/vr/ - Retro Games

ALL of Zelda 1 takes place on a tiny fraction of Zelda II.

>>1052786
...yeah, take from someone who just played Zelda 1 again, and is now playing Outlands. The older Zelda games are some of the best ones, and I still think the first is my favorite overall (if even by a hair). I think this is a big matter of opinion because I could make an equally compelling argument that everything introduced in later "more Iconic" Zeldas is what ruined the franchise and eventually gave us trash like SS and Spirit Tracks. So setting your greatness bar by 'iconic' is just stupid. The first Zelda still wins that race anyway since it introduced pretty much all of the core elements.

>>1052739
>The only argument I hear for why they're better than later games in the series is that they're "non-linear". But I don't think that's an automatic advantage or that linearity is an automatic negative.

You're right on that, however for a game about exploration and adventure, it's a god-tier win. If you want to walk along a straight path or a story driven experience, then you really aren't an explorer, are you? Because you basically don't want to explore, you find it "boring" as your little image demonstrates. For some of us though, that's the most fun part of all. It was for Miyamoto when he designed the first Zelda game and based it on his actual adventures of exploring Japan as a child. That's the thing about exploration, not everything you find is exciting and fun... but that just makes the reward all the more amazing when you do stumble across something interesting.

Anywhere on this map

>>928689
the artist's name is Bill Mudron
There's also one for Hyrule

Go back and play LoZ with either the manual or a scan of the manual.

>there will never be a LoZ successor because everyone's obsessed with being spoonfed the ending credits to every game they play nowadays