Tuesday, 5 April 2011

The BEST game on every platform i've owned!! Part 4 Super Nintendo

I'll start this entry by admitting that the Super Nintendo is my absolute favourite console of all time. I received the SNES for my 13th birthday and fell instantly in love, sure games had been great before but this was different, this was an epiphony, the SNES was and still is the greatest games console i have ever owned.
The big problem i have here is deciding what could possibly be the greatest game created on the greatest console, a problem i have spent much time deliberating and i have come the conclusion that the greatest game on SNES (in my opinion) is The Legend Of Zelda: A Link To The Past.
If there is one piece of music that reminds me of my misspent youth its the opening music to Link To The Past. The first game i downloaded on Virtual Console for Wii was Link To The Past. The only game I played for almost a year on my SNES was yes you guessed it Link To The Past. This game was open world exploration before anybody had even thought about adventure games in that way. Link was the perfect protagonist, the graphics were so well stylised that the game is still playable today, try saying that about Ocarina on N64. This game signified for me the gaping chasm of quality between Nintendo and Sega. While Megadrive owners were making do with Phantasy Star and other god awful convoluted RPG's that were badly animated, poorly written and instantly forgettable, SNES owners were playing what is still revered today as the finest adventure game of the 16bit era.
The story of LTTP was as epic as it was well written and featured a dark and light world as well as the obligatory battle with Ganon, You took control of the series established hero Link on a quest to find Princess Zelda which leads to a bigger story that leads to Link tasked with saving his home kingdon of Hyrule. Its a game that will easily last you a good 30 hours if your a real completist.
If you have never played this fantastic game i urge you to give it a try, it is available to download on Wii's virtual console service and was also released as a Gameboy advance game which is playable on the DS and DS lite (not DSi,XL and 3DS).

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