It has been nearly 15 years since this game was released, and it still is the best. Not just by Zelda standards, but it is by far the greatest video game ever made. This was the first Zelda game I had ever played, and it has moved me more than any other game. I played it first as a six year old. I though it looked so cool when I watched by brother play it for countless hours. When I finally played it, I spent 4 and 1/2 hours trying to beat the first dungeon (showing how much of an idiot I was then), and couldn't figure out how to get into the second (I didn't think to follow the sound of the music in the lost woods, and couldn't fins Saria). After that, I flung the controller across the room, started bawling about how stupid the game was, and popped in Smash Bros. (in which I set link as the second player and beat him up in anger).
About seven years later after the discovery of Virtual console on the Wii, I played it again, wondering if I'd ever get past that second dungeon.
After playing through it the second time, I was blown away by everything in this game. I'd played many of the other, supposedly better, Zelda games before, but this topped them all, and every other game I'd played in general.
The graphics, of course, looked out dated, but still beautiful. Whenever I looked at the low-res polygons and blurry pre-rendered backgrounds, I gain this immense sense of nostalgia. For some reason, seeing the world in a more primitive way gives a much larger sense of realism. I felt more within the game than ever before. Also, considering this was released in 1998, these must have been the best graphics at the time.
The music of this game? A masterpiece of a score. Koji Kondo is the master of Video game soundtracks! (he also made the original theme for Super Mario). The instruments feel very computerized at times (actually, quite a bit), but the notes and tunes were so catchy, epic, and made me feel so alive and good about myself. My favorite tracks are Gerudo Valley, Hyrule Field, the Final Battle, and (quite strangely) the Shadow Temple.
The game-play is just perfect. Okay, not 100% perfect, but it has some revolutionary features. The Z-Target feature is outstanding. The camera work of this game works so well,it's like an Cinematograohy Oscar-Winning movie. The music puzzle and songs are really neat, and the different tunic colors that guard you from specific environments were also cool. All of the game-play elements were awesome! The one exception is the different boots. You have to go all the way to the equipment screen, select the boots, and exit the screen only to be asked the option to save the game. The remove them, the same process must be performed. This makes the Water temple very tedious, rather than difficult.
This game, like I said before, is the greatest video game ever created. The story, despite a little cliché and bland, still touches me to this day. Underneath the fairy-tale-ish fable is a truly epic tale of good and evil, greed, faith, and love for the country.
THis is definitely the greatest video game ever created. I actually didn't say that much, but I don't want to max my word limit. Everyone should play this game, and I hope people will accept that it's the greatest video game ever made. Shigeru Miyamoto is the master.
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