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The Legend of Zelda was the first video game whose music made me feel something. The music of Super Mario Bros. is iconic but my first memories of SMB are all about the visuals.
LOZ's main title and overworld theme were stirring.
LOZ's main title and overworld theme were stirring.
I've had some version of the Zelda theme as my ringtone on my phone for over a decade now because any other song, my phone related anxiety would inevitably ruin for me.
It took me a long time to appreciate the Adventure of Link overworld theme, for not being the same song but teasingly referencing it.
In retrospect, it works very good as a sequel.
In retrospect, it works very good as a sequel.
Honestly, I have to say no game has grown on me over time the way Adventure of Link did. At the time it came out, I didn't hate it? I played it. But kind of dutifully. It wasn't what I wanted, which was more (and possibly better) Legend of Zelda.
When A Link to the Past came out... that was when I started to grow cold on Adventure of Link, because now I had another sequel to compare it to, and the newer one was more what I would have wanted.
But I started playing Adventure of Link again once I got a NES Classic, and I could both play it conveniently in its original form (on TV, with a NES controller) but with a modern quailty of life saving feature.
And with so many different versions of what a Zelda game is to choose from, the departures between I and II feel less like a letdown. I can better appreciate the more experimental flourishes.
I went from liking it because it was the only Zelda sequel available to disliking it because it was the least Zelda sequely sequel to actually really liking it, in a way I didn't appreciate at the time even before I cooled on it.
Nowadays, the bottom slot is probably either Majora's Mask or Skyward Sword. I really like Skyward Sword but the over reliance on motion controls makes it *very* hard for me to play, to the point that I never finished it.
I want to like Majora's Mask, I generally wish we got more Zelda sequels that followed an existing incarnation and built on the same engine... but... "What if we made a whole game that was that one quest where you have to run the whole map before the broth gets cold?"
