Alright it's been a busy week at work but I've made it to the Master Sword in A Link to the Past.
It's remarkable just how MASSIVE of an upgrade this game was from the previous two. It's absolutely night and day. It makes perfect sense why this game remains so highly regarded to this day. The first impressions it must have provided people could only have been outstanding, especially to those that already had played the previous two games.
One thing that sits on my mind is what people must have thought the future of the series after this would bring. At this point, every game was totally different the each other. ALttP definitely has a lot in common with Zelda 1 but it's such a huge improvement that it doesn't really even seem like it's all that similar at all. The next 25 years of this series was dominated by games that could be argued followed the formula that ALttP implemented. I'll try keeping that in mind going forward to reassess exactly how much it feels like that was the case.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/923dbb7d.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiCtAUrZbUk
-- Defeating the Running Man of Ocarina of Time in a race since 01/17/2009. --