31st May 2003, 2:20 PM
Um, ABF, you should actually PLAY DX before labelling it as worse, especially since the gameplay is identical.
First off, you can easily miss the tunics without even trying and just play to the end without them.
Second off, that color change making some enemies more apparent? That's only when you play the original on a GBC, which tells me you just tested that to see what colors would look like! That happens because the colorization method is in fact very simplistic on the GBC for GB games, just giving different "layers" of sprites varying colors. In the actual DX game, you can't tell via color. The colors also look pretty great. Everything is colored pretty much the same as in LTTP, and in fact many of the graphics are replaced to give a nicer look, like the grass tiles. If you want the original graphics, just play it in GB mode (using a GB or Super Game Boy for instance) and everything is in black and white using the old graphics. So, the colors are no reason to complain.
Third, what's with "all those extra hints" you keep talking about? They really didn't add much at all! They changed a few phrases here and there (kinda stupid changes if you ask me, like when the genie makes it more apparent on how to defeat it, when the first way it was said in the original pretty much told you what to do anyway pretty clearly), but that's it.
I think you are TRYING to find problems where none exist to justify not getting the DX version :D. I'm in your mind, ya can't deal with it can ya? I mean, you can COMPLETELY avoid the tunic without even trying (since you REALLY have to go out of your way to find the extra dungeon), so that's irrelevent, and the graphics don't make anything easier (like I said, that apparentness is only there if you play the original version on a GBC, which is totally different then actually playing DX, which is FULL color and actually designed for the GBC), and the text isn't really that different, so I see no reason to go around saying "it's worse" when you have never even played through it.
Copout eh? Well so be it. As I said, why should I HAVE to pick one?
As I said though, I couldn't see any change in focus between Seasons and Ages, both had puzzles and both had fighting. I think you read some reviews and got brainwashed, thus doing the classic counting only of the hits and not the misses to proove yourself right.
And now, I'll step out.
First off, you can easily miss the tunics without even trying and just play to the end without them.
Second off, that color change making some enemies more apparent? That's only when you play the original on a GBC, which tells me you just tested that to see what colors would look like! That happens because the colorization method is in fact very simplistic on the GBC for GB games, just giving different "layers" of sprites varying colors. In the actual DX game, you can't tell via color. The colors also look pretty great. Everything is colored pretty much the same as in LTTP, and in fact many of the graphics are replaced to give a nicer look, like the grass tiles. If you want the original graphics, just play it in GB mode (using a GB or Super Game Boy for instance) and everything is in black and white using the old graphics. So, the colors are no reason to complain.
Third, what's with "all those extra hints" you keep talking about? They really didn't add much at all! They changed a few phrases here and there (kinda stupid changes if you ask me, like when the genie makes it more apparent on how to defeat it, when the first way it was said in the original pretty much told you what to do anyway pretty clearly), but that's it.
I think you are TRYING to find problems where none exist to justify not getting the DX version :D. I'm in your mind, ya can't deal with it can ya? I mean, you can COMPLETELY avoid the tunic without even trying (since you REALLY have to go out of your way to find the extra dungeon), so that's irrelevent, and the graphics don't make anything easier (like I said, that apparentness is only there if you play the original version on a GBC, which is totally different then actually playing DX, which is FULL color and actually designed for the GBC), and the text isn't really that different, so I see no reason to go around saying "it's worse" when you have never even played through it.
Copout eh? Well so be it. As I said, why should I HAVE to pick one?
As I said though, I couldn't see any change in focus between Seasons and Ages, both had puzzles and both had fighting. I think you read some reviews and got brainwashed, thus doing the classic counting only of the hits and not the misses to proove yourself right.
And now, I'll step out.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)