Game Club: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past Part 2 – Stuck!

Dale Culp January 25, 2010 Game Club 2 Comments

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In Part 1, I revealed that I had never played “A Link to the Past” and, as part of Game Club on Reddit, I had accepted the challenge of playing through this classic game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Unfortunately, the challenge would appear to be too great for me to follow through on. I’m stuck!

The second dungeon in the Dark World features some kind of puzzle I can’t seem to figure my way around. Using the magic mirror to get to the Light World and open the floodgate was simple enough, but somewhere inside the labyrinthine depths of the dungeon is some kind of hopeless impasse. I’ve avoided using walkthroughs as much as possible, but I’m not sure what I’m missing. The thing that bothers me most is that this is only the second dungeon — I really expected to be done, by now. Getting this far had been relatively easily, but it seems the difficulty has ramped up a lot — I don’t want to follow a walkthrough for the next couple hours, I want to play the game!

Needless to say, my desire to finish “A Link to the Past” has dwindled significantly. My worst fears — that I’d be left wandering aimlessly, not really sure what to do and running completely out of options — have been realized. Again, I’m not so sure I even want to continue. Eventually I’ll succumb to reading a walkthrough or looking up a gameplay video on YouTube and power through this one with what little dignity I have left. I can only hope that the remaining dungeons aren’t as enigmatic as this one.

So, any tips? Let me know how you got through the second dungeon, the one with the water in it. Meanwhile, if I do manage to solve it on my own, I’ll be sure to write about it in Part 3… if there ever is a Part 3. Be sure to subscribe to the RSS feed so you won’t miss it.

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2 Responses to “Game Club: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past Part 2 – Stuck!”

  1. Oipo said:

    Jan 29, 10 at 9:35 am

    I think it would help us determine what you’re missing more efficiently if you’d post a screenshot or two, describing in which room(s) you’re stuck.

  2. Dale Culp said:

    Jan 30, 10 at 9:15 pm

    I figured it out; I was missing another switch. There’s the first switch you pull in the Light World that let’s in water, but later, there’s another switch in a small green area that’s in water to access another ladder you can’t reach. The problem was, I didn’t know how to use the switch. I kept trying to pull it, but then I tried pushing it and must have been off by few pixels because it wouldn’t budge. Finally, I hit it just right and everything was great. Then I hit another problem…

    Much later in that same dungeon, you have to shift a block that reveals a hidden treasure chest. Inside the chest is a key that opens a door that can only be accessed with the hookshot. Well, there was some kind of glitch and I lost the key, so now I can’t get the door open. Does anyone know if there are any vendors who sell keys? Or, is there anyway to reset dungeon and do it again? I’m pretty much screwed.

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