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.