A zelda Nintendo 64 question

[LoneCynic]

I am almost certain A Link to the Past showed your total game time when you completed it. That was far and away my favorite Zelda game ever, with Ocarina of Time coming in at a very close second. I remember once getting up at 6am on a Saturday and playing a Link to the Past, beginning to end in a single sitting. Was I nuts? Partially, but so was Nintendo back then, everytime you chose "Save and Quit" it counted as another death on your overall death counter for the game. I wanted to beat the game with no deaths, which I knew I was well capable of at the time, so I did. To this day (Unless the save battery has died in the meantime since I last played it) that Save file is still on there that I used to show off to my friends to prove that a 100% "Perfect Run" on the game was possible.

I own a copy of every single Zelda game Nintendo ever made, but have only ever completed a few of them. The ones I got into I REALLY got hooked on and had to see it through, and the rest, well, they got boring or pushy or stupid and I just shelved them. Every single one that centered around the Triforce, battling Gannon and saving Zelda always drove me to see it through. Although this is a turnoff for many Zelda fans nowadays, I absolutely loved Twilight Princess on the Gamecube because it was the first "Main plot" game in a long time. I've only finished a few of the ones that are essentially side quest games.

Oh, by the way, even though I own nearly every release version of every Zelda game ever made, there is a way for a collector to play the entire series on a single Nintendo console. (Phantom Hourglass is DS only obviously, so it was the first title to change this, but prior to its release I could play the entire series on a single console by getting certain versions of every game. Here's what you need:

Nintendo Gamecube Console + Gameboy Player Adaptor, then just aquire the following versions of the first ten games in the series:

The Legend of Zelda (1) (GBA NES Classic Cart or Zelda Collector's Disc)
The Legend of Zelda II: Adventure of Link (GBA NES Classic Cart or Zelda Collector's Disc)
The Legend of Zelda III: A Link to the Past (GBA Cart)
The Legend of Zelda IV: Link's Awakening DX (GBC Cart)
The Legend of Zelda V: The Ocarina of Time / Master Quest (Gamecube disc version)
The Legend of Zelda VI: Majora's Mask (Zelda Collector's Disc)
The Legend of Zelda VIIa: Oracle of Ages (GBC Cart)
The Legend of Zelda VIIb: Oracle of Seasons (GBC Cart)
The Legend of Zelda VIII: The Wind Waker (Gamecube disc)
The Legend of Zelda IX: The Minish Cap (GBA Cart)
The Legend of Zelda X: The Twilight Princess (Gamecube disc)

Gotta get a DS to play the Phantom hourglass and the new one coming out, but it was pretty cool for a time to be able to play the entire series on a single console. One of the reasons I'll never get rid of my Gamecube though.

[tcpballa93]

I didn't play the games as a kid, but I decided to pick up Majora's Mask a while ago, and I've got to say, I don't enjoy it at all. Does ocarina of time have bigger maps, more enemies, and less boring-ness?

I am saddened by you, I should bring my cartridge over, majora's mask rocks!!!! We really do need to play some games together soon.

[KholdStare]

I am almost certain A Link to the Past showed your total game time when you completed it. That was far and away my favorite Zelda game ever, with Ocarina of Time coming in at a very close second. I remember once getting up at 6am on a Saturday and playing a Link to the Past, beginning to end in a single sitting. Was I nuts? Partially, but so was Nintendo back then, everytime you chose "Save and Quit" it counted as another death on your overall death counter for the game. I wanted to beat the game with no deaths, which I knew I was well capable of at the time, so I did. To this day (Unless the save battery has died in the meantime since I last played it) that Save file is still on there that I used to show off to my friends to prove that a 100% "Perfect Run" on the game was possible.

I own a copy of every single Zelda game Nintendo ever made, but have only ever completed a few of them. The ones I got into I REALLY got hooked on and had to see it through, and the rest, well, they got boring or pushy or stupid and I just shelved them. Every single one that centered around the Triforce, battling Gannon and saving Zelda always drove me to see it through. Although this is a turnoff for many Zelda fans nowadays, I absolutely loved Twilight Princess on the Gamecube because it was the first "Main plot" game in a long time. I've only finished a few of the ones that are essentially side quest games.

