The gameplay was the recycled thing.
...So exactly like Twilight Princess, Majora's Mask, Link to the Past, Link's Awakening, Oracle of Seasons, Oracle of Ages, Spirit Tracks, Wind Waker, Super Mario Brothers 3, New Super Mario Brothers, New Super Mario Brothers 2 and a good 70% of the other games Nintendo's made then.
No, I meant that they just recycled the gameplay from LTTP. I mean, 2D zelda games will play similarly, as will 3D ones, but it just felt... too similar. There was the light/dark dichotomy, "Lorule" graphics are just high-quality remakes of LTTP Dark World graphics, there were the go-out-of-your-way-for-cool-stuff sidequests for sword improvement, 3 lightworld dungeons and six or seven (I forget, but I remember they were the same amount) darkworld dungeons, you get the Master Sword right before you get access to the Dark World... it just felt like I'd seen it all before, you know? The OTHER Zelda direct sequels didn't have this. Zelda II was a whole nother ball game from Zelda I. Majora's Mask recycled OoT sprites, sure, but Termina was so effing different from Hyrule. Oracle of Ages (can't say anything about Seasons, but anyway) had a really different feel to it than Link's Awakening...
Maybe it's stuff like how everything that's still there is still in the exact same spot. Lorule just feels like re-storied Dark World. Hyrule doesn't seem to have changed at all. The graphics are all similar, albeit better, although they also feel sort of Skyward Sword-esque. Oh, and I was still confused until the end of LBW whether or not Lorule was just renamed Dark World or not. Everything looked the same. Everything was in the exact same spot. They supposedly are mostly, if not entirely, unrelated.
I just felt that it was too familiar. It wasn't
Darker and Edgier like Majora's Mask, nor did it have the
completely new plot of the early Game Boy games. The story wasn't better, or really, even all that much
there. Sure, there were NPCs and a plot, but the plot was just too close to LTTP for comfort up until the end, where it felt kinda... cliché, even.
As the old adage goes, though, to each his own.
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