Confession...

BlitzKrieg

I have a sad confession to make.



I've never fully gotten into a Zelda game...*ducks*


I've tried many times, but due to being a really hardcore Sega Fanboy up until the Dreamcast's demise I never experianced a Zelda game as it should have been, on a Nintendo console.

The furthest I have ever gotten in a Zelda game is Ocarina of Time, I think it was just to the 2nd or 3rd dungeon. So its rather pitiful.

I have replayed the opening 20 minutes to A link to the Past at least 4 times (2 times on PC and 1 time at friends, and of course on the PSP)

Since Twilight Princess is the first one to pass that will be available while I am not either a Fanboy, or recovering from my shattered fanboy dreams, it has easily captured my Imagination.

But will I like it?

To find out I have picked up Windwaker on the gamecube (for £20 no complaints from me.) and have it on right now, I will find out if I can play Zelda games or not.


*though I have always had a distaste for RPGs and adventure games refering to the action areas as Dungeons...always makes me think it will be a really dull game.

RE*AC*TOR

It might just not be your thing. Which is ok. If you don't like it, you don't like it.

Ho-Hum

Zelda on the Wii will also be my first Zelda, I haven't owned a Nintendo console since SNES and back then I didn't know Zelda existed.

Hugh Hefner

I've never gotten into a Zelda game either. I finished A Link To The Past on the GBA, and liked it, but it didn't make me want to play lots of other Zelda games. I also played the first hour or so of Wind Waker and that too wasn't brilliance to my mind (though I guess a game as long as Wind Waker can't be fully judged on it's first hour).

I won't be getting Twilight Princess but I might borrow it from a friend sometime in the future.

monkeyfudge

I was never that big into the Zelda titles on the N64.... but I didn't play them until well after the N64's demise.

But I've always loved the Gameboy iterations and the I loved Windwaker too.

You should give The Minish Cap on the GBA a go... it's really good and it was actually Capcom who made it.

oh... and for those who haven't seen it yet this is absolutely brilliant:

A Wii Adventure

BlitzKrieg

was playing minish cap...but for some reason my game didnt save and was forced to start from beginning again.


*grumble* screw starting that again.

might in some future time.

Was thinking of that wii adventure cartoon just moments ago.

evad_lhorg

Youre wrong.... just wrong. go sit in the corner.

The only Zelda game i didnt really enjoy playing when it came out was Zelda 2 on the Nes. The Legend of Zelda was the first game I ever finished and tbh i dont know how I did way back then. It was tough. I never really got into Alttp but I also never had a snes. I have only playeed it on GBA and found it hard to keep going back to it. Although I am on the last level of it now.
Ocarina of Time was a Different story. I played that game for 2 months solid before I went to complete it. have 19 and 3/4 of the 20 hearts but never knew which one it was I didnt have.
Majoras Mask was one I didnt play for ages until after release because I had kinda given up on buying games for the n64(pity considering some of the best came out towards the end). When I did play It I absolutely loved it. at times I loved it more than Ocarina because there was so much to do and so many sidequests. the npcs seemed to have much more life and i loved that. Never got around to completing it though.
Wind Waker was the reason I bought a Gamecube. I had completely given up on games before I saw that game. I just had to have it becuase it was Zelda. Wonderful game and was great fun. the usual complaints about its easyness and lack of depth towards the end apply here but the bits I loved the most were the bits where you thought it had nothing to do with Zelda, Hyrule, Ganondorf and the other stuff. then BAM its all there connected together in such a cool way.
Minish cap was one of my favourites actually. I loved it.Short but perfect for handheld. and lots of extra things to do. I cut up fields and fields looking for shells to get the Figurines. Think I only missed one kinstone fusino as well if I remember correct.


I own all the zeldas except Four swords on the gamecube(excluding the cdi muck). havnt played the oracles games yet but I intend to. Wont talk about Links awakening though because it frustrated me too much even though I loved everything about it up until the eagle dungeon which I couldnt get out of.

On the subject of the Oracles games.... whats the best way to play them? ages - seasons... or seasons - ages? not sure about them really but I hear they are excellent.

Jim

I had collecting everything in OOT except 1 Gold Skulta.
After 2 weeks of driving myself mad looking everywhere in the game I cracked and looked up a guide, the last one was in a village (can't recall the name), I went to the exact location the guide said but couldn't see him, only hear the crawling sound they made. I spent a couple of hours combing the same spot over and over again but could never see him so I gave up.

