/vr/ - Retro Games

Am I the only one who sees "LA" and thinks of Link in Los Angeles?

I don't even like Zelda that much but a lot of the official artwork from the earlier games makes me moist.

I'm not bothered by the moral ramifications, but will I get in trouble for pirating NES/SNES roms?

As in, are they actively policing that stuff like they do with newer games?

You know what I find kind of interesting? People say MM is the darkest or the most surreal in the series.

If you think about the setting and some of the things that happen and exist in Zelda 1 then that could easily be the strangest by far. I mean, just the old men scattered around the world that give you single texts of messages, or they trap you and take your life/money, they give you pieces of advice that don't make much sense due to bad translations. Some guy at the beginning just gives you a sword for seemingly no reason, and I think it comes form the limitations of not being able to explain why but doesn't it seem odd? Some old man who just hangs out in a cave with the light sword and tells you to get more experienced first (which somehow means get 5 heart containers). Impa, who doesn't say anything but merely stands there with that smiling sprite between 2 fires and doesn't say a thing until you give her the message form the old man. Another old guy lives in a graveyard and gives you a heart container, which almost makes me wonder if he "created" a heart from various dead bodies, all for you? That's a stretch but why else would he live their and have a heart container for you?

So yeah if you analyze stuff this way you can find many games to be creepy, but I generally found Zelda 1 to be a much darker and strange world than MM. Just food for thought and opinions here fellas, not trying to start shit.

I've actually just started playing this game to finish it unlike before where I quit, but goddamn I beat 3 dungeons and I have no idea where to go or what to do. I've been all over this map and looking for clues of what to do. I grinded so much money I have the blue ring and shield already, I have nothing else to shoot for unless I want to buy more keys.

This game is good mechanics wise, but I hate being this stuck. I've given the old lady a paper that a man gave me, she gave me a potion, and that's as far as I've gotten with finding something new since the last dungeon.

I'm ready to give up again and play LTTP again instead.