The first of a legendary franchise. This game have innovated so much in the gaming industry with all the newer stuff implemented in or simply polished certain mecanics already introduced.
First of all, the story is mainly in the booklet. However, you can still see some bits of story telling in this game since there were some speeches from characters in-game. The only game older that I played that had text in-game was Super mario bros when saving a toad or princess toadstool. This makes the world that you play in way more alive since you could interact with a whole bunch of characters.
The graphics is also really good for the time. All the sprites are easily distictable between them. Also the world inside is very lively.
Speaking of world, they introduce in this game a new type of way to create this world. Instead of having one single screen that the player interact with or one level that scrolls when player move in one direction, they had the genius to create a map composed of multiples squares, and each of those squares, they had a fixed camera. When the player goes outside of that square, it goes to another part of the map. It's a genius way for the player to have a sense of exploration in the map. They also had a whole bunch of secrets in the hyrule kingdom, which makes the player wants to interact more with obstacles and the world.
The many secrets is doubled-edge sword, since they were reallly hard to find. Sometimes, those secrets were important to the main quests since there were a lot of hidden dungeons that needed to be beaten to get a piece of the triforce. So this game really needed to have a guide to beat. This was one of the ways they could sold more copies of Nintendo Power (since internet wasn't a thing yet).
This was also a long game compared to all other videogames that was release before it. Which is why they implemented for the first time in an NES cartridge a saving system.
All the equipments in the game are really good to help the player to have a feeling of getting powerful each time something was equipped to Link. Some items were optional, only to help the player to have an easier time with the game, but some of them were mandatory (especially to find dungeons and to beat Ganon).
One really neat thing about this game as well was the lifebar. Instead of having some one-shots kills, the player could now eat multiple hits and survive and also being able to heal was also a huge thing. Player could also find some heart pieces and/or heart containers to upgrade Link's health. There were no other game (that I'm aware of) that had that system implemented before this game.
I already said a lot about this game, so in conclusion, this is a great game that people should try to beat once, but should use a guide to help them since there's a lot of hidden secrets and hard enemies. A must play.
Game #27 of my challenge
First of all, the story is mainly in the booklet. However, you can still see some bits of story telling in this game since there were some speeches from characters in-game. The only game older that I played that had text in-game was Super mario bros when saving a toad or princess toadstool. This makes the world that you play in way more alive since you could interact with a whole bunch of characters.
The graphics is also really good for the time. All the sprites are easily distictable between them. Also the world inside is very lively.
Speaking of world, they introduce in this game a new type of way to create this world. Instead of having one single screen that the player interact with or one level that scrolls when player move in one direction, they had the genius to create a map composed of multiples squares, and each of those squares, they had a fixed camera. When the player goes outside of that square, it goes to another part of the map. It's a genius way for the player to have a sense of exploration in the map. They also had a whole bunch of secrets in the hyrule kingdom, which makes the player wants to interact more with obstacles and the world.
The many secrets is doubled-edge sword, since they were reallly hard to find. Sometimes, those secrets were important to the main quests since there were a lot of hidden dungeons that needed to be beaten to get a piece of the triforce. So this game really needed to have a guide to beat. This was one of the ways they could sold more copies of Nintendo Power (since internet wasn't a thing yet).
This was also a long game compared to all other videogames that was release before it. Which is why they implemented for the first time in an NES cartridge a saving system.
All the equipments in the game are really good to help the player to have a feeling of getting powerful each time something was equipped to Link. Some items were optional, only to help the player to have an easier time with the game, but some of them were mandatory (especially to find dungeons and to beat Ganon).
One really neat thing about this game as well was the lifebar. Instead of having some one-shots kills, the player could now eat multiple hits and survive and also being able to heal was also a huge thing. Player could also find some heart pieces and/or heart containers to upgrade Link's health. There were no other game (that I'm aware of) that had that system implemented before this game.
I already said a lot about this game, so in conclusion, this is a great game that people should try to beat once, but should use a guide to help them since there's a lot of hidden secrets and hard enemies. A must play.
Game #27 of my challenge