All of us have probably heard of 3 heart challenges. You have to play through a Zelda game from start to finish without picking up a heart container or collecting all of the heart pieces to complete a heart container.Translation: Play through the entire game with only 3 hearts. Now a lot of people do 3 heart challenges to make the game more challenging. The most common games that people do a 3HC on are Ocarina of Time and up. Mainly because a lot of people own the more modern games and you can easily avoid getting heart containers and pieces.
In "A Link to the Past" and "Link's Awakening," it is impossible to do a 3HC. You are forced to collect the heart containers after you beat a boss in a dungeon because if you touch them, you are able to open the door to the room to get the important treasure you have to get to progress through the game. This is kinda sad because i believe doing a 3HC in both of these games could've been very fun and challenging.With Zelda 2, there really isn't a 3HC going on because you don't start off with 3 heart containers.Your health is in bars.Now you could do a similar challenge by not upgrading your health, but in my opinion, there really isn't a 3HC that you can do in this game. Zelda 1 is the only Zelda game out of the 4 early Zelda games where you can actually do a 3HC. Is it hard? YOU BET ITS HARD.
If you are a hardcore Zelda fan that wants a challenge, look no further to doing a 3HC on Zelda 1. I can go on about how hard this challenge is, but you should experience this for yourself. If you are going to do this challenge, then when you are at the end of the first dungeon fighting the boss, stand behind the boss and kill it so you can avoid the heart container. I'm on the last dungeon in the first quest. I can not imagine what the second quest is going to be like.
Now I have a question for you guys. Has anyone thought about doing a 3HC on LoZ? Are you doing one right now? Have you beaten the 1st and 2nd with only 3 hearts?:ODiscuss down below.
In "A Link to the Past" and "Link's Awakening," it is impossible to do a 3HC. You are forced to collect the heart containers after you beat a boss in a dungeon because if you touch them, you are able to open the door to the room to get the important treasure you have to get to progress through the game. This is kinda sad because i believe doing a 3HC in both of these games could've been very fun and challenging.With Zelda 2, there really isn't a 3HC going on because you don't start off with 3 heart containers.Your health is in bars.Now you could do a similar challenge by not upgrading your health, but in my opinion, there really isn't a 3HC that you can do in this game. Zelda 1 is the only Zelda game out of the 4 early Zelda games where you can actually do a 3HC. Is it hard? YOU BET ITS HARD.
If you are a hardcore Zelda fan that wants a challenge, look no further to doing a 3HC on Zelda 1. I can go on about how hard this challenge is, but you should experience this for yourself. If you are going to do this challenge, then when you are at the end of the first dungeon fighting the boss, stand behind the boss and kill it so you can avoid the heart container. I'm on the last dungeon in the first quest. I can not imagine what the second quest is going to be like.
Now I have a question for you guys. Has anyone thought about doing a 3HC on LoZ? Are you doing one right now? Have you beaten the 1st and 2nd with only 3 hearts?:ODiscuss down below.
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