2nd June 2004, 6:18 PM
True, an action-RPG like Diablo or Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance has a lot of stat building and item collection while this has none. But that's not the only indicator... Gauntlet: Legends/Dark Legacy has stat building and item collection but I doubt many people would call it an action-RPG, for instance. It's more a pure action game. Each game needs to be examined seperately. In this case, I don't know. It is not a standard Zelda game -- not without item collection, stat building, and overworld, towns, etc... it's a lot closer to a action-RPG/action game in the sense of Gauntlet or BGDA, I think. Or any action-oriented dungeon hack game... there are a lot of them. Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles is another one to compare it to genre-wise.
As for the third mode, they probably just thought that given how not-good it was that it wasn't worth the effort.
As for the third mode, they probably just thought that given how not-good it was that it wasn't worth the effort.