Confessions of a Zelda addict

[ArcticChicken]

Why can't you wear necklaces?

Anything on the back of my neck makes me tense up something awful and gives me a really nasty headache. I can't even wear shirts with close necks, I'm that sensitive.

[gremcint]

I have a wii. I only have zelda and metroid for it, it was a good purchase.

[Cat]

squeeee!! My wallet arrived

Not sure if it cool to show images from Amazon, but ya can look it up as: Nintendo Legend of Zelda Map Fabric Wallet

I like....and it'll make me carry less cards with me.

[Lachrymose]

In this case, it's Ocarina of Time. Pffffttt. And SHADDUP, NAVI!!!!

You've probably seem it before, but just in case:

http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=42

[Kali]

Seriously, fuck all water levels in every game in history. Swimming IRL = win, Swimming in games, particularly newer 3D ones, = cancer. Throw in a few ridiculously hard puzzles and you got yourself a Zelda water temple.

I haven't actually played Majora's Mask because when I realised you have to play the whole game being wary of the time, I was extremely put off. One of my favourite things about RPG's is that you generally don't have to do that.

[Andara Bledin]

Hmm.... maybe I should re-think my idea of making a three-way RPG world where one race is airborne, one is land based, and the third lives underwater...

I like swimming in games. Then again, I like fishing in games, too. I'm not even remotely normal.

^-.-^

[Barracuda]

Majora's Mask really isn't so bad if you learn to do the Song of Time backwards and slow time down. That should give you enough time to complete a temple or any other major task, and your progress does get saved. I loved Majora's Mask. I got all the sidequest masks, and a lot of the sidequests are FUN.

[ArcticChicken]

Majora's Mask really isn't so bad

I think the problem with Majora's Mask is that it wasn't Ocarina of Time. Let's face it, Windwaker and Twilight Princess are Ocarina clones that are just different enough to make them fun. I've been meaning to go back and try Majora's Mask, I think I was too young to properly track what was going on when I tried before. I've just got to figure out where I stashed it.

[Cat]

I actually like the side quests in MJ, and the time travel wasn't all that annoying. My hatred for that game is all based on the water temple.


Ugh, I should really just finish Spirit Tracks....well, it's gonna snow on Sunday, so I have an excuse to stay in and play games.

[Kara]

Just stop me before I get a triforce tattoo..I'm 32 for Faroe's sake!

DO IT!

Also, yeah, Water Temple in OOT is beyond evil.

Zelda II was the first Nintendo game I had (other than Mario/Duck Hunt, of course). For years, I could get no further than the third palace. Finally, by 15, I had made the game my bitch. Remains my favorite Zelda to this day, although Twilight Princess is a very close second. Yeah, I prefer TP to OOT. Midna kicks ass, and her true form is hawt (insert obligatory joke about letting Midna ride me any time she wants).

On my old, old computer (like, circa 1998), I had a recorded a Zelda II run on NESticle of me loading my endgame save file, getting to the Great Palace and killing Thunderbird on 1 life, with, like, half a health box thingy to spare (while stopping to fight the falcon knights along the way, just to show off). If only YouTube had existed then. That's about as good as I think anyone can do without cheating. If you can get through all that and beat Shadow Link on one life, you don't need to get the Triforce, because you already fucking have it.

[Kara]

You know, this thread made me want to watch some Zelda stuff on Youtube. I cannot believe no one, at least not in any of the videos I've seen, has found the "trick" to fighting the hardest enemies in Zelda II (all flavors of darknuts, falcon knights, and even Shadow Link - any enemy competent with a shield). If you do a jumping crouch directly into your enemy and swing your sword as Link is basically on top of them, you'll usually hit them (because the sword passes through both the upper and lower strike-points of the enemy tell the game that it counts as a hit - but not a guaranteed hit since a lot of times they move their shield at the right times to block it) and since your are crouched behind your shield, you probably won't take damage. Kind of hard to explain. Perhaps I'll need to dig up an emulator and demonstrate.

It doesn't make the enemies "easy" by any means, but I find it levels the playing field.

The standard strategy for beating Shadow Link seems to be "stand in the corner spamming 'B' and hope it hits him until he dies." The way I did it always looked so much cooler because you are actively on the offensive.

[Rapscallion]

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