REVIEW | The Legend of Zelda
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
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Really enjoyed this review. I'm forever fascinated by how youngsters interpret old games and I'm not surprised this one was a chore to get through. Kudos for persevering though sometimes you really had to be there first time around.
Thank you kindly. I think that is one of my channels charms... is playing old games for the first time in todays age. No nostalgia goggles here, just me. :)
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Same here
I played it last year at age 24 and honestly. I liked it waaaaay more than Ocarina of Time
Whoa...
I really miss manuals, I always enjoyed reading them and looking at the art.
We all do. :-(
"I can't imagine anyone would play this just for fun"
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I knew your kind existed. LOL
Me
Same. I play bit for fun all the time. Still my favorite
This is still probably my fave Zelda game, but I'm old enough that I played it when the NES was a current system. Took me until a lot later to beat it, but I just liked the open world and exploration and secrets. And there are a lot of skills you can work on to make it pretty easy to go through, not even talking about glitches that people do in the Zelda randomizer races and stuff that are on Twitch all the time.
Granted, I haven't played every Zelda, but starting out with the first one has made me get bored of most of the later ones pretty quickly. Why? Mostly because later ones are either too easy or too restrictive, and also too long. Like as much as people love Ocarina of Time, for me it's all three of those flaws put together. Wind Waker, too. At least A Link Between Worlds finally let you tackle stuff in almost any order with the item rental shop again, and Breath of the Wild is completely open.
I guess I'm saying for me, Legend of Zelda is great because of a lot of the reasons you didn't like it. You can feel directionless, but it's also pretty freeing to explore wherever you like on the overworld. And thank god there's no stupid owl or fairy popping up every 10 minutes to tell you how to do something you've already done before in countless other video games, then make you choose "no" when it asks if you'd like it to repeat what it just said.
My favorite game of all time, but to be fair I was almost 12 when this came out. All the things you mentioned about community, taking with friends and sharing discoveries, drawing maps and taking notes, the trial and error aspects of the game... that was all a product of the time and (to me at least) a fun part of the immersion and experience back then.
Having played it so many times I'm pretty familiar with it so each subsequent play through isn't nearly as grindy for me as it would be for anyone playing for the first time. Yes, I'm one of those guys who plays this game for fun! :)
It's always neat to get the perspective of someone who is experiencing this in a very different way than I did and to then take a step back to see how the medium has evolved over the years. I totally get how people playing this for the first time wouldn't feel the same way as I do about it. How could they? Even though it's the same game the mindsets of players then compared to players now are vastly different!
Great review and thanks for taking the time to familiarize yourself with some classic gaming roots!
This was a GREAT review. It's nice to see an NES game reviewed by someone who didn't grow up with it. I legit laughed out loud when you were ranting about the dungeons not always giving you everything you needed. Honestly, it blew my mind when I played it the first time too and I actually had a NES growing up.
Anyways, great script and voiceover work. I'm really glad I found your channel. Keep up the awesome work!
Wow! Thank you so much for the praise! I was expecting people to get upser that I wasnt crazy about this game.
I'm glad I made ya chuckle and over joyed to know my channel is being discovered! ♡
Great review and it's fine to appreciate something foundational to a series or medium without finding it fun. Keep up the great work.
I couldn't agree more. Thank you!
I remember saving my money from mowing lawns to get this game. And oh man...adventuring in Hyrule back then was akin to diving into Morrowind for the first time. So huge. And I had been used to Atari graphics. LoZ was like full on 4K hd back then.
I don’t even remember frustration at finding the dungeons because I was having too mich fun exploring. Great video too!
God I’m old!
The original Zelda definitely isn’t a game I go back & play very often (the original Metroid, on the other hand...). It does get more fun on consecutive playthroughs once you have a general idea where everything is and what order to do things, but if you just play it cold, it’s beyond frustrating.
I got this game as a 3rd grader in 1987, and I actually met the guy who is still my best friend because of Zelda. He helped me get through the Lost Woods for the first time :)
Awww that's so wholesome! See friends who game together stay together!
