Nice drawing

Thank you very much!

welcome

I'm sure a lot of people wanted to see Valoo much bigger, so this is a great piece. ; )

As for your question, A Link to the Past on SNES. I must have replayed that game more times than I care to count when I was a kid and always tried to make every run of the game different somehow. I even downloaded it to my Wii back when it was still hooked up. I loved it that much.

If you want to breath a little life into the game, A Link to the Past randomizer is really fun. At it's most basic it will move every item around in the 300+ locations you can get an item. At harder versions it can randomize room entrances or even link several copies of the game over a network connection such that you may find the hookshot for a friend in your game while waiting for them to find an item you need.

Nah, I'm good, but thanks for offering. I'm not into randomizers and stuff like that. ^^

Probably the most meaningful Zelda game to me is Wind Waker, given that it's the first one I played and I honestly just loved everything about it... mostly Valoo

Hehe. Wind Waker is excellent. I never really got into many of the 3D Zelda games (I couldn't never finish Ocarina of Time, I would quit pretty early as it was not fun for me), but Wind Waker was awesome. It looked great, the dungeons were great, and I loved just exploring.

I always wanted to get a good up-close look at Valoo when I played~

Now that's an interesting question to think about. The first Zelda game I think I played was A Link to the Past, but as young as I was, I got stuck often and never made it further than Agahnim. Then there was Wind Waker where I often got stuck on Forsaken Fortress (I sucked at stealth). I think my answer would be the first one that I beat, which was Minish Cap. I sunk so many hours into that game (and no, this didn't influence any macro/micro things in me. I was too dumb to think into it.) and had a blast completing it. I can't discount A Link Between Worlds or Breath of the Wild though, which are both great games in their own right.

Ooh Minish Cap is excellent, if a little short. I would love Capcom to take up making another 2D Zelda. Their dungeon design is top notch.

A Link Between Worlds is the most fun Zelda game I've ever played. It re-ignited my love of open-world games. The game's world is a giant playground where the player can do whatever they want. Because of this, I was able to explore the world as I saw fit, without being forced down a linear pathway. I could find the heart pieces and complete the dungeons in any order, for the most part, and it was the first Zelda game in a long while that I'd played that really felt like an adventure I was taking on rather than just a linear, already-written-out story that I was helping to progress.

I remember getting a Link Between Worlds when it came out and getting absolutely absorbed in it, and playing through to completion (i.e. solved and did things like getting 100 Miemies (or whatever they were call). The last time I was that absorb like that was probably Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga.

I think the Zelda game with the most meaning for me is A Link to the Past. I remember saving up my allowance and buying the game at a Toys R Us. I spent so much time playing it and learning all its secrets. It still holds up as a great game even today.

I remember saving up for it as well. Getting a game from Toys'r'Us was an event, as a kid clutching the game slip and heading over to the little kiosk to trade it in for the actual game. I go through Link to the Past often. I'm amazed how much fun it is even after completing it so many times.

Big, bigger Valoo is a rare, very appreciated treat! I always liked imagining him bigger than the island.

OoT has to be the Zelda game I put the most hours in and felt really invested in. The story, the 3D, gameplay, and even catering to my fun, growy thoughts with King Dodongo and Volvagia, the former which I liked to imagine blew up bigger eating bombs, and the latter which I always thought looked super neat and equally growable.

I wish I could get into Ocarina of Time. It just never held me that much, and it irritates me given how many people love it and how highly rated it is. I can't put a finger on it, but I just fall of pretty early from the game, so I never got far.

Perfect!! <3<3

Hehe, thanks!

Dude, I love how this looks. For me, I never played any Zelda games...I was more book nerd growing up

That’s completely fine, not all folks a gamers. What’s a good book you recommend then?

Let's see, there's The Loch, the percy Jackson series, maze runner series, can't think of too many atm lol, getting ready to pitch my manuscript soon 😅😅😅

Good luck on you book. My few attempts to write were difficult slogs, so I’m always impressed when I see folks able to write whole books.

Do randomizers count? XD

Sure. I’ve only played link to the past randomized. What ones do you play?

Been really hooked on Ocarina of Time 3D as of late. Also gave twilight princess randomizer a try recently but im not to keen on using trackers so i didn't get very far.

I’ve shamelessly used auto-trackers.

I prefer using those, cause i ofteen forget to mark things myself. I used one of these for Minish Cap.

Munich cap has a randomizer? I would have thought it was too linear.

Valoo is adorable

Indeed the design has always been a cute pear shape. I just made it a bit more pear like.

uwu

Ocarina of Time. It’s the first Zelda game I’ve ever played, but never finished. I couldn’t get passed the volcano level, and haven’t played it since.

I’ve been going through games I played as a kid that I had trouble with, and have solved a number of them, they were mostly old NES games though. One was doing the second quest of the original Zelda.

I see.

