It's Dangerous To Go AT ALL: Let's Play Zelda Classic

You're missing an extremely helpful item in Level 3. Don't take on the Gleeok beforehand.

After using your medicine crazy early and walking right into a likelike, I'd have just hit reset, personally.

Also yeah, the palette swapped extra HP bosses were one thing, but throwing a 4-headed gleeok in as the 3rd boss would hit my @#$% This button, even without the no maneuvering architecture.

So my off screen play was a bit more productive than intended. I feel kind of bad that I didn't capture my reaction to some of the stuff I stumbled onto, but considering that 90% of it was burning random bushes and using the whistle on every screen I think you'll forgive me. Next video should be fun.

Duly noted!

Like in some ways (mostly the bosses), yeah, but then sometimes it really is scratching my Zelda nerve. And you have to remember some of the shit they pulled in the official second quest (remember where level 8 is?) and wonder what the hell would have happened if they had made two more quests. I don't know that this is too far off. Then again, I'm only in level 3 and they are giving me basically the biggest boss in the vanilla game....

At least they aren't throwing Patras at you yet. Could they have the good sense to not bring Patras out of Level 9? Or at least leave them for 7 and 8?

Honestly, if there was ever a place to bring out the palette swapped Aquamentus they had in the first dungeon, Level 3 might have been the place to do it.

It's the red ring, right? Just about anything else is total bullshit. Blue ring, I'm looking at you.

I'm in active withdrawal nowwww

Sorry to cause you pain.

I was planning to do a recording or two this week but things got busy. Probably won't be anything before Sunday now. Try to contain yourself.

Oh kayyyyyyy

In this episode, Ganon gains the ability to be slightly more stupid, gets lost in a level he already solved, and probably should have split this into two videos.

The choir of angels is the best thing ever.

You know, if you go back into that bow room just one more time, I think you get a free sandwich.

Also, have you tried blowing the whistle at fairy ponds?

HOORAYS!

Love the epic length video.

And, uh, go the fuck back to the entrance to level 6 on the overworld, okay?

PS - did you ever go back to level 1 and look for a second item? I would feel horrible for you if the fucking boomerang was in there.

I did go look around level 1 off camera but didn't find anything. I may do it again just because it's still bothering me that I only found the one item in there.

I went back to level 6 at some point, may have been off camera. Pretty sure there's just an item shop there.

I think I did, but I'll probably try again.

I never said to go in the entrance to old level six. Try something else. I know I saw it in an old video.

So LONELY

Duuuuuuuuude.

Sorry! I had a couple of shitty weeks at work and then a birthday. I'll try to do something this week, maybe even tomorrow. Trust me, I want to get back to this trainwreck as badly as you want to see it.

Yay! And uh happy fucking bday. Got one of those coming up myself.

In this episode, Ganon is weirded out by a tame dungeon, goes sailing, and is trolled by an old man. Again.

I failed to notice while playing that just the blue skeletons were throwing swords, so ignore my ramblings about them.

E: I also realize now, rewatching, that I do need to take that last key door because it should lead to a warp to the rest of the dungeon. Ladder is not required.

And hey, my browser keeps locking up on me when I go to the OP, and I THINK it's the huge animated gif hotlinked on that first page. Could we stick that behind a link, please?

Oh man I couldn't believe you didn't realize what was on the other side of that door.

I suppose you COULD sequence break and end up up a key though?

You can still buy keys I think.

Probably not worth it, and I still don't know where the ladder is anyhow. Mostly I was just so excited to go see what was available once I got my hands on the raft.

Yeah, they are in several shops for 100, and maybe less somewhere.

Super lame! I saw that armos hiding a secret entrance on the map to level 6 and got it in my head that led to a secret, not the same fucking shop entrance. Sorry! Also, you running into goriyas immediately after getting full hearts on twenty different occasions was fucking hilarious.

In this episode, Ganon is tricked by modern Zelda design, it terrified by splitting enemies, and begs for clues.
*And then right after recording this I found pretty much everything on the overworld off camera. Oops.

That digdogger was dumb. I could even accept the room's layout if it was just that, but there's no reason to have that many statues. There shouldn't have been any. There should not have been statues.

On the other hand, the re-spawning blob guys don't seem that big a deal. They do re-form kind of quick though...is there any way to control that?

I'm kinda coming back around on this one now. After those first couple bosses I thought we were just really committing to stupid HP piles in screw-you-cramped rooms. When it's just one or the other that's at least manageable.

The "people" who made this quest really like their shooting statues and blade traps.

To be kind of fair, it wasn't uncommon for the original game to have four statues firing at you, one from each corner. But yeah, making a boss room where you can barely move and it's all but impossible to attack without getting hit by one of the (checks the tape) eight!!!!! statues is pretty fucking ridiculous.

Why are you trying to be fair to them? They certainly aren't providing the same consideration to you.

That's why McClain needs to find the magical sword before starting level 5 in earnest.