As much as I loved links awakening I can't get my head around the price on this. Watching the E3 coverage it seems a great remake and very faithful to the original, but the original is pretty short for a full priced title. you wouldn't get anywhere near the longevity that home console Zelda's had. I saw there's the dungeon editor thing but kind of hoping for more content before shelling out full outside for a game that may be doable in just a few hours for us that remember the Gameboy version.
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@everett_psycho,
The game may be doable in a few hours for you and others, but creating the game certainly took a lot more time, effort and hard work than it will to play and finish it in a few hours, yet alone the 15 - 20 hours I expect the game may take me to complete. Modern video game development also costs a lot and the price may be justified by this alone. This is a full-fledged Zelda game and experience at a full-fledged price that is a massive creative undertaking. And from all we have seen, Link's Awakening on Switch absolutely promises to be a complete transformation from the original Game Boy game, and could do for top down Zelda games what Octopath Traveller did for classic JRPGs. Remaking a game is not easy work and it takes a lot more work than some people may realise to get things to feel the same as the original, yet alone improve on them.
Nintendo IPs have historically always commanded a full price tag, so the price is not a surprise to me. Again, I personally equate the developer's hard work; effort, time, skill and love put in to make the remake from the ground up, with the £49.99 price, and thus see it as completely worth it. Nintendo have created the game from the ground up, creating new assists and environments, re-creating and fully realising everything from scratch, from 2D over to 3D, along with a fully orchestrated soundtrack, thus reworking everything else aesthetically and mechanically to be what I think will be another masterpiece and classic. There is a lot of investment and money and research and development put into a creative art style like the one in Link's Awakening. This hard work, love and care has value and worth attached to it. In this respect, Link's Awakening for Switch will be a full-fledged Zelda game so I am happy to pay a full-fledged price.
So, I am completely happy paying the £49.99 price tag, especially as this is a Nintendo triple A game and a Zelda game - as Zelda is my favourite video games franchise and Link's Awakening was the very first Zelda game I played and my favourite Zelda game alongside Ocarina of Time. The game looks absolutely gorgeous and you can see how much thought was put into the aesthetic alone; with Nintendo using the tilt-shift diorama-esque style to play with depth of field and landscape such as the mountains and distant objects and fog, to really create an atmosphere and unique gameplay experience. This is a kind of quality I pride and admire and value very much in video games and video game experiences. So, in all I see the quality of this game as no different than any other worthy £49.99 triple A Nintendo game. And regardless of how long it takes me to finish the game. I cannot wait for Link's Awakening on Switch.
Warm wishes,
fallinlight