Thanks for watching man!
I'm on my second attempt at playing this game (with a guide), I quit the first because I didn't find the trial and error exploration to be fun at all.
I think the people who like the game enjoy knowing where to find secrets like bushes to burn for rupees and plotting a course to finish the game in the most efficient way possible, it's the only possible explanation.
As a kid in modern Zelda games I was always in fear that I had used a key on the wrong door and locked myself in a situation where I couldn't beat it because of the limited supplies of keys. Ironically I never had that fear with the original Zelda and Zelda II Adventure of Link because I always found my way through the dungeons with enough keys. Breath of the Wild borrows a lot from the original NES Zelda's with a more modern update. I play this game for fun but I can agree that it hasn't aged the best.
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I play this for fun all the time. It was my first Zelda, so that's definitely part of it, but it just scratches an itch that no other Zelda games could scratch until Breath of the Wild came out. the only real problems with it are A) there's no indication where you can bomb/burn a bush, and B) Wizzrobes and Darknuts don't recoil when you stab them, which is straight up bullshit in the sixth dungeon. however, these basically become non-issues on later playthroughs where your reflexes are better and you remember where stuff is. It's one of those old-school experiences that over-prioritize replay-value. however, that means it gets better each time you play it.
I can say that I personally enjoy playing Zelda 1, but I can understand why someone wouldn't. I didn't really play it seriously until I was an adult, and I wasn't even born in time to play it when it was new, so I didn't get to have that experience with it.
Nowadays, I'd say Zelda 1 is definitely a game one should play with a guide, since even back when it it was new, it was designed with people receiving outside help in mind. I believe Miyamoto said that it was designed to both facilitate and require swapping tips and discoveries with friends, which, as has been said before, is pretty much admitting that the game requires outside help to complete within any reasonable allotment of time and sheer dumb luck.
I'm glad you found playing it to be a worthwhile experience, at least! It's always nice to get that extra context for a favorite longrunning series!
Zelda is my favorite series and while I grew up with this game I felt the same frustration when it was released. I didn't get the love until ALTTP and Link's Awakening, then Ocarina blew my mind.
I’ve beaten this game several times. I don’t ever remember buying a key once. I think maybe you were just not finding all the keys.
Also, there’s only 1 floor to all dungeons. There’s stairs etc, but they really only lead to other locations. For all practical purposes, according to the map, it’s all one floor
Agee about the Hearing the boss scream as you got close. It was cool at the time
Also, you gotta remember, this came out in 86. There was no adventure game that even came close to this prior to 86 in terms of scope and weapons and enemies. Playing this as a 10 year old, there was no equal back then.
I still love to play it. But that might be largely nostalgia. I’d like to hear what more younger people think of it. Most speedrunners of the game seem to be in their late 20s and early 30s
Born in 82, played it my whole childhood, I still love it but A Link to the Past is where it's at.
Fair enough!
This game was the reason for me to start nag my mother to buy a nes for me. It was my first introduction to adventure games. And it was the first time i played a game that saved your progress. Very fond memories. I can totaly get why people from later generations don't feel that way about these old titles. You will feel the same nostalgia when you have kids or show games from your childhood to your nephews/nieces.
I remember walking hyrule and bombing every rock face and burning every bush looking for every secret.
Playing the first Zelda is just a rite of passage. Once you beat it you'll never play it again unless you're just bored to tears...😋
Literally how I feel haha
I play through it once every few years. Knowing what you are doing, you can beat it fairly quickly. I never got good enough at the second quest to revisit it as frequently though. Although I loved that typing your name as Zelda unlocks the second quest to play it whenever you feel like it
Not the case for me. I go back for more. I love this game.
...or a speedrunner
@Pelvic Gaming I respect your review even though I disagree with it a little bit.
I'm not faulting you for not getting into it.
You actually said it at the end of your review....retro games is something you kind of had to grow up with to truly appreciate them.
I was an 80's kid I was 8 when this game came out and it was hard as balls to say the least 😂😂
I kept pressing on though.
