God, this was the worst piece of shit I've ever played, screw you guys for reccomending it.

What a slow, boring, ugly, enemy spamming slog to get through

>M-M-Muh it's le good because old zelda is heckin souperior!!!!!!!
No.

woah i really fucking hate the Minish Cap

As a 24/yo software engineer that earns 6 figures and has beaten north of 100 video games in his life, I fucking hate the fact that I twice had to consult youtube because I get stuck within the first 2 hours of this fucking piece of trash.

The first time I got stuck is after the first dungeon where you supposed to go to crenel mountain. In hyrule town, theres 3 guards guarding the north, west and east exits.

The first time you speak to them, they won't let you pass. You must learn the sword skill first then speak to the guard guarding the west exit. There was no indication that you are supposed to talk to this guard after learning the skill. The guard, when you talk to him for the first time, should have at least said something like "The mountain is too dangerous, maybe if you can me more advanced sword skills, I might let you pass".

But no, he just refuses to let you through. Which means to get through this part without consulting any walkthrough, a player must be inspired enough to, after getting the spin sword technique, be inspired enough to go back and talk to all 3 guards again.

The 2nd time I'm stuck in on crenel mountain. I could not figure out for the life of me how to go to the crenel mountain spring to get the green spring water. It turned out, it involves bombing a wall that does not appear destructable. This is so fucking random. How the fuck am I supposed to just randomly waste a bomb on a wall that, up until this point in the game, is supposed to be indestructable.

As a very intelligent person, given my social status and salary, and my vast experience with video games, I rule that both these times that I got stuck are due to perverse level design.

>>715560881
(cont.)

Which is such a shame, because the dungeons are really really well designed and very rewarding to explore. Especially getting all the treasures in a dungeon is such a satisfying endeavor.

I really hope I don't have to get hopelessly stuck every 2 hours into this game because it really breaks up the flow and takes a player out of the immersion.

As I say, I believe both times I got stuck was due to retarded and obscure game design choices that no person in the reasonable mind is supposed to guess.

And while in the process of consulting google, I fucking inadvertently got myself spoiled about the story and final boss.

Such a shame.

Just to back up my point, I have beaten phantom hourglass and ocarina of time, neither games got me absolutely stuck that I had to consult a walkthrough to get past.

So there's clearly some problem with the puzzle design elements in this game.

And of course there would be. Because it's not a nintendo game, it's developed by fucking capcom, the sadistic company that gave us ghost and goblins.

Nintendo only supervised the game development, I wouldn't be surprised if the game lead didn't even fully grokk the essence of the seamless flow of zelda games.

Fuck me this game had me smoking. What a shame!

>>715560881
bitch I beat this game with no guide in grade school
You are mentally challenged.

>>715559618 (OP)
Yeah it's the worst 2D Zelda by far. I never finished it because I felt about 25% in that it's not that good. It may look like Wind Waker but it doesn't have nearly the same quality of world-building or tone, or just ideas as that game.
It's some of the early Fujibayashi-slop before he took over the Home Console series starting with Skyward Sword and then BotW/TotK. And he's likely to replace Aonuma when he retires, which will be the death knell for Zelda as a series.

It's not the best 2D Zelda, but I really did like its artstyle.

>>715559618 (OP)
Chill anon. Wanna fuse kinstones with me?

Since we all agree Link's Awakening and The Oracles are the best 2D Zelda games, let's move on to the "worst" of the lot. The Minish Cap has some awful quests lines and the trading mechanic is awful for completion, the lowest number of dungeons in a 2D Zelda as well, and evidently the Light Arrow is bugged (was this ever re-released patched on cartridges?). Four Sword Adventures on the GameCube is a multiplayer game so it hardly counts as a legitimate 2D Zelda game.

Now unless I grew too old, I can't remember any other 2D Zelda games. I mean Phantom and Spirit are 3D Zelda with a topdown perspective, so do they count as 3D or 3D? Because if we're including the DS era Legend of Zelda, then the DS duology suck fucking ass way worse than Minish Cap and it isn't about the controls.

>>715560881
>24/yo software engineer
You're gonna be on welfare after pajeet takes your job, buddy.

close second behind LTTP for me.

>>715559618 (OP)
M-M-M you're a fucking faggot OP.