Oh, by the way, even though I own nearly every release version of every Zelda game ever made, there is a way for a collector to play the entire series on a single Nintendo console. (Phantom Hourglass is DS only obviously, so it was the first title to change this, but prior to its release I could play the entire series on a single console by getting certain versions of every game. Here's what you need:

Nintendo Gamecube Console + Gameboy Player Adaptor, then just aquire the following versions of the first ten games in the series:

The Legend of Zelda (1) (GBA NES Classic Cart or Zelda Collector's Disc)
The Legend of Zelda II: Adventure of Link (GBA NES Classic Cart or Zelda Collector's Disc)
The Legend of Zelda III: A Link to the Past (GBA Cart)
The Legend of Zelda IV: Link's Awakening DX (GBC Cart)
The Legend of Zelda V: The Ocarina of Time / Master Quest (Gamecube disc version)
The Legend of Zelda VI: Majora's Mask (Zelda Collector's Disc)
The Legend of Zelda VIIa: Oracle of Ages (GBC Cart)
The Legend of Zelda VIIb: Oracle of Seasons (GBC Cart)
The Legend of Zelda VIII: The Wind Waker (Gamecube disc)
The Legend of Zelda IX: The Minish Cap (GBA Cart)
The Legend of Zelda X: The Twilight Princess (Gamecube disc)

Gotta get a DS to play the Phantom hourglass and the new one coming out, but it was pretty cool for a time to be able to play the entire series on a single console. One of the reasons I'll never get rid of my Gamecube though.

Eww as a Zelda fan I DO NOT recommend Phantom Hourglass. Can't stand it.

[nickfil]

Eww as a Zelda fan I DO NOT recommend Phantom Hourglass. Can't stand it.

here is my review of phantom hourglass:

if you like doing the same stupid stealth speed dungeon over and over again and like having a stupid face, then you'll like phantom hourglass.

C

[LoneCynic]

In all honesty guys, I have the Phantom Hourglass, but I have never played it. Got it for Christmas whatever year it came out, and it is still in a stack of DS "to play" pile. Is it a bad game? My sister played the heck out of it, but I've never put it in the DS to even see the title screen yet, so I have no opinion on it yet. If I did sit down to play a Zelda game, it would probably be one of the ones I've beaten before, or one of the ones I've almost completed before.

[MrPopo]

There's two parts to Phantom Hourglass. The first is the dungeon crawling and world exploration, which is pretty good. The touch screen control works pretty well for manuvering Link around. The second is the Temple of the Ocean King, which is a dungeon you do after every other dungeon. It basically tells you where the next dungeon is. The thing that's annoying is that you have to go through an enforced stealth portion of the game, and you have to repeat the same floors. If you can look past the Temple of the Ocean King then you'll enjoy the game.

[nickfil]

There's two parts to Phantom Hourglass. The first is the dungeon crawling and world exploration, which is pretty good. The touch screen control works pretty well for manuvering Link around. The second is the Temple of the Ocean King, which is a dungeon you do after every other dungeon. It basically tells you where the next dungeon is. The thing that's annoying is that you have to go through an enforced stealth portion of the game, and you have to repeat the same floors. If you can look past the Temple of the Ocean King then you'll enjoy the game.

yeah. This is admittedly a better explanation/review of the game then i did. The problem is that most zelda games are a bit repetitive at times. So the player usually gets to the point where he has experienced the game to his or her satisfaction (using the touch screen and all that) and repeating the same temple of the ocean king kicks him/her out of the game.

at least thats what happened to me.

[ryanstein]

I'm playing Link's Awakening DX now and yes, play it! It has aged nicely, trust me. So if you enjoyed the oracle series you will enjoy Link's Awakening DX as well.

That's actually one of my pet peeves. So many people think that Link's Awakening DX is the original version... it's not! I actually prefer the original version for the original Game Boy. Reason being I actually prefer not seeing it in color since it was my very first Game Boy game. I like my green and... slightly less green colors! That's actually why I can't stand playing Game Boy games in an emulator... they can't get the colors as they look to the eye on actual hardware. They do it as it it is on the cart: pure black and white.

[LoneCynic]

I know it is not the original version. I have both the original Gameboy and Gameboy Color editions of the game. I liked it in color though, as it was the first "Color" cart I got with my Gameboy Color when I bought it all those years ago. I'd beaten the game already on Gameboy, and though the Color updated version was very cool. When Oracle of Ages and Seasons came out, the Color version of Link's Awakening matched up better with those in my opinion.

[chrisyz]

OoT is a typical zelda game in the classic zelda mold if you love zelda you will love it . MM is well a red headed step child, it never realy fits in with the rest of the kids but you still have to love it for its differences and its trying to do new things