The game begins after a series of events explained by the instruction manual and the opening sequence. Have fun with THAT English, proofreading White Out Mage! Good luck with that, because this game is hard. But you’ll need to find all of these treasures and artifacts if you hope to survive this adventure. When I popped that golden cartridge into the NES for the first time, I thought that list went on forever. The sequence that plays after the title screen exhibits all of the treasures, magical and mundane, that appear in The Legend of Zelda. Discovering a secret for myself gave a younger me that sense of ownership and wonder. Unless somebody just took the time to try pushing every stone and burning every bush, I don’t see how anyone could find everything in this game without some kind of foreknowledge or helpful hints.
Makes me wonder how anyone ever found some of them, since the game gives little clues as to their location. The Legend of Zelda has the prestige of being the first game that I faked being sick for so I could stay home from church to play it… B.C. Numerous secret holes behind walls can only be revealed with bombs (and this title in the Zelda franchise gives you no visual suggestions as to where exactly those hidden entryways might be) and are there are stairways tucked under boulders and trees and statues and even bodies of water. I remember wandering endlessly when I was a kid, poking around in forests and mountains for secrets. The world map of Hyrule is vast and it is easy to get lost without a guide or FAQ. It seems it even sacrificed more detailed graphics and more musical tracks for the sake of more areas and more dungeons.
It’s typical high fantasy but near as I can tell it is pretty much peerless in terms of how vast it is, among contemporaries. Then there’s the sheer scope of the adventure. You’re gonna go far, you’re gonna fly high, you’re never gonna die, you’re gonna make it if you try they’re gonna love you.” The blueprints for the rest of the franchise and all its recurring themes were already made in the NES and it was The Legend of Zelda not Zelda II: The Adventure of Link that really put this series on course to being one of the longest-lived, most recognizable, and most revered franchises in gaming history. There are items that even affect Link’s elfin outfit from green to blue to red. There’s also the iconic music, the “overworld”, the various recurring equipment like the bow and arrows, bombs and boomerangs, the dungeons, dungeon maps and keys and compasses, a musical wind-instrument, the progenitor of the Master Sword (here known as the Magic Sword), and the obligatory raising of the item above your head whenever you pick it up ( da da da daaaaaa!). Then there’s Ganon (originally spelled “Gannon”) and the Triforce and the eternal struggle between good and evil in Hyrule. Link himself would later go on to protagonize many other games and become one of Nintendo’s most prominent characters. The basic outline for nearly every Zelda game to come is all to be found here: there’s the titular princess, of course, not to be confused the hero of the tale, a boy named Link, who definitely does not have a girl’s name. Let’s talk about that latter matter first. Yes, you can thank The Legend of Zelda for pioneering the way for you to be able to save your game.īut what’s particularly astounding about it in lieu of its age is twofold: the scope of its adventure and the fact that so much of the franchise that was built on its shoulders took its direct cues from this first installment.
It was the first game ever on any home console to come with an internal battery for saving data. It was revolutionary, combining elements of action-adventure with exploration with puzzle-solving with fantasy storytelling. It proved to be… heh… game-changing for the gaming industry. Released on the FCD in 1986 and then NES in 1987, Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda is the oldest game I’ve reviewed, so far. I’d like to read about this ‘ Second Quest‘…” then just click the link! Eleanor Roosevelt * Note this is a review for the “First Quest” of The Legend of Zelda. “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
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