Modern games scare me but as someone whose getting a switch maybe......
Good question. The one I'm trying to find is a specific one for game boy color that was like a time change one and I needed a guide badly. But pretty much anyone that's not the newest ones. Is marjoras mask just as good as OoT?
You're thinking of Oracle of Ages. It's paired up with Oracle of Seasons, so you're supposed to play them one after another and enter a code you get at the end of one into the start of the other so you carry over a few things and get some more story. If you want to play the GBC ones you should probably start with Link's Awakening first since the Oracle games have generally more complicated overworld progression.
Yes. It's a direct sequel with some new gimmicks on top related to the time loop aspect, so you might as well play OoT first.
The two biggest complaints that you'll hear about Twilight Princess is that it takes a long time to get going and it's overly linear, but if you're an oldschool Final Fantasy guy neither of those things will bother you, and it's hardly a new game, I think it's over twenty years old now.
Personally I don't like Majora's Mask but it's still a finely made game and it does stand toe to toe with Ocarina. The GBC games with time travel are the Oracle games. Oracle of Ages is the one with time travel and Oracle of Seasons is the sister game, you need to play both to get the full story since they tie into one another.
Its quick kill isn't too hard; stun it close to the wall and bob up and down with your barrier until you fry it.
It's somewhere between two to three generations after PH, since one of younger pirates from WW is still alive. But this also kind of cheapens the whole "save the world with the powers of the chosen one" bit.
You could play with 2 players, just like the Anniversary and Switch NSO versions. The levels generate based on the number of players. The Anniversary version also has a solo mode where you can swap between Green and Red.
I'd say each game can be described independently. Seasons began as a remake of LoZ and it shows through. It's much more of an "older" Zelda with less narrative, simpler puzzles, and a slightly more open world. Ages is much more of a "3D/Console" Zelda with it's narrative and puzzle emphasis. The games are both built on top of LA, and you're absolutely missing something if you don't play both. The games expect you to play First Game > Second Game, then there's a "Hero Mode" (that doesn't change much) which takes you back Second Game > First Game. I usually play them once, save the Hero Mode PW, and next time I play do Hero Mode.
I want to mention that the dungeon becomes easier with subsequent runs, because you unlock shortcuts with new items. There's a timer of sorts built in, but you can earn more time and there's even a challenge to clear the dungeon with no time elapsed. There's a point where you can double dip and earn two of the plot related items in a single go, which saves time. I never found it as annoying as people make it out to be.
If you decide to tackle SS after the Oracles and TMC, you'll get what this means. Just as an example, the Eldin Volcano area is not this large volcanic, mountain zone you can freely explore. It's got a very clear and deliberate design that has you progress through the zone. Yes there are secrets to uncover, but you're very much on a set path with clear places to go and things to find. As I recall from interviews, when SS was being made they wanted the overworld to feel like the dungeons to a degree.
I'd say the general gameplay is worse than AoC, but it runs a lot better and has a much better presentation.
OOT is a more straightforward game and I think it's better overall, but Majora's Mask is harder and has a much more interesting story and mechanics.
Yeah, that's what I meant. I played through FS via the Anniversary version, and it just did not feel like it was meant to be played that way. It wasn't fun, and felt really awkward, especially compared to FSA where they made controlling four Links at once feel seamless. FSA is the only multiplayer Zelda that's also fun to play singleplayer. With FS and TFH you really need friends to play them with or else it's just some combination of tedious and frustrating.
Oh, yeah. Saying Seasons is more focused on combat and Ages is more focused on puzzles is kind of a cliche simplification, but it's true enough. Seasons has you fighting lots of enemies more often, and has more bosses where you just to get in position to whack at their weak point, while Ages gets more complex with its puzzles overall and has more boss fights where you need to do more of a puzzle-solving action using whatever item you got that dungeon.
Some of the challenges in TFH are legitimately impossible solo. It's a game you can easily clear by yourself, but it's clunky and weird to do. I thought it was a lot of fun with people, even randoms (mostly). I'd love for it to get put on the Switch for cheap.
I don't see why people give Phantom Hourglass shit for that when there's so many things in Majora's Mask you're forced to redo. Need to get the Gold Dust again? I hope you enjoyed fighting that mechanical bull boss!
Ages had an annoying boss where you had to move blocks to make the boss' parts collide into each other. And honestly, I found Ages more annoying to play than Seasons was. The stolen items. The Goron Dance. The one dungeon with past and present versions. The underwater dungeon. None of these are dealbreakers in and of themselves but it led up to a much worse experience than Seasons.
Majora's Mask is on N64 which is the video game equivalent of a pussy pass. Gamers, especially older Millenial and younger Gen-X will give N64 games miles of slack for no good reason.
Mario 64 is a good game and I think that the N64 is overrated just because it had a small handful of solid, memorable titles, but Majora's Mask specifically some special pass because the sheer amount of shit it pulls would get any other game, even a Zelda title, crucified.
Any repetition in MM is a side-effect of the game's central conceit, and a lot of it can be potentially avoided with good routing. The only egregious thing to me is how you have to do a lot of the Kafei & Anju quest twice because of the mutually exclusive rewards at one step (the Postman Hat and a bottle). Having keep redoing parts of the Temple of the Ocean King in PH just feels like they're padding the game out intentionally, even with you being able to speed things up some with later items. And PH isn't great in general, so it's hard to be forgiving towards any one particular flaw; it's not like fixing the repetition there by itself would suddenly make PH amazing. In contrast, MM is great in general, so it's easy to overlook any small annoyance it might have.
Because Sport Tracks "fixed" the issue by only having you do the relevant sections of the dungeon instead speedwalking through the entire thing
You can just warp to the bosses once you beat them, though. Far more convenient than slogging through the Temple of the Ocean King over and over and over again.
It was kino though.
I'll give you the Goron Dance being the inherently worse minigame, but what about any of the rest makes it so annoying to make it a bad experience? Mermaid's Cave doesn't even require you to swap that much.