>>715559618 (OP)
Absolutely filtered. Minish Cap is the best handheld Zelda.

>>715559618 (OP)
>>M-M-Muh it's le good because old zelda is heckin souperior!!!!!!!
minish cap is nucelda thoever

What about A Link to the Past?

>>715561335
FUCK

>>715563032
kek

>>715559618 (OP)
absolute kino game

>>715560881
>24/yo software engineer

This is a game designed for crayon-eating children, and you struggled with it.

Minish cap is the ultimate filter for fake autists. Well-adjusted people will fuse some kinstones and not do the figurine quests and beat the game and call it an 8/10. TRVE AVTIST will fuse all kinstones and complete the figurine collection and call the game a 8/10. Weak-minded tiktok 'adhd and autism' children will fuse most of the kinstones and get half of the figurines and quit the game in frustration and call it a 4/10.

i fucked myself by never finding the 4 link duration upgrade and i had to cheat at the final boss

>>715559618 (OP)
Yeah but the art style and atmosphere is unrivalled kino

>>715563702
More upgrades should have been behind Kinstones, and more Kinstones should've been missable.
I believe this wholeheartedly.

>>715559618 (OP)
>>715560881
>>715560960
>>715561045
>>715561425
Holy samefag.

Did your wife who left you for another guy love this game or something? Even I have games that make me seethe but this is something else.

>>715559618 (OP)
What's with Zeldafags constant doompost?

>>715564756
Guys who have desperately wish they could be a kid again projecting that into Zelda 1 and 2 being the peak of the franchise somehow

I think that Vaati is cool, the sprite art is cute, and the kinstones and models gave me something to grind as a kid. Cope, OP

>>715559618 (OP)
I was my favorite Zelda as a kid and it's still loads of fun. Been replaying it on Switch 2.

>>715559618 (OP)
And to think that's the best Toon Link game.

>>715559618 (OP)
All handheld Zelda games are ass.

>>715559618 (OP)
I got bored at that library sidequest and I took too long inbetween plays so I forgot everything

OP is a bitch nigga lmao

>>715565339
Awakening and the Oracles are top tier, and Link Between Worlds is the best Zelda this side of Twilight Princess.

>>715564226
RIP :(

>>715559618 (OP)
Like 10+ years ago, Minish Cap was commonly considered one of the worst 2D Zeldas. People who grew up with it became old enough to post here though and it's been boosted by nostalgia.

>>715560991
KEK

Its the best 2d zelda, possibly the best zelda. Are you mentally challenged?

>>715563702
>will fuse all kinstones and complete the figurine collection
>fuse most of the kinstones and get half of the figurines
Nobody's doin' allat lilbro

>>715567240
unc seething

It was good, it was just too short.
5 fucking dungeons and Hyrule Castle(which was actually fucking sick).

>>715559618 (OP)

715564702
All I said it was short and the trade system sucked, which isn't controversial you psycho mass quoting idiot. The DS era Zeldas are the least spoken up for a reason, they're bland but not exactly bad enough to rage about or great enough to remember. Since the Switch 2 has online trading I'll be able to do the kinstone quests a lot easier this time around.

>>715572136
W

I started the game last and I think I'm half way through. The problem is I know there are areas I'm suppose to backtrack to and I've forgotten them. It makes me not want to play the game.

>>715561425
Worst has to be echoes of wisdom or tfh if you have no friends

>>715572401
You could flip this upside down and it would be better your taste is that shit

>>715563702
Fusing every stone is easy as minus that one you can miss with the old sick dude who dies if you dont suck the ghost away from him

FUCK GETTING EVERY FIG THO I am not wasting ages farming 500 shells then blowing them all for figs getting repeats running out of shells and doing that all over again 9001 times.

Beaten minish cap 99% so many times, fuck that last heart piece man not worth the bullshit even with speedup you still need to keep getting more and more shells over and over again

>>715561425
Phantom Hourglass is fun. Spirit Tracks is pretty meh though. My vote goes to A Link Between Worlds

>>715572401
You got your shit backwards you fucking retarded nigger

>>715559618 (OP)
minish cap fucking sucks, it's the worst 2d zelda, ignore nostalgiafags

>>715561045
god this guy has a fuckable skull

/v/tards can't into minish kino
typical.

>>715578958
link between worlds > OOT