11th March 2004, 2:26 AM
Weltall brings up a good point. When you can only use one item at a time anyway, LTTP's selection system is BETTER than LA's. You just point to it and unpause. Sure when you are used to pressing a button to assing an item to it, it can be tough, and in the Zelda games that worked like that, it's better. However, the Zelda 1 & LTTP method is plenty fine. Also, why would you want to point to empty spaces? As he said, they're empty. What, you would like to be able to completely unequip the Y button? You'd loose that ability once you got all the items anyway. I myself kept the boomerang item in there most of the time because well, I like to stun my enemies.
Oh, regarding the shield, all Zelda games before LA involved just using your movement to guard rather than a guard button. The shield was always still VERY useful, just not as useful as it can get in LA. It blocks arrows and other projectiles (more as you get stronger shields) and that's all it was ever meant for, aside from Zelda 2 where it protected from just about every attack. I'll add that I usually had my shield and sword combo equipped at all times in LA. This is just like using the Master Sword in OOT, I just prefer having more protection to having more power (also, that's why I picked the blue tunic rather than the red one in the remake). I figure the best offense is a good defense, to reverse a phrase. It doesn't matter if you aren't doing as much damage if you can protect yourself while charging up a whirl attack. On that note, in Zelda 2 I always used the shield spell (essentially doubling your life) rather than using something like the fire spell (giving you a powerful fire blast attack from your sword even when not at full health). I don't ALWAYS use this strat mind you. If an attack is REALLY overpowering, I'll be able to defeat my enemy in just a couple moves so I'll just completely charge into them without any cares of defense in those cases. For example (though this is an extreme example using something that's ALMOST cheating), when I'm Oni Link going against Odalwa in Majora's Mask.
Oh, regarding the shield, all Zelda games before LA involved just using your movement to guard rather than a guard button. The shield was always still VERY useful, just not as useful as it can get in LA. It blocks arrows and other projectiles (more as you get stronger shields) and that's all it was ever meant for, aside from Zelda 2 where it protected from just about every attack. I'll add that I usually had my shield and sword combo equipped at all times in LA. This is just like using the Master Sword in OOT, I just prefer having more protection to having more power (also, that's why I picked the blue tunic rather than the red one in the remake). I figure the best offense is a good defense, to reverse a phrase. It doesn't matter if you aren't doing as much damage if you can protect yourself while charging up a whirl attack. On that note, in Zelda 2 I always used the shield spell (essentially doubling your life) rather than using something like the fire spell (giving you a powerful fire blast attack from your sword even when not at full health). I don't ALWAYS use this strat mind you. If an attack is REALLY overpowering, I'll be able to defeat my enemy in just a couple moves so I'll just completely charge into them without any cares of defense in those cases. For example (though this is an extreme example using something that's ALMOST cheating), when I'm Oni Link going against Odalwa in Majora's Mask.
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