Author Topic: Favorite Zelda Moment (Read 26495 times)

TrueNerd · « **Reply #25 on:** November 06, 2006, 09:45:48 AM »

- Getting emotionally attatched to the story/characters in Link's Awakening and then laughing my ass right off when I saw how ridiculous the Wind Fish looked.
- The music. Just about all of it.
- When Hyrule Castle gets unfrozen in Wind Waker and all the color seeps back in. Amazing.
- The Sheik reveal. Glad that little twist wasn't ruined for me.
- The Water Temple. Best dungeon ever.

However, none of those moments were as wonderful or memorable for me as this one:

- The final blow in Wind Waker. I consider it to be the finest single moment that any video game has to offer.

Kairon · « **Reply #26 on:** November 06, 2006, 09:56:18 AM »

Hmm... my most memorable moments are sorta boring and not really gameplay based...

-The Legend of Zelda (NES) Opening Title Screen and music
-The Legend of Zelda (NES) Ganon Fight
-The Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past: getting the Master Sword in the Lost Woods
-The Legend of Zelda OoT Title Sequence
-The Legend of Zelda OoT end scene where Navi flies away to a musical crescendo

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

Famicom · « **Reply #27 on:** November 06, 2006, 10:05:52 AM »

Could rank 'em, but just going off memory.

-Battle with Ganon in OoT.
-Battle with Gannondorf in WW.
-First walking into the castle-like area of Forest Temple in OoT.
-Boss fight in Forest Temple in OoT.
-ENTIRE Water Temple in OoT.
-Me and my friend topping each other's fishing records over the course of a week in OoT.
-First appearance of Shiek in OoT.
-Learning Gannondorf had a HOME TOWN and I actually got to GO THERE (Gerudo) in OoT.
-Fighting those giant armors in that desert temple in OoT.
-Seeing Hyrule frozen in time in WW.
-Learning the boss of a certain dark world dungeon in LttP was the person you lead to the boss room in the first place.
-That crazy castle dungeon in MM where you have to flip the whole place upside down and do the other side.
-Stealing from the shop in LA and being called Thief all game (and getting blasted to hell when you get caught).
-Parting ways with the forest chick who gives you the Ocarina in OoT (beautiful moment on the bridge).
-One of the Oracle games acknowledging I was playing the game on a GBA.
-Beating....one of the dungeons on Oracle of Ages (sorry, very hazy memory, but I was really happy I did it).

Contrary to the list, I have plenty more LttP moments, but they're all painful memories because I sucked pretty bad at the game.

Smash_Brother · « **Reply #28 on:** November 06, 2006, 10:06:15 AM »

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Originally posted by: zakkiel Smash_Brother, I completely agree about the music.

I'm whistling the Minuet of the Forest right now...and the Bolero of Fire...Prelude of Light...Zelda's Lullaby...

I still remember how breathtakingly dramatic it was when Shiek showed up to teach you these songs, especially the Bolero of Fire, and it's been far too long, but Shiek described it as a "song of friendship" or something along those lines, and how the camera shots of Shiek and Link were absolutely perfect while the song was playing after you learned it.

OoT was my first Zelda and, needless to say, I was blown away by it. The music so absolutely made the game what it was. I mean, everything was perfect, but the music and how the player's input regarding the music made such a difference in the gameplay was what truly, truly made the game great.

I wish they brought the Ocarina back for more Zelda games...

Ian Sane · « **Reply #29 on:** November 06, 2006, 10:43:39 AM »

I thought of another great moment for every Zelda game, well aside from the NES games where this doesn't really apply. Early on in the game you see something that you can't access because you don't yet have the right item. You possibly don't even know what item you need. All you know is that you want to go there but you can't yet. Then later in the game you get an item and realize "hey this will allow me to enter that part!" and you get all excited. I get that feeling in every Zelda. It will be a sad day if Zelda games ever become uninteresting enough that we don't get that feeling anymore. I imagine that Nintendo puts little areas like that in specifically for that purpose.

