i know what you're thinking -- those creatures from Ganon are pretty bad. but hear me out: i still think that, the Legend of Zelda, is really rad, so i wanted to play it regardless. this is the only zelga i've ever completed. i had it on GameCube as a kid but i can't imagine i ever made any progress past stealing an old man's sword. yeah plot twist there were no speech bubbles so it was actually Link saying "it's dangerous to go alone" to make it look like the old man was offering it to him. erm childhood ruined?

cards on the table, i'm following a walkthrough. i've spent enough time throughout my life playing this guideless trying to guess where to go i deserve a break. i'm not a child with infinite time and i have more than one game to play thank you very much mr miyamoto. i remember a good deal anyway and if i know what to do then i just know ya know. know what i mean. i first played through the entire game four years ago and i think it was mostly blind. i mean i was livestreaming it and there was a chatroom to appease so maybe not. whatever i be following zelda dungeon dot net step-by-step

this guide takes me on a long trek to get as many items and heart containers as i can before the first dungeon, and i died four times just getting here to buy some bombs. those creatures are really bad ok!!! i was just trying to make money on the way there anyway, and i made one million dollars i'll have you know. lamp oil, rope, bombs, i have enough my friend so they're mine

my god i felt indestructible off the bat. knowing where to go rules. it doesn't beat the feeling of bombing/burning a random wall/bush and seeing it disappear, but it absolutely beats the hundred hours of aimlessness before that finally happens. i've never played any kind of "randomizer" and they sound fun in theory but probably overkill for Zelda 1

doesn't master it, instead just takes it and also clearly stabs the old man with it. yeah that's called a nintendo power move

went a lot futher than i thought i could last night. these guys are probably the Hard Part of the game i hate them with every fiber of my being. of course i'm very strong and good at video games so i wouldn't die ever unless i'm trying to buy bombs, which was bad actually since i was pretty sure that was the only way to save. didn't wanna die on purpose because at no point does the walkthrough tell me to do so and i don't wanna go off the beaten path. turns out i gotta do some goofy second controller port hijinx to be able to save on the overworld, making this the least fun multiplayer game ever

hardest boss in the game. brought me down to two and a half hearts

i was planning on playing the Disk System version of this instead because of my weirdo desire to go original-original with everything, and because the music with the extra sound channels sounded nicer, but the sound effects are so much un-nicer. and i just found out the only way to kill pols voices would've been by yelling into the microphone which i don't know if i could easily pull off in RetroArch. i'd also probably have a lot of trouble deciphering the old man's very useful hints in japanese

love that the entrance to the final dungeon is hidden behind blowing up some random rock. and then the weapon needed to deal the final blow to Ganon is hidden behind pushing a random block inside that dungeon!! look at this nightmare hole (via Zelda Dungeon)

and pushing the block doesn't do anything until i clear the room and get myself out of this, the worst situation anyone has ever been in. fyi getting hit by the unkillable fuzzies makes me unable to attack for a few seconds

but the fearless Link persevered through the updownallaround caverns, and using the power of his epic triangle he bested the badpig and saved da freakin princess baby!!! live footage of me completing the Legend of Zelda for the first time circa 2020

marks for the first time my voice has been featured on this site do you like it

that's a zelga!! while i still think it's a cool and fun game (when you have an idea of what to do) i did mostly replay it because i wanted to over time make my way through the rest of the series on here, and i didn't wanna skip straight to Zelda 2 out of having already completed 1 before and end up leaving it conspicuously absent. only took me about three hours. another excuse of mine for speeding through with a guide was that the game is already difficult enough, but it actually wasn't as bad as i remember. says the number 10 on my save file which i'm going to assume means how well i did out of 10

word on the street is that another quest will start from here press the start button © 1986 nintendo... i've never played the second quest, and i was thinkin...maybe.... i break out the pennenedpaper and have myself a little* (*long long very long) First-Time Zelda Magic Experience since i knew nothing about it. an officially randomizer-ized-er hardmode for me to trudge through. then i looked into it a little and never mind! things are apparently ten times as esoteric with added mandatory hidden passages. plus i accidentally saw the location of a dungeon entrance so the magic is ruined anyway sorry zelda i already saved you once now you're pushing it

surprise i played through the second quest after all. slowly chipped away at it over the past week and it was an ordeal good lord, it gets a zephie recommendation rating of Don't. i couldn't find as in-depth a walkthrough this time so i mostly just used labeled maps. probably a third of my playtime was spent farming rupees and it ended up taking me more than twice as long to complete. i don't know why i did it

THESE guys. so it introduced these red and blue fuzzies; touching a red fuzzy permanently makes me unable to use my sword, until i touch a blue fuzzy. even after dying or resetting i am still afflicted with swordlessness. and very often there'll be rooms full of half a dozen redfuzzies!! with no bluefuzzies nearby!!! level 4 was harder than every first quest dungeon combined

the second quest experience. also doors and invisi-walls will often be one-way. whatever i'm done for real now, Zelda 2 next. wait there is a zelda 2 right

ok yeah