The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons

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The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons
Developer(s)	Flagship
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Release date(s)	February 27,2001 (JP) May 14, 2001 (US) October 5, 2001 (EU)
Genre	Action Adventure
Mode(s)	Single player
Rating(s)	ESRB: Everyone (E), ELSPA: 3+
Platform(s)	Game Boy Color

The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons (also known as OoS ) is a video game published by Nintendo and developed by Nintendo in conjunction with Capcom. Although the game was originally released for use on the Nintendo Game Boy Color, it exhibits special features, such as additional items, when played on a Nintendo Game Boy Advance.

This game is the counterpart of Oracle of Ages, which was released at the same time. These two games have the ability to link with one another, using either passwords or a cable, so that a person could play one game, and then transfer his or her progress to the other game. In addition, this is the only way to reach the "true" ending of the game. The game was originally planned to be a trilogy known as the "Triforce Trilogy", in which two of the games were to be remakes of the original NES titles. This idea was scrapped early on in the development process.

Contents

1 Difference Between OoA & OoS 2 Storyline 3 The lands of Holodrum and Subrosia 4 Mystery Seeds

Difference Between OoA & OoS

The biggest difference between Seasons and Ages is that each focuses on a different aspect of the classic Zelda formula: Ages is puzzle-heavy while Seasons is action-oriented. It's worth mentioning that Seasons and Ages are fully self-contained games that can be played and completed without each other.

Storyline

Deep inside the Temple of the Triforce, Link slowly approached the golden relic when a voice called out to him. Without warning, he was sucked into a vortex that tossed him out into a dark forest where upon landing, the young hero heard music and voices from just beyond a group of trees. In a clearing, a group of traveling entertainers were cheering a beautiful red head who was dancing around a fire. The dancer motioned to Link for him to join her. She welcomed the Hylian to Holodrum, and mentioned that her name was Din. Din took Link's hand and the two began to dance around the fire. The other people started cheering them on, but the happy moment was short lived.

The sky over the forest became covered in black clouds followed by several strikes of lightning and booming thunder from which an ominous voice spoke from. The speaker declared himself as Onox, General of Darkness and added that Din was the Oracle of Seasons.

After his short speech, a funnel cloud dropped from the sky blowing back everyone including Link before sucking up Din into its dark heights. As the tornado dissipated, the seasons of Holodrum fell into disarray with them changing rapidly.

The lands of Holodrum and Subrosia

Oracle of Seasons features two worlds, Holodrum and Subrosia.

Holudrum is much larger than Labrynna, but it has no underwater or Past to explore. However it does have the tiny subterranean world of Subrosia beneath it—the name is derived from subrosa, meaning "secret", and the people of Subrosia are very secretive about their rare movements on the overworld.

Subrosia acts as a go-between with the upper world, with shortcut portals to take Link to different parts of Holodrum quickly; similarly, warping to a different location on the overworld can lead to different Subrosia portals to access isolated areas of Subrosia that cannot be reached via the underground plane alone.

Mystery Seeds

The game featured seeds called Mystery Seeds which generally caused a random effect. However, in certain circumstances, the seeds had special effects:

• When used on an owl statue, the owl began to give game hints.
• When equiped in the slingshot and fired at a 'buzzblob' (green monsters which hurt Link when hit with a sword), it transforms. If this is then stunned with a boomerang, they can then be spoken to, giving seemly random advice. This is part of another Zelda game, where when magic powder was used, the buzzblobs gave hints about the Nintendo 64 claiming it had Many Polygons but a short name.
• When used on Cuccoos, they normally caused them to regress to chicks. However, if the player first attacks the Cuccoo until the moment more Cuccoos come to there aid and then uses Mystery Seeds, the Cuccoo will grow very large and if the player attacks again will stomp on them and deplete all hearts instantly.

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