Woah. Battletoads was also hard, but I'm not dying for someone to recapture the magic of the last level. It would appear that the difficulty is the only vaguely

Woah. Battletoads was also hard, but I'm not dying for someone to recapture the magic of the last level. It would appear that the difficulty is the only vaguely objective comment in the essay, and one could argue that most gamers don't want/never wanted to be challenged the way Link II was challenging. Hell, I hated Link II because at the age I was when it came out it wasn't demanding, it was downright impossible. Meanwhile, Link to the Past was just about the perfect game to me. I remember watching my aunt play the original and it seemed fun, but Link to the Past was brilliant in my eyes. A nice work of criticism and some interesting points, but the "mystery" and "ambiance" of what makes a game great is way too subjective for this to be very useful. Now I'm gonna go dust of Shadow of the Colossus ...