I really should be writing in here but I really don't have the time. You see, between work and playing this game, there's really not much time. In this game, I'm in the world from A Link to the Past but this is a different Link. The idea is that he keeps getting reincarnated so I'm guessing this is the very next one since there are people in this game who remember events from Link to the Past. Nintendo did a great job at recreating and slightly modifying the world, though. The music is a little richer, I can interact better with the environment, the enemies are obviously the same yet they seem more real (maybe just necessary changes for bringing them into a 3-D world), the way to switch between worlds even seems somewhat plausible with the way it was introduced. There are even some characters that had some extra depth given that make them less animal and more humanistic. So... While it may have something to do with me regressing from GBA to GBC then original GB but This game has an amazing vibrant cartoony world and I really like it. :D
Anyway, the idea with this game is that someone just came into Hyrule and turned a LOT of people into paintings. Well, that's not how it started but I'm condensing the first little bit. The most important of the people were turned into paintings and then stolen into a different world. There were eiht of these people; the descendants of the seven sages plus princess Zelda. Of course Link tried to stop that from happening. Unfortunately, Link was turned into a painting while trying to save one of the current sages but lucky for him (and everyone else, apparently), he had a bracelet that gave him strength to rip out of that 2-D painting and back into his 3-D world. After that, when he presses up against a wall or other flat surface, he could go back into the 2-D shape he was painted into. For a time, anyway. Link has a purple bar like his old green magic one which gets used up but becoming a painting or using items... Anyway, he failed to save the last of the sages and Zelda was next. She knew she was on the list so she gave Link the firt pendant (from Link to the Past) and instructed him to get the other two and then get the Master Sword which was left back in the forest where I got it back in Link to the Past. I did all that and then made my way into a completely different world, the world where this new antagonist came from. It's called Lorule. Yes, that's a pun on Hyrule. I know this because like the dark realm, Lorule is kind of a copy of Hyrule. One big exception to their similarities is they don't have a hero like Link. They do have a princess, though. Her name is Hilda. She looks a lot like Zelda except just with different colors and her Triforce is black and upside-down. Lorule may very well be in the dark realm but I'm not completely sure. There are a LOT of similarities but there are also some big differences... Anyway, Hilda is guiding me through rescuing The seven sages. I have four so far! ...but as I save these sages and the cut scenes happen, I see that the alluring and kind Hilda isn't quite who she's portraying herself as... She has Zelda's picture right there with her, every time the games shows her. Sometimes she talks to the painting and seems to me like someone who found a new toy by stealing it from someone else. I am doing a lot of good things in Lorule but I'm not sure Hilda will be willing to let Link go... I mean, the background of the mystery painter isn't very plain and he only gave the simple excuse of trying to revive Gannon as his motivation, but why does Hilda have the Zelda painting? And why is she contradictively helping Link rescue the sages? It just doesn't make sense. ...yet.
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Yeah, it was about how I thought... I thought Hilda just wanted a hero of her own to clean up her world for her. I was mostly wrong there. She just wanted to steal Hyrule's Triforce. Theirs was destroyed by Lorule inhabitants because they all fought over it too much but then their world started falling apart even worse than it already was.
To find this out, I had to get the last of the sages. That Ice Cave in Death Mountain was pretty complicated but I got it. And the Lorule castle was strangely similar to Gannon's Castle. Anyway, I made my way to Hilda where she too Zelda's Triforce piece, and her friend who took the Triforce of Power (and looked a LOT like Gannon) began to fight me. When I wore him down a little, Hilda ordered him to give his triforce piece to her and well... I think I'm just not going to guys. You see, if you are familiar with the world from A Link to the Past, this game should be pretty easy for you. Plus, you know that everything turns out okay, right? Just know that in the end, Hilda gets a LOT of hope an even her own slightly less heroic hero than Link and Link and Zelda go back to Hyrule with their Triforce. And now... The next game!
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