If you're only going to play one LoZ, play A Link to the Past. (I think "play the 3rd game" is pretty good advice for a lot of Nintendo series.) ALttP is when they figured out the formula; I played it after I played most of the others, and after playing it every other LoZ (at least the 2D ones) all kinda felt like a copy of ALttP, like they're each just remaking a different aspect of it (and adding in their own little gimmick).
The original LoZ holds up, but is a very different game than the later games. The world is empty for you, there are no towns, just wilderness; it's being a kid exploring the woods behind your house, pretending you're alone in the world. The loss of sword beams when you take damage made me feel that taking damage is getting hurt, rather than just some meter in the corner of the screen that I need to keep up; more so than any other game.
I would never hate on a game for this.
> super linear
point taken, but speedrunners would say otherwise.
> much of the exploration is of the "guess and check" variety.
I finished the game as a 10 year old so I think it wasn't too easy or too hard.
To each his own !
I think "achieved perfection" was the bar you set =) And Super Metroid set the bar quite high.
And to be totally fair, it's true SC is clunky and dated in several regards (it was a very early SNES title and it shows...) So maybe Jeremy dings it on those aspects more than others do. But I would argue it makes up for a lot of that in atmosphere, style and uniqueness.
And why specifically Super Castlevania, which is regarded as kind of a garbage castlevania (the player sprite is bigger so you get less of a heads up on whats ahead, and it's not part of the "metrovania" pantheon).
Why Fusion and Super Metroid?
Does the original LoZ hold up as well as say Link's Awakening?
Why are there only 3 companies represented on this list? Did Capcom run over your pet dog?