Incredible! :D Four great games for the price of two! :idea:
User Rating: 10 | The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons GBC
Nintendo has always been a risk taker. It's one of the chief ideals the company has been founded upon. But there was certainly one move more riskier than anything Nintendo had ever done before: let another company besides themselves develop a game using their characters for their video game systems! While this isn't the first time Nintendo has tried this, it was still an uncommon practice as far as most people were concerned. The edutainment games of the 1990's were met with mixed reviews, Phillips CD-i games were COMPLETELY disasterous, and only Squaresoft had any success in developing a completely successful game. What many people were worried about was the possibility of a repeat of the second possibility. Three Zelda games were published on the failed CD-i system, and all three of them were disasterous failures! Capcom was certainly more successful than Phillips in making video games, but could they do what Phillips couldn't and make a successful Zelda video game? The answer was a restounding YES!!!! And they not only made one successful Zelda video game, they made two! Actually four, for devoted players! While "The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages" was a good game in its own right, "The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons" was decidedly more fun than its fellow Game Boy Color game! Either game could be played before the other, than using a Game Boy link cable, the information of the game that had been beaten could then be transferred to the other game, unlocking new secrets, new dungeons, new items, and new enemies that hadn't been available before! And it worked the same either way in whichever order the games were played, so it was really like playing four different video games for the price of two! The plot of "Oracle of Seasons" is that Link must protect the Fire Goddess of Power, Din, from the clutches of a Dark Warrior seeking to resurrect Ganon from the abyss of death! This game was incredible because even though it was on the tiny Game Boy Color, it pulled off some incredible things! It featured characters and elements that were available on the N64 game versions of the Zelda games! Truly an incredible feat in itself, but it also featured gameplay, complexity, depth, challenges, and fun replay value that the N64 versions contained! Plus, thanks to the release of the newly introduced Game Boy Advance, even more secrets could be unlocked, and the already impressive looking graphics looked even MORE impressive than they already did! Plus, Link got the help of three new animal friends. A swimming lizard, a jumping punching kangaroo, and a flying blue bear! Plus, Link had to overcome the challenge in figuring out how he could use the Oracle of Seasons in transversing the vast landscape of the game so that he could overcome all the bosses and save the day! Capcom prove that it could hold its own in making Zelda games and make them just as fun and filled with just as much intelligent in-game writing as Nintendo could! And for also managing to make four games using only two different cartridges, Capcom made for a lot of replay value to, making for another innovation that not a lot of other companies did. This game was fun! I certainly enjoyed it, and I think it would be very cool if this game got re-released on the Nintendo DS someday. :idea: Enough said! ;)