I've only really played a few Zelda games, (A Link to the Past, Wind Waker HD, and Zelda II) but I can say without hesitation that Wind Waker HD is the one I remember the most fondly. I played it blind with the company of a friend of mine (whose copy of the game I was playing since I didn't own a Wii U) and recording it for Youtube, and while I was extremely bad at the game, having a friend to go through it with made it so much more fun and enjoyable.

I do want to get back to Zelda II and try to finish it one day, though. As difficult as it was, I enjoyed it far more than I expected to. I'm a sucker for leveling mechanics in games, though.

Also I know I already told you this, but I'm still so happy you finished this piece finally. It's so cute, and it turned out great. I love the expressions!

I do like Zelda 2 a lot. I play through that often, and prefer the Japanese version because of leveling differences, but both work nice. I almost got a no death run, but alas both bots and lava pits exist in that game and together they just suck.

If I had to throw my hat into the ring, well sure I liked some of the big console games because Link to the Past was pretty good, I remember exploring Ocarina of Time a lot as well as Majora's Mask, and going everywhere on the high seas in Windwaker.
Being honest though Twilight Princess was really interesting, and it happened close to my teenagehood. It was one of the few console zeldas I came close to beating back in the day (Got stuck in the Sky City, thought I sequence broke and couldn't find another way) and I beat it for real when it re-released on the Wii U. Still think Midna's one of the best partners Link's had, lots of interesting mechanics with the items, wouldn't do the poe sidequest twice but it was a fun ride.

My other pick for a great zelda game was Minish Cap, although we mostly have Capcom to thank for that one. There was a lot to do in that game, even if you were just going after the main story stuff.
It did feel a bit linear but that's why there were so many sidequests to keep you entertained if you need to take a small break or detour from it. And changing sizes from normal to tiny was a great way to give you more areas, dungeons, and bigger monsters to fight, as well as different puzzles to solve.
Of course, just because Minish Cap was amazing doesn't mean the earlier GBA titles weren't also great. Oracle of Seasons was probably my other favorite one, the next game down from that being Link's Awakening. You can't go wrong with any of them.

I greatly enjoyed the Oracle games and they are far enough back that I don’t remember any details about it making it good to revisit.

I sadly never gave twilight princess much love, when I borrowed it the beginning slogged too much for me, but I heard it has some great dungeon design. It also hits me hard realizing how young most of my audience is, as I grew up with the nes games.

Yeah the oracle games were pretty good, Seasons is my preferred of the two, never was much of a thinker.

Unfortunately Twilight Princess does have a slow start. But I think the pacing gets better once you get the Master Sword. Everything else before that, sure it might have it's moments, but Faron Woods drags the most imo.
I was there when the NES games were a thing but I wasn't very good at them. I'm personally more likely to go back to Zelda 2 over the first one.

I think I’m going to go dust off the Oracle games and play them again. It’s been too long and I bet they will feel new to me at this point.

Hopefully your playthrough of them fares well!

"Link to the Past" was the first Zelda game I ever played. It might not be fair, but I think I kind of use that one as the benchmark/gold standard/somewhere in between when evaluating any other Zelda game.

Ooh, I’m curious then. Which ones rank above that benchmark?

That's a little complicated. "Ocarina of Time" and "Breath of the Wild" had technically superior graphics, but there's just something about the level of LttP--better than the NES titles, simpler than later games--I guess none of them rank above.

Honestly, I'd say it's Majora's Mask. While I loved Breath of the Wild, Majora's Mask has such a strong atmosphere of existential dread, and some top-tier writing. Funnily enough, I first played it before OoT, so the former doesn't really mean as much to me. MM is also a lot more action-heavy than most games in the series, and playing as the different forms Link takes on is a lot of fun. Also, memorizing dungeons across multiple attempts adds a new layer of depth to them; you're not so much solving a dungeon the second time around as you are *learning* it.

Actually I'm surprised by the "more action-heavy" comment on Manjora's Mask. I really never played it but by brother had it so I at least tried the first loop. Everything I ever read about it and heard people talk about it made it seem much more plot and interact with characters based then action oriented. I don't even think I saw my brother play much that involved dungeoning or even dealing with enemies.

Well, both are technically true; a vast chunk of the game is spent on NPC interaction and learning everyone's schedule, but in terms of the actual environmental and dungeon design, there's a lot more emphasis on manual dexterity and playing with the different forms Link takes on than on puzzles. Dungeons involve more combat in general than OoT's did (which makes sense, as the different forms Link takes on all have different mechanics going on). Bosses are more about learning attack patterns and getting up in the enemy's face at the right time than puzzling out which item to use. Not to mention, the game's also heavier on minigames than OoT: there's about 17 (19 if you count briefly playing as Kafei for his plotline and warding off the UFOs on Romani Ranch), compared to OoT's 11.

... Yeah, I really like MM. XD

Does Valoo mind if Zelda rides him?

I don't think Valoo would even notice at this size.

It would be interesting for someone riding Valoo as a boss fight for Zelda. Since the dragon is giant, you can only make them sink