The Legend of Zelda - Parallel Worlds is a amateur hack that re-imagines the entire game nearly and manages to look professional about it. The game it remakes, The Legend of Zelda - A Link to the Past, is a legendary title game for the SNES and one of the most purchased games for the system. It was nothing if not enjoyable. Despite it's linear story and set in stone game world it managed to be fun enough for players to come back time and time again.
Parallel Worlds changes the following things about the original game: graphics, map layout, dungeons, story, and difficulty level. This last is changed significantly.... Parallel Worlds difficulty can only be described as Zelda: NIGHTMARE Mode. Unless you are an extraordinary expert, knowing every trick and glitch in the book, you will die again.... and again... and again... and again... and again! Even if you ARE an expert you may find yourself shouting expletives now and again because the game raped you in an utterly unfair way. For the first literal hour or more of the game you will have to go and sneak around in and fight through an entire encampment of guards with no shield or sword nor items to help you. If you die at any time, you will lose ALL of your progress because you cannot save the game without your sword (unless you save states...).
Despite the above stated trying difficulty, the hack is fabulous. The graphical changes are beautiful and perfectly natural looking, the level designed is ingenious and fun if frustrating, and the story is very well written as well! Further, if you SUCCEED, at beating this game you will feel like a champion, and can honestly claim to have played one of the most absurdly difficult games in history and won.
As a Zelda fan myself, I recommend it highly. But only for those with patient and lacking blood Pressure or heart problems!
The Legend of Zelda - Parallel Worlds is a amateur hack that re-imagines the entire game nearly and manages to look professional about it. The game it remakes, The Legend of Zelda - A Link to the Past, is a legendary title game for the SNES and one of the most purchased games for the system. It was nothing if not enjoyable. Despite it's linear story and set in stone game world it managed to be fun enough for players to come back time and time again.
Parallel Worlds changes the following things about the original game: graphics, map layout, dungeons, story, and difficulty level. This last is changed significantly.... Parallel Worlds difficulty can only be described as Zelda: NIGHTMARE Mode. Unless you are an extraordinary expert, knowing every trick and glitch in the book, you will die again.... and again... and again... and again... and again! Even if you ARE an expert you may find yourself shouting expletives now and again because the game raped you in an utterly unfair way. For the first literal hour or more of the game you will have to go and sneak around in and fight through an entire encampment of guards with no shield or sword nor items to help you. If you die at any time, you will lose ALL of your progress because you cannot save the game without your sword (unless you save states...).
Despite the above stated trying difficulty, the hack is fabulous. The graphical changes are beautiful and perfectly natural looking, the level designed is ingenious and fun if frustrating, and the story is very well written as well! Further, if you SUCCEED, at beating this game you will feel like a champion, and can honestly claim to have played one of the most absurdly difficult games in history and won.
As a Zelda fan myself, I recommend it highly. But only for those with patient and lacking blood Pressure or heart problems!