Back when the SNES first came out, it came with a poster tucked inside the box. As any good Nintendo fan would, I hung up that poster in my bedroom. The poster was filled with screens of upcoming games. At the very bottom of that poster was The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. For months and months, I'd sit and stare at those screens every day after school, imagining the adventure that Nintendo was cooking up. Somehow, some way, the actual game managed to live up to the hype I built up in my head.
Fast-forward to The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds. When I first saw the game announced, those memories of sitting in my room waiting for the game to release hit me full-force. Alongside that feeling was a bit of nervousness as well. Could Nintendo really do a sequel to A Link to the Past that did the original justice? Would they risk tainting the classic by trying to recapture the magic?
Well I'm done worrying now. If you've been worrying as well, you should stop right now. The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds not only manages to live up to A Link to the Past, it also evolves the Zelda series in some very important ways. The future of Zelda is here now, and it took a Link to the Past to make it happen.
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