The Legend of Zelda
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Few games in the history of the medium carry the weight that The Legend of Zelda does. At a time when most NES titles sent you running in a straight line, Zelda dropped you into a field with no directions and a cave mouth on the very first screen, where an old man hands over a wooden sword with the warning "It's dangerous to go alone! Take this." From that moment it trusted you to explore at your own pace, and it changed what anyone thought a home console game could be.
You play as Link, tasked with recovering the eight scattered pieces of the Triforce of Wisdom and rescuing Princess Zelda from the demon king Ganon. Eight underground labyrinths hold those fragments, and a ninth, hidden inside Death Mountain, holds Ganon himself. The overworld of Hyrule stretches across forests, graveyards, lakes and deserts, and the game never tells you where to go or in what order. Working that out, with a pencil and graph paper if you were doing it right, is the adventure.
Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka filled every corner with secrets. A cracked wall hides a passage for your bombs, a bush burns away under the candle's flame to reveal a staircase, and a hidden shop or heart container waits for anyone curious enough to poke around. Each dungeon is built around a key item, from the boomerang and the bow to the raft, the stepladder and the recorder, that solves its puzzles and opens new ground outside. Koji Kondo's overworld theme ties it together, and a battery-backed save meant your progress was waiting for you the next day, a rare luxury on a console in 1986.
Finish the quest and the game reveals a Second Quest, a tougher remix with rearranged dungeons and secrets moved to new places, which turns one adventure into two. Everything the series became, from A Link to the Past to Breath of the Wild, traces its sense of open-ended discovery back to this game. Playing it on an NES is the way to experience where all of that started, exactly as the first generation of Hyrule explorers did.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1986
- Publisher
- Nintendo
- Developer
- Nintendo R&D4
- Genre
- Adventure
- Players
- Single player
About the game
The Legend of Zelda is the first title in the Zelda series, it has marked the history of video games particularly for it's game mechanics and universe. The player controls Link and must make his way through the forests, graveyards, plains and deserts of the Otherworld to find the secret entrances to the eight dungeons and try to restore the broken Triforce. Among the game's mechanics, it was the first time we saw a continuous world that could be freely explored, power-ups that permanently enhanced the main character's abilities and a battery save feature that allowed players to keep their progress instead of having to start over. The gameplay balanced action sequences with discovery, secrets and exploration.
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