The Legend of Zelda - Real Person Reviews

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Published on November 2, 2015 4:45:37 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr7LxyV8Fj0

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The Legend of Zelda (1986)

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Review

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Written review: http://hubworldhq.com/2016/03/31/the-legend-of-zelda/
The legend begins.
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The Legend of Zelda is an action adventure game for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The prince of darkness, Ganon, stole the Triforce of Power. Princess Zelda split apart the Triforce of Wisdom and hid the pieces before Ganon’s minions kidnapped her. It’s up to you, Link, to collect the pieces, defeat Ganon, save the princess, and save the land of Hyrule. You play from a top-down perspective moving from screen to screen. There are caves and dungeons around the large overworld for you to enter. Some of them are immediately visible and reachable while others will require an action or use of an item to open. When you begin, the first screen of the game has an obvious cave opening. It is assumed you will enter this cave and get the wooden sword inside. This will now be your attack with the A button for the rest of the game. From this point on it’s up to you to explore the land in search for the dungeons, equipment, and secrets that await you. Do you have what it takes?

The Legend of Zelda is clearly very inspired by RPGs, which is evident by the acquisition of new items and the settings. However, it takes the fun parts of RPGs, such as exploring, looting, and progressing, and takes out the padding like the heavy focus on story, level grinding, and turn-based combat. Instead of leveling you tend to find heart containers to increase your health, find items to give you more abilities, and upgrade your items to become more powerful. You have the freedom of movement and attacking at will rather than taking turns selecting attacks from a menu. There’s a story, but it’s more outlined in the opening crawl and the manual than being thrown between bits of tedious gameplay. This compromise of elements created a new, more accessible experience for fans of adventures and open world exploration. You can tackle most of the game at your own pace. You can hunt for secrets, grind rupees for items, or just head right to the dungeons. You can even do some dungeons out of order even though they are clearly numbered. There are some cryptic things you’ll need to do in order to progress, but there’s always someone that will give you a hint about it. You just have to explore to find them. Or you can just experiment with things and figure it out for yourself. Basically, everything you do in this game is based on exploration, experimentation, and overcoming challenges with your own wit and skill.

My point is that even The Legend of Zelda isn’t perfect. It has some flaws and isn’t necessarily for everyone. However, it’s still an amazingly well-designed game. It’s especially impressive for NES standards, having two different campaigns, battery back-up saves, and a whole new kind of adventure to experience. It’s also one of the harder Zelda games, even if it’s still relatively easy for an NES game. There hasn’t really been another Zelda game quite like it since. It’s a wonderful experience that put Zelda on the map. If there’s one thing that The Legend of Zelda is about, it’s adventure. Exploration, challenge, and adventure. Every Zelda fan should play this game. Every NES fan should play this game. Every video game fan in general should play The Legend of Zelda at least once in their life. Everyone should witness what it was like when this legend was born.

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