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Scizor_99 on 14 February 2014
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kupomogli said:
Scizor_99 said:
kupomogli said:

I've tried to play through A Link to the Past three times and got bored less than half way through it. Just an incredibly boring Zelda game in my opinion, yet have finished Link's Awakening and Link's Awakening DX many times.


Well, did you play it when it came out. I can't attest to this as I wasn't even born then but most of the people who did keep raving about how fantastic it was. I personally like Link's Awakening more, but can greatly appreciate A Link to the Past for its open world, high production values and being a generally well-built game. I think the reason you might like Link's Awakening more might be similar to mine - due to characters and story (an incredible feat at the time for the original Gameboy). 

Not when it first came out but when the SNES was current gen, yeah.  I tried it later on a PC emulator, and then the third and last time was when it was released for GBA. 

It could be that I grew out of the Zelda series, but I don't really think that's it.  I still like Zelda 1 and Link's Awakening.  I like games like Illusion of Gaia, Alundra, etc, which are Zelda games by different developers.  3D Dot Game Heroes is pretty much of a ripoff of Zelda and I finished that game on normal, then Spelunker mode afterwards.  It's just Link to the Past.  Something is with that game that I don't like.


For me it's just that the game seems like an expansion of the original Zelda - much better graphics, a fresh soundtrack and a new open world. The thing is that the story is very simplistic, and not in a good way like in Link's Awakening where it was sufficient to serve its purposes. I always assumed it had something to do with being an earlier SNES game, though I could be wrong.