Posts by Lace Sabatons

Where do you want to move to?

Can't believe I didn't think to post this here.

I've got LttP pretty much memorized at this point, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. It's a testament to how replayable the game is, but it also means that there's very little challenge left in the game for me. I can't really go back and replay it anymore.

Fortunately, there's a ROMHack for that! You download the program and it will generate a randomized version of the game for you as a ROM file. One of the very first chests I opened in the game had the Hookshot in it, which was pretty neat.

As I said, it's only semi-randomized. So, for example, the big key for every dungeon is always in a chest inside that dungeon, in an area you can access without needing the big key. So far it seems like they've done an excellent job ensuring that none of the randomized files are unbeatable, but that doesn't mean they're easy at all. I had to spend a good few hours scouring the overworld for chests after the first dungeon because I didn't have the Book of Mudora (required for Dungeon 2) or the Magic Mirror (Required for Dungeon 3+). I eventually found the Mirror and the Moon Pearl in a pair of chests right next to one another in a random little cave on Death Mountain.

https://dessyreqt.github.io/alttprandomizer/

The ROM is a Japanese language version of the game, so you won't understand any of the text. But if you've played the game enough times for this to interest you in the first place, you probably don't need to read any prompts to know what to do next. Being the Japanese language version also means there are some mechanical changes that took me awhile to figure out, so watch out for those.

So far I've beat dungeons 1, 3, and 5. Beating dungeon 5 with so few hearts and the starter sword was a good challenge. I'm not sure yet where I want to go next. I have the fire rod, the hammer, and the magic powder, so maybe I'll go get 1/2 magic and do the ice palace? It's gonna be a good time.

If nothing else, Ian McKellen is playing Cogsworth.

Here's the trailer:

Off the cuff I think it actually looks kinda decent. Not good enough to break my rule for, but decent.

It's getting a March release, so take that as you will. Neither a Summer Blockbuster, nor a November/December Oscarbait film.

Opening the Nintendo 64 on Christmas morning still stands out in my mind as a pretty big one.

I've got a rule about remakes.

I don't watch them.

Of course, whether or not its a remake depends on whether it's using the Disney film as source material or not. Most of Disney's classics are just classic stories in general, and it's ironically one of the few things Disney doesn't own. So if somebody wants to draw on the same source material, then they've certainly got the opportunity to tell a good story. But since the Disney films are the iconic version of these stories at this point, it's unlikely that you're going to see a Cinderella film that isn't some kind of reaction to the Disney feature.

By the by, Beauty and the Beast is getting a live action film, if I recall.

My collection went into storage around August of 2015, and I've only just started putting it out again. It's really disorganized and ugly, so I'll see if I can find an old picture.

I don't have any experience with assembly myself, but good luck mate. Look forward to seeing the finished product!

Link is a very rude young man.

You may or may not find this subreddit useful to you.

https://www.reddit.com/r/raisedbynarcissists/

Kakariko was pretty barren. I figure that's probably where it could use the most NPCs. Maybe some talkative ghosts.

Once you get to know it pretty well, it does become clear that the majority of interesting overworld stuff was put in the light world. Even when there is interesting stuff in the dark world. it usually revolves around going back to the light world to access something cool there.

I'm fuzzy on the specifics, but there was some google money in there.

I had a very good friend when I was in 1st~2nd grade of Elementary school who had an SNES. He got the game shortly after it came out, and we played it together. The game seemed pretty magical to me at the time. I had played a lot of the original LoZ, but this was on a whole different level, ya know? I remember being kinda miffed the next time I visited and learned he'd played a ton of the game without me. Obviously I was wrong to feel that way, but I just wanted to be part of the experience so bad.

Years later, when I was 13 years old, I decided to hunt the game down. I'm not sure what prompted me to do that, actually. It might have been the release of OoT that got me interested in the franchise again? My parents wouldn't let me play OoT because of its obvious occult influences. (I'd get possessed by demons if I played it, ya know). For some reason, the older LttP flew under their demon-posession radar. Plus it was just more interesting to me, since I'd fantasized about playing it for years.

This would have been 2000, so I wouldn't have had Internet access yet. And even if I had, it's tough to turn cash into an Internet purchase in the days when adults were all certain that putting credit card information into a computer was a guaranteed way to get your identity stolen. An SNES was easy enough to find. I bought it from Software Etc. at the local mall. (Software Etc. being one of the companies that sold out to Gamestop eventually). I remember it was shrink wrapped in plastic along with two controllers and all of its cables. Game stores were magical back then, completely different from most of what's out there now. I'm pretty sure I still have the bag I carried it home in, somewhere.

The game itself, unsurprisingly, was the really tricky thing to find. I spent at least a week, maybe two, calling every place in the phone book that might sell games. I called game stores obviously, but also thrift and even pawn shops. Nobody had it. Finally I did eventually find a copy for $50 at a small hole-in-the-wall shop in the nearest big city to where I lived. I got my dad to drive me there, bought the game, and spent three weeks playing through it in my basement. It was the first game I'd ever acquired on my own, as opposed to getting it for Christmas or something.

Good times.

I wonder if you need the resources of a AAA developer at this point to make a good AR game. After all, a big part of the reason Pokemon Go works at all is because of the data gathered from Ingress. So there was literally a whole popular game that was required before they even had the tools they needed to make Pokemon Go.

I wonder how other developers will solve that problem.

Well now you're just being silly. The Dark World is colorful, it's got a rockin' soundtrack, interesting enemies, and the way that it connects to the light world is one of the really standout features of the game.

That said, it could probably use a few more NPCs, and some puzzles that don't relate to traveling to the Light World.

Obviously I'm a little behind here...why are we assuming his aging process is slowed?

An old/young switch could be really fun, actually. Time travel was interesting in OoT, and it's something they could probably do a lot more with on modern hardware.

Yeah, no Elder Scrolls game has ever held my attention for long. Mostly because of how awkward the combat is.

And here it only took about a year. x'D

Regarding your first point, I'd be curious if you can think of any examples. I don't recall getting really stuck anywhere on my first playthrough, but at this point I've played the game so many times that I don't know if I can even judge that objectively.

Regarding backstory, I completely disagree. The increased amount of story is one of the primary reasons I can't stand the Zelda series anymore. I play games to play games, not to experience stories.

But yeah, fuck the skull dungeon.

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Never played Link to the Past on a SNES?

Still better than me. Never played Link to the Past on any console yet.

What are you even a fan of, then? It's not like any of the other Zelda games are that good. =P

We will see more AR games. I imagine we'll see the shitty ones in 1-3 months, and good ones in 1-2 years.

It'd be much easier to confuse real pots with fake pots than it would be to confuse real pokemon with fake pokemon.