ILX Plays: The Legend of Zelda for NES

i do think it's a good aesthetic move--commitment--for wind waker to be like, you think THAT was big and empty?

I could imagine a pretty good top twenty list of games where the first couple hours sees you through a very carefully-realized small world giving way to an "oh shit!" unveiling of the bigness of the world overall --- thinking again here of FF7. My sense is that very few such games are able to sustain the wonder and joy of the great big world for all that long. But it's still a cool and memorable moment.

that's at the heart of all the elder scrolls games

And fallout!

it's very good in oot where your little-kid quest to save the world ends up destroying it--ganon taking the stones off you cuz turns out an eight-year-old is not a better hiding place than three separate monster-stuffed dungeons scattered across the world--and the second and much longer part of the game is in a sense atonement.

sorry, that's really analogous to lttp's lightworld/darkworld shift, not to the immediate post-tutorial wow! of hyrule field/oblivion/f3.

I am basically always on board for "wow, this game was awesome but kinda weird that it feels like I'm almost at the final boss" followed by OH MAN THERE'S A SECOND WORLD ENTIRELY, see: symphony of the night, final fantasy VI, etc.

that's the miyamoto cave system revelation, yes? it's deeply optimistic and kind, this suggestion that there's so much more than we thought and it's waiting for us to step up.

http://kottke.org/15/12/beating-legend-of-zelda-without-a-sword

We posted an update for our Minecraft map reboot if anyone is still interested:

https://zeldaminecraft.wordpress.com/2016/02/22/the-legend-of-zelda-30-year-anniversary-map-updates/

excellent. :) wishing you all the best on this, it looks amazing already.

Thanks!

are you doing this as your main gig or just in your spare time? i can't imagine the amount of time..

Spare time...

I still go out and do things, believe it or not. I don't know where I find the time, but only one or two nights a week are actually dedicated to working on it. There's still a lot left to do. I essentially built the majority of the whole thing myself. Jon wrote some plugins to so I could create mountains (cones with customizable values) and we're using something called "Spigot" that helps me do other sweeping things like clear areas, copy and paste sections or replace block types. But much of the detailing is by hand.

Meant to delete that "to" in there.

sad lonely ILE thread

Legend of Zelda

goddammit nintendo, stop cease and desisting people's cool projects
https://www.zelda30tribute.com/