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[ElkinFencer10]

Minish Cap was my second favorite handheld Zelda game until LBW came out (and it still would be if it weren't for my hardcore love of LttP, giving LBW bonus points for nostalgia).

[BoneSnapDeez]

I have some Famicom Disk System RPGs on the way.

[Exhuminator]

I have some Famicom Disk System RPGs on the way.

I am happy in anticipation of reading their reviews.

[Tanooki]

Minish Cap has always been a fun one for me, but there's a town sequence where you're going through a ton of different buildings and whatnot that I always seem to get stuck on for a while. I actually like the Kinstones. Anyway, have fun with it!

I remember that, I did get that far, and it was pretty annoying. I think I eventually bumped into enough junk or cheated, I don't remember as it has been what 10-11 years since it came out?

Minish Cap was my second favorite handheld Zelda game until LBW came out (and it still would be if it weren't for my hardcore love of LttP, giving LBW bonus points for nostalgia).

The favorite of mine since I don't consider ports (classic nes zelda and snes-lttp) would be Link's Awakening DX as my original had a bug that broke it at the face shrine, and other than that I've honestly hated every last damn one of them that were not made by Nintendo exclusively as I don't like the Capcom (Flagship) rubbish, but Minish Cap I was digging so I grabbed it again when I saw it locally so I could make sure it was legit.

[Exhuminator]

I believe Minish Cap is underrated. It's a great handheld Zelda. I got all the way to the final dungeon, but was distracted because I'd just built a new gaming PC, and I wanted to play new PC games on it. Never did finish Minish Cap unfortunately, but I plan to go back someday and enjoy being a mini-Link with a talking bird hat.

[marurun]

Minish Cap is a fine game, but... It has too much chain questing and collecting. It's just too much for me. In some games that's OK, but Minish Cap was just the last of many broken Zeldas for me. LttP was the last 2D Zelda game I enjoyed. Even the GB titles were annoying to me. Get this item so you can trade it for this other item which you can trade for this other thing ad infinitum. *ugh*

[Tanooki]

Chain trades I hate. Avoided them I links awakening and I don't remember bothering with kinstones past time either. At least this time I have the guide I found the other day.

[Xeogred]

Minish Cap is a fine game, but... It has too much chain questing and collecting. It's just too much for me. In some games that's OK, but Minish Cap was just the last of many broken Zeldas for me. LttP was the last 2D Zelda game I enjoyed. Even the GB titles were annoying to me. Get this item so you can trade it for this other item which you can trade for this other thing ad infinitum. *ugh*

Honestly, this sums up post Ocarina of Time / Oracle of Ages/Seasons - Zelda in general if you ask me.

Now as you guys have probably seen I freaking love the 3D Zelda's and am still disappointed Exhuminator didn't seem to enjoy Skyward Sword which I wish got more love, but yeah there is a huge difference in game design and philosophy after OoT and those Capcom games. Those earlier Zelda's will always be the best to me, because the emphasis was on dungeon crawling. They're simpler games and just purely focus on the dungeons, puzzles, and killing stuff. You go from OoT's ~10-11 dungeons (if we're counting Ganon's Tower, the well, and Ice Cave), to MM's 4. Thankfully the dungeon count increased again after that, but the fetch quests have been a staple ever since then. The only real fetch "chain quest" or whatever in OoT is the Bigoron sword ordeal, which is pretty sidelined and optional.

It's like my love for NES Megaman. I could play those games forever and ever. Give me new levels and bosses and I will never complain. Give me simple Zelda's with tons of dungeons and I'd eat them up haha. I don't know if that makes any sense to anyone, but that's why LTTP, LA, and OoT are my favorites. They're simpler in a good way! It's what sets OoT apart from the 3D titles that followed (and as some may argue, it's basically 3D LTTP haha).

Naturally, this is why Souls is the best series ever. I could easily draw many comparisons with the Souls games and classic Zelda. lol

[Tanooki]

Honestly, this sums up post Ocarina of Time / Oracle of Ages/Seasons - Zelda in general if you ask me.

I know I snipped most the post, but that top part -- that exactly IS the problem right there with Zelda, a long standing one since they originally tried to change stuff up after SNES/Gameboy(Color) LA-DX releases. They got into making ever larger and more annoying fetch quest setups in the titles to where it overtakes the main adventure if you think about it, and often enough much of it is required or at least almost feels as such from needing a big enough rupee bag for a needed purchase, to eventually even dividing heart pieces into 5 instead of 4 to make you fetch even more. And it wasn't just a straight fetch, no you had someone tell you to re-cross part/most of the map for junk to get a piece of the heart, not even a whole one, or some other item that is needed in the game that could just have been handled far better so it wasn't some annoying time eating backtrack to add game length. It's like Nintendo (and others but this is about Zelda) forgot that LESS is MORE at times.

I too found Ocarina a drag, I even quit on it, of all places entering the desert for like half a year. Then it bothered me one bored afternoon in college, so I just flipped it on and finished the rest of the game in a sitting -- to have never done it again on any version since, as it's a slog. I'll never understand how that game is supposedly still online rated as the highest rated (best) video game made ever (as much as FF fanboys spooging over how FF7 is THE game...no it's mediocre.) And it's a minor one compared to the dog behavior of the Capcom releases, Majora(argh), deeply so with TP(sadly love Midna/wolf/story), and even SS. The only one that I loved in 3D and enjoyed finishing was Wind Waker(GC or WiiU, I don't need a speed sail.) Yes you have to fetch some maps/triforce bits at the end (the only annoying part) but the fetch style of it was minimal more like on SNES to me.

To think they're going to combine that slowness now with an even far more expansive map that plays as an open world game -- Zelda is effectively dead to me at this point if that keeps up going forward. My happy gaming thought is they can't pull a George Lucas and rape the old 8/16bit era Zelda games with a so called 'new/completist' revisionary pillaging to them as they're out there, and they keep re-issuing them too so they're pretty concrete. I meant to start Minish Cap today but still can't seem to find the time. :\ I mean I have started it, did like a 1/3 of that first dungeon but that's it.

[TSTR]

Is it just me or does every thread at some point have a Zelda discussion?