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The Legend of Zelda: Beginnings

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Creator: Eddy Genre: NES-style Added: 30 Aug 2017 Updated: 29 Sep 2019 ZC Version: 2.53 Downloads: 424 Rating[?]: Rating: 3.8/5 (4 ratings) Download Quest
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Description
Welcome to TLoZ: Beginnings, a short Z1 style quest aimed at giving people a very nostalgic feel. I tried to challenge myself and make it so that the quest is as non-linear as possible. Because of that, almost the whole world is open to you as soon as you start and it is possible to get into most dungeons early. Sequence breaking is encouraged if you wish to challenge yourself and see what you can get in later dungeons. You may not be able to complete later dungeons fully early on, but you can get some stuff before tackling earlier dungeons. It's all up to you if you wish to do things in order or not.

Other random features include:
- Slightly updated gameplay. Slash and diagonal movement are enabled, and a slightly wider variety of items from the standard Z1 set.
- Z2 enemy tier system. Generally goes from Orange -> Red -> Blue, but some enemies disobey this system.
- Secrets everywhere! Sometimes they're in obvious locations, other times they're not.
- Heart Pieces instead of Heart Containers, just to make exploration a bit more worth it.
- No door repairs anywhere. Bet you'll love that :P

UPDATE LOG
Story
The standard Zelda 1 story. Nothing different here.
Tips & Cheats
- Remember that secrets are almost everywhere! Be sure to inspect as much as you can and most secrets always follow a certain kind of logic with where they are placed on the screen.
- If some secrets are too hard to find, there is a Lens of Truth that is available late game so you can find those last Heart Pieces or a bit of extra money, but for a hefty price.
- All dungeon rooms are shown on the map in each dungeon, so you don't need to worry about extra rooms hiding outside the map. The only exception to this is one room in Level 9, but if you remember what Z1 did, then you should be fine.
- Exploration is key!
Credits
Big thanks to RedmageAdam for his huge set of dungeon maps that can be found here. All dungeon map designs in this quest were taken from that collection.

Also a big thanks to my beta testers:
- CDi-Fails
- Lut
- LunarRedMage
Without them, I probably would've ended up leaving a whole load of random bugs and some weird design choices in the quest. Also thanks to LunarRedMage for the cool bomb bag idea that I never thought of using before.

And some music credits:

- 1st Quest -
Games:
- Four Swords Adventures (Overworld, Levels 1 & 5)
- Wind Waker (Levels 3 & 6)
- Ocarina of Time (Level 8 )
- Twilight Princess (Level 2)
- Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky (Level 7) (thanks to CDi-Fails for suggesting this one)
- Minish Cap (Level 4)
Song Artists:
- ParagonX9 (Level 9)

- 2nd Quest -
Coming soon!

If I missed out anything else, please tell me!