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Topic	Top 25 games of the decade, period. Exclamation mark!
HaRRicH 01/03/20 1:01:52 PM #73:	<b>#5: The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds Released on 11/22/2013 3DS</b> (written in 2015) Top-down LoZ is back. I have wanted a new Zelda-experience for the 3DS for a long time, but I've had to go retro for them. Link's Awakening was pretty disappointing after so much time had passed, and I barely gave Minish Cap a chance when it controlled similarly. Ocarina of Time 3D was legit, but I previously played it before and it's just not the same as top-down gameplay. I picked Link Between Worlds up on a sale and was hooked. The only Zelda games I have beaten more than once were the original and OoT (because of the remake), yet I went on to beat this and its Master Quest back-to-back. The freedom to mostly choose your items is most excellent. Linearity usually isn't a problem in the series, but newfound freedoms were exciting when they were also throwbacks to how the series used to be. The item rentals kept the game to some sense of structure while allowing you to discover weapons quickly too. Knowing which dungeons needed which items to enter helped maintain focus through-out the dungeons, too. Turning into painting-Link was nifty for finding secrets and warp-points between worlds. It looks a little goofy at first, but it became integral to the game and worked well until the final fight. Octorok baseball was a little dumb and Yuga was a cheap Ganon, but it's hard to nitpick much here. It feels good to move, attack in any direction, use your weapons, go onto the wall...controls are great. The music hits hard with nostalgia and it's neat to see an old game world revitalized graphically. Finding all 100 Maiamais are fun since you get a map with a nice pin-feature. Maiamais also upgrade your weapons for every ten you find. I didn't grow up with Link to the Past, but I played it six or seven years ago and I enjoyed it a lot then. LBW has done it enough justice to where I want to play LttP again. Everything about this game reminded me of what I missed from the series. The 3D-games are great, but this was a fantastic modern take on their original formula. Bravo, game of the past two years. NOW IN 2020: I still need to play Breath of the Wild to see if this was even the best LoZ-game of the decade, but I am not crazy about WRPGs and it seems to have some elements from that genre so I don't know if it's for me yet. The remake for Link's Awakening could scratch my top-down itch, but also I didn't like the original's controls or puzzles much when playing it around ~2011. Still, this series is a powerhouse and commands attention with every release with good reason. As is, LoZ:LBW has my vote for best Nintendo game of the decade. --- O P E R A T I O N O U S T : Nominate SHEIK! https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/ssb/images/0/0d/Sheik-Victory3-SSB4.png <cite>HaRRicH posted [p:932410917] in Top 25 gam... [t:78297021]...</cite> <quote><b>#5: The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds Released on 11/22/2013 3DS</b> (written in 2015) Top-down LoZ is back. I have wanted a new Zelda-experience for the 3DS for a long time, but I've had to go retro for them. Link's Awakening was pretty disappointing after so much time had passed, and I barely gave Minish Cap a chance when it controlled similarly. Ocarina of Time 3D was legit, but I previously played it before and it's just not the same as top-down gameplay. I picked Link Between Worlds up on a sale and was hooked. The only Zelda games I have beaten more than once were the original and OoT (because of the remake), yet I went on to beat this and its Master Quest back-to-back. The freedom to mostly choose your items is most excellent. Linearity usually isn't a problem in the series, but newfound freedoms were exciting when they were also throwbacks to how the series used to be. The item rentals kept the game to some sense of structure while allowing you to discover weapons quickly too. Knowing which dungeons needed which items to enter helped maintain focus through-out the dungeons, too. Turning into painting-Link was nifty for finding secrets and warp-points between worlds. It looks a little goofy at first, but it became integral to the game and worked well until the final fight. Octorok baseball was a little dumb and Yuga was a cheap Ganon, but it's hard to nitpick much here. It feels good to move, attack in any direction, use your weapons, go onto the wall...controls are great. The music hits hard with nostalgia and it's neat to see an old game world revitalized graphically. Finding all 100 Maiamais are fun since you get a map with a nice pin-feature. Maiamais also upgrade your weapons for every ten you find. I didn't grow up with Link to the Past, but I played it six or seven years ago and I enjoyed it a lot then. LBW has done it enough justice to where I want to play LttP again. Everything about this game reminded me of what I missed from the series. The 3D-games are great, but this was a fantastic modern take on their original formula. Bravo, game of the past two years. NOW IN 2020: I still need to play Breath of the Wild to see if this was even the best LoZ-game of the decade, but I am not crazy about WRPGs and it seems to have some elements from that genre so I don't know if it's for me yet. The remake for Link's Awakening could scratch my top-down itch, but also I didn't like the original's controls or puzzles much when playing it around ~2011. Still, this series is a powerhouse and commands attention with every release with good reason. As is, LoZ:LBW has my vote for best Nintendo game of the decade. --- O P E R A T I O N O U S T : Nominate SHEIK! https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/ssb/images/0/0d/Sheik-Victory3-SSB4.png</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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