A Link to the Past • Retro Analysis.

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Published on October 30, 2016 4:00:01 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L871CCHuGRQ

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The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (1991)

Duration: 32:32

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Retro Analysis Series:
Silent Hill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2yfVYcVD5M
Space Invaders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykJxLdz61fQ
System Shock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaIAuFtF8XM

Special thanks to:
*Nintendo.
*Bethesda (for assumably not pressing charges for libel).
*The Zelda Wiki (when Citations).
*The Zelda Subreddit.
*Matthewmatosis.
*Coffee.
& most of all:
*You (except maybe for Nintendo, I suppose they might rank higher (& Bethesda for the libel thing)).

A Link to the Past is a blast from the....past....
I didn't get to this in the Analysis but something I never understand is the tendency by developers to over explain.
Series like Zelda, Dark Souls and Silent Hill are what they are because they had a community around them whose soul purpose was to interpret and
make sense of them.
I'm not saying every game should do this but this is something more developers should be taking advantage of as it makes the player more active
in the story and is thus a better use of interactive form than the cutscene spamming alternative.
(it also forces the developers to abide by a standard of quality in presentation as nuance becomes more important and thus everything must be
designed with more attention to details and coherency, but then, what do I know? NOTHING! I'm just text on youtube, not even fit for the video,
I've been pushed down to the description bar, the lowest of insults, what's the point of anything!?!?!?!?!)

Videos from: (& a very special thanks to)
*Full Playthrough: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVi6ofFy7QyJJrZ9l0-fwbQ
(World of Longplays Website: http://www.longplays.org/news.php)
*Final Boss: https://www.youtube.com/user/ZeldapediaVideo/about

Other Zelda video content I recommend:

*Matthewmatosis (he did a 7 part series on the games that go through Ocarina of Time and up unto the Wind Waker HD rerelease)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdg60-UktzB7FOxFNrVBmNZN7jqhkQdIu
(this playlist has 6 videos but he did a followup video on the Wind Waker HD)

*GameXplain (they do a great job of following up on Nintendo and have alot of passion for their games)
https://www.youtube.com/user/GameXplain

*RagnarRox (he did a video on how Dark Souls is Zelda for grown ups and it really shines a light to how versatile tLoZ formula really is)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZNDsE_M6m8

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