The Legend Of Zelda (Zelda (GB))

Member Name: aberdeen_guy

Product:	Zelda (GB)
Date:	23/02/03 (302 review reads)
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Advantages: Great graphics, Challenging

Disadvantages: Verse repeated

This game was made by Nintendo and came out for the Nintendo in 1987. Its a one player adventure game with paswords.

When you see this game you will notice something straight away. The cartridge is gold coloured. The box is also gold coloured and has a picture of a sheild on it. The sheild has four squares but has the top left one left out. Dont worry thats how the box is meant to be. The game also comes with a map of the game.

You play Link, the young elf character, on a quest to find the eight pieces of the Triforce (some mystical thing), rescue the Princess Zelda, and defeat the evil Ganon, who has infested the land of Hyrule with monsters.

The game takes place in an overhead view, and the game view never scrolls (i.e. it moves screen by screen.) There are a total of nine dungeons in the Legend of Zelda. The first eight contain a piece of the Triforce, while the final dungeon contains the last boss. There is an `overworld` that you travel in to get from dungeon to dungeon, although the entrances are spread all over the land. These underworld levels are often mazes, requiring that you find keys to open various doors that you find. There are also maps of each level to find, and a compass to point out the location of the boss. There are sometimes rudimentary puzzles to be solved, but most of these revolve around pushing blocks.

The graphics are good and its like a birds eye view. The music is ok but tends to be the same verse repeated over and over. Gameplay is excellent and it will keep you busy for sometime playing this.

The Zelda game is brilliant indeed. Even today lots of people are still playing this. Another thing is that this is one of the most expensive Nes games to buy now. For a complete copy you will pay around £45 - £60. For just the cart again looking at £15 - £25. So if you do look for this game, try to get a full copy including the map.

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