Game Boy Advance User Reviews

Undoubtedly a classic, but the amount of content you’d have to repeat from dying without using save states would be really awful and the difficulty as a whole feels a little too high in general. Also the side quests and side content don’t feel super entertaining or rewarding especially compared to later entires.

This review is based off of A Link To The Past on the SNES. Overall, very fun game, I can see why it is considered to be a classic. My only nitpicks are that some things in the game are just way to cryptic. I understand that the older Zelda games were like that usually but some parts genuinely seemed impossible without the internet, or Nintendo Power for people of the past. Besides that, the gameplays is really fun, the dungeons are both puzzling and combat intensive. The music is really good and I never got tired of hearing it. The light world/dark world mechanic is still really cool even today. Overall a must play on the SNES.

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Zelda - Breath of the Wild was my very first Zelda game and turned me into a fan. Of course I wanted to explore the series’ roots, so I started playing A Link to the Past. And what can I say - it completely captivated me as well. It’s hard to explain what makes this game so incredibly good. It’s just overflowing with charm. The music and sound effects are unforgettable for me, even after all these years. The graphics have lost none of their appeal, and the gameplay is smooth and satisfying. The dungeon design is crisp and interesting, and the overworld invites exploration and sometimes even feels surprisingly open, reminding me a little of Breath of the Wild, though of course not nearly as expansive. Compared to other SNES games, this Zelda has that certain something that is difficult to put into words - it's just magical, and the gameplay mechanics are much better than in other SNES games. 10 out of 10.

Both games MUST PLAY. This is the purest essence of Zelda. Nothing more to say

muito bom, muito detalhe e sombrio, bom mas muito longo e muito item meio inutil.

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A linkto the past is probably one of the most fun Zelda games of all time. Playing it on the bed/couch/toilet makes it so enjoyable.

The first zelda game I've ever played and by far one of the best. Definitely in my top 3

It wasnt bad, but i expected more, the other 2d zelda games are much better in my opinion

Excelente otra vez. Pero ya me he pasado tres como este. Molan los objetos y los poderes. ¡Y no hay salto!

Yes, I completed the game 100% and it is really worth playing, I only deducted 1 point for 1 reason, when you die in the game (unless you are hiding a fairy in the magic bottle) it throws you back a lot, for example I was very close to killing the crystal boss and I died and it threw me to the entrance of the dungeon, it was really annoying, other than that the music, story and items of the game are really beautiful and well thought out.

Undoubtedly the greatest game of all time. It not only redefined the concept of gaming but remains unmatched in atmosphere, aesthetics, and innovation.

Not as good as Ocarina but better than most other Zelda games including the ones on Switch.

I havent played four swords since I only have one gba, but replaying alttp was fun

One of the best games the SNES has to offer, now only even better on GBA with the addition of Four Swords. The game measures a good balance between the openness and exploration of the first LoZ game while also offering just enough direction to make the game more approachable. The world is full of useful items, collectibles and other secrets to discover, and dungeons are similarly well designed. The nonlinearity of the dungeon order is mostly a positive too. While it does unfortunately limit the dungeons more than other Zelda games due to being needed to be completed in a wide variety of orders and can't utilize items from other dungeons, the replay value and freedom this offers to the player makes those limitations worth it, especially when the dungeons are brilliantly laid out regardless. Sprite quality is very visually appealing and the soundtrack and sound design are great and one of the most important in relation to the LoZ series. While I don't think this game has of high of highs as some other amazing Zelda games, there's also not much bad you can say about it. My only real criticism might be the combat which can be pretty limited, but its also not the focus of the game and holds up well enough due to not being at the forefront of the player's challenges.