That's what you had to do with those games.
If you think OG legend of zelda is difficult I dare ya to play OG metroid 😂😂
All in all your review was fair and at least you got to experience the roots of the zelda series.
My favorite was always link to the past for the snes.
Keep up the great reviews 👍
5/10 the review was somewhat fair but after she gives the score she literally says doesn’t have all the modern day conveniences...? Like no shit lol I didn’t grow up with it but I think it’s a great game, I think it’s important with these old reviews to take the games as they are, you can’t compare them to modern day video games
I'm just here to say I like your style! Keep up the great work!
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Old, NES era games are an art form by themselves. Not everything about them has aged gracefully, play them side by side with a good contemporary game and the oldies can be charring, but they were a product of their times, and it's often incredible what the "old masters" did with the limitations of the hardware.
It's not disrespectful for a young whippersnapper to not enjoy playing them IMO, a lot of people playing these old games have a lot of nostalgia going, something younger gamers obviously can't have. Just realize that for their time, these games were excellent - and modern games owe a lot to the old games. Standing on the shoulders of giants.
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I've found that people tend to either love "no handholding" games to a prodigious degree or can't stand them at all. I rarely see anyone on the middle ground. Me, I'm an '80s kid/old school D&D-er that relishes any opportunity to get myself lost and bust out the graph paper. I wanna figure it alllll out. Finding the right path after hours of thorough searching, that is the fun for me. I've never enjoyed any other Zelda game quite as much as this one for that reason.
Yeah, for me its not just nostalgia, the game to me is still fun. I challenge myself by beating dungeons in all sorts of different sequences. Also the second quest can still kick my ass to this day
@@hepwo91222 Have you tried the Zelda Outlands hack before? It's spectacular if you're looking for an even more tricky third and fourth quest with an all new overworld and set of dungeons.
This was my second game on the NES after the SMB1/Duck Hunt combo cartridge. To this day I enjoy it more than I do modern, post-ALttP Zeldas, but that's probably impossible for anyone playing it for the first time today.
You're very much right about the whole community aspect; actually finishing the game was a collaborative effort where you pieced together what you found out with what your friends found out. That being said, the game was cryptic enough that I wasn't able to finish the final dungeon until many years later after the advent of internet walkthroughs.
All in all one of the best games on the NES and one of the most important titles ever made.
Without the internet, I spent 2 months stuck in the lost woods in oracle of seasons.
LMFAO bruh I feel this
I played this the first time when I was like 7, a few years after it came out in the U.S. The gold cartridge was a major flex at the time😂
I am an old geezer, so OG Zelda is basically an essential must play all time great to me, to this day. In the 80's, a game that INVENTED battery back up on a cartridge (no passwords!), it was a unique hybrid game mixing established genres of today beofre they really existed combining adventure, RPG, puzzle, open world all in ONE game! A second harder quest after you beat it, which at the time made it seem like two games in one. Secrets on many screens, tedious yes, but at the time no other game threw this much at you. An all time classic, still my favorite 2D overhead style Zelda since the only other one that was really open world was Link Between Worlds. Breath was the only modern 3D aspect Zelda to be open world. This game was open world before the term was coined.
The Legend of Zelda is my second favorite Zelda of all time. Makes me feel like a kid on a lazy Sunday morning. After all these years I still haven't finished the second quest. Working on it on the NES Classic.
As someone who's first video game ever was this game I just wanted to say that I loved your review. I love this game but I think it had a lot of growing pains for being one of the first to do what it did and I'm glad to see it getting properly anylized.
Wow! Thank you so much for the praise! I really appreciate this comment.
I grew up with this game, it was one of the first ones I had. I got a used copy from my cousin.
This game was very good for early gaming. It gave you a sense of exploration and didn't hold your hand. Plus sharing hidden areas and secrets was part of the fun. I was 4 when this came out so I didn't play it till later.
