Legend of Zelda

http://www.zelda.com/gcn/img/splash/link_main.jpg

movie trailer:

http://seat42fmovies.com/?p=379

so so sooo ridiculously geeked for this
link looks like a dork, and ganondorf looks completely ridiculous
but still... epona! impa! master sword!! the fucking MUSIC!!

also of note:
link says nothing in the trailer

*gigantic sweeping quintuple tiger woods fist pump*

also of note: APRIL FOOL

that's a great looking trailer - seen them in the past and they always looked like ropey fan balls.

worst CGI ever?

APRIL FOOL

POXY FULE

That was a well-made spoof, but the crappy effecs sorta give it away even before the "April 1st 2009" release date.

Er, what I meant is, it was well-made besides the crappy CGI monsters.

the "shot on broadcast televeision video cameras" gives it away

Released 30 years ago today (yesterday) - February 21, 1986, in Japan.

http://kotaku.com/the-legend-of-zelda-was-born-30-years-ago-today-1760413422

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Actually I was going to thank you, that link lead me to a link that lead me to this book, about link.

http://www.fangamer.com/products/legends-of-localization-zelda-book

Looks pretty interesting!

http://legendsoflocalization.com/the-legend-of-zelda/first-quest/

More freaked out that Majora's Mask is now in the first half.

tried playing that one again recently - I didn't finish it when it was new, found it really irritating instead of fun. people to this day tell me "it's a really good game, try again sometime." still find it incredibly irritating!!

WELCOME!

Agree, many of those NES era games require the sort of dedication and monomania you might possess as a kid, but not as an adult. A Link to the Past is much more balanced and satisfactory in that regard, have you tried that one recently?

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The ticking-clock and time reset aspects of it are incredibly annoying at first but they really add a lot to it once you've gone through the cycle once and can anticipate what characters are going to do at a particular time of day.

I bought Triforce Heroes recently and it's the first Zelda game I've outright regretted buying to the point of just not being arsed to play it. Virtually every aspect of the game's design is an outright impediment to fun, it's essentially endless variations on taking a fox, a hen and a bag of grain across a river.

majora's mask is still pretty unique among video games despite the time loop trope being all over books/tv/movies

no one's really attempted executing it at the scale of a 30 hour adventure game before or since

I'm about part way through a replaying of MM on the Wii (crap, will that work now I've moved to the Wii U?) but using a faq for "beat it in four days!".

I'm more struck because Ocarina of Time is the last game in the series that I think of as Universally Acclaimed, so having the game after that as the halfway point seems like it means something.

I suppose I do find it irritating, but that adds to the creepiness - Twee Sense of Doom is an odd mark to hit.

(I prefer MM to Ocarina, and I think that Windwaker is a greater artistic triumph, but I'm aware these are not universal opinions).

XP there's a first-season PS2 game that tries something like it - Shadow of Memories?

Yeah, it really is a rather unique experience, haven't really come across anything like it even among newer cames. I didn't find it that annoying, but admittedly I read a FAQ and learned the song to slow down time as soon as possible. I can imagine it being quite frustrating if you hadn't figured that one out.

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I played Majora again on 3DS a little while ago, and I found the inclusion of save points made a big difference. I don't mind racing against the in-game time limit, but it was annoying on the N64 version also having to make sure to block out enough IRL time to finish a dungeon and get all the faeries, or else have to redo a lot of it next session.

Or... wait, I have that wrong. The old version did have a save point system, but it was a temporary save. Somehow I didn't know about it at the time.

i didn't find majora's mask annoying as much as i found it stressful, i assume that would have diminished once i was a bit more into it but the clock ticking down while i didn't really know what i was doing just put me permanently on edge

The bit about reuniting the lost lovers was super-convoluted and obscure and I don't believe anyone actually completed it without the aid of a walkthrough.

the notebook p much tells you what to do guys. i mean not in any form that you can recognize until you've played a while but still.

I never really looked at it, which might have been part of my problem.

The Legend of Zelda: Ancient Stone Table !!!

I don't get the downloads... they're separated into "weeks"? Why isn't this explained?

