The Development & Legacy of The Legend of Zelda Revisited

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Season 1 Revisited
I'm revisiting the original Legend of Zelda, with a look at the game's development and legacy.
Legendary Adventures is a Legend of Zelda playthrough podcast. I’m exploring the evolution of the Zelda game series by playing through each game in release order, excluding spin-off releases.
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Sources:
1. • Super Mario Bros. retr...
2. • The Legend of Zelda re...
3. www.nintendo.c...
4. www.nintendo.c...
5. shmuplations.c...
6. shmuplations.c...
7. www.gamekult.c...
8. legendsoflocal...
9. iwataasks.nint...
10. web.archive.or...
11. web.archive.or...
12. Hyrule Historia - pgs. 2-3, pgs. 220
13. www.gamedevelo...
14. books.google.c...
15. • Open World Origins
16. www.shacknews....

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26 сен 2024

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@EnjoySackLunch День назад

I was 7 when my older brother came home from the store w a brand new NES in the box and copies of RC Pro Am and LoZ. I asked what they were and the wise ass said “one’s a racing game and the other teaches you how to make pies”. I still remember the disappointment I felt at this lol. Little did I know it ended up being a game that helped shaped my childhood and whose legacy still piques interest of gamers of any age. Great retrospective.

@TheJoninMonkey День назад

This was a great overview of the history and an intriguing discussion of the (somewhat nebulous) definition of genres such as "open world games" I'm personally fascinating by the fact that, even though they didn't go through with it in the end, the idea around Link being the...well, link, between two times and/or worlds seems to a central concept for the series even at the very beginning. Keep up the good work ^_^

@kaydim5921 День назад

My ears are in love with this version

@shanester1832 День назад

Nothing's really made me feel like this game since. The world seemed so huge. The challenges and mysteries were difficult but not to the point of angering you.

@shanester1832 День назад

Gotta love the commitment those dungeon dudes have. They are presumably imprisoned there, yet they're still like, "they hate a certain sound." "Tell me man, the flute? Help me help you!"

@BlusViews День назад

Amazing well researched!

@pakasack День назад

This is so great, thanks for your hard work and research! It's never been confirmed but Kondo's main theme and dungeon theme sound similar to a long song by Deep Purple called "April", not sure if Kondo took subconscious inspiration from that tune. It's an amazing track from IIRC Deep Purple's third album.

@randallscott4581 День назад

Is there a chance you could do a spin-off podcast for Mario or Zelda spin-off titles?

@legendaryadventurespod День назад

@@randallscott4581 I wouldn't be able to fit that in at this time.

@randallscott4581 6 часов назад

I didn't mean right now, your voice is nice to listen to, and, in my opinion, expanding your work beyond Zelda would be a treat.

@michaelturner2806 День назад

First thank you very much for pronouncing brothers instead of broze.

@tyler-xo3rb День назад

love your videos! you cover the history of these games so well, and i think it would be with your time to do some work on your japanese pronunciation to show that little extra bit of reverence and respect to these amazing developers.

@brandonkemenymusic 2 дня назад

Love your stuff! Been following for ages now. Just an fyi: Your title screen reads "poscast" instead of podcast.

@yep8058 День назад

was also sitting here wondering if thats an insider term

@leviwarren6222 День назад

Paul Andrew Smith -cast. That's his name. *head canon updated*

@legendaryadventurespod День назад

@@brandonkemenymusic D'oh!

@brandonkemenymusic День назад

@@legendaryadventurespod happens to the best of us.

@ChrisGagner День назад

7:39- "We were inspired by Peter Pan, not completely of course, otherwise it wouldn't have been great because we would've been sued by that other company that is just litigious as us" -my interpretation of Miyamoto.

@Clery75019 День назад

Sorry but that's not how I understood it. Obviously he didn't want Link to be Peter Pan, Link is supposed to be the legendary hero the player identifies to. Inspiration is limited to the tunic and the pointy ears, but Link's personality has nothing to do with the one of Peter Pan.

@Sara-bear-a 2 дня назад

Is Dimitri meant to be a triceratops or a dodongo? They look pretty similar.

@legendaryadventurespod День назад

@@Sara-bear-a He is a dodongo, but they do look similar

@sneakernickel День назад

It's a hard-lock life, for me.

