Why Does Everyone Love A Link to the Past?

Because you don’t need to play it for 3 hours before you can start playing it.

the color palette alone in this game is just so nice.

For my brother and me in the mid 90’s, it was toiling though those first three dungeons only to discover we hadn’t even finished half the game yet. Our minds were blown when we were thrown into the Dark World.

For those that were there when it released: remember when you first heard the sound of the muffled rain on the roof of Link’s house and that piece of music that played over that part of the game. Because of the difference in the sound chip of the Super NES to any home console it was like hearing sound for the first time.

I played this game on the SNES back in 1993, I was 10. You have to figure how much time we spent looking for the 20 hearts and every item besides every puzzle to finish the game. I really enjoy seeing people (re)discover it today. I'm glad you finally enjoyed playing it.

The younger generation will never know what it was like to finish an adventure rpg (or any game) without the Internet. Going to school and talking to friends and hearing how they did this and you telling them how you found that etc. Truly experiencing a game like this organically can never be re-created. These are the main reasons why i think this game and others like it stick with us so much. Not trying to be cheesy but it was more than a game, it was an experience. An experience for me that took a little more than a year to complete. Hope this makes sense.

I was a little too young to figure out how to beat the first Legend of Zelda or it's sequal, The Adventure of Link on the NES. When A Link to the Past came out I was ten years old and could actually progress in the game on my own. I think I spent days trying to figure out some of the dungeons but when I eventually finished the game it was among my proudest gaming moments. Incredible game, absolutely amazing for it's time, 10/10.

A couple things that were mind bending for me the first time I played it: 1) Almost all the items have two uses. Usually a combat use and a utility/puzzle-solving use. - Boomerang stuns, picks up far items, activates switches - Bombs boom baddies and destroy secret walls - Mirror returns you to the entrance of a dungeon and warps you between worlds. - Hammer flips armored enemies and is required to unlock new areas of the map. and so on... 2) So may thing can be upgraded (secret waterfall fairy, island fairy, blacksmith)... Those two things alone just gave the game so much depth. It was amazing to repeatedly try older items you've had for a while in new ways... like sprinkling magic powder on one of those stupid bomb throwing cyclopes and having him turn into a chicken or whatever. 3) The whole Dark World mirrors the Light World and warping between the two is often how you solve certain puzzles thing. 4) Not really a feature of the game, but there were so many optional items/upgrades that it was the first game I ever remember wanting to 100% by finding every upgrade, every bottle, every heart container and so on. Yeah, definitely my favorite. If you like Link to the Past, I recommend trying Link Between Worlds. I was hesitant to play at first, but there are some great design choices in that game that make it as unique as it is a tribute to LttP and well worth your time to play.

One of the more interesting facts about this game is that after the Dark Palace and the Swamp Palace in the Dark World, you can tackle the other dungeons in any order. I recommend hitting the remaining palaces in this order : Thieves' Hideout, Skull Woods, Misery Mire, Ice Palace and then Turtle Rock. Here is why: Beating the Thieves' Hideout gets you access to the third sword upgrade sooner, making the boss of Skull Woods easier to deal with. You then go to Misery Mire so you cam get the Cane that places blocks to make getting to the bottom of the Ice Palace easier.

For me it isn’t just nostalgia, as my first Zelda game was the first Zelda game. I grew up at the same time that the series did, and A Link to the Past was the first epic, story-driven Zelda, and it’s so amazing what they were able to achieve with the SNES hardware. The SNES itself was also an incredible platform in terms of how it redefined console gaming and just how much more ambitious the games for it were compared to previous console generations. It was a big turning point for gaming. That said, the original black-and-white Link’s Awakening is my absolute favorite Zelda, but LttP is right up there. The ice dungeon’s controls were awful even back then though.

Link to the Past was the most well rounded Zelda game. It introduced gameplay mechanics that no other game had at the time and had a wonderful variety in its soundtrack.

Somehow I read the title as "Why Dogs Love Everyone...A Link To The Past"

Because it's peak 2D zelda

A reason I would like to say as why "Everyone loves ALTTP" is more or less the replay value. Many people such as I, enjoy 100% the game over and over. Its oddly satisfying!

Great games have tiny moments of wonder and awe that makes them what they are. Finding the master sword in the middle of that foggy forest is one of such moments, and it moved inside me what the creator of Zelda originally intended: the feeling of adventure. Amazing game!

I was a kid when this game out and I saved my allowance to buy the game when it came out. Loved it every since then.

It's the best in the whole franchise. Consider: First game: Amazing. Second game: ...*Innovative*. This game: The results speak for themselves. All the functions and features not previously implemented in prior Zelda titles made for a titular game that was an experience in and of itself. Nothing as ambitious of It's kind had been done before it; This ain't the post-Phantom Hourglass era. It's the dawn of the Super Nintendo, the rise of the 16-bit age. Someday these games would come to be considered *old*, but will always remain the masterpieces that captivated our hearts throughout our childhoods and history itself.

For me, its because its the quintessential Zelda game. When I think of what a true Zelda game is, its this. lots of dungeons, secrets, extras, items, it can be played out of order I mean so many things. its everything the first game was cranked up to 11 with a good story to boot.

You got the dates wrong…it came out in late 1991 in Japan and in early 1992 here. I remember, I was there.

I had two friends going to school each morning, telling each other secrets that they had found in the game, while I was left in the dark b/c I didn't even have a SNES. I was so desperate to get the SNES and this Zelda game. I didn't get it until 1993, way after my friends both beat the game. But I played it myself without their insight. It was a great experience.