I'm very late to this quest. For some reason I started playing it the same time as everyone else, got stuck on something stupid on an early boss, and never came back. I finally did and I'm glad I did. It's really something. It held my attention through 20 hours and 80 or so deaths at a time when well after a decade plus of playing ZC I'm having a harder and harder time finding quests that hold my interest anymore. All of the criticisms are fair. Damage tiles are overused. A few of the graphical hints needed to advance are there but almost TOO obscure. I encountered a few bugs using 2.53 and a few things that seemed a bit unfinished. There are a lot of B-button items it doesn't use and could. If the author ever wanted to do a remake of this, with a couple more coats of paint, it could enter the pantheon of the best quests in the database.
Having said that, the amount of story and dialogue cleverness and excellent level design is very high. The difficulty is perfect. It looks great. Overworld is solid. Many of the custom bosses are quite fun. The block puzzles are tricky without being bang-your-head-against the-wall tricky. The balance between fighting and puzzle-solving on both a mirco (the room you're in ) and macro (meaning the dungeon and/or overworld layout itself is a puzzle) level is just right. The quest does way too many things right to not get five stars. Play it if you haven't.
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Feature Quest
Creator: superpatch13 Genre: Story-driven Added: 09 Jun 2014 Updated: 11 May 2023 ZC Version: 2.50 Downloads: 1368 Rating[?]: |
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You go around Hyrule collecting Triforce pieces to achieve a goal. Huzzah.
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Espilan
Posted 27 August 2014 - 12:00 AM
I tried to get started on this one but after the first half hour I couldn't take any more. Zoras, and leevers/crabs in places without much room to maneuver, practically guaranteeing that you'll take a hit (or three) when you're only at three hearts without any access to potions? Necessary items hidden in out of the way places that nobody will think to look in? If trying to even get started on the first dungeon is this much of a pain in the ▒▒▒ then I don't want to see what the rest of the quest is going to offer.
)-( Marchland Malady )-(
Edited 30 July 2014 - 02:02 PM
If there is one thing that this quest will teach you, it is humility. Even I am not god enough to get through this one without dying... a lot. I do feel that Darkmatt717 would be very proud of this quest, because it definitely has that La Mulana flavor and is very difficult. Getting through this quest without dying... isn't going to happen, so you should not expect to do so.