@specialnewb9821 12 часов назад

Soft locks are more fun

@SamusGunship День назад

Zelda was not described as a role playing game at the time of release, nor in the years after. That was crystal clear to me as a kid in the 80s- I was reading virtually everything that was written about Zelda at the time, never any mention of Zelda as an RPG. We did not have a term for what kind of game it was. Personally, I referred to it as an adventure game during those early years, and I do recall often referring to it as an action-adventure. There still is no term for what kind of game it is. There is no game anything like it, not even any of the Zelda sequels are like Zelda 1 almost whatsoever, with Zelda 3 coming closest to being similar. This is why Zelda 1 is genre defying.

@legendaryadventurespod День назад

@@SamusGunship Perhaps not everywhere but it certainly was considered an RPG, and from my own experience I would say I recall seeing Zelda games primarily classified as RPGs in to the early '00s. Here's a couple examples I found, this isn't an exhaustive list, but it's just to give an idea of what I was saying. 1. Check out the review on pg. 144 which refers to Zelda as a role playing game. web.archive.org/web/20210610164925/retrocdn.net/images/d/d9/ACE_UK_26.pdf#page=144 2. Famitsu is printed in Japanese but the letters RPG are still plain to read in its review of LOZ. cdn-ak.f.st-hatena.com/images/fotolife/M/MULTi88/20200420/20200420023445.jpg 3. And you can see in this archive link from 2001 that Nintendo had Zelda games categorized as RPGs in their website. web.archive.org/web/20010517052024/www.nintendo.com/games/specific_category.jsp?genreId=8

@greenmachine5487 6 часов назад

Yes, many of today's labels did not exist back then. This was an "adventure" game back then. Super Mario Bros was a side-scrolling action game, as "platformer" was not a thing yet.

@SamusGunship 2 часа назад

@@greenmachine5487 I seem to remember hearing the word platformer at the very least in common use in the early 90s, and probably earlier

@ZuzNewsReviews 3 часа назад

A dungeon-maker, while fun, wouldn't have been good for a first foray into this type of game anyway.

@JoesCaribbeanVanLife 18 часов назад

Thia was my intro to gaming. We spent days trying to beat it. Now im listening to this while playing BOTW knowing theres anotger whole game after this one. IM IN GAMING HEAVEN!!😊

@elsiebartlett6808 8 часов назад

You really should try the second quest, it’s pretty different and fun! Loved this version of your work, can’t wait to see the updates to the other videos ❤

@l9day День назад

0:02 What is the significance of blurring the right-hand fire?

@legendaryadventurespod День назад

@@l9day No significance. Just a side effect of a quick edit in RU-vid studio to remove a typo.

@JohnSmith-zw8vp 20 часов назад

5:08 -- We managed to get that with Mario...we're still waiting for chance to do that with Zelda...almost 40 years later :(

@Clery75019 День назад

It's certain that the core elements of Zelda games are already in LoZ. Yet the game is still very cryptic, there are barely any clue, if any, and the same can be said about its successor AoL. ALTTP on the other hand found the right balance so that the player can find the solution to a problem by himself, giving him a feeling of gratification. That ability to solve the puzzle by yourself has been central to all Zelda games after it. Another problem about LoZ is that game is actually quite hard. That difficulty forces the player to try several times, learning sequences by heart, and therefore limiting the sense of exploration that you would expect from an adventure game. Miyamoto understood that after AoL, coming to the conclusion that ALTTP should be made easier, so that exploration would be more fluid.

@deltapi8859 День назад

Open world gaming to me means that you can interact with a game loop that the developers didn't necessarily intend (or not connected to finish the game). Open world I think is strongly connected to how you can interact with the parts of the game and maybe put an emphasize on exploration, experimenting and investigation rather than finishing the game content. The definition that "open world has a connected map well depends how you implement the game. I don't think that having a big map where you can travel where you want necessarily constitutes an "open world".

@charlessegale6493 День назад

Man, time really flies. It only feels like yesterday when I was watching the original podcast...

@deltapi8859 День назад

So everything was completely random and discovered along the way.

@Twisted_Logic 19 часов назад

Out of curiosity, would you consider the Metroid games open world?

@legendaryadventurespod 19 часов назад

@@Twisted_Logic I personally would, and that aligns with the article I cited as well.

@Luxembourgish День назад

You left out the part of Takashi Tezuka inspired by Lord of the Rings books and Keiji Terui by medieval wars!

@roracle День назад

0:34 why is it those games run at low frame rates, but our high frame capture can't capture blinking/flashing of characters? That's the real question lol