The Legend of Zelda

[Redmage1987]

Who here is a fan of the Zelda series?

I love this franchise, I own and have beat all 16 Canon Zelda Games as well as Link's Crossbow Training.

I also have some other Zelda related stuff. I got the complete animated series on DVD, a Zelda Wallet, and the Game & Watch game on a Key Chain.

How about you guys? What Zelda Game(s) are you currently playing? Which one is your favorite in the series? How many have you beaten?

[oldmanwinters]

I actually enjoy watching people play Zelda well rather than trying to do it myself. I really respect the series, but I just am not the type of person who really gets into it. I have only beaten the NES original, and I used the online interactive map to figure most everything out too.

[Cure]

Zelda peaked with Wind Waker.

[Eiko]

Love the Zelda series just a shame i couldn't enjoy it on the Wii like i did on the other Nintendo consoles.

[Darth Knuckles]

I'm a big The Legend of Zelda fan too! My favorite two games are probably The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening. The latter being how I got into the series and the former being my favorite video game of all time.....just ahead of three Sonic games mind you.

[Scud]

I just recently started getting into Zelda. I picked up a used copy of LOZ: A Link to the Past. I'm almost done.
I like the game, but since I'm so used to rpg's like Final Fantasy, I keep getting confused thinking I have to battle everything for experience.

~S~

[tmnt transformer]

I'm a huge fan of Zelda!!!! I have so far Mastered 9/16 games (I just got into Zelda last Year with OoT on N64) I'm currently working on OoT MQ 3D off and on. Also I'm looking for Zelda collectors edition for Gamecube.....If anyone has one cheap, let me know.

[愛]

Cure is right, Wind Waker was the last amazing Zelda game. I still enjoyed TP, though, despite all of its bullsh*t wolf yiffing segments. I found Skyward Sword so boring, it's the only Zelda game I never finished.

[Logan]

I got Twilight Princess a couple months ago, but I haven't gotten around to finishing it.

My two favorites are probably The Adventure of Link and Ocarina of Time.

[Zany Orange Dude]

I really enjoyed Wind Waker. I think that's my favorite.

[gobo]

Loved the first one. Obsessed over A Link To The Past. Thoroughly enjoyed both Four Sword and all Gameboy games. Think the Wii games are a bit boring though. Also, I never understood why everyone's so gaga over Ocarina. It's just "alright" to me.

[TMNT_Guy]

I've only had the chance to play four of the many Zelda games, and they were all awesome.

Majora's Mask was the worst for me, because while the "Three Days" concept was a great idea in concept, it really didn't encourage exploration since you always felt like you were on a time limit and that has always been what Zelda is about. I still loved it though.

Link to the Past was good, I don't really have much to say about it. I still feel sorry for that poor ocarina flute kid.

Wind Waker was just pure awesome. It was great to see Moblins in a Zelda game again.

Ocarina of Time: I got this game back when Nintendo had stoped support for the Gamecube. With no new games to play and the Wii being months away from release, I went to my local Farmers Market where someone just happend to be selling the game. Having never played a Zelda game and hearing nothing but good from them, I purchased the game, dusted off my old N64, and spent the whole week playing. Despite being so old, the graphics really inpressed me, especially Ganondorf's cape. I still remember just looking up at the sky, watching the sun just slowly move through the bright, blue sky.

It's a shame Nintendo would latter George Lucas the game. I'm so happy I'm lucky enough to own the uncensensored version, I love the Fire Temple theme.

[GK Punk]

Never met a Zelda game I didn't like. That and Metroid are my top two Nintendo franchises.

[Leo656]

Love Zelda, although got into it relatively late compared to my friends. Beaten all of the "proper" console releases except Skyward Sword (don't have it yet), but haven't played many of the handhelds. I beat Oracle of Ages/Seasons on my GBA player for GameCube.

