Ganon's Tower | The Ending of Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past [Part 16]
Added 2025-08-18 00:01:29 +0000 UTC
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Good playthrough! I was wondering if there was a chance of seeing a Final Fantasy VI playthrough or if you've already played it? That game and Chrono Trigger are my SNES all timers and I don't think I've heard you reference either before, both make for good LPs.
Brode
2025-08-21 19:09:33 +0000 UTC
Great play through!
Cant wait for more Zelda and I hope both Link's Awakening switch remake and Zelda: Oracle of Seasons go up on the poll to vote on soon.
M
2025-08-21 17:20:58 +0000 UTC
Yeah, having a "cool stuff I missed"- episode after games like this would be cool. Where Mapo check out things the community recommend. Lil indigestions always do this. Could be just short episode or a longer depending on how much stuff it is.
Jumbo Mumbo
2025-08-19 16:06:15 +0000 UTC
Thanks! Great playthrough!
So...in your opinion, what is this "Link to the past?" :D:D:D
I would love to see an extra episode with some exploration, I still remember getting "that" bottle when I was a kid, so satisfying!!
Federico Belloni
2025-08-19 08:34:53 +0000 UTC
The one item you missed in your inventory was the Cane of Byrna, a blue cane which you get in a cave on death mountain. It's effectively the cape but better because it uses less magic and can damage enemies
CoreyClip
2025-08-19 04:06:28 +0000 UTC
Good playthrough!
That room in Ganon’s Tower you couldn’t get into is a tricky one. You have to dash into the blocks and then bounce backward across the gap.
There’s also another fairy in the waterfall area that lets you upgrade more items—like the boomerang. The shield could be upgraded once too, before you got the mirror shield.
If you’d entered the tavern in Kakariko from above (you almost did, but were just a few pixels too far left), you would have gotten another bottle.
I recommend the Switch remake version when you get to Link’s Awakening. The graphics are really charming, there are some nice quality-of-life improvements, and it’s still the same classic game at its core.
For the Oracle games, I recommend playing them back-to-back. You could take a short break between if you like, but finishing one unlocks a password for the other, and that’s how you get the true ending. The order doesn’t matter. Both games released on the same day.
I’m really looking forward to when you get into the Metroid series. Metroid: Zero Mission is a great starting point—it’s the first chronologically (remake of the first metroid, with added story), not too difficult (some of the later ones is very difficult), and a good introduction. From there the timeline splits:
2D games: After Zero Mission comes Return of Samus (Metroid II, also a remake exist), then Super Metroid (III), Metroid Fusion (IV), and Metroid Dread (V).
3D games: Start with Metroid Prime (which has a Switch remaster). Unfortunately, Prime 2 and 3 haven’t been remastered yet, but ideally you’d play them in order before Metroid Prime 4. The Prime series takes the Metroidvania formula into 3D, in first-person.
And maybe consider getting a few volunteer mods to help keep the comment sections on Zelda games a bit friendlier.
Jumbo Mumbo
2025-08-18 23:34:36 +0000 UTC
Loved the series. This was my first Zelda game and I never beat it because I was 7 at the time and this game was way too hard for me at that age. I really hope you are playing skyward sword at some point because that is my favorite game of the series.