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Post by andrew8798 on Dec 13, 2015 1:48:52 GMT -5
Such a great game but I never could beat it without a guide. What say u?
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Dec 13, 2015 2:00:43 GMT -5
To this day my only experience of it is playing for five minutes on the special compilation disc released for the GC that had all the NES and N64 Zeldas on it.
Yet I've completed A Link to the Past, Link's Awakening, Ocarina of Time, and gotten about 90% of the way through both Adventure of Link and Majora's Mask.
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Post by Sponsored by Groose Wipes on Dec 13, 2015 2:48:24 GMT -5
I could not remember where all the temples in the right order.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Dec 13, 2015 6:30:01 GMT -5
Back when it came out rented it and beat it over a weekend. Really it isn't that hard.
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Post by g1megatronfan on Dec 13, 2015 8:49:07 GMT -5
No. I did come really close though. The last time I played it was maybe 4 or 5 years ago while on Christmas break from college. I remember doing really good until later parts in the game so it was off to game faqs for me.
I would be impressed to see anyone finish it from start to finish with no help though.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2015 9:00:37 GMT -5
I have the overworld guide bookmarked on my phone. Seems like I can find the 9th temple fine...unless I am headed there. Then it becomes a long quest in itself.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Dec 13, 2015 9:18:34 GMT -5
yep, probably couldn't do it now but I played it a lot...
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Post by CMWaters on Dec 13, 2015 9:23:33 GMT -5
Not really...but the most I really use the guide for is to find where the Rupee giving spots are. Especially for getting super powered up early on by getting enough heart containers to get the White Sword before the first dungeon, as well as the blue ring.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2015 9:41:05 GMT -5
I have an aunt that was so good at LoZ, she'd be able to beat it in one night, and a couple of times she did it for our entertainment when we visited. In reality, we just wanted to see the late-game levels and would actually miss the start of the run because it was all stuff we'd seen. We'd run off and do something else, but once she got to about level 5 or 6, it was on. She used to make Level 9 (we always call it "Level 9" around here instead of "Death Mountain" out of respect to her) seem so easy that when I did my playthrough YEARS later and got to Level 9, it made me truly appreciate how much she knew about the game because it totally threw me for a loop.
So if you would call playing off memory of her just running through the game like it was nothing a "guide", then yeah, I did use a "guide".
Now Zelda 2...if anyone ever tells you they beat Zelda 2 without a guide or any outside help, they're lying to you. I freaking LOVE Zelda 2, moreso than 1. Some friends of mine even got me the game on NES w/ instruction booklet and a rental case with Zelda II box art on it, and the cart is in insanely good shape; no sun damage, no label wear, save battery works, no connector wear...you'd think it'd been in the box for years (and it might have been). But my point being, I've backed off giving any real shot at another Zelda II run because I remember not just parts that were difficult from a gameplay perspective, but parts that were difficult from a logic perspective that I HAD to have a guide to solve because I honest to God don't think I would've eventually "figured it out". I probably would've just convinced myself I did the run in some way that I stopped any forward progress from being possible and just quit. AVGN touches on a couple temples being hard to find in his review, but at the point in the game where you're finding those temples, there's already been 4 or 5 other moments where you had to do/find something as obscure as those.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Dec 13, 2015 10:10:44 GMT -5
...I don't remember having a guide for Zelda 2...
I remember it taking forever to figure out what to do but I don't remember ever using a guide.
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Post by Vern on Dec 13, 2015 10:58:24 GMT -5
...Never heard of it.
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Post by mizerable on Dec 13, 2015 12:17:34 GMT -5
Yep.
Although it's one of the few Zelda games I can't beat without dying. f***ing Wizrobes.
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Post by Zenengage on Dec 13, 2015 12:51:24 GMT -5
I got the game when it first came out and we used to play it as a family when I was little, and we were able to muddle through the game without a guide, but my memory of us playing it then is a little fuzzy.
Nowadays, I've played through Zelda so many times, I know the game like the back of my hand. I have also beat it with just 3 hearts and with no sword (You can't actually defeat Ganon without a sword, so I ended up grabbing the wooden sword just before heading to the ninth dungeon, I just didn't use it until the final battle).
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2015 12:52:32 GMT -5
I remember getting that game not long after it first came out, which was odd because it wasn't any special occasion or anything, mom just gave it to me one day after she got home from work. Good times. It was the gold cartridge too, wish that I still had it.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2015 14:05:34 GMT -5
I have serously never played it.
But have beaten Orcarina of Time and Majoras Mask.
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Post by Lupin the Third on Dec 13, 2015 14:51:23 GMT -5
It's dangerous to go alone. Take this.
A wooden sword. Thanks, you stupid old man.
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Post by CMWaters on Dec 13, 2015 14:57:11 GMT -5
It's dangerous to go alone. Take this. A wooden sword. Thanks, you stupid old man. Again, that's why I get the white sword before going into dungeon 1
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Post by Heeltown, USA on Dec 13, 2015 16:10:33 GMT -5
First game I ever beat.
I was 7 when it came out. All my friends got it and said it was the greatest game ever. So at the next visit to the mall I suckered my old man into springing it for me.
It took me awhile. I played on and off, but one weekend I sat down determined to get 'er done, and I did.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Dec 13, 2015 16:59:15 GMT -5
It's dangerous to go alone. Take this. A wooden sword. Thanks, you stupid old man. also in the original game it is merely "Sword" not wooden sword
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2015 17:20:22 GMT -5
I've done so, yeah. Though I'm up and down on the quality of it - is very impressive for the time and can be fun, but between the poor conveyance of what to do next and the huge jump in difficulty at the sixth dungeon (then it failing to be nearly that hard ever again afterward), I kind of lean toward not really wanting to play it again.
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