A Link Between Worlds Hero Mode Impressions

[Ventus]

Excessive, if you ask me. But, then again, this comes with the 4x damage.

Excessive is good. But, excessive is only an adjective for the weak; I crave extreme challenges. (that's a joke btw, if it's excessive for you then who really cares, everyone is different) <3

 

[The Jade Fist]

Hearing about this, I'm actually very nervous. It looks like ALBW took after ALTTP, although to a lesser degree, by making enemies do ridiculous amounts of damage in the Dark World/Lorule. In ALTTP there were enemies as soon as you ended up on the Pyramid doing like 4 hearts of damage, and ALBW has ones that do 2+, correct? That's a buttload of damage. 4x damage is scary as hell. 3HC you will literally be 1HKO by EVERYTHING for over half the game. I can't wait to get ALBW and power through these difficult modes. I'll probably do minimalist rental only run, Hero Mode no restrictions, then Hero Mode minimalist rental only. I can't imagine the first time doing Hero Mode on this game (if it is as hard as it sounds), without even buying the items (because you will die a LOT).

Don't forget now that enemies have 8 directional movement no more using their direction of facing to your advantage. Oh and the bomb throwing cyclopses, well they throw like 1 bomb a second, and they explode very quickly...

So stunning enemies ahead of time is now even more vital then ever, except the ice rod /hammer nerf that was in ALBW vs ALTTP, that used to be my go to combo. Frozen enemies insta died to the hammer, and would drop large magic containers at a very high rate, when killed in this fashion. Well, now you just apparently wake them back up if you try it.



Also Ya no way i'm quite brave/ stupid enough to do a full minimalist run. In 3d its alot easier to dodge and predict movements, in 2d games its quite a bit more difficult. I forsee so many deaths its not funny by the time I complete my run.