The Legend of Zelda

The Legend of Zelda series:

              

               The best Nintendo game series is called The Legend of Zelda. Zelda is a fantasy role playing game that was created by Shigeru Miyamoto. Shigeru Miyamoto got his inspiration from his childhood. He used to explore the forests, caves and rural villages in the hillside of his home in Japan. He then made the Zelda series and created some of the places from his home in his game. The Legend of Zelda was first released on February 21, 1986 in Japan. Then, a year later, it was released in America and Europe.

                The series is about Link, a young courageous boy, who has to save the princess Zelda from Gannon.  In order to defeat Gannon, Link has to find the triforce. The triforce is a golden triangle that has the power to destroy Gannon. But he has to find the three pieces: courage, power, and wisdom. Most of the gameplay consists of puzzles and fighting. The setting is back in the medieval times in Hyrule. The newer games are not much different than the older ones. There are different puzzles, characters, and places in all of the new games of the series. The franchise has sold more than 52 million copies and became the fourth best selling NES game ever.

                My favorite game of the series is The Legend of Zelda: Windwaker because it’s fun and has a lot of features that the other Zelda games did not have. For example, there are a lot of mini games and there are different weapons. Unfortunately, they removed the boat feature from the newer game, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Twilight Princess has a great storyline and graphics but I would have liked it better if it had more features to it instead of just the main story.  Windwaker was released in the early 2000s for the GameCube.

(The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess concept art)                                                                                                                                                     

I rate the Zelda series a 4 out of 5 because its fun but they seem to repeat the patterns in the puzzles and I would like to see a completely different game out of the series.

Mario

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         Mario is my favorite classic game! Mario was released in 1983 and was the first of two-hundred Mario games.  Mario is a fictional character from the Mushroom Kingdom in America. Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Mario, wanted to create the best selling video game for Nintendo. He originally wanted to make a game that hade Popeye, Olive Oyl, and Bluto but he was unable to get the license to be able to use the characters.  Mario started out in one of the earlier Donkey Kong games. Mario was originally known as Jumpman.  In the 1981 Donkey Kong game, Donkey Kong was Mario’s pet and Mario was mean to him so Donkey Kong ran away and stole Mario’s girlfriend. Then you have to play Jumpman and rescue her.  Then, when Mario’s own series was created, he then had to save princess Peach from the evil turtle Bowser.

                Not only do the creators have a lot of Mario games, they also have games that feature some of the other characters from Mario. I really liked the game Luigi's Mansion for the Nintendo GameCube. In this game Luigi inherits a mansion and when he goes inside the mansion, he quickly finds out that it is haunted. Then Mario gets kidnapped by the King Boo character and Luigi has to go through the entire mansion trying to save his brother.  Another Mario game I love is called Super Mario Smash Bros. In this game, he or she can pick their favorite character and fight the other popular characters from a lot of different classic video games. He or she can either play the story mode or fight their friends in multiplayer. My favorite character is Zelda because I always disappear and reappear on the other side of the map and it is easy to get away from the person I am fighting. I love the Mario games and they are definitely my favorite games!

I rated this series 5 out of 5 because there are a lot of different types of games and it’s awesome.