A Link to the Past es una obra maestra. Cuesta creer que ya salió hace poco más de 30 años, porque si lo sacase un estudio indie ahora, seguiría siendo considerado una obra maestra. TODO en este juego ha envejecido genial y se siente como si fuera original y nuevo. Jugablemente, es una pasada. No entiendo como no se le tiene en tan alta estima como a otros de la saga. La cantidad de cosas que hay es increíble. Un montón de objetos diferentes y que no se sienten desaprovechados en ningún momento, una variedad de NPCs que me sorprende que fuesen capaces de hacer y que ninguno se siente forzado, hacen que el mundo del juego sea mucho más vivo (hablaré dentro de poco del mismo). Unas boss-fights que aunque sean en 2D, consiguen ser sobresalientes y siendo bastantes, consiguen tener variedad y muchos enemigos que hacen que el combate del juego sea bastante más estratégico de lo que puede parecer a simple vista. Ahora, quiero hablar de dos cosas que me parecen las mejores del videojuego: su mundo y las mazmorras. Su mundo es sin duda una revolución para el medio. Nos ponemos en el contexto de 1992, un año en el que no había juegos tan grandes. Ver un mundo así con tantas localidades es increíble. Pero no solo eso, sino que de repente el juego (por si acaso, es spoiler así que no sigas precioso) te presenta el Dark World, que tiene más NPCs y es prácticamente un mundo apartado. Esto hace que haya puzzles hasta en el overworld, alternando entre las 2 versiones para poder pasarte el juego. Y las mazmorras... Son increíbles. Aunque tengo que aclarar que son bastantes.¿Por qué digo esto? Te preguntarás. Pues gracias por la pregunta. Porque las 3 primeras son bastante más flojas. Ojo, no son malas, pero sí que se sienten peores que las siguientes. Pero las siguientes son sobresalientes. Tienen un montón de mecánicas y enemigos con los que crean puzzles muy buenos. Si bien tienen una estructura similar, al contener diferentes objetos desbloqueables, consiguen hacer salas parecidas y que se sientan diferentes. Audiovisualmente, es muy bueno. El juego sigue siendo muy bonito a día de hoy y se mantiene muy bien. Gráficamente por motivos obvios no es la gran cosa, pero el estilo artístico y diseño de mundo, personajes y enemigos está genial. Aparte, la OST es una maravilla y tiene un montón de temas que son icónicos en la saga e incluso en la industria. Narrativamente, también me ha sorprendido. La historia está muy bien contada ytiene un buen ritmo. No es demasiado original, pero el lore del mundo está bastante bien. Por lo tanto, A Link to the Past me parece una obra maestra y un referente para hacer videojuegos. Que no te tires para atrás el paso del tiempo, porque lo vas a disfrutar como un niño. Un must-play de esa generación y de los juegos de aventuras.

Simply a wonderful game. I think this title still holds up today. This was the first Zelda game I ever played and is also one of my favorites.

El mejor juego de la saga en 2D, es una aventura magistral e irrepetible a día de hoy

Gran juego, esta dotado de una gran aventura llena de la esencia que nos encanta a los fans de zelda y de los rpg. Indispensable experiencia

El primer y mejorZeldaquw jugue

Yo y los adictos al cigarro cuando decimos que a link to the past es el juego mas inlfuyente dentro de la misma franquicia de the legend of zelda

I played it like 50 times when i was a **** was one of my first games on consol at that time.I played it on Super **** me its the best Zelda game of all time.

The snes game ist better, but it ist my favorit zelda game of all time. Must play

An excellent game will be excellent no matter when you play it, and it is the one.

Um dos melhores jogos de todos os tempos é um dos melhores em 2d trilha sonora e muito boa

It is easily the best Zelda game, great dungeons good pacing, great exploration, good story and timeless graphics. No modern Zelda game can reach this Masterpiece

This is the best game ever. The gameplay is just amazing and amazing. The story is long and very well told. The world is just huge and full of secrets. The feeling of discovering so many caves, secrets and unveiling a world that feels like a huge living world is incredible. The dungeons are long and fun. Weapons, settings, bosses. It's all fun and the difficulty is very well balanced. Don't buy TOTK. Instead, play The Legend of Zelda: a Link to the Past.

Four Swords is unfortunately a multi-player only game, but the inclusion of SNES classic Link To The Past still makes this a worthy purchase for the single player.

