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Koga · 05-11-2005, 02:39 AM

I really don't care that much about the story. I think it's different enough from LttP's story anyway. Sure, it has the same structure: first three dungeons, find green, red and blue jewels, get the master sword, awake/save all the sages, and defeat Ganon. But there were plenty of new things too. The different races, Link growing old, the addition of Sheik. What I also like a lot more is that for every dungeon you don't have the feeling that you're just doing it for a jewel/medal. You are trying to cure the Deku Tree, and end up getting the emerald. You want to stop starvation for the Gorons so you defeat the Dodongos and get the ruby in return. You try to save the Zora princess from the belly of a giant fish and get the Sapphire as a reward. In LttP you just get a map with all the dungeon locations and you it's just dungeon upon dungeon from there. They don't even have to be done in a particular order (which I don't think is a good thing). They don't really have their own identity that much. All of them having the same music doesn't help either.

But I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. You think OoT is overrated, while I think the same of LttP.

EDIT: I'd just like to add that OoT was also a breakthrough. Probably a bigger one that LttP, which was basically just LoZ with fancy graphics.

05-11-2005, 02:39 AM	#43
Koga Veteran Member Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: The Netherlands Gender: Posts: 17,095 Thanks: 104 Thanked 183 Times in 117 Posts Points: 107,831.07 Bank: 21,640.09 Total Points: 129,471.16 Donate	I really don't care that much about the story. I think it's different enough from LttP's story anyway. Sure, it has the same structure: first three dungeons, find green, red and blue jewels, get the master sword, awake/save all the sages, and defeat Ganon. But there were plenty of new things too. The different races, Link growing old, the addition of Sheik. What I also like a lot more is that for every dungeon you don't have the feeling that you're just doing it for a jewel/medal. You are trying to cure the Deku Tree, and end up getting the emerald. You want to stop starvation for the Gorons so you defeat the Dodongos and get the ruby in return. You try to save the Zora princess from the belly of a giant fish and get the Sapphire as a reward. In LttP you just get a map with all the dungeon locations and you it's just dungeon upon dungeon from there. They don't even have to be done in a particular order (which I don't think is a good thing). They don't really have their own identity that much. All of them having the same music doesn't help either. But I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. You think OoT is overrated, while I think the same of LttP. EDIT: I'd just like to add that OoT was also a breakthrough. Probably a bigger one that LttP, which was basically just LoZ with fancy graphics.