Grind points or you'll be very handicapped later down the line. Yes this is real, yes this is dumb.
Pit moves better, and most of the levels aren't too bad, but my main complaint goes to the dungeons and bosses. A lot of the rooms in dungeons are the same 3 or 4 layouts repeating again and again which makes navigation tricky as you can't really make landmarks for yourself. The bosses meanwhile are massive damage sponges that take a gorillion hits to die, even once you figure out their patterns. I'm also not fond of Pit powering down as you take damage, it's very discouraging and would make me choose to lose a life rather than fight with my slow limited range arrows.
It's better than the NES version in some respects, but worse in more obtuse and frustrating ways.
Pit moves better, and most of the levels aren't too bad, but my main complaint goes to the dungeons and bosses. A lot of the rooms in dungeons are the same 3 or 4 layouts repeating again and again which makes navigation tricky as you can't really make landmarks for yourself. The bosses meanwhile are massive damage sponges that take a gorillion hits to die, even once you figure out their patterns. I'm also not fond of Pit powering down as you take damage, it's very discouraging and would make me choose to lose a life rather than fight with my slow limited range arrows.
It's better than the NES version in some respects, but worse in more obtuse and frustrating ways.