These are usually pretty simple – a guy says “I heard long ago a great hero cured the King of his disease” and you travel back in time and become that great hero. It challenged me, but was scrupulously fair about it.īeyond the dungeons there’s also time-shifting puzzles in the overworld. Zelda and difficulty have a funny relationship – running the gamut from the sadistic Zelda 2 to the hand-holding of Skyward Sword, but this felt nicely pitched. I was bruised and tired when I crawled out of Jabu Jabu’s mouth, but I had the Essence of the Rolling Sea clutched tightly my hands and no-one can take that away from me. After three hours of exploring every inch of that fish’s guts everything finally snapped into place. This is a Water Temple-like three-floor nightmare of raising and lowering water levels to change the layout of rooms and the behaviour of your items. This is a notoriously tough dungeon: I read a retrospective advising players to not even attempt it and just follow a walkthrough.
There are some genuinely challenging brainteasers here that made me extremely happy when I finally figured them – the best example of which is Jabu Jabu’s Belly Sure, each room contains various contained puzzles, but many of them end up combining in interesting ways – and reward thinking outside the box and using all your equipment.
This Goron rhythm minigame is notoriously tough, but my Space Channel 5 skills saw me through it.Īges‘ dungeons – especially the later ones – treat the whole place as one big machine that you must manipulate to succeed. But you soon realize that Ages presents bigger multi-part puzzles that require a good memory and spatial (and temporal) awareness. Going into Ages I was a bit sceptical of this, as Seasons had plenty of puzzles in it. I’d read that Oracles was intended to focus on combat and Ages on puzzles. But though it’s nice to have more motivation, I don’t play Zelda for the plot. Sultry time-travelling sorceress Veran isn’t exactly deep, but she’s much a better villain than generic bad dude General Onox. So what’s different? Well, on basic terms Ages has a substantially better story than Seasons. This pair of games share 95% of their DNA, but that 5% made all the difference. It proves that a game’s quality can rest on a knife-edge. Well, I’m pleased to report that Ages is way better than Seasons. I was expecting more of the same but just wanted to get through it to the cel-shaded awesomeness of The Wind Waker.
Seasons rubbed me up the wrong way, and Ages was developed at the same time by the same people. I am not going to buy any other "GBA Edition" games, though.After not particularly enjoying Oracle of Seasons I had doubts about going into The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages so soon. If you want these games you are probably better off getting the GBC originals (or reproductions if you like) over these, unless you do not have any Hardware that plays GBC games or a native GBC emulator.Īll in all the 10 bucks i spent on these didn't put me on the streets and it's sorta funny to have them. The ROMs used are the US release of the games therefore there is no way to change the language to french or german.
#GOOMBA COLOR ORACLE OF AGES FULL#
you can not run the game in full screen and as far as I know you can not link these games up. The usual Goomba Color limitations apply, i.e. I have personally tested them on a GBA, GBA SP, DS Lite, Gameboy micro, Revo K101+ (GBA clone) and a gamebox (another GBA clone) and all worked fine. Because of the way they are made, they should be running on anything that runs GBA cartridges. Not exactly a surprise, I was hoping they had found a more sophisticated way to get them on a GBA, though. The games are, as expected, just GBC roms running in an emulator (Goomba Color 12-14-14 to be exact). One thing I noticed is that the cartridges stick out about 1mm further than original GBA carts - nothing you'd really notice just casually looking at it but definately noticable when you move your finger across the top of the GBA. I can see a battery inside both of those cartridges so they are most likely SRAM based. The cartridges themselves feel very solid, there are no gaps, sharp edges or protrusions, nothing is rattling inside. The labels are finished in a glossy print that looks very detailed to me but not as good as an original GBA label. The cartridges arrived today and they look very good. I decided to buy both games (Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages) because I figured they are less than 5 bucks each.
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