i found this inside a gamecube at a goodwill and bought the whole console just to get this
The perfect way to get into the zelda series
The only thing holding this back is how abysmal the emulation for Majora's Mask is. Prone to crashing and losing all your progress. By far the worst official way to play Majora's Mask. The other games on it are great though.
I have thought about selling this, but I cannot bring myself to do it. Just so much good in this collection.
I played Ocarina of Time AAAAND Majora's Mask on this. Sooo fucking good. I love these games to death. Ocarina of Time is the most impressive "Dang this game is good for it's time!" type game ever and Majora's Mask is the sickest asset reusing sequel ever. However this collection feels kinda empty without A Link to the Past and Link's Awakening, would give this five stars if they were included but this is still super good value. I mean I guess it's because they were already playable on GameCube via GameBoy player but like 3 people bought that so why not add them?
This would be 5 stars if it wasn't for Majora's Mask being really crap on here. Still, an amazing value
Zelda 1 and 2 are fine here. But let's be real, that's not why you're here. And they're easily available elsewhere.
Ocarina of Time suffers awful lag. Majora's Mask is even worse, and also crashes. And Majora's Mask limited save system make it one of the last game you'd want to crash.
Amazing value for its time, but now I don't reccomand.
Ocarina of Time suffers awful lag. Majora's Mask is even worse, and also crashes. And Majora's Mask limited save system make it one of the last game you'd want to crash.
Amazing value for its time, but now I don't reccomand.
Good collection, Majora crashes too often though. Adds an extra layer of stress cause the game could crash at any moment deleting your progress on that cycle.
It's funky playing zelda 1 with a joystick too
It's funky playing zelda 1 with a joystick too
The Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition is a unique collection of Zelda games that was packaged with the GameCube. It contains ports of The Legend of Zelda, Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, Ocarina of Time, and Majora's Mask, a demo of Wind Waker which is specifically a few minutes to work through Dragonroost Temple, and a short video that serves as a retrospective for the series up to that point. It's nice to be able to play these on a GameCube, but the Ocarina of Time port is fully censored (I will explain) and the Majora's Mask port is rubbish. Majora's Mask has an ungodly horrible framerate which is how I imagine the game runs on an N64 if you don't have the memory expansion installed in it. Ocarina of Time has had several versions throughout the course of its existence, each making slight changes. The second version of Ocarina of Time removed the Islamic chant from the Fire Temple's music and a third version made Ganondorf's blood green. The Collector's Edition version has those same changes, the redesigned Gerudo emblem, and removed the blood that was seen on the floor in different places under the well and in the Shadow Temple. I'm lucky enough in that my copy of Ocarina of Time is the first version, Islamic chant and all.
Anyway, it's good and is a great means to play these Zelda games if you're unfazed by the censorship of Ocarina of Time. You are better off playing Majora's Mask elsewhere, however.
Anyway, it's good and is a great means to play these Zelda games if you're unfazed by the censorship of Ocarina of Time. You are better off playing Majora's Mask elsewhere, however.
This is how I got into the Zelda series. It came with my GameCube and I found out how terrifying beamos were and how difficult it was to play the original Legend of Zelda as a kid. I really had a great time with it and it's a big reason for liking the kind of games I do.
It’s a cool collection and a good way to play all these games on GameCube. But the majoras mask port isn’t very good.
They're all great games! Odds are you'll mostly play Zelda 1 and Ocarina, though. Zelda 2 is hit or miss for a lot of people (although i'm a huge fan lol) and Majora's Mask port is held together with scotch tape and a prayer. A few crashes here and there can be okay, but because of how Majora's saving system works, the game suffers a lot.
Classic after classic.
A very nice collection to own!
A very nice collection to own!