The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages

The games were released in 2001 for Nintendo’s Game Boy Color handheld console and re-released on the Virtual Console for the Nintendo 3DS in 2013. The games make up the seventh and eighth installment in the Zelda series. The gameplay of Oracle of Seasons and Ages is similar to that of The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening for Game Boy.

About The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages in brief

The games were released in 2001 for Nintendo’s Game Boy Color handheld console and re-released on the Virtual Console for the Nintendo 3DS in 2013. The games make up the seventh and eighth installment in the Zelda series. The player controls the protagonist Link from an overhead perspective. Link is armed with a sword and shield as well as a variety of secondary weapons and items for battling enemies and solving puzzles. The gameplay of Oracle of Seasons and Ages is similar to that of The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening for Game Boy, copying basic controls, graphics, and sounds. Most of each of the games is spent finding the eight Essences, each hidden in a dungeon. In Seasons, the overworld consists of Holodrum and the subterranean world of Subrosia inhabited by the dwarf-like Subrosian people. In Ages, Link travels between present-day Labrynna and the past, connected by Time Holes. In either game, some areas of one world are accessible only from portals from the other and vice versa. Some new items are exclusive to one game, usually with a counterpart in the other, with similar uses. Unlike most Zelda games, a sword is not always equipped when the player possesses them; they can be assigned like any other item into either of two available slots. In both games, there are many circumstances when a previous item can be upgraded into a more useful form. The latter three dungeons in both games will hold a more powerful version of an item received earlier in the game.

The former can only be upgraded inOracle of Seasons while the latter only in Oracle of Ages. By standing on a stump and swinging a sword, Link can change the season and affect his surroundings. For example, changing the season on the ice causes summer to flourish, which causes Link to walk on ice. The Rod of Seasons is the central item of the game, while the Harp of Ages lets Link travel through time in labrynna. Some rings do not have any practical uses, e.g. rings that weaken Link’s attack or defense, or transform Link into an enemy creature, or are awarded when certain criteria are met but don’t have any effect. Some areas of the world are only accessible through portals from one world to the other. In the latter three games, some parts of the land are inaccessible only by going to a different portal from the first world. The game was a critical success, and sold 3. 96 million units each. Critics complimented the gameplay, colorful designs and graphic quality, but criticized the inconsistent sound quality. The main plot is revealed once the player finishes both games. Once completed, Link receives an upgraded sword. The sword’s offensive power and the shield’s defensive abilities can be upgrades twice, once through passwords again through side quests. If Link swings an enhanced sword at full health, a number of bombs and Seeds that can be held through the same ways as the sword can also be increased through the Power Bracelet and Mystical Feather.