Its suprising to find so many great elements introduced in this game that would reappear in most zelda games that released after this one. It aged really well as I was enjoying playing the game in 2021 without major issues. In the first 80% of the game I basically never used a guide because I did not have to. Only for the last 2 Dungeons I kept looking into a guide as it helped me progress more smoothly towards the end. I did not really enjoy the last 2 or 3 Dungeons in Zelda 1 and as this is the second Zelda game I played since starting the "lets play all zelda games in release order" project (I skipped zelda 2), I appreciate that the dungeon design wasn't nearly as annoying in the last two dungeons here. I have to be honest and say I abused the "wind back" feature the switch emulation offers quite often, but I did not want to get frustrated by dying in the last dungeon a dozen times :)