ClassicGamer

Good fun when I owned it on N64! My N64 console, including 22 games got stolen and I downloaded Wetrix for the PC. Somehow it feels different and sluggish this way... Magical Tetris Challenge! I liked that even better, much fun for two players.

Yeah, MM feels somehow rushed. The music adds to that. Even if you had way over an hour to beat a part of something, and even if you never need that much time... it feels like you are short on time anyway. Exploring the land and looking for heart pieces and stuff became like a quest on itself. MM atmosphere and darkness is awesome, but I can't help getting bored of SOME of the repeating stuff evntually. Plus, I played the first time through in almost one sitting, I was really stocked on this game, but I never replayed it, like I did with all other Zelda games. When I beat Zelda 2, I started a new game the same evening. Now that I sold my NES to get a SNES, which burned down after my N64 got stolen, I somehow fell like playing it again. I should save some money for a wii I guess.

I had that game for the SNES. I actually played that with 8 players on four joysticks once. Each player uses two buttons to steer on their side of the pad, plus the L or R button, although I can't remember what function it had. That was great fun in multiplayer! Kinda easy and short game though. Anyone ever played cookie and cream? I believe it was on a PS2. That game was fun too. And pretty hard when playing alone, since you still needed to control both characters at the same time. Sort of.

If I did it in two years, could be three...but I was still working on the LOZ, second quest. I beat the first quest in the first Zelda game about two weeks before I found Zelda 2 in a local store, so I was playing two difficult games at the same time. Yay! When I was a kid, I had so much trouble on getting the hammer. Only that may already have taken a year or so. Beating the fire dragon boss took me about 30 game-overs after knowing the quickest way to get there, knowing your way around in the castle.... Maybe even an extra life? Was that the same castle? It's been a while. I was lucky to beat it, though. I killed it, but fellin the lava at the same time. When I entered the room once more, the boss was gone, te key lay on the ground and I could finally move on. And then you still had to find the hidden town of kasuto, beat another dungeon, then make your way to the last palace and fight the hardest enemy you can possibly encounter on the 8-bit Nintendo. Damn! I'm good. (That's what came to mind before I beat this game) Only this enemy took my life a thousand times! I bet I'll do better than that by now. I hope. If you want another challenge after you beat this game, get the Turtles. I played that before Zelda, I played it on my Commodore 64, but I know it was realease for the NES too. The main reason this game also took me years to complete was the difficulty of the game. Another thing that made it an endless quest was that I played it from cassette tape. Anyone who tried this? Plus the water stage! That one took me quite some time. A good game and a good challenge. And way cool for a commodore game! This one and Wonderboy in Monsterland. The rest was mostly like pac man and space invaders and such. I liked Zelda (2) way better though.

I got both Zelda games on the NES, they rocked! Zelda 2 was kinda hard though, it took me about two years to beat it, then I started all over again. I was glad you started at the last dungeon when you got there, the only exception from starting all over again. (But at least it saved new items/skills, complete level-ups and finished palaces, so you didn't really start over) Everyone agreed the first Zelda to be great, well.... Although quite different, the second one was just as cool. Both instant classics. Sadly, I haven't played battle of olypus (yet).

As long as the same, in my opinion, genious people that made any other Zelda games will work on this one (and stick to a large part of the winning formula), it will problably be a good game. I agree it would be weird to 'have no sword', and if you played the original NES ones or even the SNES one, you'll have a hard time to picture yourself playing without one. But if you also played the classic GB version or the N64 ones, you would have noticed you sometimes played for hours without actually using your sword. Other tools make good weapons too. The boomerang, slingshot, crossbow, bombs, hookshot, wizzard wand (with book of fire later on), some magic skills, deku-sticks and -nuts, transformed Links (MM, N64) with their own moves, but no sword)..... PS1 I don't know what I mean by this, but I think I'll buy the game later on. PS2 Gannon / Ganon (looks better when whritten down, who cares anyway) is not great at adventure/rpg games. If you can't find this master sword, you haven't looked for it, mister! Good thing we play with Link!