A super complete Zelda game with everything you expect: open world, lots of dungeons, lots if items and mechanics, lots of puzzles, lots of NPCs and side quests. Difficulty slightly higher than in other Zeldas. The main issue, and it's a BIG one, is the randomness of everything. There are almost no clues, no indications. You need to guess all the time. The items are super hidden, even the key ones. How are you supposed to know that for access a dungeon or beat a boss you need an special item you never seen, that's in the opoosite side of the map, in a hidden cave, under a random rock if nobody is pointing you there. This happens all the time and results in making the game harder if you don't find something useful or simply frustrating if you NEED something that you have no way to know where is. Same happens with many enemies that you need to test every single weapon/magic you have to guess how to kill it. In case it's not inmortal or you need something you didn't find yet. The combat is greatly affected by the non responsive directional controls, terrible hit box and annoying knockback.

Great Classic and an Amazing Zelda. This is really the best way to do a 2D Zelda, and i would be very happy if they make a remake of this game

The game is great. Compared to it’s remake, Link Between Worlds, the dungeons are more challenging (by Zelda standards) but the puzzles are simpler. It’s a shame that bonus dungeon is locked behind multiplayer content (Four Swords), which I haven’t played.

Esperava mais desse jogo pois falam que ele é muito bom mas, comparar ao Ocarina o Time e ao Majora's Mask é brincadeira, não gostei

Its the second best snes game besides earthbound. Its It's nowhere near the pinnacle of the series, but its great. The combat is as complex as it needs to be, the music on display is great here, and its fulfilling in length. Its pretty hard too! It may not be perfect, because some of the bosses are annoying, dungeons can be too convoluted. Bit despite its age, its worth coming back to

Uno de los videojuegos más importantes de la historia, en portátil. Poco más que añadir, con picos de dificultad algo elevados... y falta de guía sobre el mapa. Hay que buscarse demasiado la vida. Ah, y en inglés.

One of my favorite games of all time. It hasn't aged at all. Play it so you can appreciate all those innovations this game introduced to the series and gaming in general.

The best 2D Zelda ever made and the first legend of Zelda game I ever played! There may be some problems but nothing is perfect well except for ocerana of time

Das erste Spiel auf meinem SuperNintendo das ich wirklich geliebt habe. Von anfang bis Ende einfach nur Beste. Auch besser als Ocarina of Time. Auch heute noch gut spielbar.

The best super nintendo game in my opinion A Link The Past is an amazing zelda that brings an excellent story to its time with dungeons and impressive items

This game is good, but it is very dated. The game design is solid, with clever puzzles, solid (if not simple) combat, and a pretty pixel-art world to discover. Secrets are abundant and make you feel like a genius every time you prod at something suspicious or engage in a bit of outside-of-the box thinking. However, there are progression points that are incredibly unintuitive, and I feel demand outside help or previous knowledge of the game. The game has a hint system using fortune tellers, but it is terrible and almost never provides you the information actually necessary to progress. This happened to me on 4 occasions, and I wasted hours of my time trying to figure them out on my own, only to defeatedly look it up and find a solution that I never would have found. An example of this is the part of the game where you buy the flippers. The hint in game says something along the lines of "go to lake area and find a Zora". I do this and scour the entire area multiple times, only finding dead ends and look it up online. Turns out in one of the dead ends you have to stand in front of a waterfall in a specific place for the Zora to appear. Design like this is fine for 2002, today its just annoying. The music in this game is decent, but is sorely lacking for a Zelda game. If the hint system actually worked my score would probably be at an 8-9, but a game that requires you to look things up to beat it is a flawed game.

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Masterpiece. It's what gave us everything Zelda is today. I highly recommend you to play this.

Sin ninguna dudas la mejor aventura de Zelda en 2D. Apartado sonoro excelente, mecánicas innovadoras y muy bien implementadas, diseño de mundo y mazmorras perfecto, y un estilo de arte precioso incluso en épocas modernas. Nota Final: 9.8

Приключение в компактном открытом мире с достаточно удобной навигацией и отполированным геймплеем. Сложность нарастает постепенно, навыков множество и все потребуется использовать в нужных местах. Есть даже моменты, где можно схитрить и проявить нестандартный подход – вот что значит грамотный геймдизайн. Понятно почему игра стала культовой у фанатов Нинтендо, но минималистичная картинка, музыка и история не дают поставить высокую оценку - поэтому 5/10

