Edited 29 March 2017 - 08:27 AM
Warning: Major rant.
There are many, many things that went wrong in this quest. There's multitudes of bugs, mostly game-breaking bugs:
For example, Link can get stuck in the water after playing the Flute in many screens on both Overworlds. You'll have to quick reset to get out of the water. It's also possible to get stuck in both overworlds...again leading to the player hitting F6.
There were also a lot of major inconveniences that made the quest a chore to play through. Blindly burning bushes with only the blue candle is just the tip of the badly designed iceberg that The Realm of Shamanock DX is. I assume there's no red candle in this quest. If I did, it's likely it was hidden somewhere in an obscure, easy-to-miss place.
The screen designs are also badly thought out. With the Newfirst tileset and having Deluxe at the end of the quest, you'd expect a drastic improvement over the original. Instead, it makes the quest worse. The colours are off in the overworld, complete with an eye-straining design.
Then comes the dungeon design. This is where the quest takes a very wrong turn. As mentioned above, burning bushes in dungeons with only the Blue Candle is just one of the many reasons why many gave up on this quest. Not gonna lie, I almost gave up at many times in this quest, but somehow, I managed to make it to the end of the game. Yeah, the quest's 10+ years old, but it doesn't excuse for the unimpressive quality.
In the near future, it shouldn't be too much trouble to test your quest for bugs, glitches and other inconveniences before releasing it to the public. Frustrating many players with no reward, and no direction on where to go next just goes to show what effort went into the quest.
Overall, if you want to play this quest, do yourself a favor and play Shamanock Advance. It's a marked improvement over this quest.
This quest will blow your mind.
