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dolariWhy the "Play all the Zeldas Quest?"
My very first Zelda game was the Adventure of Link in 1988. Apparently, I got just to the very end when the battery on it died sometime in the mid 90s. Good game, put it aside, didn't play another Zelda game for a long while (I was familiar to Link to the Past, only because a friend's mother was playing it while I stayed with them). Eventually, in the late 90s, I got out of gaming all together.
Fast forward to 2009, when I was unexpectedly working for Nintendo, which reawakened the gamer in me. In 2011, I played the E3 demo of Ocarina of Time 3D and (being one of the few people who actually seem to LIKE the 3D aspect of the 3DS) was so impressed by the Water Temple demo, that I picked the game up after release, and spent a few months finishing it.
At the end, I wanted more. Sadly, I was told, that's the best of the Zelda games, and the rest would probably be dissapointing. I did pick up Skyward Sword when it was released that Christmas and sat down to play. It took me nearly a year to finish and I fell deeply in love with the story and visuals.
I then grabbed a few more games, and was nearly sidelined by original Legend of Zelda's difficulty, until I was told "Don't kill everything first. Explore first, level your weapons up, THEN start the massacres." Finishing that first one showed me how deep the later games got from these beginnings.
With the release of the Hyrule Historia and it's timeline, I decided to sit down and play each game I hadn't already finished in the timeline order, to experience the story. I wasn't dissapointed. Well, maybe with one or two games.
Now that I'm finished, I'm thinking of replaying one or two of them, this time, taking my time and exploring, and looking around. I learned to like that from Wind Waker. :)
I'll post up what I thought of each game, worst to best, in a few posts.
My very first Zelda game was the Adventure of Link in 1988. Apparently, I got just to the very end when the battery on it died sometime in the mid 90s. Good game, put it aside, didn't play another Zelda game for a long while (I was familiar to Link to the Past, only because a friend's mother was playing it while I stayed with them). Eventually, in the late 90s, I got out of gaming all together.
Fast forward to 2009, when I was unexpectedly working for Nintendo, which reawakened the gamer in me. In 2011, I played the E3 demo of Ocarina of Time 3D and (being one of the few people who actually seem to LIKE the 3D aspect of the 3DS) was so impressed by the Water Temple demo, that I picked the game up after release, and spent a few months finishing it.
At the end, I wanted more. Sadly, I was told, that's the best of the Zelda games, and the rest would probably be dissapointing. I did pick up Skyward Sword when it was released that Christmas and sat down to play. It took me nearly a year to finish and I fell deeply in love with the story and visuals.
I then grabbed a few more games, and was nearly sidelined by original Legend of Zelda's difficulty, until I was told "Don't kill everything first. Explore first, level your weapons up, THEN start the massacres." Finishing that first one showed me how deep the later games got from these beginnings.
With the release of the Hyrule Historia and it's timeline, I decided to sit down and play each game I hadn't already finished in the timeline order, to experience the story. I wasn't dissapointed. Well, maybe with one or two games.
Now that I'm finished, I'm thinking of replaying one or two of them, this time, taking my time and exploring, and looking around. I learned to like that from Wind Waker. :)
I'll post up what I thought of each game, worst to best, in a few posts.
