The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

21 Nov 1991

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Developer

Nintendo EAD

Publisher

St. GIGA

Nintendo

Playtronic

Gradiente

Hyundai

Time to beat

Main story

17h

Main story + extras

20h

100% completion

20h

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Summary

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is a top-down action game with puzzle-solving elements similar to the original The Legend of Zelda. After the side-scrolling and RPG-like gameplay of Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, the game is a return to the top-down view and gameplay style of the first installment. It introduces major new items to the series such as the Master Sword and the concept of two different worlds, which was revisited to some extent in Ocarina of Time with two distinct time periods rather than dark and light worlds.

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Marina Lims 8

For me, the first big Zelda, the one that started to establish the name of the franchise. I recommed playing it for this e interested in learning about the origins of our favorite Hylian.

10 Mar 2025

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Amsandor 10

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, is a fantastic SNES journey in the series. This game is full of excellent puzzles, characters, and adventure. I really enjoyed all aspects of this game. The music was stellar. The visuals were wonderful for the era hardware. The puzzles challenging. I really...

20 Mar 2024

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Omar Jelassi 10

one of the best of all time

26 Dec 2021

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Michael Medlen 10

One of the best games for the SNES!!!!!

6 Jul 2025

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Pouria Rezaei 8

Quite atmospheric, ahead of its time, balanced difficulty,

15 Jun 2023

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Kevin 10

I know this was considered one the best Zelda games of all time but I was really not expecting this game to be this good and I just played the original Zelda before this and I felt like that game unfortunately hasn't age very well I understand the significance of the OG Zelda and I still think th...