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Why does /vr/ say that Link's Awakening is the best Zelda game and it's very soulful and whatever (and why is the grayscale version better than DX)? Just curious. (I haven't played it)

>> No.8452126

>>8452125
Jesús christ that is some bad art. What is up with her hands.

>> No.8452129

It has it's qualities and some people like those a lot.

>> No.8452138

>>8452125
idk if i'd say it's the best but it's real solid, got a lot of personality to it and thus it's pretty different to most of em. only played the dx one but it doesn't seem to be too different, some of the floor sprites are worse from what i've seen and it adds an optional dungeon. go emulate it, well maybe not today since it's christmas eve lol but ya know.

>> No.8452141

>>8452125
The non-DX version has a couple of bugs that are fun to exploit but besides that I don't know why it would be preferred.

>> No.8452146

>>8452126
Blatant foot fetish artist

>> No.8452151

>>8452146
What are you talking about? You can't even see her feet.

>> No.8452163

I think it and the Minish Cap are the most solid 2D Zeldas.

>> No.8452169

>>8452151
Look at how the hands are drawn

>> No.8452175

>>8452125
Grey scale has more QoL features, I'm not joking.
You can patch these feature into DX to make the best game ever

>> No.8452190

>>8452169
maybe it's a yaoi artist

>> No.8452209

>>8452175
what features??

>> No.8452224

>>8452169
They look like man hands yeah. But I don't understand the connection to a foot fetish. Hands and feet are notoriously hard to draw for even professional artists though. Rob Liefeld goes out of his way to hide people's feet so he doesn't have to draw them.

>> No.8452232

>>8452125
The color version's choice of colors was pretty shit. That said, it's still preferrable. Especially with the QOL romhack that removes annoying text.

>> No.8452345

>>8452209
You can skip the text faster by mashing the A buttons, and more stuff like that

>> No.8452472
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BLACK AND WHITE image = SOVL
COLOUR image = midwit boring barf

pic related it's zoomers and s*is that think soul is a meme when you can just google image st.petersburg or amsterdam and see SOUL next to SOULLESS

>> No.8452528

>>8452141
>no useless pictures interrupting the game
>some dungeons have changes to prevent sequence breaking and move items from chests to make the game easier
>unskippable dialog boxes
but that's about it.

>> No.8452532

>>8452528
>>unskippable dialog boxes
I meant skippable.

>>8452345
you can press B to completely cut recurrent dialog boxes like the power ups (guardian acorn and piece of power) and grabbable/breakable objects.

>> No.8452535

Original version runs faster.

>> No.8452546

>>8452126
It's a trap !

>> No.8452750

>>8452125
Nah it sucks, it's basically a Link to the Past ripoff but without the cool stuff

>> No.8452914

>>8452125
It's a good game, but honestly I think the Oracle games do everything it does way better and with more content/stuff to do. Play LA for bit, see if you like it, if you do then complete it and move on to Oracle of Seasons, then play Ages. If you find LA boring, skip straight to Seasons. The only thing one might say is that LA has a little more of that 'classic Zelda' flavour' than the Oracle games, other than that, the Oracles are superior IMO.

>> No.8452924

>>8452528
>>no useless pictures interrupting the game
But I love the pictures

>> No.8452941

>>8452125
Some people never get over calling their first Zelda the best.

Though BOTW actually has a lot of people calling it their favorite and it for many is NOT their first. So that is something.

>> No.8453073

>>8452126
Trap.

>> No.8453127

>>8452125
Because it is. Shit made me cry

Greyscale/four shades of green is better because select glitch is cool

>> No.8454432

>>8452141
Aesthetically, DX looks wrong everywhere because the tiles have completely mismatched color palette with each other when put together. They were colored with what makes sense for the object/terrain with little regard for the area around them, so it looks ugly as sin while showing terrain seams all over the place. As color games designed for their color, I'd look to the Oracle games, not LA DX. It just mixes color in too poorly.

>> No.8454450
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Gameplay is good, map design is excellent, NPCs, events, dialogues are all soulful and witty, even emotional in nuanced ways. Koholint Island is a place you want to live in and that is worth fighting for... and yet the beauty of it is that in order to "save" it, you have to leave it. The concept it's so simple yet it gives a special spin to the "it was all a dream!" cliché. Excellent storytelling through a seamless action-adventure masterpiece.

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>>8452472

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>>8452125
>And then she turns herself into a seagull. Funniest shit I've ever seen

>> No.8455671

>>8452175
DX still doesn't have the stone slab and replaces it with Reddit shit, so it still wouldn't be the best version.

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>>8455671
What is the stone slab?
Only played DX so far so I'm curious

>> No.8455720

>>8452125
I wouldn't call it the best Zelda game.
It has a pretty effective plot for its time, and it does have some clever design here and there, but it's very linear. If forced to choose I'd rather replay LttP, prefer the structure and presentation.

>> No.8455998

>>8455704
Not him, but I think that was referring to the DX version replacing the stone slab that lets you read ONE (1) dungeon hint when placed in the dungeon's stone tablet, with an owl beak that you can put in multiple owl statues for multiple hints.

>> No.8456004

>>8455998
What the fuck does this have to do with Reddit

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>>8455998
>>8456004
maybe he was referring to the concept/design of it.
The original has stone tablets, while DX reuses the concept of the owl. The game already has the owl statues around the island, so replacing something unique like the stone slabs with yet more owl statues seems like it removed a bit of soul out of it for no real reason.
Obviously it's just a nitpick, DX is still great and has more content.
The main problem with it is the "it's too heavy" message that you can't instantly cancel with B like you can in the OG.