281275 >>2280919 I FUCKING KNOW ALREADY! SHUT UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP! I've played this game several times through and I would have played it like a dozen times more if not for the stupid fucking Magic Compass text.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 04:08:45 2015 No.2281445 >tfw i've played all the 2D Zelda games i want to die

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 04:29:16 2015 No.2281470 As someone who could never really get into the LoZ series as a whole, this is the only game in the series that managed to pull me in until the very end. I think you'll like this game, OP.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 07:45:56 2015 No.2281628 >>2280919 that was the worst fucking one

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 10:43:07 2015 No.2281834 File: 43 KB, 400x273, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2281445 You didnt skip any right

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 12:42:57 2015 No.2281981 >>2279356 >what am I in for? >it was all just a dream >degrade in quality of conversations You asked a question, you got the answer.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 13:22:40 2015 No.2282031 >>2279213 >Buying roms

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 13:37:23 2015 No.2282043 >>2280430 >hurrrr le epic meme buzzwords console war am I cool guise Fuck off back to /v/

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 16:54:21 2015 No.2282310 >>2280432 didnt the dreamcast come out in like 98 in japan?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 16:57:06 2015 No.2282312 >>2282310 The important thing is the median release date of the fucking games.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 17:08:25 2015 No.2282326 >>2280443 You need 300 rupees to buy the last song for your ocarina IIRC.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 20:36:09 2015 No.2282547 >>2281834 don't fuck with me dude i am very depressed and i feel empty cos no more 2D zeldas

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 20:47:08 2015 No.2282560 >>2282326 Oh. Shit. Right. Forgot about that.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 23:25:49 2015 No.2282843 >>2280979 >Ever seeing the game over screen. Get good.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 11 09:56:55 2015 No.2283480 >watched Somecallmejohnny's review on this >watched a speedrun on agdq14 >they both have the sword assigned to the 'a' button and not the 'b' button Am I the minority here or something?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 11 10:10:47 2015 No.2283497 >>2279213 You already have the game. Why don't you just fucking playing it and find out for yourself instead of expecting everyone to spoonfeed you everything before you even start?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 11 14:51:51 2015 No.2283886 >>2283497 OP's trying to make conversation you autist.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 11 15:26:34 2015 No.2283935 >>2280372 Underrated is relative. In the context of mainstream critics? Yes. In the context of /vr/? It's probably the most beloved Zelda game here, though LoZ, AoL, LttP and MM all give it a run for its money.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 11 19:09:57 2015 No.2284282 >>2279213 Look fag, either you play it and give us opinion, or don't buy it at all. Capisce?

Anonymous Wed Mar 11 20:05:48 2015 No.2284367

Jesus what a terrible thread.

Link's Awakening is a serious contender for best game ever made, taking into account hardware limitations and when it was produced. I mean, to have such a massive, complex, interlocking world and such diverse gameplay on a tiny cart with a monochrome screen, and two channel sound from a musical christmas card speaker, and achieve such a range of feelings... woah.

Anonymous Wed Mar 11 20:20:40 2015 No.2284385

>>2280372
I really wish you underage kids would stop saying this shit, it was one of the best received gameboy games. It's a really good game and nobody has said anything otherwise, is it underrated because people aren't saying BEST OF SERIES GOAT. Like seriously you sound retarded when you say that.

Anonymous Thu Mar 12 01:30:50 2015 No.2284805

>>2279213
When you get to the part where you're trying to bring down the tower, and you can't figure out how to get the wrecking ball where you need it to go, what you have to do is bounce it off of a wall, it will actually go over the blocks behind you and you'll be able to go around and pick it up from the other side.

That was the most annoying part for me, played it before we had internet. So no help.

Other than that, this game was awesome and incredibly atmospheric. I mean it really feels like an adventure.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 12 02:16:31 2015 No.2284879 >>2279221 >It's fucking short Not if you actually play the game the way its meant to be played. I hate speed runs that relay on hacks, bugs and shit.

Anonymous Thu Mar 12 03:09:02 2015 No.2284946

Its a great game, though I always felt that it was a bit more empty than the oracles games. Though its still probably one of the best, certainly within the top 5, GB/C games.
Just play it and see for yourself. Then go play Seasons and Ages if you haven't already.

>>2280161
>Did something happen on /v/ to cause an exodus?
yes, though not to here.

>>2280729
As to the quality of the board dropping, IMO /vr/ started to turn to shit after the second month. And its only gotten worse with time, a lot more angry people, a lot more younger anons, and a lot more divide between emulator/hardware and crt/flatscreens, among other things. We did a survey back in the first few of the board and found out that most of the browsers were in their late 20's, early 30's, and found that most of the browsers owned at least some form of hardware (though "collectors" were in the minority) Then we did another one about six-ish months later and found that the number of younger browsers had almost tripled, and that the percentage of emulator fags vs collector fags had grown a lot more as well. We were supposed to have another one right about now but the guy who used to run them got kicked for posting about other sites on /sp/.
Now that I think about it, I might go get the OP template from him if he still has it and run the next one.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 12 03:59:50 2015 No.2284983 File: 1.10 MB, 1024x768, And The Gunslinger Followed.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2284946 Speaking as an ex-member of where they DID end up, I can say good riddance to bad rubbish.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 12 16:47:38 2015 No.2285692 >>2284879 >[it's not fucking short] if you actually play the game the way its meant to be played yes >I hate speed runs that relay on hacks, bugs and shit. fuck off.

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>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 12 16:53:23 2015 No.2285704 >>2280862 RRRRRR FUCK >>2281834 low-to-mid-kek >>2282843 ow, the edge

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 12 16:59:40 2015 No.2285720 File: 23 KB, 1167x582, after.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2285698 FTFY

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