Topic: First Zelda game you've played?

j wrote:

I'll guess u had a bad time. Its the worst one to start off with if you're not familiar with Zelda imo

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So true, started off on probably the worst of the non whored out Flagship messes on the GBC. Majora was done by Aonuma who can't make a fantastic Zelda game on his own shown time and time again as the goodies since then Miyamoto took lead on instead of being hands off.

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Majora's Mask was an incredible game, and in many peoples opinion, just as good as Ocarina of Time. It just didn't do a good job of teaching you how to play the game.

No it had a lot of problems. The story while different wasn't handled all that well. The whole time skipping thing wasn't handled the best and caused often a lot of wasted time and efforts considering all the losses if stuff wasn't stored before a jump. It was definitely short only made long by a pile of unnecessary and not all that interesting mask based side quests. It looked, played and sounded like a Zelda game, but it lacked any type of meshing touch that brought it together as well as any of Miyamoto's works, same can be said for Aonuma's other loner efforts on the DS and with Twilight as they're just not as engaging and I've yet to finish any of his titles as they just bug me. Now sure you could be saying I'm sabotaging myself in that regard, but I didn't know these things going into TP or MM, let alone the first DS title (I skipped the 2nd one as it looked too much like more of the same and stylus sucks for action games, learned it years earlier on a PDA.) After feeling burnt twice with MM and the DS game, and being totally meh about going into TP (though it was ok so I don't call it a 'strike' in baseball terms which I'll get to in a moment) it was enough to research and I saw who developed it and each game I don't like in the series is by Aonuma and not touched and lead by Miyamoto so the last Zelda game I do really love was Wind Waker. The 'strikes' term I use in games and have for a few years as I'm on a budget. If you sell me piece pieces of crap, that's 3 strikes, you're out, and I'm done buying your crap. Kirby is on my benched list and has been for awhile, but so are the Mega Man Zero and those Battle Network games too, and after Mario Kart Wii and DS it's up to 2 strikes so if another blows I'm finished with it too for example. Zelda for me is on 2 strikes, and I could live without it if this Wii game out in a year isn't to my liking.

The first Zelda I played was Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, the original gold cartridge. My parents got it for me on a whim for my birthday. Never played The Legend of Zelda before that game so I had no idea what the story line was. I never finished that game due to a weird glitch that happened with my copy of the game, I was never given the crystals that you used to seal the dungeons after you beat the bosses. I didnt know that there were those crystals untill I got to the end and tried to enter the final dungeon and I couldnt. After talking to a friend in school about it and showing him my game we both figured that I would have to start over, which at the time I wasnt too happy about.

Still have that game too in my closet maybe one of these days I will finish it.

That wasn't the only broken Zelda game either. 1 in 10 of the original Gameboy Zelda games had a bad one too with it. I think it's that Face Dungeon later on where outside there are knights and narrow paths. I can't quite remember what it was, I just know somehow in that dungeon a key refused to drop. The requirement for the room was to kill anything that moves and then the jingle plays and you get the key. I wasted a couple hours all over the place trying to figure it out, eventually got po'd and started over, and my luck it happened twice. Ultimately I gave up on the game, eventually got the fixed 'Color' version and used the old one as a trade-in (yeah sneaky don't care) to cut the costs of it. It's a hell of a demotivator or certain.

Yeah whats weird is that it only happened to one file on my copy of The Adventure of LInk. On my brothers save file which he started after my friend gave me the good news, he had all of the crystals and was able to seal the dungeons. Unfortunatly back than they didnt have video game trade in stores like Gamestop so I was stuck with it now even with the glitch I wont trade it in due to the fact of it being a gold cartridge.

Ocarina of Time, actually.

Probably TP, but I've been around longer. Really I'm not and have never have been a huge Zelda fan. I like to watch my brother play a lot of games :3