Review of Link to the Heavens by Pineconn
Reviewed by: CastChaos and rocksfan13
This dungeon type Pure quest starts with some new ideas and becomes even more original as gameplay goes on. Breathtaking puzzles, interesting design, epic dungeons... but let's examine everything slowly.
There are 2 full overworlds plus some more overworld areas. They are the usual water, mountain, desert, etc. areas, but there's lots to explore, for example the unique Heaven Trail areas whiches float above the lands. Whenever you get a new item, you can view the overworld map and see if there are any objects with which you can interact with your new item. The second area seemed a little bland to me, but overall the overworlds are very good.
There are 8+1 dungeons and some subdungeons, full with exciting gameplay and astounding puzzles. I really do mean this puzzle thing. Pineconn's extreme ZC knowledge is reflected upon the "wand of time", "boomerang leader", "cursed mirror shield" and such 100% unique puzzles. The bubble mazes/puzzles were simply hilarious! Sometimes I couldn't even imagine how Pineconn managed to pull off certain things, like the "darknut in the pot" trick. As the game goes on, the dungeons get even better and better. This means that you will love Level 6 and worship Level 7. Then just think about Level 8... And there's even a Level 9!
The bosses get an own paragraph, because even though usually they are just simple LoZ enemies, sometimes they get witty with a special terrain... but... just cut the crap, we are speaking about the final boss here. Without spoiling anything, I tell you that I expected a simple Ganon fight, yet I got... something gigantic... something that I wouldn't ever expect...
The difficulty is easy at the beginning, then it gets even more and more insane. You need to use your items to their full extent. Don't whine about splitting darknuts if you don't use the hammer, or about lanmola rooms if you don't use Din's Fire, or about bat wizzrobe rooms if you don't use super bomb... You will be frequent visitor of the LttH help thread, for sure...
If there were more story and every boss were custom with even the first two levels being high on adrenalin, then this quest would knock on the door of Hero of Dreams... Especially if we count the ending... Which is no less surprising than the final boss...
We give this quest a 3/3. 1 point for graphics. 1 point for design. And 1 point for overall quest play.
3 thumbs up on this one.
Pineconn can enter the Questmaker Guild now.
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