The Legend of Zelda VikzeLink's Weekly Sunday Poll 79!

[VikzeLink]

Last week's winner: Forest Temple (OOT) (56,25%)
This week's question: Did you beat the original TLoZ with or without the guide here at ZD (or other guide)?

With Guide
Without Guide
Haven't beaten it yet
Haven't played it

 

[Dragoncat]

The most I played was the demo on SSBB...

 

[Salem]

I played through most of the game without the guide, I mostly looked at a guide for the extra stuff.

 

[Mangachick14]

I'm guilty of using the guide. But I think it's a little bit more excusable because I didn't have the hint/info booklet that comes with the game.

 

[DarkestLink]

Without a guide...per se. Back then the idea of a guide was foreign to me, but I'd still ask other people for help if I had the chance.

 

[ihateghirahim]

That game is unbelievably hard. I can't stand trying to figure that whole thing without a guide. I mean I tried. I really did, but hell that game is just way too hard to try unassisted. There's so many hidden places you have to find and levels you'll have to replay if you screw up on them. It was too hard so I had to look a few things up.


That's probably why it originally came with guide back on the NES.

 

[Ventus]

Did it like a man: no guide.

 

[Mudora]

On my first play through I didn't use a guide.

 

[mαrkαsscoρ]

ahh yes,that completely random tree that leads to a dungeon i burned down completely on my own
oh and lets not forget using the flute on that empty pond which,as unsurprising as this is,ALSO leads to a dungeon

.....my god i despise this game

 

[Curmudgeon]

No guide... the internet wasn't around to tempt me.

At some point we had an impromptu Bomb/Burn-a-thon where four or five of us sectioned off Hyrule and tried to destroy every surface in our assigned screens to find all the remaining secrets.

 

[PhantomTriforce]

I used a guide from start to finish to beat the first Zelda. I couldn't imagine doing it without one.

 

[Firice da Vinci]

I have yet to complete the game.

If I were to, then I used the ZD guide here and there, along with the prior knowledge that I gained from the various playthroughs and speedruns that I have seen on Youtube. So far, I have only touched the guide twice. I went there once and accidentally found the shop the sells bait and an old man that either gave rupees or a heart container (foggy memory). To find the final sword upgrade, my willpower weakened and resorted to the Internet. Other than that, I have not used a map or any tips on defeating bosses to get as close to an authentic NES kid as a possibly can.

 

[DKMac]

No guide here. I played it when it first came out. I remember placing a lot of bombs all over the land and temples hoping for caves.

 

[The Jade Fist]

Without guide, for the life of me what few times i've tried to go back and replay the game I can't ever seam to even find a dungeon... No idea how I managed. Though I will concede I didn't play the 2nd quest all the way through if that counts as me not finishing the game or not.

 

[Brian]

Without a guide? Yeah, screw that.

That said, I would looooove a proper remake. The NES Zeldas both definitely need to be updated and re-released. Maybe on LBW's engine.
Throw in more helpful NPCs (or at least improve their dialogue) and a clarifying prologue, too.