The music...
First try on a boss! 🤘
This game has been in my top ten list since I played it as a kid. Still holds up.
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I feel like I'm in easy mode since I finished the first Zelda relatively recently. I don't remember if "BB" was the default name or if I just randomly pressed a couple of letter.
Did you play 2, or skip to this one?
LttP is definitely easier than the first two games.
I skipped 2 but I want to play it in the future.
I am one of the bizarre minority that really likes 2 (not more than LttP et al) and I’d say it’s totally worth it. It does suffer from typical NES terrible translation issues leading to a few incredibly obtuse puzzles. It nevertheless just feels like an amazing adventure, which is my favorite Zelda quality. Plus the music is also great in 2.
There's a beautiful hack for it that makes it more like a regular game. Changes the xp system, fixes a lot of Grammer and bugs, and has widescreen.
Obviously you're on a crt. But its a good middle ground hack to look into sometime. That games tough.
Not a hack, a pc remake, hence the ability to do widescreen. The NES doesn’t have the physical capability for that.
But it is good. Really good. It also has new content that’s genuinely fun, too.
I only wish it fixed the enemy shield AI so that it wasn’t perfect all the time… granted, there are still ways to win against it, I just wish that jump attacking wasn’t effectively the ONLY way to do it. Imagine if you could bait them to commit to one location while you stabbed the other. Alas.
There are widescreen hacks out there
This is my favorite game ever. Enjoy the playthrough! Try to see it with young, wonder-filled eyes.
The kind of thing that would make sense to me to post too - there are a lot of classics and etc I haven't played yet, but I plan to
I envy you being able to play this for the first time. I wish I could relive that moment again. Maybe I can when my son gets a bit older.
I loved this game so much that I played through the entire game, recording the entire play through on a VHS tape, so I could pop the tape in and watch it any time I wanted.
I also recreated the end scene with the princesses using Mario Paint, including the music.
ALttP was my first Zelda on my SNES. The N64 was already released but I had a SNES. I had never played a isometric game before. I loved it. Just this May I played it again on the Anbernic travelling Europe by train. In my memory it took me month to beat. The internet was already there but it wasn’t on my mind to search for help in the early 2000s. I enjoyed the replay. 10/10.
I enjoyed a replay just a year ago and it held up as well if not better than I remember (and with RetroAchevements which is rather painful, not recommended for first time lol).
It's really a contender for best Zelda, but it's kind of a different genre from OoT and BotW. Certainly the best 2D top down, even with how good Awakening is.
I just beat LttP for the first time last year. It’s between it and Link’s Awakening for my favorite LoZ game
It also has a whole randomizer community to make the fun endless :)
A link between worlds is the sequel to this. I like it less than alttp, but it's still better IMO than the 3D zeldas. That's just a personal preference, though.