#43: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
The best SNES game. Still holds up wonderfully to this day in most regards, especially thanks to it's beautiful artstyle.
A very hard game with some of the most difficult dungeons in the series. Not so.much because of the enemies but because I got lost all the time. The level design is sometimes maybe a bit to intricate. That said I liked them all alot nonetheless.
The overworld is fun to explore to find all the heart pieces and other stuff. Although I mostly just tried to get to the next dungeon, which could be as hard as to get through the dungeon itself. The dungeon bosses were extremely hard at times.
My only complaint would be something that stems from archaic design choices from back then. I was able to enter the fight against Ganon without having the silver arrows that you need in the last phase of the fight to beat him.
Obviously I wasn't able to beat him because of that and was utterly confused, because nowhere in the game did it tell me that I needed something else, what it was nor where to get it. So I had to look it up. Nowadays developers actually think this stuff through and there would have been a switch that you can only activate with one of these arrows to enter the fight. That is the only thing that shows that the game is not from this century.
It says alot that I have only one point of criticism. The game is magnificent.
I played the game on the Switch through NSO. Being able to rewind the game at any point was very helpful with how hard some of the bosses were.
A Link to the Past is a brilliant adventure that stood the test of time better than almost anything else out there.
This is the second Zelda game on my list.
