Sounds: 87/100 - "spot-on", whatever that meansĬVG's review is a little muted, especially with the modern knowledge that "Zelda III" is considered a masterpiece, but we admire their work in getting the Japanese import to play early.Zelda: "A smart and sexy little princess" (ew).Link: "A small elf" and a "strong lad" who is "dead brave".It's fascinating not only to look back at the general perception of a game that would eventually make its way onto "greatest of all time" lists, but to see exactly what game critics felt was useful to their readers in 1992. It was only the third Zelda game, and although Zelda was obviously very popular, it wasn't anything near to the cultural saturation of today, where a Zelda game can sell millions in its first week of release, and reduce grown men to fits of rage if it's not quite what they want. Plus, the magazines say it's really good.Īnd now, 30 years later (to the day!) we've combed through magazine archives to find a handful of those magazines, to examine what the gaming world was like back then - and how people really felt about A Link to the Past. You're just excited to get a new Zelda SNES game for your birthday, and we don't blame you. It's the first time that a Zelda game would introduce the concept of a geographical and/or temporal dichotomy, but let's be honest - it's 1992, and you don't know what any of those words mean. (click for DeviantArt page, bigger picture and whatever I wrote about it.This new game, though, promises more colours, more story, and unbeknownst to you, an entirely new world separate from the Hyrule you know and love. Snowcoat: - No (species ref + some info about them) -Gone through a redesign (old):(2 +*1 (new): (7, (8 Ket: -Started (and on hiatus) -Head but it's not that good. Grown to Sting - The Legend of Hugragi + Map If I write (?) it means that I'm not sure about the word or sentence structure.įor example this is a word(?) and this is a sentence (?).Ĭonstructive criticism is always welcomed.Ĭoming soon (aka in 2 years if I'm doing everything else whit current speed): If you notice any misspellings and that kind of stuff in my writing could you please correct me. Note that English isn't my native language and I have dyslexia. When you are just that tired even though school just started. I was introduced to it sometime early winter few years ago and it would have hindered my ability to do anything else like school stuff.) And I think that was a good thing seeing that it is a game whit a lot of things to do. (Oh and if anyone is wondering what I meant whit "Hopefully the same thing happens as whit Skyrim." I got bored whit Skyrim surprisingly quickly. My favorite panel is probably the third or the second one. BTW is it just me or are those ears bit too big for hyleans? (If they are I blame Jak & Daxter.) I also wanted to have the character (me?) just grabbing everything in the last panel but I'm not that good whit hands. But looking now I didn't execute it that well. My original idea was to make the "quality" increase whit my interest(?) of the game. Well, I did something as I had pretty much half of the map visible (?) before I even thought about the first divine beast. I just run around doing pretty much nothing. My biggest problem is "Ooh, shiny" because this game has a lot of shiny things. Then I started playing the Zelda game and got hooked. My brother played more than me (well at first I didn't play at all) but eventually, he rage quit on both games. The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild and Mario Kart 8. But to summarize it: My family got the Nintendo switch (surprisingly) and I and my brother bought two games for it. So this probably explains the reason why I have been quite inactive (well this and the fact that last week had an amazing weather).