Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Link's Awakening Remake: No Camera Shop

While the Color Dungeon returns, the Photo Quest together with the Camera Shop won't return in the remake, which matches our expectations about the DX features back in February. How do we know this?

Well, Dampé's hut is in the same place, where the Camera shop used to be:

screenshot of Dampé's Shack in the Tal Tal Heights

screenshot from the DX version with the camera shop in the exact same place

And honestly, this is good riddance! Like with the Challenge mode in Hyrule Warriors: Legends, not including a bad feature might actually be for the better. The "Travels of Link", which is how the Photo Quest was called originally, had many issues, which are all easily solved by excluding it entirely.

The main issue was that it had added missable items to a game, which previously had none. The first photo is a choice of two variants, while there a four photos that can be missed entirely during your journey, because they can be only taken at a certain point in the game. Plus, one of the photos required you to steal from the shop and effectively become THIEF to complete the game...

Also, it created some weird moments with weird dialogues. For example you can meet Richard at the close gate of Kanalet Castle, before you even meet him officially in his house for the first time, but he still acts like he knows you already...

I guess, some moments could still be kept in some form. For example I'd expect the hidden Zora to still be there, where he might give you something else, like a Piece of Heart. And overall this is all for the best.


PS: I like, how this places Dampé's Shack quite close to the graveyard area. This is a very fitting spot.

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