August 2016 Community Playthrough - Legend of Zelda & Jaws (NES)

[GrayGhost81]

Just did the last regular dungeon and completed the triforce.

The difficulty spike in this one was kind of absurd. Room full blue Darknuts with and four projectile statues? No problem!
 

For a while there, the frustration completely took the wind out of my sails. However, I know I'm at the end of the game, and even if the final dungeon sucks even worse, which I'm sure it will, at least I'm almost done.

[GrayGhost81]

Finished!

Nice one to cross of the list.

Final dungeon was not too bad. The blue Wizzrobes were pretty frigging annoying with how they spammed their wand projectiles at you, but I'm still sticking with "room fulla blue Darknuts" as the most tedious and annoying thing in the game.

One thing that kind of annoyed me is how the secondary weapons like the bow and arrow and magic wand just flat out don't work on a lot of enemies. Maybe it would have made the game too easy, but it made me feel like I had all these cool toys that I just couldn't do anything with.

Lastly, here was my loadout when I got to Ganon. I thought I got every item the game had to offer, but out of curiosity, did I miss something that belongs in the inventory next to the warp whistle, or does that just stay empty?

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[Duke.Togo]

That spot is just for the food/bait, which you probably didn't buy again after level 7.

[GrayGhost81]

That spot is just for the food/bait, which you probably didn't buy again after level 7.

Ah! Right! Forgot about that.

On another note, I just beat JAWS for the first time in my life. That game is awesome.

[GrayGhost81]

Was just messing around with BS Zelda just to see what it looks like. It is really beautiful, and makes me wish Nintendo gave the original game the Super Mario All-Starts treatment so you could play it like this. Plus you can play as Zelda!

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[singlebanana]

Wow, that's pretty neat!

[Duke.Togo]

I've seen some repro carts of this out there, but never played it. Looks really nice.

[douglie007]

I seen the BS Zelda Translated ROMS, I might try that.  in other news got back to the week one check point.  but Im playing it on my 3DS VC this time.

[singlebanana]

Hope everyone's doing well with Zelda. New checkpoint is up and we are starting the second Quest this week for those interested.

[Pam]

Question - is there a map for the overworld that's findable in game at all?

[singlebanana]

Question - is there a map for the overworld that's findable in game at all?

No there isn't. However, there was one that came with the game at retail.

[Shadow Kisuragi]

Here's essentially the one that came with the game. This one has overlays for where to find things though, so I've hidden it behind the spoiler tag. Applies to Quest 1 only.

Spoiler (hover to show)

http://www.nesmaps.com/ma...a/ZeldaOverworldMapQ1.png
[img width=700 height=226]http://www.nesmaps.com/maps/Zelda/ZeldaOverworldMapQ1.png[/img]

[Duke.Togo]

nesmaps.com is a good resource if you are ok with it.

[shaggy]

nesmaps.com is a good resource if you are ok with it.

I never knew this existed.  Very cool.

[shaggy]

Here's the Spoiler free quest 2 map:  http://nesmaps.com/maps/Z...a/ZeldaOverworldQ2BG.html