Defeated

Retr0gamer

You sir do not deserve to own a Wii or a zelda game. Now go away!

I remember having a quick go of LttP when the Snes was just new and being utterly enthralled by it. Then I got a lend of Links Awakening for 1 day and was enthralled by that as well. I was only doing the fetch quest until my batteries died. I really wanted OoT but didn't have an N64 but thought it looked gorgeous. However it wasn't until the Oracle of Seasons and Ages games came out that I finally owned and finished a zelda game. (evad_lhorg, both games completely different separate adventures and it doesn't matter what order you play them in the only difference is you get a new end boss and ending tacked on to the second adventure you play which is the same which ever game you start on. They are also exceptionally good. Being made by Capcom/flagship the bosses are excellent and they are probably the hardest zeldas since the first game). Both these games were massive and I was captivated for months until I beat them.

Next was the Wind Waker which I loved. It was an extraordinary game despite it's length. i also didn't find the fetch quest too annoying. I used the oppurtunity to visit ever quadrant on the map and collect the triforce pieces on the way.

I then went straight to OoT that was included with the WW. I was a little disappointed as well when I first played it. Like all N64 games the graphics haven't aged well at all. However after giving it a full 10 hours I realised I was loving it more and more and was playing one of the best games ever made. Great gameplay can't hide behind aged graphics fro very long. It was just full of magical moments such as dueting with Shiek and the great twist at the master sword room. I really would have loved to have played this game when it was released. It really was a technical achievemnet back then in the same way that GTA3 and Oblivion were when they were released. No other game had the scope and scale of OoT back then and it was genuinely the best looking game at the time with gorgeous art design mixed with a sense of scale helped along by a massive draw distance.

LttP was next. That game is up there with Super Metroid in terms of gaming perfection. I have nothing bad to say about that game. i love the moment when you realise the game is twice as big as you first imagined.

I played a few hours of four swords adventures with my mate and while it was excellent it was too much hassle to set up again. A shame because it was really enjoyable.

Minish Cap was a fantastic little game, probably my favourite game on the GBA.

I'm currently playing Majoras Mask on the N64. It's quite different to any other zelda game. There was qutie a fish out of water feeling at the start after being turned into a Deku shrub and then having a time limit imposed on you. However after the first dungeon everything started to make sense and I'm really enjoying it at the moment. The amount of subquests is phenomenal.

Roll on Twilight Princess.

abetarrush

i never liked it, quite in fact it was annoyin

but Twilight Princess looks beast

BlitzKrieg

You sir do not deserve to own a Wii or a zelda game. Now go away!

I'm trying to be worthy. I'm playing 3 of them at once!

WindWaker, Minish Cap and A link to the Past, I might Start Ocarnia of time as well.

I WILL BE WORTHY!

Retr0gamer

BlitzKrieg wrote:

I'm trying to be worthy. I'm playing 3 of them at once!

WindWaker, Minish Cap and A link to the Past, I might Start Ocarnia of time as well.

I WILL BE WORTHY!

That there is an awful idea. At least play one console and one hnadheld game. You will just end up neglecting all but one of them and then forget were you are in ther rest after you finished the one you were playing.

Star Lord

I agree with Retr0gamer, stick to at the most one console and one handheld game!

And BlitzKrieg you are forgiven, as you're obviously trying to make up for your mistakes!

I had played a little of LTTP first, borrowed from one of my brothers friends, but only had it a few days, but loved it.

My first Zelda game that I owned was Ocarina of Time, and from the moment I turned it on, I was literally sitting there slack jawed at this amazing game! I played for hours on end, till I finished it a week later. Then, I simply started again, and went through it, getting all the hearts and (most of) the gold skulltulas, I think I only missed 2 of them.

Next up was Links Awakening DX on GBC, and again I just got sucked into the game, playing it every chance I had (I was in hospital at the time)

After that came my favourite Zelda game, Majoras Mask, which my flatmate owned, and we both played it, frequently teasing one another about the masks we had gotten and not telling one another how to get them! I loved the sidequests for the masks, and I loved the ending to this game too. I even let the time run out a couple of times just to watch what happened! When I finally managed to unlock the Fierce Deity mask, and transformed into Oni Link, that is the only moment in gaming to leave me feeling more awestruck than OOTs first time travel Finally managed to get my hands on it too when I found somebody had traded in the collectors disk in one of my local game shops! (the fool!)

