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The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past (or simply a Link to the Past, Altp, and sometimes Zelda III) is an action-adventure game developed and published by Nintendo on 21 November 1991 in Japan on Super Nintendo, then In April 1992 in the United States and September 1992 in Europe. This is the third episode of the Legend of Zelda series. In a world of fantasy called hyrule, Link must find the three magic pendants to get the Excalibur sword, then deliver the seven descendants of the seven wise (including Princess Zelda) and defeat Ganon, in order to recover the triforce and bring peace in the kingdom. During the game, Link moves in a world map displayed in top view, but also explores several underground labyrinthine dungeons. The kingdom of hyrule is inhabited by many monsters that Link must fight, and contains many secrets and puzzles to solve, which allows Link to discover objects useful for its advancement in the quest or weapons improving its capabilities. The exploration and discovery of secrets are the heart of the gaming experience. In Link to The Past is developed by Nintendo, including Shigeru Miyamoto, Takashi Tezuka, Kensuke Tanabe, Yoshiaki Koizumi, and Koji Kondo, who performs the soundtrack. The team, reduced to the exit of Super Mario World, benefits from the abilities of the Super Nintendo, much higher than that of NES, which allows him to develop a larger, more beautiful and more accurate world. Less open. The team decides to return to the top view adopted in the first opus and opt for a double, dark and bright, virtually identical universe. The LINK capabilities are considerably improved: for example, it can be directed diagonally or has many sword attacks and a secondary attack. The focus is on progressivity between the scenario and getting more and more powerful weapons. The exit of the game, scheduled to coincide with that of the Super Nintendo console, is finally postponed by one year.

When leaving, Link To The Past is acclaimed by the specialized press and gets very high notes. All observers see a superb game with a huge universe and an extraordinary adventure, even though a small part of the criticisms is a lack of innovations that can interfere with some players, but also effective but remaining simple graphics. The game is largely qualified as masterpiece as soon as it comes out and becomes a classic video game. Shigeru Miyamoto as well as most video game fans also consider it as the best games of all time. In addition, several musical themes from the game are taken up in the series of the series and also become classics of video music. In Link To The Past is suitable for Japan from 1997 to 2000 in two versions on Satellaview, the super Famicom device. It is reissued on Game Boy Advance in 2002, developed by Capcom, under the Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past / Four Swords, and contains the only multiplayer game titled The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords. The game is subsequently marketed on the Wii virtual consoles in 2007, the Wii U in 2013 and that of the New Nintendo 3DS in 2016. The game is subsequently included in the reissue of the Super Nes mini end console 2017. In September 2019, a Link to the Past is reissued on Nintendo Switch via the Nintendo Switch Online. The game also serves inspiration for The Legend of Zelda: a Link Between Worlds on the Nintendo 3DS Portable console, which remains considered a suite. In addition, a Link To The Past is a game widely imitated by close by competition. The game has an amateur scene that creates modified pirate versions of the game or is engaged in the Speedrun.

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