First time I played this was on my gba and to this day it's in my top 5 fav games of all time is a true masterpiece imo and so far ahead of it's time that it still holds up today easy9/10
Oh man, seeing that room full of darknuts where you frantically have to run around and hope you don't get hit as you try your best to slash at their backs... I really like this game, but (as a fellow whippersnapper) think your conclusion makes sense.
The Legend of Zelda😢 classic. To put into context it was the Dark Souls of its day and to some degree still is. It was a game that threw the player into the over world and said figure ot out. A genesis if you will of how modern gaming began. Exploration, problem solving, epic battles, etc. were discussions to challenge the imagination of playground children. When released rumor and myths became legand and made you question what more is out there. The player literally became the Hero of Legend and it was glorious. Before this game there was nothing, the player was nothing. But after....you were a badass!!! Millennial gamers now have high-fidelity and soon photo realistic landscape to explore as well as thought-provoking storylines, '80 kids had an abundance of imagination. Video games are an immersive and escapism art form that is to be enjoyed by all ages no matter when you showed up, as long as you showed up to played.
Wow....well said.
I felt the exact same way when I played it. I grew up with Majora's Mask and Wind Waker being my first Zelda games as a kid, so coming back to the first two games as an adult was... definitely an experience I'll never repeat again lol. I appreciate it for what is was and for what the games impact did to gaming, you summed it up best by describing it as a "respect/hate relationship". I honestly had more fun playing Zelda 2 although still being frustrating, you should definitely check it out once you've had some time away from this one!
It’s a fair review. Did you know it has an alternate soundtrack? That’s not really true, but some songs do have alternate versions for the fan icon disk system. The alternate title theme still sounds wrong to me.
You can hear them through the famicom switch app if you have a Japanese eshop account
I crave that ragtime tune at the end of this game so, so much whenever I play through this game. So good!
I do really appreciate your perspective here. I grew up with Zelda and it quickly became one of my favourites. To be fair, I didn't have many games growing up so I spent a ton of time walking around Hyrule with the protections of the game genie back then. I'm sorry you didn't fall in love with it but at least you gave it a shot and saw it through! Great review. I agree with everything you said, except my love runs deep with this one.
You know what game I loved that was just like this but improved a lot on Zelda's first quest and has a few more RPG elements? Golden Axe Warrior on the Sega Master System. I'm not sure if you've heard of it before but it's worth checking out. It has a similar degree of difficulty but more gameplay elements and addresses some of the issues you mentioned you had with Zelda here.
This was one of my first videogames and I had a great time playing it with my sibs back in the day. We asked for a SNES and our parents got us a NES. Tragically uncool! But our disappointment lasted all of about two minutes when we started playing Mario 3 (still one of the greatest Mario games of all time) and Legend of Zelda. This game took us forever to beat but we were so absorbed in it, we didn't care. We just spent hours exploring every screen of that map for secrets. While I'm not sure I'll go back to it, I'm glad I played this gem when it was relatively new (about 5 years after it came out). I feel you that it is difficult to go back to titles that are older because of all of the new innovations we are used to seeing. I cap off at SNES titles for the most part. NES were just so hard. It is frustrating playing the same 8 bit section over and over again. Love for the Legend that started it all!!
Played it once with the help of a guide just to see it. Totally agree with you. First really good one was A Link to the Past
Good to see you didn't dismiss the game all together but actually got into it. Sadly a lot of people younger people don't want to experience these things anymore. So this is refreshing
Thank you. I do my best to keep an open mind even with older games. :-)
@@PelvicGaming yeah that's a good mindset.
This game is a legend
- a legend of Zelda!
You made it a lot further than I did. My Switch is my first ever Nintendo console, so I am pretty new to a lot of Nintendo properties. The lack of an ingame map saw me getting lost all the time. So in this sense it felt very realistic for someone with my sense of direction. I totally abuse the save state feature too though.
