Zelda II!! That’s the next one you should play. It has some adamant defenders, myself included, here on the forum. If you’re thinking of playing through the first Zelda game again, I think you should very seriously consider emulating the SNES Sattelaview remakes. Here’s a short article on them:
https://zelda.gamepedia.com/BS_The_Legend_of_ZeldaThey’re not hard to find online. You should also consider The Ancient Stone Tablets, which is totally awesome:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/kotaku.com ... 933007/ampWhen I reviewed it last year, I compared it favorably to Four Swords, and I enjoyed it tremendously.
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I just can’t quit Elminage...I’ve mapped three floors of the penultimate dungeon, and I continue to get good new equipment and complete quests. One quest, however, kicked me in the bottom last night, demonstrating that the game still offers some challenge. (I still think my party is a bit too powerful.). Specifically, after completing a quest by filling some chalices with blood in the Hadaar Valley, I accidentally awakened some sort of ancient evil. It is a Dragon Centaur, apparently, and I can only get to it with two characters, as opposed to six, in my party. It’s confused at the start of the battle - yay! - but it gets to attack four times per round - boo! - meaning that despite its confusion, it still wipes the floor with me pretty quickly. (It’s equipped with two sets of +2 Dragon Claws, and it uses a powerful petrifying breath attack twice per round. It also uses a miasma wave attack, which halves the HP of its targets each round, which is great when it accidentally hits itself, ot so great when it hits me. Oh yeah, it also recovers 600+ HP between rounds. So, awesome.) Going to have to grind up some levels and gear, I guess!
On the bright side, both my lord and my bishop have reached high mastery, meaning that they will start becoming exponentially more powerful with each level from here on out. Only my summoner and servant are still in relatively low levels, but I suspect I will be able to power-level them in the final dungeon or post-game. (If I can recruit some better monsters with my summoner, I may bring him to the dragon centaur battle since having a summoner monster on my team would be like having three party members . The problem is that the summoner, by himself, can’t do much; so, it may end up being like having two party members, one of which I can’t control...worth a shot at least if the quest gives me too much more trouble.)
Finally, and since a few of my characters are named after my children’s favorite stuffed animals, I used the game’s custom character portrait feature to add pictures of a stuffed teddy bear and stuffed otter to the game. They’re so cute, and it always brings a smile to my face when the game displays a picture of well-loved stuffed animal delivering a devastating blast of fire magic to a hydra, vampire lord, hellmaster, zombie giant, etc. The stark contrast between the default, detailed, dark high-fantasy monster portraits and my homespun character art is both jarring and hilarious.
the customs at the border probably saw a chipboard and thought it was a bomb or something. Turns out it needs a mini hdmi to hdmi cable so I will have to buy one tomorrow.
