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A Link to the Past is too hard? (feddit.de)

submitted 2 years ago by nodiet@feddit.de to c/gaming

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I don't know if this is the right community for this, so I am sorry if it shouldn't go here. I am currently playing through a link to the past for the first time and have noticed a steep increase in difficulty once I unlocked the dark world. The dark palace was okay but I am honestly kinda stuck at the swamp palace. I would love to play through the game because it was a lot of fun up to this point but I don't feel like the game is mechanically fun enough to beat my head against the wall repeatedly. I have already noticed I can swap between the worlds with the mirror so I guess I could go to the normal world at any time to stock up on fairies. Are there any other tipps or hidden mechanics to make the game easier? I don't really want to spend a lot of time aimlessly searching the world for heart containers and following guides to them also seems kinda tedious.

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[–] ampersandrew@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

The game wants you to aimlessly search for things that are necessary to progress, and I didn't care for it either. There are a handful of hard barriers to progression in the game until you find the one thing they wanted you to find at some odd corner of the map, and it sucked the fun out of the game that I was having with the dungeons. It feels designed to make you break out a guide, and given that hint hotlines and Nintendo Power were other revenue streams for them at the time, I'm not surprised.