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The Legend of Zelda series
This is a really popular game franchise. However, I've never really felt that strongly about them.
I've played a Link to the Past and little bits of Zelda 1 and Link's Awakening. They're decent games, though their interface for switching between weapons is a bit clunky and their dungeons are a bit tedious, especially the longer ones.
Also, as a non-fan outside of the fandom, it's sometimes hard for me to figure out what people are talking about. The series lore isn't easily accessible--why is a bloody pile of pancakes called a "like-like" anyway?
I have had OOT and TP on my list of games to play for a while, but apart from them being Zelda games that ought to be in my gaming experience repertoire, I've found little urge to play them.
(Yes, this is a replacement thread for the other one which had massive derailing and shitstorm problems. Don't repeat that, please.)
I've played a Link to the Past and little bits of Zelda 1 and Link's Awakening. They're decent games, though their interface for switching between weapons is a bit clunky and their dungeons are a bit tedious, especially the longer ones.
Also, as a non-fan outside of the fandom, it's sometimes hard for me to figure out what people are talking about. The series lore isn't easily accessible--why is a bloody pile of pancakes called a "like-like" anyway?
I have had OOT and TP on my list of games to play for a while, but apart from them being Zelda games that ought to be in my gaming experience repertoire, I've found little urge to play them.
(Yes, this is a replacement thread for the other one which had massive derailing and shitstorm problems. Don't repeat that, please.)
Comments
Heh. Heheh.
Oh. Well, fair enough, then.
The weapon switching interface, I admit isn't a masterpiece, but it works for how it is, and I find that the Oracle games and Minish Cap have an easier one to work with than A Link To The Past (A Game I haven't finished yet.).
The 3D games are better about this though, where you can assign the items to three (or four in TP for the wii) buttons and the sword is it's own button. It'll really probably just depend on whether the game genre is your cup of tea or not.
And I don't really know why the
pile pancakestube shaped worm-like creatures that eat shields and clothes are called like-likes. I don't really know why anything is called anything, I basically just accept it as aprt of the world like any other game, or manga, or cartoon, or whatever. It's a sort of "Calla Rabbit a Smeerp" sort of system I imagine. I mean why call a jumping skeleton a Stalfos instead of just a Skeleton? Why are the bats called Keese? I mean Goron makes sense from a Japanese sound effects point of view, but the pun is lost to english speakers.EDIT: Okay, this only had three posts while I was writing this bloody thing.
I think timeline wise Ocarina of TIme is the first i nthe entire timeline since it's basically the Origin of Ganon and everything else talks about all the exploits and plans for him to be resurrected or him escaping the sacred realm to screw people over.
Which puts those games before The First Three Zelda games which go in the order of 3, 1, and 2 or so I'm told.
Link's Awakening is a Gaiden game that fits anywhere. Ocarina of Seasons and Ages could arguably fit anywhere since they seem to feature reincarnations of Impa (More mother bear than ninja) and Zelda (More plucky than elegant).
Minish Cap and the other four sword games I think are somehow tied together by the same theme and Vaati, the newer villain.
God this is confusing. And uh, no need to worry about all this GMH, this is merely the minutia of the dedicated/insane, nothing one of casual interest has to keep track of.