The Legend of Zelda

An adventure about Link exploring Hyrule, finding the Triforce pieces, and confronting Ganon.

Nintendo R&D4 · Nintendo · 8–12 hrs

Difficulty

The open-world template: a gold cartridge, a second quest that rearranges every dungeon, and secrets behind candles, bombs, and the recorder. The map is honest if you treat every suspicious alcove as a door.

Tips

Start here
100 rupees, then the blue candle
Buy the blue candle as soon as you can. It lights dark rooms and burns bushes that hide stairs. The white sword waits at 1,000 rupees in the northeast plateau — grind before Level 4.
Secrets
Recorder warps and the second quest
Play the recorder on the island lake to drain it for Level 7. Name the second file ZELDA to skip the intro and start quest 2, where dungeon 1 is not where you left it.

Walkthrough

Walkthroughs that already exist

Written guides and videos are listed separately. The first time a game is opened, the web is searched once. Later visits reuse that result. Six of each show here.

The first visit searches the web. Rate a result from 1 to 5 so the next person can skip the wait.