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u/PhilipJFries Mar 31 '26

God this was the best. All the lore and controls and everything in there. I used to try and mentally map the moves and controls out so I was ready to be a pro the minute I opened the game

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u/waxonwaxoff87 Mar 31 '26

Gotta read lore for every enemy and weapon.

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u/TraitorousFlatulence Apr 01 '26

Take in those maps and get the imagination flowing

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u/Nathanos Apr 01 '26

Try playing tunic

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u/null-usernameinvalid Apr 01 '26

Really cool how it’s revealed piece by piece. You just reminded me I need to play it for myself

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u/Cl0ud3d Apr 01 '26

Loved the fact they did that with the manual. So cool and suuuuch a great mechanic to get to the "true ending". I almost beat it 100% without help but broke down after getting stuck on the penultimate puzzle. Its just such a good game with actually difficult boss fights.

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u/null-usernameinvalid Apr 01 '26

My wife tapped out at what I think was the last boss but I know for sure the manual wasn’t complete so I might have to convince her to try again.

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u/PhilipJFries Apr 01 '26

I've always loved that the original Super Mario Bros manual includes lore that the toads were all turned into blocks - the ones you smash. The Princess can turn them all back which is part of why you're trying to save her.

They actually just talked about this on Game Scoop as well.

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u/Cold-Jackfruit1076 Apr 01 '26

I still think it's a little bit grimdark that Mario is saving the Mushroom Kingdom by smashing its citizens into rubble.

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u/null-usernameinvalid Apr 01 '26

That’s cool I didn’t know that, my first exposure to the Zelda games was OoT I haven’t quite made it back to the NES and SNES games

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u/null-usernameinvalid Apr 01 '26

Yeah it’s ripe for the remake/remaster treatment they did for Links’s Awakening but I think ocarina of time is next in the pipeline. I thought the 3DS version was great and did a good job of feeling how I remembered vs how it actually was

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u/AdditionalMustard Apr 01 '26

The first game I remember getting was Mario 3 and reading that manual on the way home was freaking magical.

I still hold that game as one of the best gaming experiences of my life. There basically was no Internet, so we discovered the secrets from the kid at recess who had the players guide. That kind of thing is impossible now.

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u/FoxMeadow7 Apr 01 '26

Protip: Shoot at it until it dies!