Pretty fun and cute game, but DEEPLY flawed. Last shrines and key-puzzles were way too cryptic, boss battles were way too easy, the "adventure creator" mode blows (and you are forced to play it for hours if you want the 20 hearts mark) and not having clear signs of where stairs will take you on dungeons is a major fuck-up.
I know it's a remake for an oldschool japanese hardcore game, but not tweaking any of it almost 30 years later makes no sense. Lots of cheap "time consuming" tropes that were used in the original only because they needed the game to feel "longer" (without forcing the weak Game Boy hardware) are left untouched.
It will probably look better in some years, when people forget that this was sold to kids for freakin' $60 USD. Seriously, it's a pretty fun game, but selling this for all that money is just criminal, Nintendo execs should be thrown in jail.
I know it's a remake for an oldschool japanese hardcore game, but not tweaking any of it almost 30 years later makes no sense. Lots of cheap "time consuming" tropes that were used in the original only because they needed the game to feel "longer" (without forcing the weak Game Boy hardware) are left untouched.
It will probably look better in some years, when people forget that this was sold to kids for freakin' $60 USD. Seriously, it's a pretty fun game, but selling this for all that money is just criminal, Nintendo execs should be thrown in jail.