Sometimes you don't guess the correct item and walk all the way over there only for it to not work. That just makes finding the real item more rewarding.

UltimatePartyBear · « **Reply #30 on:** November 06, 2006, 10:48:10 AM »

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Originally posted by: Smash_Brother
When Link saluted the giant skeleton in MM.

YES! A prime example of the kind of thing I love Zelda for. I finally came up with a description for it: Whimsical Melancholy. A Zelda game is silly and funny one moment, then depressing or deeply moving the next.

My list, in no particular order and leaving out some of the ones that have been repeated over and over:

The opening of Majora's Mask, particularly the feeling of trepidation mixed with joy as Link did flips leaping from platform to platform as he entered Termina.

Every scene in MM involving the Song of Healing.

The giant skeleton salute.

The ending of MM, particularly the Deku Butler finding his son and the haunting strings.

Reading the mural in the Face Shrine in LA and confirming the truth of Koholint's existance, not to mention what my escape would do to the island.

The boss of the Face Shrine dungeon.

"Link checked the chest. Wow! This is a nice chest!"

The LA ending music.

Finally meeting the flute-playing boy in ALttP just in time to watch him lose his humanity (Hylianity?) completely.

Opening Turtle Rock.

In Wind Waker, in the mini-dungeon gauntlet on Outset, finally getting to put the game's more active combat system to good use. A friend was watching me go through there, and it's a good thing he was, because it wouldn't have been so great if he hadn't seen me. I was trying to put space between me and a Darknut, so I backflipped away at the exact moment a Moblin took a swing at me, so I deftly flipped over its spear in an impressive display of accidental excellence.

vudu · « **Reply #31 on:** November 06, 2006, 10:54:38 AM »

The only one I can think of that hasn't already been mentioned is saving Romani Ranch from the alien invasion in Majora's Mask.

Smash_Brother · « **Reply #32 on:** November 06, 2006, 10:59:14 AM »

I just remembered another VERY important one...

In the opening of Majora's Mask, when the cutscene was explaining how Link was headed back to the forest to see "a friend", my sister and I both said in amazement and in perfect synchronization, "Saria..."

When I found out it was Skull Kid, I was severely disappointed, to say the least...

UltimatePartyBear · « **Reply #33 on:** November 06, 2006, 11:10:21 AM »

I always thought he was looking for Navi. During the text that says he was looking for a friend, you could hear the sound of a fairy flying. The fact that he ultimately didn't find her (he was still riding on his journey in the end) was another great thing about that game.

Smash_Brother · « **Reply #34 on:** November 06, 2006, 11:12:52 AM »

Hmm, I thought the ending of MM implied that he had been looking for Skull Kid.

You're probably right, though...

Crimm · « **Reply #35 on:** November 06, 2006, 11:19:59 AM »

- Entering the Castle of Hyrule in Wind Waker for the first time
- Putting on the Giant's Mask in Majora's Mask
- "Ganon" in the last battle of OoT
- Bunny Link Link to the Past
- "It's a secret to everybody" Legend of Zelda

couchmonkey · « **Reply #36 on:** November 06, 2006, 12:42:58 PM »

Yeah, I'm with Party Bear. Skull Kid...the connection to Skull Kid is interesting, and you could take it that way as well, but I thought they meant Navi as well.

Hey, did I just imagine it, or did Link's Uncle tell him, "ZELDA IS YOUR..." and then nobody ever explained it or mentioned it ever again in A Link to the Past?

Kairon · « **Reply #37 on:** November 06, 2006, 12:54:28 PM »

Yup yup. Is Zelda Link's... sister? destiny? mission? what? The world may never know.

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #38 on:** November 06, 2006, 01:37:41 PM »

Well, they totally ditched the line altogether in the GBA version...

(From what localization teams have said in the past, it was "destiny"...)

(Edit: Just fired up the game, and it seems they removed the line, I thought I remembered it differently...)

