Topic: Zelda: A Link Between Worlds Thread

Well that's a tad dissapointing.

I finished it last night and thoroughly enjoyed it. I would even go so far as to say it's probably my favourite handheld Zelda. I think the length is reasonable, having taken me 22 hours with all maiamai and almost all heart pieces collected. It's nice to have played a game that harks back to the older style but still feels very modern. It feels like a "pure" Zelda game. As I said in an earlier post it plays very smoothly and arguably features the best use of 3D on the system yet. It also looks and sounds great.

How long will the special a link between worlds 3ds xl be out in the US?

Where do I get the special chooes / dash / run faster thing?

^ Go to Kakariko Village (once you have the wall merging ability from the Eastern Palace), and then merge into the cliff wall near that sage's house. Pop out of the wall behind the weird thief like guy, and he'll give you the Pegasus Boots.

Of course, you'll need to go to Zora's Domain first.

On another note, I've now beaten Hero Mode in this game! With 100 Heart Pieces, Maiamais, items, upgrades, etc!

Just beat the game, and I was very impressed by it. The puzzles were extremely creative, if a little easy at parts, but it is [probably my favourite 2D Zelda game (even though it is the only 2D Zelda I've finished, probably should fix that...)

It took me just over 17 hours to finish the game, with seven missing heart pieces and 28 missing Maiamis. Didn't die once (used fairies a few times though), but I can definitely tell that the game would be much harder on Hero Mode. Probabaly won't get to that for a few months though.

Thank you ^^
That thief was the reason I wanted them actually, to keep up with him when he runs away

I see someone probably likes Fire Emblem(and I'm not talking about me, it's 100% sure I like Fire Emblem so it's not probably XD )

@CountWavula: Yeah, I feel the same way. It's disappointing to hear this game is easy, especially after Skyward Sword tried to ramp up the challenge like it did. I prefer to feel like I accomplished something by reaching the end of a game, but why make games last a long time when you can have someone blow through a game in a day wanting more?

Just completed it tonight, loved every second of it. I know it was a tad easy, but that didn't stop me enjoying the dungeons and feeling immensely proud when I worked out a puzzle ha.

So now a lot of us are completing it, I guess we can talk about favourite dungeons?

I liked the Ice Palace because of the tricky platforming bits. I enjoyed the Tower one too, I forget it's full name, where you had to use the hammer.

I wasn't too keen on Turtle Rock, was just a bit boring.

My guess is until January. This seems to be a special edition

Yup you sure do. I don't think I'll bother though cos well, Mario is out tomorrow..

Speaking of hero mode......Can someone enlighten me about the "the hero mode might take awhile to complete" thingy? What is it?

Enemies do four times their usual amount of damage in hero mode. Most things will instantly kill you until you have six hearts. You die all the time, so the difficulty spike makes it a little longer.

Nothing aside from an easter egg and four times the damage is added to Hero Mode

Right, i know about the quadruple damage and the easter egg, im at Lorule in the hero mode, and I thought I saw somewhere online where it said there's something after you get all the items.

There is a change in the ending if you beat Hero Mode, although it's very minor.

As for the difficulty... I found this game's difficulty to be perfectly fair to be honest. Zelda games have never been 'hard' since at least Zelda 2 on the NES, and this one is arguably a bit higher than that of the last few titles (especially the 3D ones and DS games). And hey, the combat's fun with the arcade style gameplay and the actually quite aggresive enemy AI.

P.S. As far as whether a difficult but annoying game or easy but fun game is better, I'd say there's no one answer to this. I mean, on the one hand, quite a few old NES era games were extremely hard, but were still enjoyable to play. And then you've got say, the Kirby and Wario series where the difficulty is mostly non existent (but where the games are still fun). I'd rather have a hard game like Zelda 2 than one with no difficulty at all, but I'd also simultaneously rather have something reasonable (like this game's normal mode) to something insanely hard to the point of being complete and utterly unfair (like say, SMW Lost Brain).

Since I took the week off work for the Thanksgiving holiday, I finished it today. It was a very fun game, and I thought the wall-merging ability was very well done. I'm slow, it took me 31 hours (although for several hours the game was paused while I played with the grandkids). I'm not ready to start the hero mode, I'd rather go back and replay the Ocarina of Time master quest first. (Ocarina is the game that's had the most play time on my 3DS, 43 hours 40 minutes.)

So, has anyone seen this?

http://nintendo3dsdaily.com/nintendo3dsnews/the-legend-of-zel...

Apparently, that weird stone tablet thing from the ending has normal Japanese text on it, meaning that someone who knows Japanese might be able to translate it and reveal more information about the game's storyline. Anyone up for the job?