Some Zelda Things

[Geno]

I actually love Link's Awakening. The dungeons are decent, perhaps not the best or most memorable in the series. However, I like Koholint Island itself, I like the residents you meet along the way, and most of all, I like the story. The fact that none of this is real (in-universe I mean... obviously, the fictional world and fictional characters in the fictional video game are... well, fictional) yet feels so real makes it all the more heartbreaking, knowing that Link's options are to succeed in his quest and basically kill everyone he's met on this island, or... stay asleep forever, never able to leave Koholint Island and reunite with his friends who truly do exist. The ending is quite somber, and if you don't get any game overs (don't steal from the item shop, or if you do, don't return to it--you will get Kamehameha'd), then Marin will live on as a seagull in the game's aftermath.

I have played very little of The Minish Cap. I've heard great things about it. I don't know why I never really gave it a fair try.

A Link to the Past was, if nothing else, the best Zelda game ever at the time of its release. Did future Zelda games do the formula better? I would say yes. I prefer most of the 3D Zelda games over it (other than maybe Skyward Sword, which I don't hate, but in all honesty, if it wasn't a Zelda game, I'd probably never give it another thought). But I have to respect LttP for what it was and the advancements it made to the series. That said, if someone played Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, or even Wind Waker or Twilight Princess, then went back and played Ocarina of Time for the first time ever, I could see them calling it overrated as well. I can never not love Ocarina of Time, though; firing it up feels like returning home, every single time.