Windwakers vast open oceans were amazing, as was the whole art style of the game, I actually enjoyed sailing around every square on the ocean chart getting the whole map completed. The only bit I didn't like was the bit where you had to get the triforce shards, I though that was a bit of a letdown. I thought it would have been a bit like LTTP where there would be all these extra levels for the triforce shards, in the same way as there were the levels in the dark hyrule. But the ending of that game was great too. Would be great if there was a direct follow on from that game where you had to re-obtain the master sword...

Can't wait for Twilight Princess

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Oh and I have Minish Cap too, never finished it tho, the last guy always got me.

im...LOST

Erm..I have to say that I only ever REALLY play OOT.

That said, I loved it and I hope that twilight princess will rock just as hard

tba

Hello,

My name is tba and

I have never played a Zelda game.

is there one on the DS?

Jim

tba wrote:

Hello,

My name is tba and

I have never played a Zelda game.

is there one on the DS?

Theres one coming out early next year iirc called Phantom Hourglass.

Been trying to get my hands on the Minish Cap second hand for the last couple of weeks but can't find it anywhere. All shops have the same ****ty movie/cartoon games in the used section.

Mr E

I'm a huge zelda fan too. My favourite out of the series is A Link To The Past (SNES/GBA). I must have played through that at least 6 or 7 times. It really is superb. The music, graphics, story, gameplay, secrets, dungeons, bosses - all fantastic.

rainbow kirby

I'm one of those rare people who really, really loves Wind Waker... it was the first Zelda game I actually finished, and I was just in awe all the way through. It ended way too quickly though!
Dying to get my hands on Twilight Princess

Rhyme

rainbow kirby wrote:

I'm one of those rare people who really, really loves Wind Waker...

Same here, the only negative bit about it for me is how annoying it is to map every square (i know you don't need to, but i feel compelled).

Counting the days until the 8th (thanks smokingman ) and wiling the time away with Resident Evil 4, more Resident Evil and Metal Slug.

mikeruurds

Jimeatsmenu wrote:

Theres one coming out early next year iirc called Phantom Hourglass.

Been trying to get my hands on the Minish Cap second hand for the last couple of weeks but can't find it anywhere. All shops have the same ****ty movie/cartoon games in the used section.

I have one that my wife is finishing Just the cartridge with no box, manual etc.

Won't have a need for it in a little while.

Mike

joe_chicken

Ocarina is a great game...

Got it about 2 days after it came out... (probably the giddiest I've ever been about a game... and that's saying alot)

The teleporting Ocarina, the grapple hook, the horse-back-archery, the mirror shield, the underwater boots... the list goes on of the beautiful touches that make the whole package a great game


p.s. where the HELL can I get The Minish Cap???

Dr. Dodger

Zelda games are fantastic. You get hooked really easily then you stop playing for months, then go back to it, 2 minutes in, you're hooked again. Sign of a great game. Finished Ocarina for the 2nd time a few months ago then eventually started majora's mask which is amazing. in a race to finish it now before dec. its all go, tell the girlfriend i'll ring her in a month.

evad_lhorg

im doin the same with Ocarina. trying to get it all in before next week. Hopefully I will get my wii before you chumps.

BlitzKrieg

just did the first two dungeons of windwaker (well earlier today)

thats not including the sneaking around one (*grumble*)

Enjoying it. Though I find some controls fidgity (climbing ledges)

quick question? Can I revisit dungeons? Cause there was a load of stuff I couldnt find in the second one, and I might want to go back later and get them.

Star Lord

Yeah you can go back into them at any stage later, as sometimes theres things in the dungeons that are impossible to get if you don't (or simply easier to get if you do) have something from further along in the game.

Timans

I want to play Ocarina.

Although, I sold my GC, Can't afford a Wii and can't find a N64 without the 50 euro or ridiculous postage.

BlitzKrieg

ganon = the Sh*T

just found that castle thing and now giving the world a good exploring

Kurtosis

I second Joe_chicken's where is Minish Cap?!