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    The Legend of Zelda

    Game » consists of 18 releases. Released Feb 21, 1986

    A young boy explores a huge overworld filled with enemies and dungeons to find and rescue Princess Zelda from the evil Ganon.

    guip1408's The Legend of Zelda (Nintendo Entertainment System) review

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    The start of the best action-adventure franchise

    The Legend of Zelda created the blueprint to how you should make a adventure game, filled by action and puzzles. With a great balance of discovery and having an idea of what to do next. Clever boss and dungeon designs, some nice secrets to improve your character as well as your adventure. With a well tough-out map for you to traverse through it and find new stuff every time, going back and forth.

    One of the biggest marks in video game history, being a classic that will be remembered forever as one of the pillars to what video games became throughout the next decades.

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      Worth More Than Its Weight In Gold. 0

      Story-The land of Hyrule was a peaceful place full of old hermits and pushy merchants living in caves until the evil Prince of Darkness Ganon came along and stole the Triforce of power while also imprisoning princess Zelda. Before she was captured, Zelda had the Triforce of wisdom broken up into 8 pieces to hide them from Ganon since his power would become unimaginable if he were to obtain both. Now it's up to Link to find the pieces that Zelda hid so that he can gain equal strength to Ganon and...

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      The Legend of Zelda was an amazing game, continues to be now and I suspect will be in the future. It feels like a game that shouldn't have been able to be made, it feels like a game that would need constrictions to function, yet its gameplay and mechanics synthesize almost seamlessly with its open world. Open world is a word used a lot these days, but Zelda almost seemed to forget where it began after the first game and the real world seemed to forget after A Link to the Past until more recent ...

      1 out of 1 found this review helpful.

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