Fan Plays Every Zelda Game in 2011

While playing through the latest copy of Ocarina of Time 3D, Destructoid writer Magnalon decided to make it his mission to play through all the main Zelda games and beat them before the end of the year. This decision was made in honor of the 25th anniversary and will include Skyward Sword. He has divided the article into sections where he goes over each game individually in chronological order giving his opinions on them and what impressions they gave. Under each title paragraph is a note listing exactly what version he played and a date when he completed the game. Jump inside to check out what he had to say.

I’m currently playing through The Adventure of Link right now, and I have to say, it’s easily the most underrated Zelda game of all time. There’s a very robust magic system, an XP system (for the first and last time), and every single action scene takes place in a sidescrolling fashion, as opposed to the popular birds-eye view of the first game – how’s that for innovation! Zelda II is also notoriously hard, but not nearly as hard as the first game in my opinion – I mean, at least there’s some clear idea of where to go! While I wouldn’t necessarily recommend dropping the $5 on the first Zelda, depending on your tastes, I heartily recommend picking this one up on the Virtual Console – it’s one of my favorite Zelda games that I both enjoyed at release, and years afterward.

Ah, Link to the Past, how many times have I beaten you? As Charlie Sheen would say – “tons”. Funnily enough, this SNES cartridge was passed down to me by my cousin, who threw it into the wall in a fit of anger. I picked it up, taped the crack in the cartridge up, and asked if I could have it – thankfully, he said “yes”, and I was on my way to beating Link to the Past for the first time! I’ll just come right out and say it: if you haven’t played LTTP yet, do it! The game is an absolute classic, and the art style still holds up to this day. One of the best things about the game is the lack of pageantry in the beginning. There’s no lengthy boring cutscene like future Zelda games – you just press start, jump in, and your epic quest to rescue Zelda immediately begins. Out of all the Zelda games, I’d say Link to the Past is probably the most polished.

Link’s Awakening is another underrated Zelda game (although it wasn’t at the time). How Nintendo took LTTP’s winning formula, and condensed it into a Gameboy game, I’ll never know (it was witchcraft). Awakening is probably one of my top “go-to” Zelda games because it’s so simple to get into, and once you get the Roc’s feather, it’s a ton of fun just jumping around like an idiot. Some time later, Nintendo released DX for the Gameboy Color (and eventually 3DS), which was basically the definitive version that added colors, and a new color-based dungeon.

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Somehow he managed to complete most of these gasmes in July and August of this year. I think it would have taken me much longer to accomplish this task. Then again I do tend to waste a lot of time when playing. And there are a few of these titles that I have never beaten. I’m sure that some day I will go back and play through Phantom Hourglass again. It was not one of my favorites either and he pretty much sums up my sentiments perfectly in his description. I did not expect him to play the GBA version of Four Swords or the new Four Swords Anniversary games, most players tend to ignore those in favor of some of the more popular games out there. Even though he did not have a lot to say about them it was still interesting that he took the time out to be thurough.

So what do you think? Impressed with what he did? Could you have finished each of these games in just a few months? Let us know in the comments below.

Source: Destructoid

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