I really enjoy this classic originally made for the Super Nintendo gaming console. It was completely awesome back in the day and is still a very good Zelda game. Sure, the dungeons in this one can get difficult, but not like the ones in today's Zelda games where some sort of strategy guide is almost a necessity if you want to make it through it in minimal time. This one has the classic top down view that was first seen in the very first Zelda game. It also incorporates more role playing game elements that were more prevalent in the second Zelda games because you get to talk to more people and do a few side quests. So it is a bit of a combination of the two games and together they fuse together to form one of the best Zelda adventure games! The story starts before you even start the game as you learn of a wizard who is seeking the descendants of some wise men who had to seal away a powerful artifact known as the Triforce. We start the game with Link being told by his uncle to stay put as he has an errand to run and that lasts only mere moments as Link almost immediately follows his uncle and finds himself holding his uncle's sword and trying to find Princess Zelda. He does and manages to free her and hide her in a sanctuary where an old man tells Link that the only way to defeat the wizard who has taken control of the castle is by retrieving the master sword. Soon Link must find another old man who is also a descendant and soon he learns he must find three pendants before he can get the sword that can reflect back the evil spells hurled by the wizard. However, this is only the beginning as Link will be hurled into another realm that mirrors the land he knows, but it is twisted and he will also soon learn of a foe more powerful than the wizard, Ganon! The game play is more like the fist Zelda in that the screen is top down perspective. I like this view and wish they would make more games in this more simplistic style. I would love a Zelda or another role playing game that had a more 16-bit era look to it and just make it so it goes on longer than ever thought imagined back in the day. The combat is simple as it is mainly using your sword or bow and arrow to topple foes, Link does not have to many special techniques, but the ones he does possess makes him a formidable enough opponent for the many monsters and soldiers in Hyrule and the dark world. There are a few mini games in the one town that resides in both worlds and there are other people you can find to gain more equipment and abilities to help you in your quest to stop Ganon. Like nearly every Zelda game, you must progress through a number of dungeons and gain their special item and destroy the boss to make it through the game. In this one you get quite a few dungeons, I believe around 12 or so, each with a different theme. Some of them are rather long, but none of them are going to be as difficult as the water temple in Ocarina of Time. So, in the end, a very good Zelda game...though, not sure why they even bother to put her in the title in this one as she makes minimal impact. I guess at this point they knew that her name was the more recognizable, but seriously she is not really in this game much at all. The fighting here is simplistic and the graphics would be considered to be prehistoric to most people nowadays, but to me it still has a certain charm to it and still looks good for what it is. Graphics back in the day were more of an art form, while today they are more about make the most realistic looking characters and places as possible. So, if you can track down the game, it is still a fun diversion and quite frankly should not be that hard to track down as one can download it using many different forums, or you could just dust off your Super Nintendo if you still have on and play it old school style.

Probably the game I played the most on the Game Boy Advance. love playing it play, glad it made it to the switch online.

I hadn't played this game in over 15 years so figured I'd give it a go. I recall not liking it as much as other Zelda games, but figured **** I now remember why I've never replayed it. It's a mess. The sword's animation and hitbox are rarely on the same page, and are also inconsistently off. The same exact attack timing, distance, and enemy location and animation status will sometimes result in a hit but also sometimes not. It makes the game extremely frustrating to play when you're taking hits you shouldn't be taking, especially when hearts are so rare and enemies often do 2-3 hearts of damage. Every other 2D zelda plays much better. Even when playing the NES ones, if you get hit, it'll feel like you deserved it. Positives: Graphics, world and dungeon design and themes, and music is pretty good, though only having one dungeon theme hurts it

I believe this to be the greatest game ever made. It's pure fun. The exploration is engaging & rewarding, the dungeons are fair but challenging. This is a staple of game design - there is a reason it was the template for Zelda games for the next 20+ years.

The best game in the Zelda franchise. The atmosphere and game-play combined with brilliant puzzles and dungeons makes this one of my favorite action adventure games ever made.

This game is definitely my all time favourite game. This game has secrets hidden in every corner of the map and its combat is challenging. Completing it felt like I had just saved the world.