"Why Zelda is the Most Influential Game - Retail Reviews"

[kane_magus]

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"We think The Legend of Zelda (1986) is the most influential game of it's time, if not of all time. On this episode of Cinemassare's Retail Reviews Mike, Ryan, and Kieran take a look at what made the first Zelda so groundbreaking. Zelda is an action-adventure video game developed and published by Nintendo and designed by Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka. Set in the fantasy land of Hyrule, the plot centers on an elf-like boy named Link, who aims to collect the eight fragments of the Triforce of Wisdom in order to rescue Princess Zelda from the antagonist, Ganon. During the course of the game, the player controls Link from a top-down perspective and navigates throughout the overworld and dungeons, collecting weapons, defeating enemies and uncovering secrets along the way."

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I don't think they said anything here that was really wrong or controversial or whatever. I tried to think of any other game that might be more influential than The Legend of Zelda, and I honestly couldn't think of anything.

And yeah, I'm like that Kieran guy a lot of the time. As I've mentioned in other posts, I'll often start playing a huge game like, for example, Oblivion or Fallout New Vegas and get super far into them, maybe even right up to the point of almost finishing them, but then I'll stop playing, for whatever reason and sometimes even for no real reason, and just move on to something else. Like in Oblivion I did pretty much everything that it was possible to do in that game, except for doing the final few quests of the main storyline. Or like the one time I've played Fallout 2, I made it all the way to the start of the Enclave oil rig, and then never touched it again.

That said, however, I have finished every Zelda game that I've ever played, which is most of them. The only ones of the mainline series that I haven't played yet are the most recent ones, A Link Between Worlds and Breath of the Wild (or the new Link's Awakening remake). I don't really count those multiplayer things (Four Swords, Four Swords Adventures, Tri Force Heroes) as mainline games, and I'm definitely not talking about the spinoffs like Hyrule Warriors or the Tingle games or especially the CD-i shit or whatever else, regardless of however good or bad those may be on their own merits (or lack thereof, as the case may be).

Comments

[owsf2000]

The Hyrule Warriors game was actually quite fun for me - I got the 3DS version of it. Like the Dynasty Warrior series it's fashioned after (and by the makers of Dynasty Warriors) it's primarily a hack and slash game with hoards of enemies to cut down with main characters as bosses and the like.

You really have to like the Dynasty Warrior series though to get into Hyrule Warriors though of course.

[kane_magus]

I didn't mean to knock against the Hyrule Warriors game. I've never played a Dynasty Warriors game, but what I've seen of Hyrule Warriors looked like it would be pretty fun. I just don't consider it as part of the "main" Zelda series. The "lack thereof" for "merits" was meant mostly for those cruddy CD-i games (which I have played a little of, via emulation, and they're just as shitty as everyone says they are).

[owsf2000]

Certainly, Hyrule Warriors is not part of the main zelda story line like most of the main game apparently are. It's just a game for people who wanna hack and slash through literally thousands of enemies on a battlefield with the whole Hyrule theme going. I really should try to get back into that game though. Haven't really played it in years since the last time I went on vacation. Played a lot of it on the bus/ferry trip and the like.