Legend Of Zelda Thirtieth Aniverssary.
 

Title says it all. I never got too much into this series, but I've enjoyed what I played, and appreciate that it is also kinda a Nintendo mascot.

Happy birthday, Legend of Zelda.

I still remember playing the first ever Zelda game and feeling lost from the first minute on. It sure gave you a great sense of adventure and exploration. That game was a box full of surprises.

Then I played Ocarina, which was jaw dropping back in the late 90s. For years I considered that to be the GOAT game. Some years later, I finally managed to get my hands on A Link to the Past. Probably my favorite Zelda nowadays. It has aged better than Ocarina, mostly thanks to being a SNES game released at the time when 2D gaming was at its finest.

Wind Waker was fun, but a bit too easy, imo. Plus, the triforce search was boring. I did like the sailing, but I think the game had more potential. I'd probably have liked it more if I had played it back when it came out, since I was still a kid at the time.

Haven't played much of Majora's. I need to finish that game someday.

I'm yet to play the portable games, TP and SS.

I've played all the games to date multiple times.

I even suffered through the DS Zelda's and Skyword Sword twice.

Suffered? I'm guessing you weren't a fan of those games.

Oh and I forgot to mention, I've played some of Adventure of Link too, but haven't been able to beat it yet. That game is hard.

That's the only Zelda game I've ever played through without ever getting a "Game Over".

What part are you up to in that game?

Woah, Skyward Sword wasn't that bad. Worst 3D Zelda? Sure. But still an amazing game barring that horrible Link model.

I don't think I've died a single time in WW either. And if I did, it was only that one time.

What part am I in AoL? Good question... I don't remember. And can't find the GBA cartridge of it(the version I have) anywhere. But I don't think I've gotten very far in it. So probably less than halfway through it.

I haven't played all of the Zelda games, but my liking of the series is kind of ironic.

I played the very first one when it was still new in the states. I didn't have an NES, but my friend's family did so I'd play at her house. We played the first Zelda game. I was maybe 6 or 7 at the time. Anyway, we tried playing it, but we just got incredibly bored and it was confusing for us. That made me dislike the game and never gave the franchise a second glance....until the Super Mario Bros Super Show a couple of years later.

Despite my dislike of the games at that time, I really liked the show and looked forward to Fridays when the SMBSS aired a LoZ cartoon in place of the Mario one. I liked the idea of that world and stuff.

A few years go by. No Zelda stuff...until I played A Link to the Past on the SNES. I thought it was fun and interesting, but I played it way after the fact. I borrowed my friend's copy of the game. It was really fun, and everything that frustrated me about the original game was pretty much gone. It was making me a fan of the franchise. I then received OoT and that was when I was definitely a full-on fan. I actually went back to play the other games I missed (home consoles).

So yeah, thanks to the cartoon and a A Link to the Past, I got into the series and OoT made me a full on fan.

I wish I had more Legend of Zelda merch, though...but I'd say my most prized possession is my original Japanese copy of the first game for the Famicom disk system.

I remember being introduced to Zelda through the manga adaptation of Ocarina of Time. That, Twilight Princess, and Wind Waker are my favorite games.

I remember it being kind of hard for me too, although my cousin was the one who played through most of it. I'm the one who worked on the last two palaces and finished the game.

The cartoon is kind of what made me want to play the game too. I'd watch the Super Mario Bros. Super Show, but since I was going to an afterschool center on Mondays through Thursdays, the Zelda cartoon was the one I'd get to watch most of the time. Christmas was coming up, and I was in a store and saw Zelda II: The Adventure of Link on a shelf, and asked for it. I'm not sure why I asked for that one when there was the very first Legend of Zelda game available. Anyway I'd get that later, and I'd get all the other Zelda games in the order in which they came out.

Best game series ever. Yes I do love Skyword Sword!

Well that's certainly an interesting way of getting into the series. I doubt most people who have read such manga adaptations haven't played a single Zelda game.

I've only read the Ocarina, Majora's and ALttP's manga adaptations thus far. I think Ocarina's was alright. Obviously they couldn't make it huge sense playing a game is different from reading a comic/manga, but I think it was an interesting adaptation and that it didn't go far away from the source material.

Majora's wasn't bad either, although I don't remember it as vividly. I've read those mangas back in 2009 or so already, iirc.

I recall not liking A Link to the Past's much. It seemed a tad different from the game. Then again, being a 2D top down game from 1992, ALttP didn't have much of a story as the 3D instalments of the series had, so I guess the author had to add some of his ideas to it in order to get a proper story. Cant' say I was a big fan of it, though.

They gotta release that Four Swords Anniversary Edition again! I want it and I need it.

Is it sad i never got into Zelda until i bought the NES and SNES games on the Wii U?

Well, you have to start somewhere.

Better late than never. If you weren't born yet by the time the NES and the SNES games were out, what choice did you have?

What did you think of the games you've played so far? Which one did you like the most?

A Link to the Past was my first Zelda. If it had been the original, I would have never played another one.

Same here, honestly.

My first first Zelda game was on the old black and white game boy.

Link's awakeing. I must of played that game over 1000 times lol.

