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I think it's hilarious that people are complaining about the the new remake not being worth 60 bucks because of its length, but that they'd be happy to pay 40. This is a game boy game with enough content to make people argue if it's worth 40 or 60 dollars in 2019. They sure did cram a lot into it if people are even willing to pay 40 dollars for it. Most game boy games could be beaten in an hour or 2!

@@jokerzwild00 great points

My deku stick saw something that night.

The Owl is not what it seems. ( FWIW, I don’t think there’ll ever be a game that reproduces the dreamy melancholy of Twin Peaks Season 3 where at the end all the pieces came together to form a coherent whole only to be blown away a second later (spoilers) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nb55rMt12LmZaH0.html )

Din's Fire, walk with me.

I understood that reference!

"I will see you again in 26 years."

That's a great observation. I really dig the box/manual for Secret of Mana and Starfox for that same reason.

(I realize that Starfox used puppets on the cover and not models, but it's still cool craftsmanship even if the Fox puppet looks a bit menacing LOL)

"The owls are not what they seem."

Hey Jason, stop worrying about Zelda and just make sure the Cowboys win some games

Patrick Mendoza Cue Michael Bolton rant from Office Space.

It checks out. Link's Awakening is in a dream world, Super Mario Bros 2 USA is in a dream world, and Kirby is from Dream Land which may-or-may-not have been a dream world at this point in time. Perhaps it's not surprising that those three cross over! ...Don't ask me about Will Wright, though, I've got nothing.

If you bring the Will Wright Mythos into this we then have to figure out how the Bungeling Empire fits into everything.

That would explain why we never see him anymore. Nobody's afraid of him. Maybe he should get Tatanga to spread the word for him.

Exactly - THIS!!!!! - im hoping for Zelda 1 and Link to the Past to be redone like Links Awakening.

If you haven't played BotW, make sure you do it. It VERY MUCH feels like a 3D version of the OG LoZ. Also give Link Between Worlds a shot. I hated that game but I seem to be in the minority on that and it ticks a lot of the boxes you're asking for.

@@copiernerds I hope we get the oracle games remade in this engine...and LBW is basically LttP remade

Remake not reboot.

@@thecunninlynguist not really. Most of it is completely different, only the map and items are similar

well, yes, but that already happened in Link to the Past, its not a Link's Awakening thing

A bit of an old comment, but LttP's sword swing is much tinier compared to the sword in the Game Boy/Color games, it's almost like it isn't there. It feels really different.

Those are 2001 releases, so unfortunately Jeremy has a few hundred GBC shovelware titles to go through first.

@@hinodedl Unless he goes out of order like he often does..

I don't think that has much to do with the actual colour palette as it does with the fact that the Master System could just do... More with colour than the NES. But yeah, 'muted' is not how I'd describe it regardless. And if you're wondering... Both the NES and Master System had a 64 colour master palette, but the Master System Palette appeared to be what you'd get from a 6 bit RGB palette, while the NES is a Luma/Chroma palette. One of the consequences of the NES palette is that there are several duplicate values, resulting in roughly 56-60 'real' colours, and the specific shades are less consistent than with an RGB palette. But the real difference comes from the active palette - what the system can show onscreen at any given moment. The NES is A background colour, 4 background palettes (3 colours per palette), and 4 sprite palettes (3 + transparent per palette) Which gives a total of 25 colours onscreen, with no more than 3 colours per sprite or 16x16 region of the background. Meanwhile the Master system has a 16 colour background palette, and 16 colour sprite palette (or really, 15+transparent) This is less palettes overall, but it's 31 onscreen colours, and up to 16 colours in a small area. Thus the Master System has roughly the same number of overall colours, but can show more of them onscreen in a more flexible way. In fact, it's ability to do 16 colour backgrounds and 16 colour sprites is more like a 16 bit console than an 8 bit one. Except actual 16 bit consoles have larger master palettes (512 colours for Mega Drive for instance) and more of these palettes. (Mega Drive has 4x16 palettes, to the Master System's 2.) The Master System simply has notably more capable graphics hardware than the NES. Sitting somewhere at a halfway point between 8 and 16 bit graphics capabilities.

@@KuraIthys It would be more interesting to know whether black cartridge Game Boy Color games (such as Link's Awakening DX) are closer to the NES or to the Master System in terms of colors.

@billycupid I too made a double-take when I heard that. SMS has a very vibrant color palette; so much so that game graphics like Fantasy Zone made you want to vomit from the excessive saturation.

To add to this, if you get through the gatekeepers anyway through hacking of some sort, the graphics of the rooms beyond are corrupted (I mean, it's not the _ugliest_ corruption, but they're very clearly not right), so they pretty clearly did not intend monochrome players to access the areas beyond at all.

Thanks for clarifying that.

Don't forget the evil Kirbys.

Draygone Fuzzbottom Jr Hey so I thinking of picking up a new game for my switch so I’m contemplating if I should buy this because I have heard that this game is really short so what’s your take on it

Assuming you've never played through Link's Awakening before, I'm guessing the remake will take 10 hours to beat, at the most. For some people, that's too short for $60. But for me, game length isn't as important as enjoyability. I've had a lot of fun with the GBC version of the game, so if the Switch version is just as fun, then it's easily worth the $60 to me. (If it were a 5-hour game, though, that'd be stretching it.) So the important quesiton is whether you think you'd enjoy an older-style Zelda game like this. This is a remake of a Game Boy game from 1993. It isn't going to have near as much story as more modern Zelda games. Dark undertone aside, the plot is more about the little zany antics you encounter along the way.

