> I think I'm one of the five people on HN who do not hold Zelda as the pinnacle of gaming. You're not alone, I find the Zelda series a handholding, restricted

> I think I'm one of the five people on HN who do not hold Zelda as the pinnacle of gaming. You're not alone, I find the Zelda series a handholding, restricted, and shallow experience. Ironically it's the opposite of what is described here. I've played a bunch of The Legend of Zelda and Zelda II (can't even be bothered to look the name up) on NES, and completed A Link to the Past, Link's Awakening and Ocarina of Time (at that point I just stopped caring) when I was bored playing Chrono Trigger for the nth time (I think it was n=8 or so) or some other games in the corresponding era. The whole time I expected something to happen, really, anything, but there was nothing remotely like the magic countless people recommending them to me seemed to experience. > I'm finding that this response is growing rather uncontrollably and frighteningly I could probably write an entire blog response to this article. I was myself writing a comment earlier that turned into an article draft.