Got here from a double shout out situation AVGN > Cannot be Tamed > here. I have watched several of your videos now and am hooked lol. Based on the reviews I have watched so far I would like to request/recommend a game. I think you would like and I would like to hear your thoughts on Lufia 2 Rise of The Sinistrals. Don't worry it is not from the 80s :). It is pretty much a one off SNES JRPG as each game in the series is different. You also don't have to worry about playing the first game as Lufia 2 is a prequel. I would recommend skipping the first game as it has several staples of old JRPGs, slow movement on the map and in dungeons, high encounter rate, bad menus, characters won't change target if the monster they were aiming at dies etc. I honestly think Lufia 2 was ahead of it's time and holds up well today, but that could be rose tinted glasses.
Here thanks to @wrestleswithgaming . Oh you youngins, you have it so east these days lol. Good review. Subbed.
I grew up with the game, played it constantly as a kid, but I was never good enough to beat it. I prefer the later games, as you do, they're just better overall games. Link to the Past was the one where I truly fell in love with the series, but my favorite of all time is Twilight Princess. I did finally go back and replay and beat it several years ago (with the help of save states) and I could see myself revisiting it again.
This was hard game, even more so since I didn't have the manual as a kid. I was playing this game in the early 90s, it took me 10 years before I was able to play it and beat it start to finish. The titles after Zelda 2 are a piece cake in comparison. And hey when you're used to cake, it's hard to go lean.
Wow...that was a great analogy.
Back then, many games were difficult as hell as a matter of course. "Nintendo hard".
It's in part because arcades were big back then and games were hard so you'd lose more and put in more quarters (or the regional equivalent), and in part because the technology back then couldn't wow you with super graphics, huge worlds, or elaborate story telling - so difficulty was used to give the game some "play length" and as a way to make those who did beat them get a feeling of accomplishment.
Later, games could be bigger, have better graphics, and even video sequences and voice acting, so they could be used as a selling point instead of difficulty. Arcades also gradually lost influence and its close connection to home gaming (the two could be their own respective things), reducing the need for high difficulty. And elaborate stories meant the developers had more of an incentive to make more people see the whole thing. You want to tell your whole story to everyone, not just to a small part of the audience. (Not to mention having expensive stuff like voice acting and cinematics in a game and only a few people actually got something out of it...)
And yes, we old gamers really were tougher than today's wussy gamers. And we are part of today's wussy gamers, too!
I had Zelda 2 on the NES as a kid. I beat it. (Full disclosure, I didn't come up with the wayfinding in the final dungeon or the trick to not draw out the fight, but still).
Last time I played it was a couple of years ago on the 3DS. And boy was I struggling, even with save states! I just wasn't used to that kind of challenge any more, which was just normal back then.
And this puts speedrunners really into perspective! Those maniacs play games most people struggle with and not only beat them, but they beat them with contemptuous ease. Over and over and over.
One of my favorite games of all time. I played this for hours when I first got it on my NES (yes I am old) :-) also you thought this was tough, have you tried Zelda 2? hehe
And this is one of the more fair, well designed, progressive games for the time in terms of difficulty, is what's amazing. It's the reason pretty much all older gamers like the Souls series, because it recreates what games felt like back then as a kid, while actually being a masterful modern sequence of games.
I remember not liking the 1st Zelda game when I was little. Hell the 1st Zelda game I played and beat was Skyward Sward. I only chose to play that 4 the same reason I chose to play Gravity Rush 2. Its colorful and the music in the trailer caught my attention
great analysis great honest sharp review. best reviewer in the world.
Also keep in mind it was really amazing in 86. Very ground breaking.
You hit it on the nail with this one. Unfortunately, a lot of games from 80s were made with two big things in mind: play longevity and potential sales. This game was straight up a Nintendo Power game and there was a lot of things in there to draw it out.
You you whippersnappers should know that back in my day we made our own video games out of rocks, twigs and pine cones and we played them on treestumps. And we had to walk 50 miles to school through 10 feet of snow, and it was uphill both ways, all the way.
