doodlesack12
2014
This game is really well made. The sprites and music are great, and it's decently fun, but it's often bogged down by retro game bullshit. Enemies stunning you when you get hit, instant death spikes, instant death pits, it's often not clear whether going down is another room or a death pit, and one of the first levels uses a darkness gimmick that just makes these problems worse.
Still my favorite game in the franchise, mainly because of the masks. Hopping on water and flying with flowers as a deku, rolling around as a goron, and swimming as a zora are all really fun. The myriad of memorable sidequests are neat too, and combined with the three day limit, you need to plan out each day as efficiently as possible. It also has really fun bosses, although the dungeon design can be a bit annoying at times. And please, don't play it on the gamecube like I did.
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This game is horribly brought down by the caves. Their linear nature and lack of a time limit goes against the design of the first game, they're full of annoying and unbalanced enemies, and there are bombs and rock traps all over the place that punish you for trying to multitask. The multiplayer's fun, though.
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