The Legend of Zelda is the first title in the Zelda series, it has marked the history of video games particularly for it's game mechanics and universe. The player controls Link and must make his way through the forests, graveyards, plains and deserts of the Otherworld to find the secret entrances to the eight dungeons and try to restore the broken Triforce. Among the game's mechanics, it was the first time we saw a continuous world that could be freely explored, power-ups that permanently enhanced the main character's abilities and a battery save feature that allowed players to keep their progress instead of having to start over. The gameplay balanced action sequences with discovery, secrets and exploration.
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It's incredible how well this game has aged. I guess it just goes to show how far the appeal of a totally open world game can go.
This holds up surprisingly well and has the foundation of future Zelda games already established. Beating Dungeon 6 was so rewarding. However, halfway through dungeon 8 I closed the game without remembering to save and went back to before beating Dungeon 6 and I am not ready to deal with those ghost guys again so I'm shelving this but I'd like to beat it one day.
I can totally see how this game was revolutionary back then. It's great the focus on exploration and pure adventure it has. It's all down to the player too (kind of). I mean it made sense back in 1986 for games to be this hard and filled with bullshit - like exploding random walls that look exactly the same as all the others to progress.
I played this for like 4 hours with no guide, managing to get 1 piece of the Trifoce (from the 1st dungeon) and 4 items from other random dungeons. But mostly I was grinding like CRAZY to get rupees. It's insane how long this would take to beat blindly.
After seeing a guide it got way easier and way more fun to be fair. The combat is fun, even though the controls haven't aged particularly well. The dungeons are pretty cool too. The overworld gets pretty repetitive, but it's crazy to think that the only truly open world Zelda games are the first and the latest.
Had a fun time and can't wait to play the rest of the series, as this is my second Zelda game ever. Played Wind Waker recently and loved it so much I decided to play through the whole series in order. Sort of a video games through the times experiment. Can't say I'm looking forward to Zelda II from what everbody says lmao. Definitely playing with a guide from the get go.
I played this for like 4 hours with no guide, managing to get 1 piece of the Trifoce (from the 1st dungeon) and 4 items from other random dungeons. But mostly I was grinding like CRAZY to get rupees. It's insane how long this would take to beat blindly.
After seeing a guide it got way easier and way more fun to be fair. The combat is fun, even though the controls haven't aged particularly well. The dungeons are pretty cool too. The overworld gets pretty repetitive, but it's crazy to think that the only truly open world Zelda games are the first and the latest.
Had a fun time and can't wait to play the rest of the series, as this is my second Zelda game ever. Played Wind Waker recently and loved it so much I decided to play through the whole series in order. Sort of a video games through the times experiment. Can't say I'm looking forward to Zelda II from what everbody says lmao. Definitely playing with a guide from the get go.
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my first ever game was Ocarina of Time so i decided i wanted to go the series as slow as i want and good lord this game was genuinely hard to beat. i cannot imagine playing this back then without guides or walkthroughs, you get thrown into hyrule with no directions at all
link proceeded to snort the dust ganon left behind