Next was a Link to the past, and up. I really felt sorry for Link's awakeing. Marin, and Mario lol, and all the fun people on the island gone once that the windfish wakes up.

It was sad seeing Marin singing her song, and poof she is gone. I loved Marin.

The first Zelda game I played was the original on NES but the two that got me into the series were The Wind Waker and Ocarina of Time. Wind Waker because it caught my attention and I was greatly anticipating it and Ocarina of Time because The Master Quest came free with the pre-order of The Wind Waker. I've played and own every game in the series but have yet to pass the Gameboy and Gameboy Color games as well as Majora's Mask, Four Swords, and Spirit Tracks. It's definitely one of my favorite if not favorite series in gaming and I can't wait to get my hands on Zelda U.

The first one I played was the zelda game on the Nes, that came with a gold cartridge:o I loved it, still do now, but to me Ocarina of time was where the series cemented it's awesomeness. I'll never forget how mind blowing it was when I first turned it on. Pure magic:D

Zelda 1 or 2. They both had a gold cartridge.

They really just need to re-release the actual version of that game. The Anni-ed was not very good.
I'm a pretty huge Zelda fan. My fav is, and will probably always be, Link's Awakening. :3

My Zelda II cartridge corroded.

Oh i was definitely born by the time those came out, my games of choice though back then were Mario, TMNT and Donkey Kong, lol.

Link to the Past was the best one IMO, no idea what they were thinking making Zelda II a side scroller.

My Zelda 1 cartridge is gold. I love it. As is my N64 Majora's Mask cartridge. Ocarina's was regular grey.

There was only one Zelda game out, yet. So they decided to take a risk and make Zelda II a sidescroller instead of a top-down game. Zelda II sold pretty well, so it didn't hurt it much despite not exactly being considered by most people as one of the best Zelda games.

It wasn't until A Link to the Past that Zelda got its formula down.

I'm replaying Skyward Sword right now and its just meh. I got through it fine the first time around but everything just feels so tedious. I don't feel this way with any other 3D Zelda, not even Wind Waker or Twilight Princess which I've beaten 4 times each.

The overworld design, graphics, enemy design, motion controls just doesn't grab me. The dungeons are pretty decent and some very good, and I do like the overall story, but its the weakest 3D Zelda.

Personally, I don't want motion control with a Zelda game period which is why I disliked the Wii version of Twilight Princess and prefer my Gamecube version to it, as it was originally intended for that system anyway. I want to play in the traditional way, and that's my problem. Sure, let them have their motion control settings, but make it optional, not forced. I know I would've played more of Skyward Sword for that reason alone.

The best thing about Skyward Sword is probably the characterizations of Link and Zelda...along with the story.

Skyward Sword is the next game in line to get an HD remake, probably won't happen till the next console sometime. I wonder if they'll do away with motion controls entirely.

I can't remember what my first Zelda game was anymore, the first, Zelda II or Links Awakening. I'm guessing it was AoL or LA but can't remember anymore. When I played my first Zelda we were already in the N64 generation but way before OOT came out. I used to think Zelda looked extremely dull and boring so I had always avoided it, even the N64 previews from when the N64 launched which look nothing like OOT made me feel like it was not for me. But one summer I my mom bought LA because it was very cheap at a store or because I saw the golden cartridge at a used game store. Both happened the same summer I just can't remember which. In my summer house we had my old NES but I found a store that sold used games so I would go there to buy games for it.

I quickly got stuck with LA but I still enjoyed the game very much and the premise of it all being a dream. The ending where you realize everyone in your journey is about to "die" when you wake up was something totally new to me and no game has matched that. I remember being very excited about Zelda II since I had never read anything about it on any magazine, only the original. I found the game very hard but still played through a lot of it. Luckily there was another save file that had everything already. And my memories of the original were great as well, so I don't know why its getting some hate here. I had already played Mario 64 by this time but I still felt like I was discovering this "open world" unlike any other game for the first time. I loved that and had plenty of fun with it.

By the time OOT came out everyone was a Zelda fan but I was the "guru" of the class since I had played past entries of the games. I've never completed ALTTP, I first played it when it came out on GBA since I didn't have a SNES anymore when I got into Zelda. Four Swords Adventures is a hidden gem in the "mainline" Zelda games that not many know of so I always like to mention it.

I used to be hardcore into the history and timeline of Zelda and this was before it was cool back in 1999 when not many people used to discuss it, there was only one active forum/website that dealt with it. Another great memory I have from that time was the "Sky" temple and getting the triforce in OOT. I spent so many hours researching and discussing this back in Hyrule The Land of Zelda website.


How was it not very good? From what I read its bascially the same game but with added content and ability to play alone. Sure it doesn't have online play and it was a stupid decision to release it as a bonus download when the game works best as a multiplayer game so the more people that have it the better, dont know whose boneheaded decision was to make it a limited download that's only been available twice but its still easier to find people who have it than the dreaded 4 people link cable and 4 games you needed for the original. I only ever played the original once with two other people so I don't remember much.

I have the original, but how am i gonna play it when no one else does?