Kairon · « **Reply #39 on:** November 06, 2006, 01:43:44 PM »

Darn.

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

Shecky · « **Reply #40 on:** November 06, 2006, 02:10:23 PM »

is your... source of income? retirement plan?

Let her die and the whole series is done!

Crimm · « **Reply #41 on:** November 06, 2006, 03:21:32 PM »

...is your sugar mama.

RiskyChris · « **Reply #42 on:** November 06, 2006, 04:38:20 PM »

Hm I have a new favorite. Walking up the spiral stairs at the end of TOOT, listening to the ominous organ music. *shivers* I loved that.

GoldenPhoenix · « **Reply #43 on:** November 06, 2006, 04:59:15 PM »

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Originally posted by: PartyBear
I always thought he was looking for Navi. During the text that says he was looking for a friend, you could hear the sound of a fairy flying. The fact that he ultimately didn't find her (he was still riding on his journey in the end) was another great thing about that game.

That is why the game is nothing more than spinoff and not a true Zelda game since it had no real purpose.

Nile Boogie · « **Reply #44 on:** November 06, 2006, 05:08:15 PM »

Leaving the forest for the first time in OOT, saying good-bye to Saria. That was the point I knew I was in for something special.

zakkiel · « **Reply #45 on:** November 06, 2006, 06:18:57 PM »

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I'm whistling the Minuet of the Forest right now...and the Bolero of Fire...Prelude of Light...Zelda's Lullaby...

I still remember how breathtakingly dramatic it was when Shiek showed up to teach you these songs, especially the Bolero of Fire, and it's been far too long, but Shiek described it as a "song of friendship" or something along those lines, and how the camera shots of Shiek and Link were absolutely perfect while the song was playing after you learned it.

Yes, indeed. I'm deeply disappointed that they decided to go with a single travel song for MM and WW. If you want to travel in Zelda, by God you better summon some manhood and memorize those songs. They were gorgeous and really added both to the identity of the places you could travel and to a sense of depth around the Ocarina mechanic.

IceCold · « **Reply #46 on:** November 06, 2006, 07:37:42 PM »

I'll try add to the list..

- The entire original LoZ for NES, from beginning to end. I consider it the purest Zelda game, and everything was truly fresh and completely new to me
- Finding out why Link's Awakening was titled that way
- The MUSIC - when you first hear the main theme in each game, Song of Storms (OoT), Gerudo Fortress (OoT), Dragon Roost Island (WW), Song of Time (OoT)
- Parrying for the first time in WW - so awesome - which ties in to the final blow to the "humanised" Ganondorf
- Swimming in MM

Mario · « **Reply #47 on:** November 06, 2006, 07:42:48 PM »

Oh yeah, remembered one. Spending 100 million hours staying up all night trying to get one heart piece in Majoras Mask where I had to Goron Roll to some place and bounce off treasure chests perfectly.

Smash_Brother · « **Reply #48 on:** November 06, 2006, 07:48:09 PM »

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Originally posted by: zakkiel If you want to travel in Zelda, by God you better summon some manhood and memorize those songs. They were gorgeous and really added both to the identity of the places you could travel and to a sense of depth around the Ocarina mechanic.

YES!

The way the screen filled with the glowing texture of the song you just played captured that essence perfectly, and the song would just be finishing as Link was transformed into a glowing light and whisked into the heavens if you selected "Yes" immediately.

Man...OoT wasn't a game, it was an event...

Hostile Creation · « **Reply #49 on:** November 06, 2006, 08:03:49 PM »

" Oh yeah, remembered one. Spending 100 million hours staying up all night trying to get one heart piece in Majoras Mask where I had to Goron Roll to some place and bounce off treasure chests perfectly."

OH YEAH
I did that too, except not for the heart piece but because I thought I was supposed to go that way. I eventually got it (after HOURS) and then I had no place to go and I realized my mistake. Made it to the actual destination on the first or second try, after that.

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Author Topic: Favorite Zelda Moment (Read 26495 times)