Hydlide, a Zelda Disaster

January 23rd, 2010 by Mases

The Angry Video Game Nerd recently reviewed an old NES game by the name of Hydlide. While the game pre-dates the original Legend of Zelda, the nerd makes a ton of references between Hydlide and Zelda as the games do look somewhat similar to one another. All in all the conclusion that is reached is that… Hydlide is a terrible game, and Zelda is an amazing game. It’s a fun video to watch, but beware that it does contain some inappropriate language. Enjoy the video and tell us what you think about it!

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link98

What a crap game.
http://twitter.com/_Redstone @_Redstone

Meh, the AVGN's never really been funny. The closest he ever gets is rapid-fire swearing, and even that's turned down by his deadpan sneer half the time. Hydlide wasn't even that bad- if you use that quicksave peripheral the password system's no longer an issue, and aside from the confusing combat a lot of it was pretty clever. My cousin Dave had this game when I was like, six, and he used to speedrun the thing when my mom visited my aunt.
So yeah, sub-par AVGN there.

Joe R

So wrong! AVGN cracks my shit up! He's right, I'd never play this thing. So unappealing…
http://twitter.com/Buc86 @Buc86

The games he review are often not nearly as bad as he makes out. He's exaggerating for the sake of comady. His act is to get mad at how bad the game is.

Zelda FAAAAN!!!

I'm sorry but WHAT THE F*CK!!! WHO WOULD PLAY THIS GAME!!!
Joe R

I love AVGN! He's got a point. Zelda was extremely secretive. If it wasn't for Zdungeon I would never get to the 7th, 8th, and 9th dungeons, as well as magic sword.
Master Kokiri 9

Wow. This is so wierd. I was just watching the AVGN when I checked out the home page here and what did I find? More AVGN. But while I didn't play it I think I'd agree with AVGN minus the swearing.
StrangeWig

I died with the "F**************************CK" right at the beggining of the intro xD
This guy is a masochist! xD
Tailskirby6

Wow. That was a pretty quick site fix. Wonder what caused the problem in the first place?
marttorn

The original Zelda was very cryptic, if you wanted to get all the rupees in the moblin hideouts and such, but even some important things like the Blue ring and the sword upgrades are hard to find. Well, not the Blue Ring but they could of called it "Clothing upgrade" or just showed an image of white clothes, I don't think anybody would guess a blue ring upgrades your clothes. That's not saying Zelda is bad though, just saying that being secretive doesn't have to mean bad.

On a side note,

HYDELIDE, UGH! /barf
GREAT

AVGN ^_^
http://twitter.com/Buc86 @Buc86

I kinda wish the newer Zelda games were more criptic.

What's with the Metriod music at the start?
http://twitter.com/HiroshiMishima @HiroshiMishima

Ironically, I'd just learned about Hydlide like… no more than 2 days before I found the Zelda Dungeon (which was like.. what… the 18th this month? Kinda sad since I've been a Zelda fan from the beginning of the series. But it's funny, cause I learned about Hydlide by complete accident while looking for something over at 1-up and I saw mention of it, and I thought "gee that sounds kinda interesting, I should check it out" and while I hadn't yet, a couple days later this pops up when I come by to check the news here. Hah!

Thing is, most people who look at Hydlide will think it is insanely hard, a lot of them may never have played these kinds of games back when they were new. As someone who is familiar with raging against Zelda II and Ninja Gaiden, etc, I can say it's nothing new. I know that without Nintendo Power (and a little help from Galoob…) I'd probably have never beat the original Zelda way back when. ..of course, nothing could get me through Zelda II but hey, I finally beat it in 2007, so shut up. (lol) Anyways, yeah, a lotta games were made that seemed inspired or down right copied from more mainstream/popular games at the time. It is a trend we still see today (although perhaps less/more obvious depending on your perspective), and so the whole "gee this reminds me of something" shouldn't surprise anyone.

On a note, I do agree that cryptic feelings is something games need to relearn these days. However, Zelda was secretive to the point of downright frustration. I honestly believe many would never have beaten it without Nintendo Power (and back then almost everyone who owned a Nintendo subscribed to it), or at least word of mouth/friends who beat it/etc to look to for help. Today, just way too much is given away or holds your hand… slightly off topic, but I also find a reliance upon mini-games in modern Zelda to be a sad affair, as well.
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