Seriously, though. I really love this game. I first played it when I was six, so in the spring of 1988(?), and still play it through (first quest anyway) at least once a year, and on the original NES of course. It's a shame though that a lot of effects that were accomplished through the clever use of the interlacing scanlines on CRT screens doesn't translate well if at all to modern screens. When Link got hit when playing on a CRT he flickered during a few seconds of invincibility, but on a modern screen he stays solid or becomes momentarily invisible.
English isn't my first language (I really learned that, and fast, playing a lot of adventure games when we got an Amiga500 a few years later), and the Engrish in this game is so bad they're useless most of the time. Now imagine two kids, age six and seven, sitting with a wordbook, trying to translate that mess. It really took me and my cousin nearly two years to find level 7 so we could complete the triforce and go on to beat level 9 in just a few tries. We found out how to find it from a throw-away comment in a Nintendo monthly subscription at a friends house. Because the flute does the same thing in every screen but one, so why bother trying that, right?
Nice review. It was one of the quickiest subscription hit I've ever made.
Wow thank you kindly. :)
As someone also born on February 21, 1986, and got to play Zelda on NES when I was little and also revisited it on the Switch, I have to say, this game does not hold up. I don't think I found it fun when I played it before. It's great for historical purposes and studying game theory, but Zelda 1 is okay at best. Ftr, Zelda is my favorite game franchise.
Thanks for your honest and dope as always reviews, Lady P!!
Zelda has been my favorite for a long time. Recently overtaken by the Nier series. ;P Thanks for watching! I appreciate cha!
@@PelvicGaming Yes! Nier is definitely up there for me, too! I'd love to see a review of maybe Draakengard 3 or Replica. Automata is my fav all time game, so I feel ya, homie
@@kylehiller9181 I did do a review of D3. O.o
@@PelvicGaming HOW DID I MISS THIS!?!?
I love all these Zelda reviews!!! I found it quiet refreshing to get a different perspective on the ORIGINAL Legend of Zelda. I grew up playing this game. I pretty much had no parents, so The Legend of Zelda basically taught me how to get through life! I can play it with my eyes closed, and I go back to it every year or so :) Now, Zelda II...WTF is that game?! I beat that game out of spite, and I never want to play it again!!! So my review of Zelda II would be similar to your review of Zelda I ! LOL
I played this game a little bit as a kid (grew up in the 90s, and I didn't own a NES myself) but the first Zelda I actually owned and had a chance to play all the way through was Link's Awakening, soon followed by Link to the Past (best Zelda ever imo).
I eventually did get ahold of the original Legend of Zelda and beat it. I do enjoy it for what it is, but I fully admit to stopping to look at maps so I don't have to randomly bomb every wall or torch every bush. And I'm not too eager to try that second quest either :D
Came to your channel because of did you know . I grew up with and I'm glad you gave it a try . Unfortunately you didn't love it but I can understand stand why . Cant wait to see more from you !
Thank you! I figured this is one of my favorite series of all time so I should see where it began. :-)
It's all right you used a map for this game. Feel no shame for using a map for the original LoZ. That's not "Cheating". A lot of the dungeons are hard, and it's not easy to see what to do.
I still haven’t finished the first game...It’s very GIT GOOD. I first played it in the 90s but with a rental model I couldn’t play it long. Absolutely love the art in the booklet.
The booklet is better than the game haha
Pelvic Gaming You are not wrong. I am making a painting of that Link...But its taking me longer than expected 😅 hate waiting for paint to dry...
Wow. Rough. This was one of the first games I ever played at a friend's house. I only finished it years later when I owned it on the Gamecube. To this day, I still replay it several times a year. Yes, games were tough back then. Yes, they were clunky. But if you consider the technical limitations of the time, it is still mind blowing how they crammed all of Hyrule and a whole second quest on one cartridge.
My recommendation: Replay it a year from now. It will be easier, and a lot more fun. You'll know what to do, how soon to buy the blue ring etc. I am 100% sure your rating will improve.
I remember this the first time around. Ground breaking, like nothing before etc, etc, blah, blah...but objectively a bit pish by 2019 standards. Shame the NES never had the Famicom's built in mic though. The use of shouting in a boss fight was 25 years ahead of its time...
