After 11 Years...

[Emerates]

Took me between 6 and 10 years to complete Wario Land and Donkey Kong Land 2 for the GB.

[candinfat]

Cool story bro.

This.

[SaiKar]

My first gaming system was a Gameboy. I think the first game I ever actually beat was Link's Awakening. Incidentally this is also the game with one of the saddest endings ever (Marin  ) so that probably did some permanent damage to me.

As far as beating old games recenetly, I went through a SNES emulator kick a while ago and beat a bunch of really old games that I never got all that far into. FF4, FF6, Donkey Kong Country, Super Metroid, Link to the Past (which I actually think is better than OoT. Certainly better ending!) and the like.

Septerra Core.

This was, without a doubt, the worst RPG I ever played in terms of actual gameplay. All of the dungeons were exactly the same - walk forward about 5 steps, get into a battle, charge up your attacks, take some damage, kill monsters with one or two hits. The only "puzzles" were of the "this door is locked, but there is a switch right there to open it" variety. It was pure unadulterated hell to play through.

With that said, I forced myself to keep playing until I beat it, because it was, again without a doubt, one of the best RPGs I ever played as far as worldbuilding and overall storyline went. Conceptually it was just pure freaking awesome. The seven layers and their own cultures and interact but only a little, and the scheme to make the prophecy happen a few hundred years before it was supposed to, and the endgame where they started moving around entire continents. Freaking genius. Even the ending was extremely satisfying, which isn't something I often see.

I would have loved to see a Septerra Core movie or anime or something where I could have just sat back and enjoyed. As a game it was awful to play.

I still haven't beaten FFXII.

**** the desert.

Haahaa, the desert is like 100% of the game. Start in the desert, basically end in the desert. **** that game. Worst environments ever.

[Archem]

Link's Awakening got me stuck in the second dungeon when I was a kid. I couldn't figure out that one part where you had to kill all the enemies using pots.

Then the game was stolen.

I eventually bought a new copy, and played through to completion. It became my second favorite Zelda game, right behind ALttP. Twilight Princess took over as second favorite after I beat it.

[Phantom Umbreon]

It took me about 6 years to finally beat Majora's Mask, and when I put some effort into it, I beat it in less than a week. I was stuck in the Snowhead Temple for a while and eventually just obtained the fire arrows, cleared the Romani Ranch questline and got Epona back, got the Ice Arrows from the Great Bay Temple, then cleared the Stone Tower Temple. THEN I went back and completed the Great Bay and Snowhead temples. D: *phew*

I have yet to beat Wind Waker. I'm having trouble with the Triforce shards, which seems to be everyone's reason for not being able to complete the game. I'll get around to it eventually, I just.. EH.

Edit: Oh FFFFUUUU- I didn't see the date of the last post. D: Sorry!

[Archem]

No biggie.

[zuhane]

Link's Awakening got me stuck in the second dungeon when I was a kid. I couldn't figure out that one part where you had to kill all the enemies using pots.

Then the game was stolen.

I eventually bought a new copy, and played through to completion. It became my second favorite Zelda game, right behind ALttP. Twilight Princess took over as second favorite after I beat it.

You have no idea how miserable that made me. Some weird sign that said "First stalfos" or something. Had me confused for so long! After that, I blitzed
through the game!

[SaiKar]

Yeah, the sign was like "First kill Polls, last Stalfos" and I'm like, okay, what the hell is a polls or a stalfos? Eventually figured it out through sheer trial and error I believe.

[zuhane]

Yeah, the sign was like "First kill Polls, last Stalfos" and I'm like, okay, what the hell is a polls or a stalfos? Eventually figured it out through sheer trial and error I believe.

The worst part was, I played it when I was young, in the days before I knew that you could just Google walkthroughs!

[Cerebus]

Pols Voice! But you had to kill the one behind the pots first, if I remember.

[Archem]

Yes, everyone remembers this puzzle. Pretty distinct, if everyone remembers it so well.

[zuhane]

Yeah, Pols Voice! What the hell!? How is any normal kid supposed to decipher that meaning!? XD

[MissingName]

I almost gave up at that part, to be honest.

[Archem]

I miss puzzles like that. I haven't seen anything that tricky, confusing, and luck-based in years. I remember the days of bombing a random rock to find things. Now, I have doors and guide characters telling me how to open said doors. What happened?

[MissingName]

Everyone's IQ obviously dropped.