BS The Legend of Zelda Ancient Stone Tablets - (Super Nintendo SNES)
BS The Legend of Zelda Ancient Stone Tablets - (Super Nintendo SNES)
While following in the footsteps of A Link to the Past, BS Zelda: The Ancient Stone Tablets also features a slew of differences from the title it is heavily based on in terms of gameplay and graphics. Dungeons are completely revamped. The story is rather intriguing as well, a cherry on top for a great but forgotten gem. The game takes place six years after A Link to the Past and begins unfolding by diving deeper into the story of Aginah, the junior brother of everyone's favorite tongue twister Sahasrahla. He finds your character along with Princess Zelda and as the "Hero of Light" you must traverse the land slaying monsters as well as collecting the Ancient Stone Tablets hence the game's namesake.
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In my previous review I said Ancient Stone Tablets was unbeatable because it requires a tethered game save. If you beat one week, and start the next week, you start over completely with your inventory and heart containers etc, gone. If you just start week 4 to go beat the game, the dungeons from previous weeks are sealed off by thieves. They’ll give you most of what you missed. If you’re fast enough you can grab some heart containers and tablets, knock the last dungeons out then go fight Ganon. However, playing it and enjoying each dungeon, then carrying your inventory over to the next week isn’t possible on this cartridge. You can replay each week in its own right and get all you can (you are still under a time limit each time, with timed events,) because it auto saves and keeps what you found (as if each week is its own game with its own save data.) I replayed week 1 over 3 times for instance, with the dungeons cleared and secrets already found just for fun. So it is possible to comb over each week, but this requires quite a bit of obsessive replaying. Aside from available dungeons, there are moles in different places each week and certain timed events like rescuing Zelda from monsters, and each week has a shovel rental leading to a different heart piece, so to get the FULLEST experience you may want to play all four weeks. Even if you master week 4, search all of Hyrule by playing it repeatedly, you may not be able to get all the upgrades and heart containers. That aside, it is a neat game to explore as a Zelda fan and the cartridge and sticker look very nice. It is impressive that all four weeks are on it at least. Maybe someday they’ll figure out how to move the save data between each week and update the cart, but this is still a neat purchase.
On another note. The main character sprites have been updated to look like Link and Malon. I’d personally prefer to see the ballcap look, as thats more “BS” weird and unique. They say your character reminds them of Link from years ago in the game, and yet here you are… Link again. Lol. But thats no big deal. Also, you are indeed under a time limit each week and they removed the timer from the HUD. So you have to be conscious or set your own timer each playthrough.
I hope this review helps. Please disregard my last one.
Great product and has all chapters of the game. Was ripped off by another company with only part of the whole game
Great game thank you
Excellent cartridge, a great collection of all 4 episodes available to play on an American SNES! A really great addition to a Zelda or SNES collection! Highly recommended 😎
After getting short-changed on a few other reproductions of this game elsewhere, I contacted this site and got quick, excellent, customer service. Felt confident in the purchase and bought it. Game and box was in excellent condition. Also, for those who don't know, this is the BEST version you can get of this. It has all 4 "weeks" on it (unlike other repros out there), AND back when this was broadcast on Satellaview there was voiceover for the timed events and where most repros just have a chime when one happens, this version has text captions at the bottom so you can have a clear picture of each event.
Highly recommended!