The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
The wizard Agahnim has abducted seven maidens, intent on using their power to open a portal to the Dark World. Armed with a trusty sword and shield, Link begins a great and treacherous journ... Read allThe wizard Agahnim has abducted seven maidens, intent on using their power to open a portal to the Dark World. Armed with a trusty sword and shield, Link begins a great and treacherous journey.The wizard Agahnim has abducted seven maidens, intent on using their power to open a portal to the Dark World. Armed with a trusty sword and shield, Link begins a great and treacherous journey.
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- TriviaHarassing a chicken will soon send an endless flock of angry birds attacking Link. The only escape is to get out that area fast, if the player is lucky. While this game requires a lot of strikes in order to do so, later games reduced it to three strikes minimum to call for chickens to attack Link.
- GoofsIn some dungeons, if Link gets touched by a flake of magic that can turn him into a rabbit if he's wearing the blue or red armor, his armor will revert back to his green cloth until he transforms back into human.
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Treeman: You're new here, aren't you? Did you come here looking for the Power Of Gold? Well, you're too late. It will obey only the first person who touches it. The man who last claimed the Power Of Gold wished for this world. It reflects his heart. Yes, I came here because of greed for the Golden Power, and look what happened to me... To restore the Golden Land, a person worthy of the Golden Power must defeat the man who created this place... Until that time, I am stuck in this bizarre shape. But what a mischievous thing to leave lying around... The Power Of Gold... Triforce...
- Crazy creditsThe ending is broken into three parts. Link defeats Ganon and touches the Triforce after it speaks to him, restoring the Sacred Realm. We see various people across Hyrule Link met on his journey, and lastly see the closing credits played over footage of the newly-restored Sacred Realm. The credits end by stating how many lives it took you to complete certain dungeons, and close out with a "total games played" message, staying how many lives you took total to beat the game on your file.
- Alternate versionsThe Super Nintendo version of Legend of Zelda went through many changes from the Japanese version including.
- The English Title screen is called "The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past" with the Triforce logo and now includes the Master Sword as well. Also there's now a castle scenery in the background.
- In the opening English opening prologue, The blue soldiers spears has been replaced with swords as they take the maiden women away to be sacrificed by Agahnim.
- The English File Select uses a rock pattern background but the word "Kill" mode has now been replaced with "Erase Player".
- The English Register file name in the English version can now use up to 6 English letters.
- This Super Nintendo game uses English letters and the English font is no longer bolded.
- The arrow symbols on the sign has shrunk down to smaller arrows.
- The Hylian script's hieroglyphic font is less detailed.
- The tile in the Eastern Temple which originally featured a hexagram Star of David symbol has been replaced with a compass symbol due to religious references.
- The wanted signs of Link in Kakariko Village no longer displays Link's name right next to the character picture.
- Many of the character cast in the credit ending had some of the characters renamed including "Loyal Sage", "Flippers for Sale", "Flute Boy Plays Again" due to religious references of the word "Priest". However the word "Flute" is actually in the shape of an Ocarnia.
- The English credits features the Japanese Nintendo staff and now includes the English Script Writers "Daniel Owsen", "Hiroyuki Yamada" and the Nintendo American localization team involved with the Super Nintendo version.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Gamesmaster: Episode #2.7 (1992)
"A Link to the Past" is the third game in the Legend of Zelda series, the first for the 16 bit SNES generation of consoles and marked a return to the top-down exploration and battle view, after the second game had introduced a side scrolling concept. The protagonist, Link, explores the world of Hyrule, killing enemies, exploring dungeons and finding new equipment; all leading to a final confrontation with the dark wizard Ganon. As with the other games, the mission will also involve interaction (usually a rescue) with the Princess Zelda - hence the games title.
The game is quite rightly lauded as one of the best of all time. The music is perhaps the most iconic that the "Zelda" theme has ever been, and Koji Kondo's other in game dungeon tracks are similarly brilliant. It's a simple cartoony graphical style compared to today's games. Even to where the SNES eventually gets to, its pretty basic, but hit detection and movement and fighting animations are all excellent. It's the gameplay though, that's the best. A world to be explored, innovative dungeons to be found and cleared out, boss battles, secrets. It's a fun game to play, constantly changing tactics, or upgrading your character to be able to do new things and go to new places.
I would say for negatives, as I said in the opening paragraphs, it's very, very difficult if you play it without the additional advantages that the Switch provides. Basic things like knowing where to head next is often not signposted. Also, and I don't remember this being an issue when I played the game with the SNES controller all those years ago, but here, I did keep accidentally bringing up the map, rather than the inventory screen, or vice versa.
A tremendous and iconic game and one that you owe to yourself to experience.
- southdavid
- Sep 30, 2020
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