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Replaying it for the first time in ages and it immediately grabs me and just gets better

>seeing the tiny woods from the top of the mountains

>> No.9603350
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>>9603345

>> No.9603354

>>9603345
'soul' means shit game with love for detail, alltp is actually great

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>>9603350
>the hobo under the bridge with the big comfy shadow

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>>9603359

>> No.9603368

>>9603345
>>9603350
>>9603359
My favorite SNES game. Does someone know why the game replaces the mystical forest and comfy Kakariko music one third in though? Space issues maybe? Honestly my only gripe

>> No.9603370

Early SNES, like 1991-1993, is peak soul. As much as I love later games on the system, these early ones felt so...pure? Back when the spectacle was just the fact that there was a larger color palette and random mode 7 effects. It most accurately conveyed "Super" Nintendo.

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>>9603363

>> No.9603381
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>>9603350
>life bar
>empty

>> No.9603383

>>9603371
Do they chase you in this game? I thought that was OoT.

>> No.9603386

>>9603370
1995+ SNES games feel like modern indie games

>> No.9603393
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deru deru

>> No.9603394

>>9603370

ActRaiser, Mario Paint, Legend of the Mystical Ninja... soul just gushing everywhere

>> No.9603396

I love what melee feels like. Wish there was something like the Cave of Ordeals with endless waves of knights. Also the worm is one of the best early bosses ever

>> No.9603401

>>9603394
Yup. I think I draw the line around Mega Man X. That feels like the last "early" SNES game.

>> No.9603402

>>9603394
>actraiser
I like clunky but this filtered me
>>9603393
>black hair
nani

>> No.9603406

>>9603396
>Also the worm is one of the best early bosses ever
And Puppet Ganon the best boss in the series. No coincidence

>> No.9603412

honestly 50% of what makes it good is the sound design

>> No.9603415

>>9603402
link's hair was pink in the game
zelda's hair was black in the ad

>> No.9603425

>>9603412
That's another thing about early SNES games. They all had similar instrumentation and soundfont which helped convey a certain personality.

>> No.9603430

i too have a tremendous amount of nostalgia for this game. it was perfect.

>> No.9603432

>>9603368
I seem to remember that a bunch of the villager NPCs disappeared around that point and I figured they were sucked into the Dark World by Agahnim’s magic

>> No.9603459

>>9603368
I think after you beat Agahnim to get into the dark world the guards are out in full force to get you, even in "peaceful" places like Kakariko.

>> No.9603481

>>9603345
I always get to the dark world and then can't figure out where to go.

>> No.9603498

>>9603345
Have fun with your no four swords temple

>> No.9603553

>>9603415
Epic dansu faito

>> No.9603560

>>9603345
Do you know how to get the shiny bee?

>> No.9603842

Randomizer is the most fun I've had with a video game since 2007. I shit you not.

>t. 40 year-old boomer

>> No.9603873

>>9603842
Same; I had a super shitty seed last week that took me 8 hours of pain.

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>>9603354
/thread
when it comes to this detailwise though for me it's picrel

>> No.9603898

>>9603896
*comes to this game detailwise though
bleh

>> No.9603909

>>9603383
yes this is the game they introduced it

>> No.9604016

I consider it soulless but I played it in 04

>> No.9604313

great game. i played thru it a few weeks ago after maybe a ~5 year interval (longest i have ever gone without playing it). i was taken aback by how small it felt compared to when i used to play it...but that's pretty common now at my age when replaying games from my childhood. dont get me wrong, the game is a good size and im not saying its a bad thing. i had to look up the location of 2 or 3 heart containers but otherwise i still remember where everything is.

>> No.9604323

Probably the best early 90s forest

>> No.9604385

>>9603345
Basando

>> No.9604394

>>9603363
crisp pixels and vibrant colours

no filter best filter

>> No.9604459

>>9604394
ALTTP is one of the games that don't need CRT shit at all. It's almost 2D proto cel shading instead of trying to force details everywhere

>> No.9604701

>>9603425

That was nintendo's fuckery. They wanted all of thier games to be using the same instruments and it didn't change until the latter half of the SNES's run when 3rd party developers started bitching. And then we have Sega with the poorly documented sound system and crappy GEMS driver.

