10th June 2005, 7:30 PM
Like me!
No seriously, the first time I played it, my death/save counter at the end showed me a lovely record 7X (er, roughly 70 deaths or so, I've since deleted that file so I'm not sure). At least I didn't break a hundred :D, but my point is LTTP was pretty hard back then. Having played it constantly since then, the only part I can really call "tough" NOW is early in the game when I have few bottles and heart containers, and even then it only took a few times to get past that early stage of the game (also called "the light world") without saving. After that, the game flew by surprisingly easily, with the only trouble spot being perhaps the forest area, where I ended up using 4 bottles of the blue stuff (though I believe a few times were more for magic than health). So yes, I'd say that with a LOT of practice, the game becomes pretty frickin' easy.
I also say that about Zelda 2, and I've yet to see anyone aside from a few people that actually got the game back in the NES days like I did that would agree...
No seriously, the first time I played it, my death/save counter at the end showed me a lovely record 7X (er, roughly 70 deaths or so, I've since deleted that file so I'm not sure). At least I didn't break a hundred :D, but my point is LTTP was pretty hard back then. Having played it constantly since then, the only part I can really call "tough" NOW is early in the game when I have few bottles and heart containers, and even then it only took a few times to get past that early stage of the game (also called "the light world") without saving. After that, the game flew by surprisingly easily, with the only trouble spot being perhaps the forest area, where I ended up using 4 bottles of the blue stuff (though I believe a few times were more for magic than health). So yes, I'd say that with a LOT of practice, the game becomes pretty frickin' easy.
I also say that about Zelda 2, and I've yet to see anyone aside from a few people that actually got the game back in the NES days like I did that would agree...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)