[Adilegian]

This and MST3K will help me through the flu.

Creating this topic as a public service announcement. This is one of the few games I've been agog that hasn't been available on VC yet. Now if they'll put out SMW and Super Metroid....
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[aerisdead]

Link to the Past can suck my balls.
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[Toto]

Yeah, well suck on this America, Australia got Mario Kart 64 today.
For the VC that is.

[Adilegian]

[JamesE]

[Cossix]

I don't see why this is a huge deal considering it just came out on the GBA a while ago and it's still really available with like bonus optional shit?

[Deets]

The GBA version has link yelling every time you swing-a the sword, and the bonus optional shit requires multiple GBAs and copies of the game, so. It's also almost certainly more than $8, and you can't just download it onto your wii, y'know?

It's not a big deal, but it's certainly a good game unless your heart is cold, black and made of basalt or something. Basically, the fact that it's a huge Nintendo 1st-party game on the VC after weeks of niche-shooting games and shit is a big enough deal for most people to care.

[aerisdead]

You can play the GBA version while someone else watches the TV though

Also you can trade it away/throw it down a well when you realize how annoying it is

You're stuck with it 4 lyfe if you get it on the Wii
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[Deets]

I'm really not seeing what's more annoying about A Link to the Past in comparison to every other modern Zelda game - or at all, really.

[Adilegian]

[luvcraft]

[Adilegian]

[another coma]

I know I could make it through the whole game again on nostalgia alone (which probably isn't a great reason to buy anything since I've played it so many times), but I've been thinking about suggesting the game to my girlfriend as a kind of experiment - to see how far she might get in it before totally losing interest - after she's done with Twilight Princess. I'm seriously thinking this will be somewhere around the outside of Link's house.
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[Mr Stegosaurus]

[remote]

Oh, man. Now when I see "VC" I don't think Virtual Console — I think VanCleef.

What has become of me
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[RyogAkari]

[diplo]

[rabite gets whacked!]

[Broco]

[Intentionally Wrong]

Every time discussion of Chrono Trigger and the prospect of sequels come up, I am compelled to link this feature.
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[haircute]

[Adilegian]

[aerisdead]

[Rud31]

[DaleNixon]

[sethsez]

[skelethulu]

[Persona-sama]

Guys, I just put an hour and half into LTTP using a freshly bought Classic Controller since I didn't have an old Gamecube controller lying around. I just conquered some jumping statues and unearthed from their remains a Pendant of Courage and I am now booking it to the East of Lake Hylia to do something I totally don't remember to do.

Playing through Zelda again after all these years makes me feel like some kind of speed-running pro, dodging obstacles and blowing open secret passageways as if it was second nature. It does make me kind of sad discovering how easy everything is now when before I had such difficultly just crossing a dungeon, not to mention the unwavering fear that shook me when I heard that menacing beeping of having only one heart left. Damn this growing older and improving hand-eye coordination business.

Anyway, it felt mighty good to move little Link around on an analog stick. I kept pressing A instead of B to swing the sword though; I blame the Gameboy version for throwing me off. Still, the controller is really nice and I hope new Wii games actually get developed to use the thing as it's pretty solid and very comfortable. I was originally thinking that LttP would be just fine on a Wiimote, and was really annoyed I needed a GC or Classic Controller to play it, but now I'm very satisfied that I went out and just bought the controller since I can use it to play the other VC games in comfort. I just wonder if it drains the Wiimote's batteries any faster than using the Wiimote itself.


SO IN CONCLUSION, Classic Controller is boss and Link to the Past is pretty easy but still charming.
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[Adilegian]

I almost forgot about this thread!

[negativedge]

[Felix]

[Toups]

[Felix]

i actually really, really love chrono cross.

tell me if this makes any sense:

in the same way that dq7 and 8 are diametrically opposed archetypal jrpgs, chrono trigger and chrono cross are diametrically opposed archetypal jrpgs.

i've written this same not-quite-snappy line too many times on various iterations of IC by now, but: at one point you kill a giant robot named FATE and as such the characters are suddenly free to make all of their own decisions from then on, only nothing ever really comes of it; might just be a translation oversight but tell me that's not some wonderful videogame symbolism.

also, the music is totally wonderful. i really like chrono cross.

then again, i also really like golden sun (and uh in retrospect haven't really enjoyed a straight jrpg since then), so what do i know.

[Toto]

I agree with Ethnoscapade, I really enjoyed Chrono Cross, and the combat made you think (if only for 5 minutes).

[special blend]

chrono cross reeks of sweet carribean joy
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[Intentionally Wrong]

I'm going to attempt to be coherent.

Chrono Cross demonstrates how not to do optional content.

Look at the system for equipping your characters with magic and abilities. At first, the system looks like a handy way to customize and modify your characters--until you realize that most of your modifications are arbitrary decisions made in the service of, maybe... two effective character builds. A dedicated enthusiast can and probably will contradict me, but that only serves to reinforce my underlying point: these ability frameworks would be more compelling if they were an immutable part of the character. (Then you'd even have a reason to have all those characters!) The system as it stands is almost pointless. Why bother spending five minutes to manually assign elemental attacks to your grid, when using the Autofill option results in nearly identical effectiveness?

(Don't even get me started on the parasitic bartering system. If your hoop-jumping exercise is only meaningful because it allows another hoop-jumping exercise to work, you might want to rethink your design.)
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[special blend]

Also -- and this is one of my favorite games here -- it's kind of bullshit that there are around 40 characters, yet only 8 dual techs and 3 triple techs.
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[Mr. Apol]

guys i like link to the past does this make me uncool in the eyes of insert credit
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[aerisdead]

yes
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