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Apr. 16th, 2014 07:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dmxratedWent with Brian and Talia to Grandpa Bob's house two nights ago. They are expecting to leave this morning, but I'm gonna be staying here until Sunday to keep Bob company, since Uncle Robby and Cousin Adam are in the Dominican Republic right now.
Turned out yesterday morning that, of all things, I had forgotten my dice and watch at home. Ironic, because I actually took some time to figure out what I would be needing once we confirmed when and if we'd be going, and got together my Nintendo 64, my laptop, my USB drive, the index card containing some info for Getter Love!!, and some volumes of Lucky Star and Alice the 19th. Good thing I was actually planning on playing Legend of Zelda on an emulator, although even that took a bit of trouble to get around to, since I don't have Uncle Robby's wi-fi password and can't reach him where he is (we had to use an ethernet cable). I'll still be sure to ask Mom to bring my dice with her on Sunday, in case for whatever reason we decide that I'll be staying longer than expected like I did a year ago.
The three of us went to this seafood restaurant called Bahr's. Grandpa declined due to his prohibitive diet. Not really my favorite restaurant, but shortly before we left, me and Brian talked a bit about the Zelda franchise and the nostalgic thoughts I've been having lately about the games that were made before Majora's Mask.
The days that I had been playing A Link to the Past and Ocarina of Time were a time when I actually cared about the worlds that certain games provided, rather than just the gameplay itself. I liked things like the title screen depicting Hyrule Castle resting in some body of water, the gargoyles lining the walls in the Light World dungeons, the view you get from atop Death Mountain, gossip stones, and the secret grottoes you can unearth in the ground.
That, unfortunately, wasn't the case with Majora's Mask, even though that game was pretty good in its own right. Even Brian agrees that that game didn't have the feeling of the Middle Ages in Europe that all its predecessors had, and someone on the VGMusic forum once said that it felt more tribal than medieval. With that game, I mostly enjoyed the challenge of accomplishing and/or collecting as many things as possible within a single three-day cycle before playing the Song of Time to start a new cycle.
I never did play the two NES games until 2002, more than ten years after either of them were released here; the artwork and backstory provided for them in the LttP player's guide is what inspired me to try them out on an emulator. As far as Link's Awakening goes, I only barely played the GBC remake once at Walmart, although I did once read GamePro magazine's walkthrough for that version. Am planning to play that at some point once I complete the NES games.
Beyond Majora's Mask, I do plan on playing the two Oracle games, and might buy a copy of the two Wii games (maybe). Not interested in any games with the art style that The Wind Waker introduced, even though I could easily play several of them on an emulator.
Turned out yesterday morning that, of all things, I had forgotten my dice and watch at home. Ironic, because I actually took some time to figure out what I would be needing once we confirmed when and if we'd be going, and got together my Nintendo 64, my laptop, my USB drive, the index card containing some info for Getter Love!!, and some volumes of Lucky Star and Alice the 19th. Good thing I was actually planning on playing Legend of Zelda on an emulator, although even that took a bit of trouble to get around to, since I don't have Uncle Robby's wi-fi password and can't reach him where he is (we had to use an ethernet cable). I'll still be sure to ask Mom to bring my dice with her on Sunday, in case for whatever reason we decide that I'll be staying longer than expected like I did a year ago.
The three of us went to this seafood restaurant called Bahr's. Grandpa declined due to his prohibitive diet. Not really my favorite restaurant, but shortly before we left, me and Brian talked a bit about the Zelda franchise and the nostalgic thoughts I've been having lately about the games that were made before Majora's Mask.
The days that I had been playing A Link to the Past and Ocarina of Time were a time when I actually cared about the worlds that certain games provided, rather than just the gameplay itself. I liked things like the title screen depicting Hyrule Castle resting in some body of water, the gargoyles lining the walls in the Light World dungeons, the view you get from atop Death Mountain, gossip stones, and the secret grottoes you can unearth in the ground.
That, unfortunately, wasn't the case with Majora's Mask, even though that game was pretty good in its own right. Even Brian agrees that that game didn't have the feeling of the Middle Ages in Europe that all its predecessors had, and someone on the VGMusic forum once said that it felt more tribal than medieval. With that game, I mostly enjoyed the challenge of accomplishing and/or collecting as many things as possible within a single three-day cycle before playing the Song of Time to start a new cycle.
I never did play the two NES games until 2002, more than ten years after either of them were released here; the artwork and backstory provided for them in the LttP player's guide is what inspired me to try them out on an emulator. As far as Link's Awakening goes, I only barely played the GBC remake once at Walmart, although I did once read GamePro magazine's walkthrough for that version. Am planning to play that at some point once I complete the NES games.
Beyond Majora's Mask, I do plan on playing the two Oracle games, and might buy a copy of the two Wii games (maybe). Not interested in any games with the art style that The Wind Waker introduced, even though I could easily play several of them on an emulator.