One of the greatest games of all time is now on the Wii U Virtual Console, finally. Just two months after The Legend of Zelda: Link Between Worlds, you can get Link to the Past on your GamePad today.
Let's Compare The New Zelda to its 22-Year-Old Ancestor
Link to the Past has aged quite well, wouldn't you agree?
Zelda: Link to the Past vs. Zelda: Link Between Worlds
Via the folks at GameXplain, here's a side-by-side look at the overworlds of the SNES game Zelda: A Link to the Past (right) and its upcoming 3DS successor, Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (left). Spoilers: they are identical. It's uncanny.
Here's What The New Handheld Zelda Looks Like In Action
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At E3, our very own Jason Schreier had the opportunity to spend a few minutes with the new handheld Legend of Zelda game, A Link Between Worlds.
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A Direct Comparison Of The New 3DS Zelda And Link to the Past
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Looks like the newest 3DS Zelda game—announced today as a sequel to Link to the Past—really is set in the same exact overworld as that Super Nintendo classic.
Zelda Games Are Taking Longer and Longer to Get to the Point
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I found Tevis Thomson's lengthy critique chronicling the decline and fall of the Legend of Zelda franchise to be very convincing. That doesn't quite diminish my enjoyment of more recent Zelda games, but then, I'm no Zelda super-fan. But it was hard to argue with his points about how the series has changed and in his…