Current Events > Playing Link's Awakening on Switch. Any hints/tips/tricks for the game?

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Tyranthraxus posted...

It's funny because the game calls it a flute but it looks nothing like a flute and looks almost exactly like the ocarina of time

I think technically speaking, an ocarina is a type of flute?

scar_the_1 posted...

I think technically speaking, an ocarina is a type of flute?

Yeah. I just figure most people have the mental image of a flute that is something specific. Like a piccolo.

Yeah personally I think of something like from the first game. I suppose it's a recorder in English.

My dumb ass trying to get all the seashells and heart pieces and not realizing you can literally press x on the map to show all the seashells and heart pieces you've found so far. That is such an unexpected quality of life improvement from Nintendo.

I'm thankful they gave the upgraded sword at 40 seashells instead of 50 because it was helpful to use in the dungeon and the upgraded sword pretty much one-hit kills enemies instead of needing to do multiple swings. By end of game I had found 47 seashells on my own and just need to use the map for the last 3.

Although I've noticed that the effects don't stack with the triforce of power. Bosses still take the same number of hits with it or without it.

My Link's tunic is red after I did the color dungeon since I obviously chose more attack power which is way better than more defense. I kinda wish I could keep the green tunic while still having the upgraded attack.

Now that I have all seashells and chamber stones and heart pieces and done everything, how do I know if I got the secret ending or good ending or whatever?

saspa posted...

how do I know if I got the secret ending or good ending or whatever?

if you've died and it's recorded you lost out on the good ending (which isn't that different)

saspa posted...

Now that I have all seashells and chamber stones and heart pieces and done everything, how do I know if I got the secret ending or good ending or whatever?

I think the only condition for the good ending is you just never die the whole game.

There's a portrait of Marin that will flash during the ending if you got it. If you don't see it, you done fucked up.

Tyranthraxus posted...

I think the only condition for the good ending is you just never die the whole game.

There's a portrait of Marin that will flash during the ending if you got it. If you don't see it, you done fucked up.

That... that's it? Well I saw that.

saspa posted...

That... that's it? Well I saw that.

Yep. That's it. Congrats. You got the good ending.

It was an old Gameboy game they didn't really have a lot of wiggle room to make drastically different endings.

Oh thought it was something added to the switch version, it gets a pass for being game boy

So with this quality of life improvement it elevates the game from an already pretty high likability for me. Before breath of the wild I'd never bothered to get all the heart pieces, and in link's awakening I got all heart pieces and the collectibles. The small game world is nice.

Having had so much fun with this traditional Zelda I'm wracking my brain trying to think of any Zelda games I missed from ss to botw that I can play on Switch? If Link's awakening is this fun I hope they make a collection for those oracles of season/ages games because that's another gameboy Zelda I missed out on.

saspa posted...

Having had so much fun with this traditional Zelda I'm wracking my brain trying to think of any Zelda games I missed from ss to botw that I can play on Switch? If Link's awakening is this fun I hope they make a collection for those oracles of season/ages games because that's another gameboy Zelda I missed out on.

Minish Cap is playable on GBA if you have the Switch Online Expansion. That's not between SS and BotW but maybe you haven't played it? The only ones between SS and BotW are ALBW and Triforce Heroes.

Oracles are confirmed coming to the GB app just not sure when yet.