Zelda discussion: Does Minish Cap control better than A Link to the Past?

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1. Minish Cap certainly has better controls. If you play both games, Link to the Past doesn't feel quite as fluid.

   That said, Link to the Past is the quintessential Zelda game for a reason. It's the classic Zelda story without any gimmicks. I love Minish Cap, but LttP will always be the standard bearer for me.

2. I liked the control scheme for The Minish Cap much better than the one in A Link to the Past.

   I honestly think that The Minish Cap was a hundred times more fun than A Link to the Past. A Link to the Past was just frustrating, and also difficult to control at times. I died like a gazillion times. I mean, all Legend of Zelda games should be a little frustrating, but I got stumped in almost every temple in the game!

3. Hmmmm. Having played neither game recently, I can't say. But now I want to (re-re-re-re-re-)play both games.

4. You and your Minish Cap obsession. 😛

5. I played both. A Link to the Past is the better game. You're being silly. Controls are not that big a deal a deal here. A Link to the Past's controls are just fine.

6. Minish Cap is a fantastic game and so is A Link to the Past. I've played through both not that long ago and didn't notice that much of a difference in controls. It's Zelda. The whole minish thing made Minish Cap seem a bit more kiddie. Still a great game. As for which is a better game…….I've always felt that Link to the Past was missing something. Minish Cap gets the nod in my book.

7. I think that both games controlled about the same. The only difference was that the animations in Minish Cap made the controls feel more fluid versus that of A Link to the Past. But I prefer Link to the Past simply because it is more challenging than Minish Cap. The only difficult part I felt there was in Minish Cap was in the final dungeon where you had to reach the end of those series of rooms before the bell tolls 3 times. The second to last room was a pain in the rump (the one that had two or three dark nuts)!

8. i havent played minish cap since beating it upon release and have played LTTP more recently on VC and i have to say nosalgia aside minish cap is the better game and really thats the logical outcome since there have been several 2d zeldas made to iron out some problems and such however there is no minish cap without LTTP so obviously for historical purposes u will be hearing about LTTPn long after minish cap

9. I played through MC once, and I don't even know where the cart ended up. Even if I find it, I don't have any viable devices to play it on. All my DS Fats are broken, I don't know where my GBASP ended up, and the kids lost the boot disk to the GameBoy Player for GameCube.

   When I'm done with my Twilight Princess play through (got the first mirror yesterday), I may boot this up on an emulator.

10. Ahh, I loved that little game. It's the best of them all, but I grow up 🙂 How could you not fell in love with this little treasure, when you can see soooooooooooooo many different sides of the story and can go literally everywhere? Who would have thought the little puddle of water could be so menacing? Oh I loved that game. Muwaaah.

11. Of course, if you add nostalgic factor, I may have to give the nod to another hand held LoZ game: The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening. Now that was a game. Hoo-ooowl!

12. Minish Cap. Period. I've noticed that the button-to-action on screen is a bit… slow in LttP.

13. Maybe it controls better, but the game is very simple and boring. Never was a fan of the more kiddy Zelda games. Link to the Past however, still one of the best.

14. I like the ones that let you assign any weapon to any button. That's a cool feature. I wish LttP had that. Haven't played much of Minish Cap yet. I'll probably hunt that one down soon.

15. Paul knows me well. 🙂

16. The Minish Cap is my favorite Zelda game. I just played it for the first time, on an emulator this past winter, and I could not believe how perfect it is.

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