Just starting Ocarina of Time 3D. The small 3DS screen works great to diminish the impact of such dark age graphics.

I'm still on the intro. The Deku Tree from BotW appears in this game. And there's a fairy character that talks and is not a large fairy.

WTF is a Kokiri? Link lives inside the Deku Tree? It's very early. I'm mid-way through a dialogue, but had to stop when I noticed this game reuses the "home" theme from Minish Cap. We've got another game with a kid Link, it seems.

Link is the son of the Deku Tree, or so I gather. The fairy seems to be a part of the gameplay. I'm guessing she's the game's gimmick, like Ezlo in Niggish Cap.

Link auto-jumps near a ledge. I'm not sure if this is gonna be a good idea...

So it's a town of parasitic elf people who live off the Deku Tree. Controls seem fine so far.

OK, I was at the starting area, and within two minutes got into the Lost Woods and I'm now at the entrance to Goron City. This game is DEFINITELY smaller than BotW. WTF.

I can't get in, though, so I guess I need to fuse a kinstone piece with some villager or other.

@Rasterman its weird seeing a play by play of a REAL zelda game from someone whos only played botw lol. interesting takes

@suquili This is slander. I have finished Zelda 1, played Zelda 2, finished ALttP, Minish Cap, BotW and TotK. I think I can speak on all things Zelda with authority and expertise.

@Rasterman ill confess ive never finished those first three lmao. 1 and 2 were too hard and at some point when I was like 9 I got stuck in ALttP and its been set aside since

@suquili Zelda 1 is garbo. I only played it because I saw it on the NWC 2015 and realised my total lack of Zelda knowledge meant I would've been instantly disqualified had I been a participant. I couldn't let that stand.

I should've let that stand. Zelda 1 is horrible and Miyamoto should feel bad about it. You can get softlocked with Ganon if you don't get a specific "optional" item and the fight is unwinnable.

Zelda 2, I like the gameplay, but progress is obscure and you gotta wander a lot if you don't know where to go.

Zelda 3 is like a worse Minish Cap (except for the kinstone piece bullshit). Maybe I should re-visit that one. People seem to like it but I played it too close to Zelda 1 and the wound was still fresh.

@Rasterman @suquili Rather than replay ALttP I'd recommend A Link Between Worlds on the 3DS, if you don't actually have nostalgia for "Zelda 3" it's essentially Better ALttP, only problem is that it's really easy and only gives you Hard Mode after beating the game.

@ChristiJunior @suquili It's on my 3DS, in my Zelda folder. I didn't know that game existed until ~4 months ago, though.