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Tuesday 22 January, 2008
Classics List Game 1- The Legend of Zelda
Log Entry#1
SUMMARY
The Legend of Zelda is a fantasy, action, adventure and puzzle game all wrapped into one. It takes place in the land of Hyrule, you play Link who’s mission is to rescue the princess Zelda from the evil Ganon. In order to defeat Ganon you must collect fragments of the triforce relic which was hidden by Zelda. There are many beasts and obstacles in Links way, however he gets help from little faeries and wizards and stuff with extra lives, and weapons, each beast you kill also drops gems that you can use to purchase weapons from vendors.
GAMEPLAY
This game has been incredibly frustrating to me in this past hour! I played this game on an emulator on my PC since I don’t have a game console and all the consoles at the library were checked out. I actually had to look on wikipedia for any information on the characters in this game, so the story behind it really was not at the foreground of what I was doing. The game (at least this version) didn’t really give any background into the story, it just starts off with the maze-like play. I remember watching my sisters playing this game growing up so I thought it was going to be sort of nostalgic, but it was really just very frustrating to me.
This game has such simple graphics and commands, so I thought for sure it would be an easy game, but the whole puzzle part of the game and having to start off at the beginning of the puzzle every time I died basically meant that I spent my whole hour in the first level. There are lots of little monsters that you need to kill to move on through each screen, some of which it seems like you could only move, and not destroy. I was able to pick up some bombs, but I found them to be sort of weak as weapons because they disappear after a few seconds if they don't get run into.
I really tried to get a strategy going with this one, although I was so completely frustrated that I kept dying. At first I was trying to kill everything, and get as many jewels and lives as I could, but I think after dying so many times I became so engulfed in killing things quickly that I was getting sloppy. Then I tried to just get as far as I could and just forget about trying to kill things, which got me far, but then the beasts would get harder and I didn’t have any good weapons or anything because I hadn’t collected any jewels. All in all, this game just made me mad, and I’m not really looking forward to playing it for another hour.
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