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I appreciate that thank you. ♡
my first NES game
played this at a friend's house before getting my NES, Mario, etc.
Run around till something happens the game
Basically the Botw of it's time.
@Jeremy S. Careful tyrone you've awoken the red pill alpha gamer
Such a great review! ❤️ I agree the OG Zelda is too hard. It came out when I was 4, and I definitely didn’t have the patience to play it, either as a kid or even now.
Gurl I don't know how I played it in recent times...ugh...
I played it around 2009 but I was also like 12. I had a ton of patience for games back then and probably wouldn’t like it as much if I played it today. Did a no sword run and I can’t see doing that nowadays.
I can't believe you did that....
Pelvic Gaming you got me, patience and GameFAQs lol.
I played it on the GameCube the first Zelda game I played all the way through. I did look up a decent amount of hints here and there admittedly because of the game’s archaic nature. I tried to play with with none but there’s way to much in the series for me to be stuck in Zelda 1 forever.
Get the heart containers and not the potions or medicine as the manual calls it. Also I completely missed the old lady who grants health potions till I gave in to walkthroughs.
I’m playing Zelda 2 on the 3DS. Now that game deserves the save state abuse.
Yes I grew up with it. And yes once in a great while I will go back and play it but it's like years between. Plus I state save, also no one has time to screw around with having check point saves. The game originally came with a full map so if you had that it was easier to navigate through the world not as hard although dungeon still had their surprises. You could say I push modern conveniences into retro games. I beat all of my retro games originally the hard way when I was young and I am never going to play them that hard ever again. When I relive going through these old games I am going through like walking down memory lane and enjoying it although the challenge is still there I state save the crap out of these and I try not to use codes unless it's too hard. I don't have time to spend hours on ridiculous hard parts, If it's a hard game I will put on infinite lives But usually with state saving I don't need it. I am a gamer to enjoy it, not get utterly pissed off at it. That being said I am a pretty good gamer, i can beat Contra and super C with the original 3 lives they give you. It surprises me sometimes that I still remember all of the tricks and tactics of each game. Good review.
The only legend of Zelda game I've ever played to completion was twilight princess, always love your videos pelvic!
Thank you so much! Heh tbh...TP is one of my least favorites. ^.^;;
Haha no worries, I'm honestly not a huge Loz fan myself, but I know they are so loved by the gaming community. Played more games like legend of dragoon and breath of fire etc growing up. Regardless I'll watch and support.
Young whipper snapper.... or something. I'm old though, born in 80. First non-Mario game was Zelda II. Never found either NES game hard, but then again it took a couple of years to play through both as a kid. I guess back then I didn't know any better?
Now both are so easy it's comical. I'll speedrun the game (i.e. badly) occasionally just for shits and giggles. I was so happy Breath of the Wild didn't hand hold. I hope more take a hands off approach in the future.
The fact you speed run this for fun...wild! But I'm glad you get enjoyment out of it! Thank you for watching. :)
Would love a remake.
I fully support using a guide for this game xD it makes for a much tighter experience. I’ve been really getting the urge to try Zelda II recently. It’s a difficult game but I’m sure it’s better to play
GOOD LUCK TO YOU. I couldnt possibly...I mean maybe....WHO KNOWS
Great Review!
I have a hard time getting into nes games in general. I can appreciate them for what they are, but ten minutes and I'm usually done. I did pick up the original Phantasy star on the switch though, and I'm having really fun playing it in the new master mode! So I guess there are exceptions!
Nice review!
I can beat a few NES games like Mother or Metroid, but Zelda 1 and especially Zelda 2 are too hard for me... I do want to finish both someday though
I beat Z2 back when I was a kid.
I beat this in grade school. I'm 33 now. Zelda hasn't been great in ages. Wind Waker was the last good one.
Of course it's underwhelming if you've already played Twilight Princess or Breath of the Wild. To appreciate games, you have to play them in order. If all you've ever played before was single-screen arcade-style games like Wreaking Crew or Joust, then Legend of Zelda 1 looks amazing.
