Link to the Past is a tremendous jump forward for the series. A beautifully realized world with several memorable moments along the way, great secrets and stupid fun items. Any and all issues I have are nitpicks, but they do pile up to a point where I enjoy this title less than most. I suppose they just affected my experience more than most. I tried to do this without save states for the most part, so I felt the wrath of backtracking for each one of those small things quite a bit.
Hitboxes are very inconsistent. Slashing horizontally is perfect, but doing so vertically is not. From what I gathered, there is some blind spot on top of your model when swinging from one of the angles. This also causes some enemies to get stuck in your model to hit you multiple times while staying inside your hitbox. Best example of this is the Swamp Palace Boss. If you pull one of his balls with a hookshot from the bottom or top and don't move, you will always get hit. If you do so from the side, you won't. Yes, I have died to this many a time. Yes, it was a skill issue.
I think there's a weird choice to have the same sort of idea for progression through the overworld and the dungeons sometimes. I think there are a lot great secrets that are fun to find after going past them several times and realizing you can now interact with them. Trying to find these somewhere around these huge, scrolling screens you're seeing for the first time isn't as intuitive. Some optional secrets late into the game are much more visible than ways of progressing through the main story. Also, having the first required statue pulling puzzle over halfway into the game threw me for a loop. It was the first thing I had to look up. I know, once more, skill issue.
But that's really it. There's some small inconsistencies I noticed but they didn't really do much against my experience. Those two things led me to many a death, but even then I really enjoyed this game. The dungeons are phenomenal, I enjoyed every bit of them. Super clever design, so many fun ideas, so many cool enemies, so much color, so many excellent designs. Again, just such a huge progression for this series. It's really difficult not to appreciate, and I know because I hit my head against the wall here for a WHILE. Probably took me twice as much as beating the two previous games combined... times two.
Hitboxes are very inconsistent. Slashing horizontally is perfect, but doing so vertically is not. From what I gathered, there is some blind spot on top of your model when swinging from one of the angles. This also causes some enemies to get stuck in your model to hit you multiple times while staying inside your hitbox. Best example of this is the Swamp Palace Boss. If you pull one of his balls with a hookshot from the bottom or top and don't move, you will always get hit. If you do so from the side, you won't. Yes, I have died to this many a time. Yes, it was a skill issue.
I think there's a weird choice to have the same sort of idea for progression through the overworld and the dungeons sometimes. I think there are a lot great secrets that are fun to find after going past them several times and realizing you can now interact with them. Trying to find these somewhere around these huge, scrolling screens you're seeing for the first time isn't as intuitive. Some optional secrets late into the game are much more visible than ways of progressing through the main story. Also, having the first required statue pulling puzzle over halfway into the game threw me for a loop. It was the first thing I had to look up. I know, once more, skill issue.
But that's really it. There's some small inconsistencies I noticed but they didn't really do much against my experience. Those two things led me to many a death, but even then I really enjoyed this game. The dungeons are phenomenal, I enjoyed every bit of them. Super clever design, so many fun ideas, so many cool enemies, so much color, so many excellent designs. Again, just such a huge progression for this series. It's really difficult not to appreciate, and I know because I hit my head against the wall here for a WHILE. Probably took me twice as much as beating the two previous games combined... times two.