Why Zelda: A Link to the Past is Overrated (but good)

[A Black Falcon]

You disagree? Who'd ever have guessed? :p But despite that, I thought this was worth writing up because as much as I've said about the game over the years, I'd never gone into this much detail about my issues with it. Now I have.

I think you rushed through the game just to "get it over with" and that's tainted your view of the game.

While that may be a part of it, I do think a good part of why I don't care for it as much is because of the design -- that whole "hiding items in the world you must wander around and find" thing is almost never something I enjoy, after all, given how I like to know what I'm doing in a game! If I did rush through the game, it was because that was how I was having fun playing it. No other Zelda game after this one punishes you for that like this one does... not that I always play these games like that, I don't. The other factors had a big impact here as well of course.

On that note, the other major factor is that I played LA first, and that game is better than this one in almost every way. While I'd played a bit of the NES game of course LA was the first Zelda game I owned, and it was hard to go back to a game with a far worse story, much less interesting NPCs, worse combat, a world that is much less fun to explore, messy design elements I didn't even mention like how the game keeps throwing a lot of items at you without fully making use of some of them, and such... this game suffers in comparison!