Currently replaying every game in the series. Finished Zelda 1st and 2nd quest and Adventures of link in the past week so it only gets easier from here.
Zelda 1? Blue and red bubbles, Blue Darknuts and yellow Wizzrobes make you hate life when you walk into a room with 6 to 8 of them. Especially if they are mixed.
I had the misfortune as a child to think it would be cool to just name my game "zelda"
I spent like a year thinking I had a different much harder game than my friends.
2nd quests without a walkthrough likely remains one of the hardest things ever devised in a video game. And I have beaten Battletoads and Silver surfer. It took years of burning every bush and bombing every wall to figure out. i got the game when i was 11 and didn't beat it until I was 24. im 40 now and surprised with how much I remember and how much muscle memory remains in my fingers. The map I had from when i was a kid complete with personal notes I covered in clear tape because it was literally disintegrating.
It took years just to find this damn labyrinth
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As For adventures of link? this game is not nearly as unforgiving as I remembered nor is it bad. bad for people who bad hand eye coordination maybe. Certainly I never thought it was as hard as Zelda 2nd quest. The years have widened the gap. Link's sword is the size of a prison shank so you have to get close to everything, but its still manageable.
But Blue Fokkas in the great palace were a doozy till I remembered the upthrust easy way of beating them. Nothing in this game is remotely as challenging as a room with mixed Blue Darknuts and Wizzrobes with bubbles to boot. Great palace often called the hardest dungeon ever is not. 2nd quests has at least 3 labyrinths way harder than Great Palace. Hell, level 6 in the regular quest 1 tops great palace in difficulty. First encounters with Wizzrobes while relatively weak is brutal.
Link to the past? I just started it this morning as I am nearly done the game. Not a single thing in this game is remotely challenging.
But every game is going to be easy as heck after 1 and 2. You are not a real zelda master until you have beaten those games without a walkthrough lol. Every other game basically holds your hand and makes it easy