I can't really say I have a favorite, I liked a lot of different things about each one. Maybe Ocarina Of Time, since it was that game that made me a "Real" fan of the series after only casually playing the earlier games. As soon as I was done with Ocarina, I went back and beat Zelda I, II, and Link to the Past and never looked back. Although I'm admittedly a wuss in that I can't play through 'em anymore without a map and guide close by. What can I say, I don't have as much time as I used to to just randomly mess around, as fun as that is.

I really liked A Link To The Past, one of the biggest SNES games I'd ever played. It felt like a perfected version of the first game. I hated Zelda II as a little kid since I had no idea what I was doing but now I like it a lot. Probably my "least favorite" but it was a brave design choice and most of the game works really well. I'm glad so many people liked Wind Waker, I still run into people who refused to play it because of the graphics and I feel sad for those people. I had my own issues with it, namely some of the sailing/chest pickup parts which got a little annoying, but it's a great game.

Last one I played through was Twilight Princess, I dug it a lot, especially the boss fights.

[Redmage1987]

Story Time!!

About a month ago, I was headed out for one of my 5 Mile Walks. I had been doing them at night since it has been being 100 - 105 out each day this Summer.

Anyway though, I had just left my house and not even a full minute into the walk I got stopped by a cop. The officer jumps out and our conversation goes like this...

Officer: "Hey there! What are you up to? Where are you going?"

Me: "I'm just out for a night time walk. I just left my house, actually."

Officer: "Yeah, I can see that. You got your bottle of water and everything. Listen, have you heard the sound of glass breaking or car alarms going off?"

Me: "No, I haven't been gone but just a minute, I live right around the corner."

Officer: "Alright, well, you got an ID on you?"

Me: "Yeah." *Pulls out Legend of Zelda Wallet, takes out ID and hands it to him*

Officer: *Reads off my name "In Code" over the radio, shines light on my wallet* "So you're a fan of Zelda, huh?"

Me: "Oh yeah! It's my second favorite video game series. I own all North American released Zelda Games."

Officer: "Cool. I used the play the one for Super Nintendo all the time, it was..uh.."

Me: "A Link to the Past!"

Officer: "YES! The Dark World, Ice Dungeon, **** it!"

Me: "Yes! Oh god, I actually gave up on that one and got the red cane from the dungeon after it before I was able to beat the Ice Dungeon."

Officer: *Gets info back over the radio, hands me ID* "Alright, well you take it easy. If you hear any glass shattering or alarms call the police right away."

Me: "Alright, will do."

*Officer and I part ways*

(About 40 minutes later into the walk I go right and start walking down one of the highways in town)

* "Gangsta" drives by *

Gangsta: "Fatass!!"

Girl: "Yeah! WOOOO!!"

*They floor it and try to drive away quickly*

*WOOOOOOO!!! (Police Sirens go off)*
*"Gangsta" Pulls over*
*Officer steps out.* - It's the same officer I talked Zelda with earlier.
*Officer waves me over, I walk over to him*

Officer: "I believe you guys have something to say?"

Gangta & Girl: "............sorry..."

Me: "Just don't let it happen again, kids."

Officer: "Alright, you head out, I got to talk with these two. Have a nice night!"

I thought maybe I would share that, haha. That was a really great night time walk.

Originally Posted by oldmanwinters

I actually enjoy watching people play Zelda well rather than trying to do it myself. I really respect the series, but I just am not the type of person who really gets into it. I have only beaten the NES original, and I used the online interactive map to figure most everything out too.

Nothing wrong with that, lol. Luckily for me my game came with the maps that were packaged with it. I managed to find most of the stuff on my own. I definitely found all the dungeons and a good amount of items without an online guide, but it wasn't until I had internet access that I eventually 100% completed the game, lol.

Originally Posted by Scud

I just recently started getting into Zelda. I picked up a used copy of LOZ: A Link to the Past. I'm almost done.

Awesome! Where did you leave off last time you played?

