Comment on Today is the 40th Anniversay of Zelda!
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Zelda A Link To the Past was for a very long time my favorite game of all time. There are so many great moments during all Zelda games I played, but one particular moment still is my favorite. See, back then I didn’t own a console and could only play A Link to the Past on the friends SNES whenever I visit him. It was also my first Action Adventure game I ever played and I didn’t know games could be this big.
The moment was, when I defeated Agahnim for the first time (after the 3 medallions) I thought that I finished the game. What happened next was unbelievable. (Sounds like clickbait YouTube title, lol, but I try to avoid any spoilers… just by principle.)
This was my experience as well. I didn’t have an SNES, and so every opportunity that I could play this at my friend’s house, I did. I never got all the way through until I emulated it in university.
I did, however, get a Game Boy, and Link’s Awakening became my defining Legend of Zelda.
Lol same for me. Link’s Awakening was the first Zelda game I played through on my own Game Boy. This was basically my dream game from the SNES in small format for me. I have so much memories of this game too, the entire game was not even about Zelda. After that I got a SNES and well the rest is history.
The fact you were only about 25% through the game was pretty crazy to me back then too. It’s still one of my too Zeldas.
That moment and what happened after defeating the Elite Four in Pokémon Gold both blew my mind as a child.
Also Final Fantasy 6 has a mind blowing moment of this scale too. Nowadays one expect games to be big and we know beforehand how long it takes to finish them. One of the downsides of the internet.
Kinda like Pokemon Mystery Dungeon. “Wooo, we beat Primal Dialga and saved the world! Now lets live a normal life. Wait why am I getting kidnapped-”
My first gaming memory was watching my dad kill Ganon when I was probably 4 or 5.
I have played Link to the Past so many times over the years, probably most recently when I got a switch in 2018. I’ve actually still never beat the preceding 2 main games, having been turned off by their lack of direction too many times.
These days I think Tears of the Kingdom is my new favourite (although Ocarina and LTTP will always be in my favourite games of all time list). I found the story to be better than average for Zelda, and the final boss battle in that one is just amazing - maybe not very hard, but I can’t remember any game with a more spectacular ending.
I didn’t expect such a good fight in Tears, after the battle in Breath. BTW I completely ignored Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, until 2024 / 2025. And in fact, in the beginning I “hated” Breath for some of the concepts like breaking weapons and no classic dungeons. But I’m so glad to played them, because they are great experiences in their own right. Shows we should not judge too fast.
The last dungeon theme of Tears, when you enter the flying Castle on the outside, also impressed me a lot. And yes, the story, as it unfolds the truth (we don’t spoil here… :-)) was heart breaking, a feeling I never had before in a Zelda game. As to which is my favorite Zelda game? I really don’t know anymore. There are couple of games I need to play, especially Wind Waker and Twilight Princess. There was a time in my life when I didn’t play much games… and I missed some of the greatest classics.
If you want to experience a similar kind of nostalgia, may I suggest a brand new game called Under the Island. Just came out a few days ago, and for me, it hits that sweet spot in terms of pixel graphics and acquring new gear and re-exploring old areas and using the new gear to unlock more things to do and see.
I have no affiliation to the game or the devs, just really want to promote it because it is very obvious they put a lot of love and effort into it and it’s always nice to see someone’s passion and being able to experience it.
Anyway, it’s like $15 on steam right now, plays great on a SteamDeck, and is just really well done. It’s not a super deep story or anything, just a really fun time, fun and easy game play, and lots of side quests and things to explore for $15. ❤️
Chrono Trigger had a similar effect on me, where Magus seemed like he just had to be the BBEG… Then you realize that was just the first drop on the rollercoaster.
I remember experiencing that moment like 4 times in Ōkami
Carighan@piefed.world 15 minutes ago
It stayed that for me albeit Majora’s Mask came very close to dethroning it. Then came A Link Between Worlds, and that was even better. So yeah nowadays I very slightly prefer that.