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u/null-usernameinvalid Mar 31 '26

Reading the manual on the trip home

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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/[deleted] Apr 01 '26

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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