I recently played link to the past on SNES online and absolutely loved it but something that’s really bothering me is I haven’t played smash ultimate yet so I thinking if I should pick this or that.

Don't know if I'm the right person to ask about that. I'm not interested in playing Smash online, and Ultimate's single-player content leaves much to be desired. "World of Light" just sounds tedious.

There is a Super Gameboy 2?

@@Atlessa Yeah, it was only released in Japan and it fixed the speed at which the games played. The original Super Game Boy played them a little faster.

@@Marc_Araujo Didn't expect a response to be honest. But yeah, that explains why I never heard of it before. Also I never knew the games ran fast on the SGB. Must be a pretty slim difference I guess?

Floating Sunfish I think he did already actually

@@stepheng8061 He's still in 1990 for GBW, so considering Frog didn't come out in Japan until 92, no he hasn't covered it yet. He will get to it eventually, but it's probably gonna be at least a year or two, depending on how much he focuses on game boy over NES/SNES in the intervening period.

@@stepheng8061 I'm pretty sure he hasn't done it yet, plus I can't seem to find any videos of it on his channel yet.

@@stepheng8061 Game Boy Works is not even close to 1992 games like Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru yet.

The Mask Salesman takes the cake for me.

yes! also the guy in the windmill house with the music box... wtf!

The creepiest one was definitely the woman they found in the game’s code who had mouths for eyes or something like that. It wasn’t actually in the game itself, probably just a joke made by one of the programmers, but either way it’s some serious nightmare fuel.

The ancient scientist at Lake Hylia, YEESH.

@@fervcorsica3358 Woah watch out we got a badass over here.

No. These are chronological explorations of game libraries.

Ahhh gotcha! So I gotta wait til 1989 rolls around huh? :) For NESworks, that is.

duffman18 How long did it take you to beat it?

Because it interrupts gameplay every time, whether you intended to interact with the object or not. You can be in the middle of a fight and accidentally brush up against a rock and have to stop the fight to mash through some text for a few seconds. And it happens ALL THE TIME.

I was about to say Treehouse wasn’t even a thing at that point but was surprised to find out that they’re much older than I thought. Turns out their first project was Donkey Kong Country!

@@jasongarrett768 Actually, I *did* jump to an assumption that it was them. The Link's Awakening translation has a Treehouse feel to it. May or may not be them, but it's a good translation overall, even with a few amusing mistranslations, such as the Bucket Mouse. (I sure hope they didn't change that for the remake.) I don't think they worked on Donkey Kong Country, as that was a Rare production. It would have already been in English. I heard that DKC inspired the name, though.

@@TVsMrNeil DKC was the first game Treehouse ever worked on. just because the game was already in English doesn't mean it can't be localized.

This should age well 👍

I’d rather he didn’t and stayed dreaming. His dreams are so much fun

I think u should

Trini1984 The videos are in chronological order so it will likely be years before he gets to them.

dir1475 There is no such thing as a young Jeremy Parish, but the elderly one will be there.

Jeremy Parish even better! Lookin forward to it

It's often a good idea to consider what the Japanese pronunciation would be, especially in older games. Of course, Nintendo's localization got better as time (and screen and storage space) went on.

It's impossible to say how they're supposed to be pronounced in English, so I went with the Japanese pronunciation since that's defined by their spelling.

Huh. I'll admit, I didn't know what the original Japanese was. These pronunciations were my 11-year-old self's hot takes. Plus, I never know which names in any given localization are faithfully transliterated, which interpreted, and which replaced outright. (For example, the entire Super Mario Bros. bestiary or anything that feel under the baleful gaze of Ted Woolsey.) Well, I learned a thing today! (Side note, I am often entertained by the results of Woolsey's work and don't speak or read Japanese, so I enjoy it, but I am aware he play way too fast and loose for many people's tastes and as such has garnered a very, very bad reputation among translation and language nerds.)

I got through most of it, then got lost, I believe, in the Eagle's tower. I just decided to put it down after that.

Really? I only find the NES games difficult to deal with in that regard, because they don't tend to give you much information as to where to go. And often don't even have a map. But Link's awakening and A Link to the past are no more (or less) difficult to me than any of the 3d games... Although it depends on which 3d games you're talking about, since they got more and more linear and restrictive over time, which does have the side effect of making it easier to know where to go next simply because the game railroads you into it in a rather heavy-handed manner.

You are looking for this: en.wikipedia.org

@@JeremyParish ... I made my own review of the game so i know about it... I'm sorry, i don't really understand... Do you mean that Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru isn't actually affilied with Link's Awakening which is why you didn't talked about it ?

It was released over 20 years ago.

​@@cowardlylion42 So that's over 15 years worth of people who probably didn't bother with an old handheld game for a dead system. You could be 14-16 now and hype for the remake, and the game would have been obsolete BEFORE YOU WERE BORN. Link's Awakening is an incredible game but it's not a major cultural touchstone like King Kong's death is. You can assume the average person knows what "rosebud" and "I am your father" refer to, you can't assume anybody knows wtf the Wind Fish is. I'm not exactly blaming Jeremy here, but with the remake just about to come out you have to assume a LOT of people are going to be playing this game for the first time. Don't act like I'm an idiot for trying to help those people.

@@KingofCrusher Of course you do, but it's not known that the entire island, everyone, and everyTHING on it is a figment of the Wind Fish's dream. I mean, OK it's kind of a misnomer for me to have said "ending" earlier, as it's actually revealed over the course of the game, but the point is that that's the big twist and you can't assume everyone knows it just because "it came out a long time ago".