Originally Posted by Leo656

Last one I played through was Twilight Princess, I dug it a lot, especially the boss fights.

I actually like Twilight Princess a lot and I think it gets too much hate. Sure, I didn't care much for the "Tears of Light" segements. I felt like this game picks up a lot once you complete the Lakebed Temple and get the Master Sword. After that I loved this game a lot. It also had some of the best weapons in the series, in my opinion. It just sucks you don't get to use them much. Which version of Twilight Princess did you play? Wii or Gamecube? I prefer Gamecube myself?

[Powder]

Huge fan here. I'm at Ganons Tower in ALTTP right now, actually. Always usually got myself sucked into a Zelda game or at the very least playing brawl with many character models swapped to be LOZ characters, haha. ALTTP was the first game I ever played as a kid and is in my top 5 favorites to this day. I own many of the manga books, every OST that exists is in my itunes, & I've been inspired by the series in everything I do. I draw LOZ stuff all the time, work on remixes of the original music, & even have a triforce royal crest tattoo. Love it all to death.

Favorite title is Twilight Princess, with A Link To The Past in second, Minish Cap in third, Skyward Sword in forth, & I suppose Wind Waker & Ocarina Of Time tie for fifth.

Something I drew recently-


My tattoo-


(Both can be seen in better detail at my deviantart account; link in sig.)

[Redmage1987]

Originally Posted by Powder

Huge fan here. I'm at Ganons Tower in ALTTP right now, actually. Always usually got myself sucked into a Zelda game or at the very least playing brawl with many character models swapped to be LOZ characters, haha. ALTTP was the first game I ever played as a kid and is in my top 5 favorites to this day. I own many of the manga books, every OST that exists is in my itunes, & I've been inspired by the series in everything I do. I draw LOZ stuff all the time, work on remixes of the original music, & even have a triforce royal crest tattoo. Love it all to death.

Favorite title is Twilight Princess, with A Link To The Past in second, Minish Cap in third, Skyward Sword in forth, & I suppose Wind Waker & Ocarina Of Time tie for fifth.

Something I drew recently-


My tattoo-


(Both can be seen in better detail at my deviantart account; link in sig.)

*surrenders triforce shard* Hahaha. Nice, dude! I have seen the Ocarina of Time CD & one of the books, but never owned them.

Awesome! A Link to the past was the first Zelda I ever owned & beat. The first I ever played was the original Legend of Zelda on NES.

That's an awesome Tattoo! I have had several friends try to convince me to get a Mega Man or Donkey Kong Tattoo, I don't think I will though. I don't have anything against Tattoos, I just can't see me getting one, lol.

[Leo656]

Redmage: I played Twilight Princess on the Wii; it's actually the whole reason I bought one.

I have a stainless steel Master Sword but I don't have any pics handy.

[Scud]

Originally Posted by Redmage1987

Awesome! Where did you leave off last time you played?

I'm at Turtle Rock. It's taken me quite a while, and I keep having to look things up. Like I said I'm more used to Final Fantasy games. But I'm enjoying this one quite a bit. It's just different. The replay value is really high. I also have The Minish Cap, to play later.
I missed out on the whole Gameboy craze, so about a year ago, I picked up a GBA second hand with Pokemon Fire Red. I couldn't put it down. So I decided to get into Zelda. now i have a backlog of old games to get through.

I also own a Wii. So based on some of the recommendations here I may purchase a few Zelda games for it too.

~S~

[Frozen_Cereal]

I agree with Cure that Wind Waker was the best in the series. It was (and still is) my favorite game in the series, and it's the reason that I prefer Toon Link over normal Link. Wind Waker was really what made me a big fan of the Zelda series, since I hadn't really played much Zelda until then. After Wind Waker, I went nuts about LoZ, and I played through Ocarina of Time, Phantom Hourglass, Spirit Tracks, 4 Swords, and Twilight Princess. I'm currently working on Zelda II and the Minish Cap, although a bunch of other games are distracting me.