God damn the 90s was a rough ride

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And the world is so good. Small, packed, yet it feels like a gigantic maze. Full of secrets, open where it matters.

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>>9603345
To me it really felt like the first true open world game

Sure the other Zelda's let you explore but this one was alive

> The witch slowly stiring her cauldron while her assistant toils inside
> The mist and rain of the Zora Waterfall area
> The flicker of the firepit from the hobo under the bridge
> The glow of the metal slag the blacksmith is working on

When I was a kid there was nothing I wanted more than to play LTTP with a hot choco and just get lost in the game

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>>9603354

>> No.9604982

>>9604715
What makes it so nice is that it feels robust but is also easy to traverse later in the game when you just want to get from point A to point B. This was a flaw in Link's Awakening since traveling that map was a pain in the ass, constantly making you swap items to cross gaps or move rocks.

>> No.9605036

>>9603368
I read that they wanted to have more music but ran out of space. They had all these ambitions, like making a third overworld that takes place at the end of time, but just didn’t have enough room on the cartridge

>> No.9605904

>>9603350
Sadly where the game peaked.

>> No.9605934

>>9603368
>Does someone know why the game replaces the mystical forest and comfy Kakariko music one third in though?
Intentional shift in tone. Compare to what happens in OoT once you get the Master Sword. Link is an adult now.

>> No.9607030

>>9604715
Do you guys remember the beta assets that were leaked that the fags at tcrf refused to add?

>> No.9607061

>>9605904
Every Zelda peaks with or around the Master Sword

>> No.9607153 [DELETED] 

>>9604974
This boars is obsessed with the (reddit) office. Very cringe.

>> No.9607164

>>9607030
Please elaborate

>> No.9607170 [DELETED] 

>>9604974
9gag reaction gif from 2009

>> No.9607246

>>9603345
Using the magic mirror to glitch on top of the mountain was the most annoying part of this game

>> No.9607275

>>9603350
Remember myself during a cold night under the blankets while doing a fresh playthrough, max comfy.

>> No.9608012

>>9603354
https://youtu.be/5VL_5MX7z94

>> No.9608298

>>9603345
I love when I replay it and I hit a part I forgot existed.

>> No.9608327

The Ice Palace is a Headache but still A Link to the Past is still a very Fun Game to Play

>> No.9608330

>>9603345
I love the game's hand-drawn look. It and SMW went a long way towards making sure you don't recognize any pixels at all.

>> No.9608363

>>9607170
aka trad based and soul

>> No.9608368

>>9603402
It's referencing the Japanese commercial where Zelda has black hair and Link is played by a girl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjpHzLYHkwA
I always loved every single thing about it

>> No.9608385

>>9603354
>I'm going to change the definition and use that instead!
Fucking die.

>> No.9608456

>>9603354
Soul just means anything with a lot of passion and effort put into it, it can include shit games that the creator clearly had a vision and care for.

>> No.9608472

>>9608456
By that logic, every game ever made has soul. You really think the designers and artists at Activision don't have any passion for or put any effort into the latest Call of Duty?

"Soul" needs to be reserved for a specific kind of experience.

>> No.9608487

>>9608368
I'd watch a Zelda miniseries with that setup

>> No.9608542

>>9607164
Where you been mate?

>> No.9608560

>>9608472
>By that logic, every game ever made has soul.
In a way yes, but when you have to pick something made by a guy with his own pocket money for years, vs a game made as a cash grab by a team that just didn't want to be working on it, I think you can tell.
>You really think the designers and artists at Activision don't have any passion for or put any effort into the latest Call of Duty
I don't think CIA and Pentagon propagandists are born with souls, or are even human. That's my only statement on that

>> No.9608645

I have played this a million times so it's kinda boring at this point, mostly. I replayed it again this month, and from the 6th Dark World dungeon where I don't remember 100% of everything and on it was pretty fun.

