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Monopoman posted...

If memory serves I believe you can also hurt them with arrows I typically just avoided them though unless a room required their defeat. Shit this game does the trap you in a room until every enemy is dead thing a lot less than the original NES game.

Yeah, you also can beat them with bombs. Prior to about dungeon 7 though it feels like bombs are a pretty scarce resource, so anything you can do to not waste them is wise.

Revelation34 posted...

The 5th dungeon is the one with the skeleton knight right?

Yup, I actually liked that idea of chasing it around the dungeon. Definitely a unique part of the series so far, made backtracking more forgivable.

Anyway, I've finished Link's Awakening! This was certainly the longest Zelda game thus far, which is surprising for a Game Boy game. It could be just because I'm less familiar with the game compared to the others. I'd estimate it took about 8 hours of gameplay, compared to under 5 hours for the first two and maybe around 6 hours for ALttP.

The final boss was excellent, especially it's final form. I purposely avoided using the boomerang, which I know is an instant OHKO on the final form. Dodging the swinging arms while hoping to get a shot in was a lot of fun.

The ending is always pretty sad. There really isn't a lot of character development in the game and yet it's heartbreaking to see Marin and the rest of Koholint Island disappear.

At the same time, this is the first truly "weird" Zelda game. The Wind Fish (in name only, for it is neither) is a very odd concept for a central character, and even more so by the fact it sleeps in a giant egg on the top of a mountain. Mario enemies being included is also super strange and those enemies always particularly stick out. I wonder what conversations went down during the pitch for this game.

Overall, a good game, but it's the first time in the series that a game has felt like a downgrade from the game that came before it. It's understandable given that this was a handheld game released in the early 90s, so I can forgive it for that. If anything, it deserves extra praise for what it was able to accomplish on such limited hardware. I have the liberty of playing it on the Switch on a big TV while sitting on my couch, so it is easy to forget what the original intended experience was supposed to be.

I'm going to start Ocarina of Time right away tonight. There isn't a game I'm more familiar with than Ocarina of Time, so I might be hard pressed to give any insights as I complete it, as I know exactly what I'm getting myself into. I might do a three heart run just to spice it up a bit. What I'm mostly interested in seeing is just how much of an evolution it was compared to these first 4 games. There isn't another game held in such high regard as this, so let's see if it really deserves the praise as being perhaps the greatest game of all time.

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