Talk:The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

Reception

This article needs a re-haul on the reception section. It's currently a ball of prose just listing "Best-ofs" and not very specific to what makes the game good or any contemporary reception prose. Andrzejbanas (talk) 17:02, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

"Zelda 3" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Zelda 3 has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 August 14 § Zelda 3 until a consensus is reached. Steel1943 (talk) 15:04, 14 August 2024 (UTC)

Seven descendants of Seven Sages

This Article concerns the Super Nintendo version of Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past. The Plot of this article has a false statement that The Sages are the ones being sent to The Dark World by the dark wizard. This statement is false as the Seven Maidens which include Princess Zelda were descended from said Sages. Anyone who disagree's is most likely confusing the plot from Ocarina of Time where Link did rescue Sages. In Link To The Past, he saves Maidens in The Dark World who are trapped in blue crystals. I had hoped this was common knowledge among the gaming industry, but it seems I keep getting reverted from exposing this by someone who probably hasn't actually played this game. Who has also told me to point out a reference to a paragraph that doesn't have any reference in itself anyways.

On a side note it seems this user has also been blocked before, for frequent edit warring and mass reverts. So since I am forced to once again explain myself, this is what you get! I'm not going to break the 3 revert rule for you, I am going to inevitably wait for someone else to support the argument! Maxcardun (talk) 16:28, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

Hi there. It case you haven't seen my talk page response set yet, reviewing WP:VG/PLOT may help you understand the opposition you're running into here. Sergecross73 msg me 18:05, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

GA Reassessment

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

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This is a fairly old good article and has some issues, namely the following:

• Several sources are applied incompletely. Books/guides/magazines such as Prima's Official Strategy Guide, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past Nintendo Player's Strategy Guide, lack page numbers.
• Some sources seem to be fan-based, such as GlitterBerri's Game Translations, NPhiles/NerdMentality, and McLoz.net
• The second section of the gameplay section has five citations at the end of a long paragraph and should be spread apart to clarify what the citations are trying to clarify.
• Some statements, such as "Like Super Mario World, this game used a simple graphic compression method on the Super NES by limiting the color depth of many tiles to eight colors instead of the Super NES's native 16-color tiles. The tiles were decompressed at runtime by adding a leading bit to each pixel's color index. Storage space was also saved by eliminating duplication: The Light World and the Dark World are almost identical in layout (though using differing texture tiles), and the Dark World exists in the ROM only as an "overlay" of the Light World." don't seem to have a source.
• The reception section does not have much detail on its initial reception, only the Famitsu content I added earlier this year. Most of it is just listing various "Best-of" lists the game was one, with very little critical discussion of what makes the game good or work. This section has been tagged for expansion since January and has had no real work done.

With all the above listed, I believe the article fails WP:GACR6 sections two and three on reliable sources applied appropriately and lacks coverage of the game's initial reception. Andrzejbanas (talk) 12:34, 27 November 2024 (UTC)