Two out of four Bottles can be tracked down minutes after completing Hyrule Castle. There are 11 Heart Pieces to find and countless upgrades to unlock long before obtaining the Master Sword.
Even gated behind item progression, Hyrule at the start of ALttP is denser with secrets than either the original Zelda or Adventure of Link combined. It takes less than an hour to start exploring Hyrule at your leisure.
The path to Hyrule Castle frames the importance of thinking of navigation as a puzzle without ever calling attention to itself. A careful combination of moody music, lighting, and weather effects seamlessly ease you into gameplay. It can be easy to take for granted just how brilliantly paced A Link to the Past is, but the genius of good game design is just that: natural enough to go unnoticed. A conveniently placed Lantern in the first screen immediately establishes a fast-paced reward loop where you unlock your sword & shield mere minutes later. Even later Zelda games take roughly half an hour to an hour to ease you into the experience, but ALttP has you dungeon-crawling before Link even has a weapon. The tutorial funnels you into the first dungeon right away. Masterful atmosphere and sound design quickly set the stage for a story epic in scope but simple enough to never bog you down in cutscenes. In an era where the average game takes its sweet time starting up, revisiting A Link to the Past’s bombastic and to-the-point introduction is an almost necessary breath of fresh air.
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A full three decades since the game’s release, time continues to be kind to The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.
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