I tried to play some time ago, but without manual and stuff, and i couldn't pass of the second dungeon, is cool and all but i don't have the patience for it.
I don't blame you.
Enjoyed the content! Keep up the good work. I do LOVE the concept of people spoiled by modern gaming going back and learning the term NES hard. Also the use of Fbombs are A+. And yes, my child hood was full of frustrations and rentals that made you sad.
Lol you like that concept huh? Haha welcome to my channel in a nut shell!
Thanks for watching!
@@PelvicGaming It was my first introduction to you! You did a great job on Dykg as well.
What does tdlr mean?
You'll never want to play Zelda II, It's rough!
You're right. LOL
Best review of Zelda 1 on the internet.
Honestly the best part of this video were the various Phoenix Wright references. Ya young whippersnapper!
I have a lot of fun with this game in spite of some of its old bullshit, like every arrow costs you a rupee. I hate the wizrobe & like-like rooms as well as the "dozen darknuts because fuck you, player" rooms, but like a lot of old difficult games once you learn the AI and some of the limitations you can start to take advantage of them and overcome them. I'll admit I also used a map and save states to get through it, because honestly the game doesn't quite have enough depth to have to re-play and grind so much as the original cart requires of you. Like the original Mario, Metroid, or Castlevania, sometimes having a more limited toolset to master just feels more cozy and accessible, even if sometimes there's so much shit on screen the hardware can't even handle it, and you have to keep track of a dozen random elements all knocking you around and stun-locking you until you die with no possible chance of victory. I also very much appreciate that the puzzles have evolved beyond "ha ha you gotta push a block but u don't no which one lol." I'd say I'm glad it exists, and was so influential, and that I can still play it, but I'm also glad it's not the only Zelda game and that the devs have continually added to it and modified it as technology has improved and more efforts have been put into story + translation and localization.
This makes me want to finally beat the original legend of Zelda for my self
DO IT. MY MISERY NEEDS COMPANY.
lol different time entirely. cool to see you actually beat it, I still can't bring myself to do so.
Thank you. It's not easy. ^^;
I've played this game for over 30 years, but have NEVER purchased a key!
Gonna be honest... I think I failed to find the key in the dungeon. You're not the first person to tell me this. U_U;; Apologies!
Can anyone explain why she chose the pelvic name?
Don't play Zelda 2 if you think this game is too cryptic.
I did have this as a kid, and absolutely didn't take to it. Couldn't beat it. Beat it as an adult later and honestly, it's not so bad. It's definitely one of the more playable NES titles, but duh, there's a franchise of it now. :P
Also, don't feel bad about Save States, sometimes ya need 'em.
No shame in my save state game! ♡ Man I dunno how people beat this as a kid! Then again I wonder how I beat Mario as a kid haha.
Thanks for watching!
@@PelvicGaming Sure thing, you can blame/thank that Zelda Mistakes video that you voiced for me watching this one. I think people beat the game as a kid through sheer not having anything better to do and the fact that Video games were kinda novel at the time.
There's certain games that were ahead of their time...this was one of them.
Very true
Watching this casual... my copy was from a yard sale so I had to get through the second quest without a manual. Every game afterwards seems easy.
Nice review and the hair is looking gorgeous as well.
I appreciate it! Thank you.
I was born in '84 and had never played it. It looked boring and plain jane. I do appreciate it and had played Zelda II (maybe try that one as a comparison).
I admit I got a little excited when I figured out a puzzle ( mainly giving the old lady the paper) but that was the high of my excitement. Haha. As for Zelda 2..ughhhhhh
Lolol great video babe!!! I was impressed all together by the video. I loved how you didn't like it but still had an awesome personality about the whole thing. Also you should do more videos like this maybe someday the original Doom/Wolfenstein games just an idea ;))) I hope you're doing AMAZING and tbh not to sound like a creep but you still look fine as hell(as always lol) peace out lil mama!