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Topic	I just finished a linked completion of Oracle of Seasons and Ages (spoilers?)
faramir77 08/12/19 1:07:02 AM #1:	Excellent games that have surprisingly aged well. I've found them just as enjoyable as I did in 2001. The last time I played through both was probably 2009-ish. Seasons definitely is the better of the two. It's clearly more combat oriented, but its puzzles are well crafted as well. Ages has better puzzles for sure, but the quality of the bosses in Ages is very poor. There's a boss in Ages that's basically a bomb roulette. Not even remotely fun. Another boss is just a straight up puzzle using the Cane of Somaria, virtually no combat at all. While the plot of each game is pretty minimal, Ages tries to be more ambitious yet misses the mark with poor story writing. Ralph is told that Queen Ambi is his ancestor, yet he tries to kill her anyway? Furthermore, you need the Maku Seed to get to Queen Ambi, how does Ralph beat you there? In Seasons, Onox plays nearly no role aside from the beginning and the end, but at least there aren't story issues that arise from that. Seasons has a better overworld, but I can respect Ages overworld for incorporating a ton of puzzles in it. That was Skyward Sword's main focus, and Ages did it much better. I liked Season's overworld better simply because it seemed full of enemies and new environments, and changing the seasons to access different areas in different ways was very creative. In terms of the final bosses, Veran is much more challenging than Onox, and I had the Master Sword to fight her, instead of just the Noble Sword for Onox. Her spider form was confusing though, you need to use bombs to stun her, but the first several bombs I used did nothing, leading me to try other things. The true final boss of Twinrova and Ganon was an awesome way to end the linked games. Twinrova isn't that great, and using Mystery Seeds to hurt her while stunned was a lucky guess on my part (totally forgot about that). Ganon is pure classic 2D Zelda, but with the Master Sword and the Red Ring was much too easy. All in all, Seasons gets a 9/10 and Ages gets a 8.5/10 from me. The only handheld Zelda that's better is A Link Between Worlds (not counting BotW). You know what's 10/10 though? You, if you read the whole thing. --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiCtAUrZbUk -- Defeating the Running Man of Ocarina of Time in a race since 01/17/2009. -- <cite>faramir77 posted [p:925952343] in I just fin... [t:77932933]...</cite> <quote>Excellent games that have surprisingly aged well. I've found them just as enjoyable as I did in 2001. The last time I played through both was probably 2009-ish. Seasons definitely is the better of the two. It's clearly more combat oriented, but its puzzles are well crafted as well. Ages has better puzzles for sure, but the quality of the bosses in Ages is very poor. There's a boss in Ages that's basically a bomb roulette. Not even remotely fun. Another boss is just a straight up puzzle using the Cane of Somaria, virtually no combat at all. While the plot of each game is pretty minimal, Ages tries to be more ambitious yet misses the mark with poor story writing. Ralph is told that Queen Ambi is his ancestor, yet he tries to kill her anyway? Furthermore, you need the Maku Seed to get to Queen Ambi, how does Ralph beat you there? In Seasons, Onox plays nearly no role aside from the beginning and the end, but at least there aren't story issues that arise from that. Seasons has a better overworld, but I can respect Ages overworld for incorporating a ton of puzzles in it. That was Skyward Sword's main focus, and Ages did it much better. I liked Season's overworld better simply because it seemed full of enemies and new environments, and changing the seasons to access different areas in different ways was very creative. In terms of the final bosses, Veran is much more challenging than Onox, and I had the Master Sword to fight her, instead of just the Noble Sword for Onox. Her spider form was confusing though, you need to use bombs to stun her, but the first several bombs I used did nothing, leading me to try other things. The true final boss of Twinrova and Ganon was an awesome way to end the linked games. Twinrova isn't that great, and using Mystery Seeds to hurt her while stunned was a lucky guess on my part (totally forgot about that). Ganon is pure classic 2D Zelda, but with the Master Sword and the Red Ring was much too easy. All in all, Seasons gets a 9/10 and Ages gets a 8.5/10 from me. The only handheld Zelda that's better is A Link Between Worlds (not counting BotW). You know what's 10/10 though? You, if you read the whole thing. --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiCtAUrZbUk -- Defeating the Running Man of Ocarina of Time in a race since 01/17/2009. --</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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