>> No.9609598

>>9603345
This is the game that really got me into SNES

>> No.9609718

>>9603345
Seemed like a decent game to me

>> No.9609784

>>9603368
The map is getting smaller.
There's fewer and fewer places to get away from Ganon's police state.

>> No.9611223

>>9603345
That mountain had such weird atmosphere for me as a child. I remember me and friends calling it the booger mountain and thinking the rolling boulders were boogers for some reason

>> No.9611235

>>9603345
>>9603350
>>9603359
>>9603371
What game?

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>>9611235
Here's your (You) I guess, nice try

>> No.9612151

>>9611235
Super Mario RPG.

>> No.9612749

>>9603359
I only discovered this recently and it made me feel the same magic as back in the 90s desu

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>>9603345
I agree, but Minish Cap captured the feeling and made it better imo.
Just need to desaturate the colors in post processing.

>> No.9613741

>>9604715
The maps compact but so well designed- I feel like there's really only a handful of squares that dont have something interesting. There's also very few areas that are annoying to get to or don't have multiple ways to approach.

>> No.9613746

This is one ugly game

>> No.9613893

>>9611223
always looked like giant brussel sprouts to me. I made my neighbor really mad by continuing to refer to them as that when he was raging at the game.

>> No.9613971

>>9603354
SOVLposters getting filtered by one post
Shitposters HATE him, click the reply button to find out!

>> No.9613979

>>9603359
>cooking and eating fish for the rest of your days and probably doing dick size contests with the river zoras
Good shit

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>>9604394
>>9604459
>instead of trying to force details everywhere
Yep, see pic related for example. Most SNES JRPGs do this shit

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>filters never wo-

>> No.9614116

>>9614105
Very impressive.

Now let's see the pause menu

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>>9614105

>> No.9614348

>>9611235
based

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>>9603350
in the early days of emulation, this scene with the rain was a good test. i still remember opening the box and opening the map.

>> No.9614468

>>9603370
Soul?? Pure?? fuck you talking bout white boy, they're just video games.

>> No.9614523

>>9603394
>kabuki dance when Kid Ying gets hit
>those sound effects
>that Japanesey music
>the horse laugh when you fail at gambling
>all those mini games
>co-op
I love Goemon 2 but part 1 has so much charm

>> No.9614587

>>9614451
I can genuinely remember a point where the transparencies didn't work yet

>> No.9614592

>>9614105
This filter is fine with games like ALTTP, just makes it look even more like a 2D Wind Waker which is what it was already going for

>> No.9616406

>>9614239
>filters bad because they just are even if they don't do to the game in question what my picture is showing

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>>9603393
Deru deru deru deru TSUI NI DERU!

>> No.9617686

>>9603481

The sage guy literally marks it on your map the moment you get there...

>> No.9617692

>>9614105

do people really?

>> No.9617774

>>9616406
nta but it still looks like dogshit (if better than on other games) and i never grew up with any of these games myself, and crt filters (and crts in general most of the time) look like dogshit too so don't even try that "gotcha". just use a simple bilinear filter and play the damn game instead of dickin around with all these uggo blinders

>> No.9618101

ALLTP never grabbed me. I beat it at least twice but I always found it very bland.

Link's Awakening was magical though, and I love the 2 NES games. I probably like 2 better than 1 though.

Then you have the Oracle games and Four Swords, which feels like the technocrat's Zelda: technically great, goes above and beyond the others in terms of both combat and puzzles, but ultimately has a very poor sense of pacing, balance and atmosphere, things true Zelda games excel at.

I also liked OoT, and MM is a steaming pile of shit. Haven't played any others, so my ranking would go like this

Link's Awakening > Zelda 2 > The Legend of Zelda > OoT > Oracles > Four Swords >>>>>>>>>> MM > who the fuck cares about the rest

>> No.9618102

>>9618101
with ALTTP somewhere in the middle

>> No.9618142

>>9614105
What filter is this?

>> No.9618157

>>9617692
You know the answer already, but just to be redundant: no, but non-people do.

>> No.9618160

>>9618101
What didn't you like about MM? I also loved Link's Awakening.