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Just finished Link Between Worlds
12 years ago
And my final verdict on the game is that it is really, really good. I put it on the same tier as Link's Awakening and the two oracle games. Not as amazing as Link to the Past, Ocarina of Time, Twilight Princess, or Wind Waker. But it's nowhere near as frustratingly bad as Skyward Sword. I mean, the controls worked when I wanted them and did what I wanted to do, so that alone elevated Link Between Worlds way ahead of the last three games in the series.
I enjoyed it enough that I decided to ignore the nagging little questions that arose out the perplexing cosmology. So Lorule looks like the Dark World, sounds like the Dark World, has the same flora and fauna as the Dark World, but isn't the Dark World. So is this a coexistent plane like DnD's Plane of Shadow? Ooh! Or is it a different timelime? Same world, just with different histories, like Bioshock: Infinite? Will Elizabeth and Booker show up? Will the Doctor?
Seriously, bringing Doctor in solves every problem. Well, every problem that can be solved with a sonic screwdriver and a fez. I've completely gone off topic again, haven't I? I don't care, now I'm all hung up imagining what would happen if Link and Zelda were the Doctor's companions.
I enjoyed it enough that I decided to ignore the nagging little questions that arose out the perplexing cosmology. So Lorule looks like the Dark World, sounds like the Dark World, has the same flora and fauna as the Dark World, but isn't the Dark World. So is this a coexistent plane like DnD's Plane of Shadow? Ooh! Or is it a different timelime? Same world, just with different histories, like Bioshock: Infinite? Will Elizabeth and Booker show up? Will the Doctor?
Seriously, bringing Doctor in solves every problem. Well, every problem that can be solved with a sonic screwdriver and a fez. I've completely gone off topic again, haven't I? I don't care, now I'm all hung up imagining what would happen if Link and Zelda were the Doctor's companions.
But yeah, it was a great game. I really enjoyed it.
IDE like to assume that either that means the complete story behind the triforce's creation hasn't been told, or perhaps people populating the Dark World was a side effect of Gannon's first wish. He gained power, but what good is it when you don't have anyone to lord it over?
Or there is the whole "the gods took pity upon them" route. But who can say? Plus didn't link wish that all the damage done by Gannon to be undone at the end of Link to the Past? Perhaps when he did that, the sacred realm was aligned as "good" instead of bad, people were able to flourish, or maybe the entire world was re-created, except this time with a Triforce of its own to separate the worlds a bit more
Ok I'm done theorising :3
...That said, I feel like the main problem I have with this game is the same as one of the problems I had with Skyward Sword: the villain in this game isn't interesting. Yuga is pretty much just Ghirahim if you took away the whole 'sword' aspect to his character and replaced it with an obsession with paintings and beauty. He looks and feels like a Final Fantasy villain, his schtick gets really old really fast and his motivation feels weak.
Admittedly, I'm still only six sages into the game, so I have yet to really get to the end, so the game might still surprise me. For now, however, I will at least say that it's okay; it's not as good as it could be, but it could have turned out a lot worse.