Topic: Zelda: A Link Between Worlds Thread

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well... i just completed the game. i'll be honest, i was underwhelmed. just about all over the internet, you'll see people giving this game perfect or near perfect scores.
WARNING: THE FOLLOWING IS A [STRONG] OPINION FROM A ZELDA VETERAN!
>> i don't feel like the game deserves those scores. a great game, sure, and i'll admit i had tons of fun with it, and i am probably still going to even after i post this comment. the dungeons however... are not something to write home about. as a matter of fact, there probably something i wouldnt want to write home about.

>> let me start with the first offense that keeps the game from being a great game to a perfect game: the renting system. first of all, i like what they tried to do, i really do. i was among those excited for the renting system in this new game, but it falls deeply short. first let me briefly explain how the system works: you can rent an item for super cheap, but if you die, all rented items are taken away. but if you BUY something, you can keep it forever and upgrade it. i will now list why this system if broken:
1.) the items are WAY WAY WAY WAY too cheap to rent. most of the items only cost 80 rupees to rent. i rented all items almost as soon as the game would allow me. and this is because (next reason)...
2.) it's WAY WAY WAY WAY too easy to get rupees in this game. to have an idea of how easy it is, i rented all the items in the shop almost as soon as i was given the option (and this is at the VERY beginning of the game). the game LOVES to give you hundreds of rupees all the time, even though everything in the game is INCREDIBLY CHEAP.
3.) the renting system just sucks. there's no time limit in which you have to return the item, so because the game is so easy, you will pretty much never need to return anything because you'll never die. if there was a time limit implemented (this way, you could only have an item for a certain amount of time before it must be returned). but as it is, if you rent an item, you pretty much have it forever since, odds are you'll never die. and if by chance you do die, the items are, again, far too easy to rent, so it's as if you've never lost it.
4.) it's WAY WAY WAY WAY too easy to BUY items at the shop as well. yes,because rupees are so easy to find in the game, i bought every item before i did my second dungeon.
5.) the game is WAY WAY WAY WAY too easy! i completed the whole game having not died once AT ALL. i could have played the whole game without even buying the items, because the dungeons are completely easy, the enemies are easy, the bosses are easy, everything is as if it was made for a baby.
6.) there's NO REASON TO BUY WEAPONS. as i've said before, the game is FAR too easy, so the only reason to buy items is to upgrade them, right? no! the upgrades for each item are almost worthless and add nothing to the item. when you rent the item, you pretty much have the upgraded item already, both are pretty much the same. this is a MAJOR shame to me, because the upgrade system was amazing in Skyward Sword, and i was hoping for that here too, but alas.

>> so yes, the renting system is broken, but i bought and upgraded all the items, and because the rupees are so easy to get, it was incredibly early in the game when i bought all items. what is left to do with the rupees? nothing. absolutely nothing. once you buy all the items, you can still buy things, but everything in the game is INCREDIBLY cheap, and players will very quickly find themselves with 9999 rupees with nothing to spend them on. i bought every item, and i had nothing to spend my THOUSANDS of rupees on.

>> for me, the biggest offender are the dungeons themselves. in one word, i could describe them as awful. the game makes nearly every dungeon non-linear, meaning you can do dungeons in almost any order you prefer. but nearly every dungeon assumes (with the exception of a few) that you only have the item you used to get into the dungeon. every dungeon is themed for one specific item, meaning you only need that item for the dungeon. almost no dungeons in the game had puzzles requiring more than one item to be used at once, and that was REALLY disappointing. for this reason, every single dungeon is FAR TOO EASY.

>>the game, along with being too easy, is also too short. the dungeons are all incredibly short and have nothing memorable to show. even the final boss is also nothing to show. (SPOILERS) first it makes you hack away at him without thinking before it copies OoT by making you bat a magic orb back and forth until someone has bad timing.(END OF SPOILERS) nothing in this game is special at all, not even the final boss, which SHOULD be special, but isnt.

>> that's really what it comes down to is that the game is too easy. because its too easy, you never need to buy items. so you have all the items from the get-go essentially, but the dungeons are always focused on one single item, even though you already have all of them. the game had potential to be GREAT, and thats the greatest disappointment to me, because the rental system could have changed the entire game, but it changed little to nothing, unfortunately. the items change almost nothing to how the game is played. the dungeons in past zelda games are harder than the ones in this new one.

>> ive complained that the game is too easy, but one could say that Hero Mode is an answer to the game being too easy. but Hero Mode is only playable after you complete the game once, so this makes it more of a bonus, rather than an actual part of the game. if it were available from the very beginning, i'd be fine, but it isn't. imagine if you bought a game, and "super easy" was the only difficulty option, and to play on hard, you had to beat the game. it wouldn't be acceptable, so why is it okay here? it isnt for me.

HOW TO FIX IT
1.) fix the item system.

• make items more expensive to rent and buy.
• implement a time limit to rented items. do this with an in-game clock like in Majoras Mask. this way you must return rented items sooner or later, whether you die or not. this way, the player will actually want to buy the item

2.) fix the dungeons.
-make dungeons focus on more than one item. this way the dungeons will actually be CHALLENGING.

3.) fix the enemies.

• make all enemies do more damage to the player, ESPECIALLY THE BOSSES.
• make some enemies only kill-able with certain items. most enemies can die with the sword, so i found myself always killing with the sword.

4.) make hero-mode available from the beginning for veterans

• the game is FAR FAR too easy. it should be an option to play on hard mode from the beginning.

5.) Fix the money system

• either make everything cost more, or make rupees harder to find. as it is now, its FAR too easy to get money in this game.
• add more things for the player to spend their money on. there isnt much to spend money on, and what there is, is super cheap. make everything incredibly expensive.