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The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons and The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages are 2001 action-adventure games developed by Flagship and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Color. They are the seventh and eighth installments in the Legend of Zelda series.
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The Story Behind Legend of Zelda, The - Oracle of Seasons
The Game Boy Color's screen presented an additional hurdle when attempting to rework the earlier Zelda game as it was narrower than that of a television; players could not view an entire room without scrolling, which made it easy to overlook stairways or clues on walls. In early 1999, Yoshiki Okamoto, then head of Capcom's screenwriter subsidiary Flagship, proposed remaking the original The Legend of Zelda for the Game Boy Color to Shigeru Miyamoto, the game designer at Nintendo who created the series. As a result, the team ran into problems because the scenario and the maps had to be reworked constantly to make all the modifications match.
Okamoto wanted to remake the original game so that young children could play it, but also as a test for the development team to move on to a more ambitious sequel if it was successful. In the US, the games became Mystical Seed of Power, Mystical Seed of Wisdom, and Mystical Seed of Courage. This made it easier for the team to test the interaction between the games and keep the style consistent.
How Legend of Zelda, The - Oracle of Seasons Plays
Most of each of the games is spent finding the eight Essences hidden in dungeons—large, usually underground, areas containing enemies and puzzles. In either game, some areas of one world are accessible only from portals from the other and vice versa. In Seasons, the overworld consists of Holodrum and the subterranean world of Subrosia inhabited by the dwarf-like Subrosian people.
Rings provide Link with various bonuses and abilities, such as improved defense. When not in a dungeon, Link explores the overworld. Each dungeon culminates with a boss that guards the Essence.
Why Players Still Load It Up
The ability to play the games in reverse order after completion increases the replay value, as does trading passwords between the two. In August 2008, Nintendo Power listed Oracle of Seasons and Ages as the fourth and fifth best Game Boy/Game Boy Color video games respectively. Game Informers Ben Reeves called them the 10th best Game Boy games collectively.
The games placed joint 57th in Official Nintendo Magazines 100 greatest Nintendo games of all time. Reviewers noted that the sound was hampered by the poor quality of the Game Boy Color's speakers, although it fared favorably compared with other games for the system. The Zelda theme and the traditional sound effect played upon solving a puzzle were considered welcome additions, but other sound effects were criticized as simplistic "beeps".
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