Oh, I'm still at work and haven't tried the download, will try when home.

yeah this is confusing

I guess they are just parts 1-4 of the game. It says:

As soon you have finished a week, rename your sram to the name of the next week's rom to carry on all your progress. E.g., Week 1 sram name is bszelda_ast1.srm. As soon you have finished this rom and want to start over with week 2, rename this file to bszelda_ast2.srm; then simply copy this file in the folder with your bszelda_ast2.smc rom.

actually no I'm still confused

Yeah... trying to ask some programmer buddies now.

For years, though, players only had access to specific parts of the world depending on what part of the game was broadcasting. Broadcast over four weeks, and for only an hour a day, the game was saved to a cassette tape that saved your progress for the next week. Odd, for sure, and the rather obscure nature of how the game was played led many fans to assume the game was lost forever once the broadcasts stopped.

Sorry for linking to something so confusing guys. Will still try and get it running.

I've tried this game before. Don't expect a lot of new ideas.

ya, you could only access certain parts at certain times of the week and hours of the day

i've not read the emulation instructions, but i'm assuming the renaming is just to get past the block, and letting you access any parts whenever you want by simply renaming the file where you are accessing it from or something

I'm playing Link To The Past. Wow, what a fun game. I'd never played a Zelda before and hadn't realised how action-packed they were. The puzzles are really fiendish and I've been stuck a few times (had to cheat and look up a solution a couple of times),like the first time you're expected to light candles to open up a new chamber - I wouldn't have guessed in 100 years to do this, so I wonder how I was supposed to guess? Perhaps it's hinted at in the manual?

links awakening is the greatest game

no the old zelda games are just like that and there's a lot of things that just feel pretty arbitrary. it's not really until ocarina of time that everything came together

There are secrets and puzzles, then there's stuff that you just would never think of doing. It's always a bit frustrating when that happens. Like that secret wall in Super Metorid that's not only totally hidden, but exceedingly hard to reach in the first place, but you need to jump through before you can progress.

no the old zelda games are just like that and there's a lot of things that just feel pretty arbitrary. it's not really until ocarina of time that everything came together

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my mileage varies, water temple is infamous

water temple can be a little tedious but its puzzle is still one of my favorites

There was a moment in the Fire Temple where you need to summon the scarecrow and it took me way too long to figure it out—had to look it up, then leave the temple and go back in time to teach the scarecrow a song

To be clear, this was like two years ago when I played it for the first time

I made it through Link's Awakening as a kid just learning English and I was only stumped once, on how to get the master key in the second dungeon (the monsters have to be defeated in a certain order). I remember most of it as being pretty contextual. The things you have to lit up, there are a bunch of similar things burning throughout the game, so... I just got it from there? I do remember A Link to the Past being more difficult to figure out though, so the puzzles might be harder.

Lighting candles to open a door is pretty basic compared to some of the loopier stuff that's in Majora's Mask. But the magic dust is just a weird object to get anyway and doesn't make a huge amount of sense.

No, it makes perfect sense that you have to sprinkle it on the raccoon who is causing a spatial loop in the forrest. What are you talking about, what could be more logical than that?

In a state of mental exhaustion about where the damn cannonball needs to be to collapse the ceiling in Eagle's Tower. Gonna just look it up in a walkthrough on the grounds that kid me already figured it out at some point

^ I don't know how kid me worked these things out. I also don't know how kid me had so much patience compared to now me who uses the save and rewind function on my SNES mini religiously

A lot of Zelda "puzzles" build on stuff that was spelled out a bit more clearly in previous games... once you've played three or four of them, the grammar of their puzzles is a lot less arbitrary. There's still a couple in every game that make zero sense whatsoever though.

The new remastered Link's Awakening is an absolute pleasure to play.

(kid me worked this stuff out in two main ways 1. playing the game incessantly 2. sharing discoveries with friends who also played incessantly... I remember the summer of trying to finish the original Zelda's second "Master Quest" involved entire days where we sat around and worked through the map screen by screen bombing and burning every single inch)

The Eagle's Tower ball puzzle was probably the hardest required Zelda puzzle until some late dungeons in Spirit Tracks.