About the gold carts, most NES Zelda games are gold, the grey version is ironically rarer since it was for the final print run. I remember when getting the zelda game at the used store I knew the grey version had a lower print run but still decided on the gold one because it just looked cooler. I don't regret that decision. For Majora's Mask all cartridges are gold but if you pre-ordered the game instead of a normal sticker you had a "holographic" sticker, I used to have it. And for OOT I don't know how it was done, all I know is that I had a grey cart and then one day while entering ToysRUs I saw on the customer service area OOT with a "shiny" box and and I think collectors edition logo. Somehow I convinced my parents to buy it for me and return the regular version. I was the coolest kid in class because I was the only one with the Gold version.



So apparently for the 30th anniversary we're not only getting Twilight Princess but also Picross Twilight Princess game as a prize in the new MyNintendo rewards system. While you can't complain much for something that will likely be free/a reward, why not just make it a generic Zelda Picross theme instead of only based on one game? I doubt we'll see Picross games for every zelda game released from now on but whatever.

I managed to snag a limited edition Majora's Mask cartridge, and I didn't get to pre-order the game. I got it the day after Christmas in 2000. The day before Christmas, I saw some at TRU. I had the money to get it after Christmas, but they were all gone. Then I found one at Comp USA.

You also got the gold cartridge for Ocarina of Time if you pre-ordered, but you lucked out the same way I did with Majora's Mask. I didn't get to pre-order Ocarina of Time, and ended up with a regular gray cartridge of it. Then I traded it for a gold cartridge at Funcoland (I think it was still called that back then).

I have ages and seasons for the gameboy color, still works after what 17 or so years lol.

But 2 weeks ago I did download both games off of the shop, for the 3ds. And I notice something I miss of later zelda games playing the ages seasons series.

The witch Maple, I forgot how much fun she was. Bumping into her and raceing for your and hers drop items. It was fun, and perhaps one of my favorite highlights of the older games. She drops potions, rings, money, and if your really lucky, a heart. You get some of the best items that are non weapons off of Maple.

I would really like to see her return, have not seen Maple since the remake of a link to the past.

I've played and beaten every game in the series save for Skyward Sword -- which I've tried to finish twice since owning it and given up out of boredom both times; truly hate that game -- and The Minish Cap, simply because I've never owned a copy.

My easy favorite is Majora's Mask, followed shortly by The Wind Waker, but after that it gets murky. I love both NES entries, so they probably come next, and it's hard to deny the charm of Ocarina of Time. All three of the Gameboy Color titles are great, though of the lot I probably get the most enjoyment out of Oracle of Seasons, which is incredibly challenging at times (actually, all three have a nice sense of difficulty). I'm unsure where I'd place Link to the Past in relation to anything after the NES titles in my ranking, and it's been a long time since I've played it. I enjoy both DS games, but they're difficult to rank as well. I might actually like Spirit Tracks more than the GBC titles; I'm not sure. Aesthetically, I like it even more than Ocarina, but I don't think that extends to gameplay. Twilight Princess and Link Between Worlds round out the bottom of my list, being competent but unremarkable, and way too easy to feel as satisfying as the others, and at the absolute nadir, the only Zelda game I truly dislike, is Skyward Sword.

You say you found TP and LBW a bit too easy, but then you rank WW as your 2nd favorite Zelda game? No offence, but it seems kinda odd to me since I found WW to be pretty easy for the most part. If there's a Zelda game I've never died in it was WW.

I have not played TP or LBW yet, but I have a hard time believing that they're easier games than WW. Unless WW has other elements that make it great for you.

Wind Waker's super easy. It's one of the rare times a sense of atmosphere and exploration override that for me.

(And, in terms of finding everything, it really doesn't hold your hand.)

TP and LBW are probably just as easy as WW though. I don't think there's an enemy who does more than one full heart of damage in TP.

Well WW has certainly aged well graphically wise and has an interesting world that makes exploration exciting like the older Zelda games did. But man, screw the


And I cant' get over how easy WW is. Hell,


The Tower of Gods and its boss fight were pretty cool, however. One of my favorite Zelda dungeons ever.

I think I'd have liked WW more as a kid. But I didn't play it until I was in my 20s. Seems like the kind of game that's magical to you when you're a kid.

I've had several people tell me that they have never once died in TP.

To be fair, Ocarina of Time wasn't the toughest game around either. Or even A Link to the Past once you got a few extra heart pieces. Now the original Zelda and especially Adventure of Link? Oh boy.

I actually really like that. At the end, the game forces you to actually explore some of the ocean you could have potentially ignored up to that point. It's nicely open-ended as well.

I honestly cannot imagine dying in TP unless it's your first video game or you're doing a restricted run.

That's a huge part of why I love them. The core gameplay is fun, but they also make you feel like a god for accomplishing anything. There's a real feeling that, on top of obtaining the necessary items and upgrades and finding the next path, you may not be able to do the next part until you get better. That's an element missing from just about every subsequent Zelda.

I actually think the first game is the harder of the two. The last few dungeons are absolutely ridiculous.

No way, Zelda 1 is easy unless you're doing the master quest or whatever harder version that was. Zelda 2 was always next to impossible to me.