A Questline in a Decidedly Green Tunic

Hello everyone.
I think the time has come.
Those of you who know me know that I can quite easily be drawn in to a story and that the completion-ist that lies within me sometimes is allowed to watch several seasons of a show with the intent of having heard the "whole story." (Even while the logical individual is acutely aware that they are often just making this shit up as they go, and that their ability to do so is based entirely upon how many people watch the show)

That having been said. Some stories are worth exploring to as much of a degree as is possible.
The Legend of Zelda has proven time and time again to be such a story.

My acquisition of this recently released "Hyrule Historia" may have admittedly influenced my decision to take this on.

However, I love the Zelda franchise. Always have. Always will. And while I still plan to complete my longer questline/goal of beating Final Fantasy I-XII (some of which I've beaten previously) chronologically, I imagine that given the 30-40+ Hour nature of those games that that goal is set over the course of many months, perhaps even a couple years.

This wouldn't be true if I had more time at my disposal, but I'm a student (though I'm graduating in about 2 months) and will be fulltime employed post graduation. My life currently has music obligations, school obligations, work obligations, video game obligations (or so I like to imagine) and social obligations. Suffice it to say this all will take a bit of time.

BUT! LOGISTICAL COMPLAINTS NOT WITHSTANDING (You might see where this is headed)
I wish to complete and document a bit of the process of completing Every Legend of Zelda Game.
(Cue music!) in order!

This does however raise a couple of questions.
First! Since the publication of the aforementioned Hyrule Historia, there are two was in which to complete the games in sequence:

The first and most obvious being chronologically in terms of release date:


Beginning with 1986's The Legend of Zelda,
this has the advantage in many ways in that you play through the games in the way that the originally were played through. Each new game acts like a newly released game, a new bit of the story.

However, the problem comes in when  one considers what has been taught to us by Hyrule Historia.

This is kind of like the first time you realized that the first Star Wars film had the additional moniker of "Episode 4." The chronology is not quite what it seems. For a long time the chronology of the series was a subject of debate amongst fans. It no longer is.

In short, "The Legend of Zelda" (The first game) is not actually where the story began, at least retroactively. Personally I believe less in this arrangement of the story than I do that George Lucas had some serious thought as to what Episodes 1, 2, 3, could be when episode 4 was released. But that having been said, compliments to a translated version of Hyrule Historia on wikipedia, here is the true order to the story of THE LEGEND OF ZELDA:

(Click the image for a closer look as the text is quite small)

This proves to be a little too convenient in my mind. The release this huge book, which is of course amazing I should add, comes a short time before the release of Skyward Sword and of course it becomes the earliest point in the chronological story. "You simply must see where the story began!"

Now, the completion-ist in me wants to care. It really does. Because this does seem cool. But it also bothers me. To be honest, when playing through a more than substantial number of the Zelda games as a child I was, as were many of my friends, convinced that the games were only loosely connected in terms of plot. That basically these were alternate universe type stories, or at the least re-tellings, perhaps (when I became a teenager and began thinking of such things) a form of purgatory. A game you could not truly win, because there would be a new adventure where things had gone wrong again.
Which should I choose in the end? I'm not sure. If you have input, let me know.

Also: From a purely pragmatic standpoint there are some challenges. I don't own all of these games. I have some games to buy. Also: I don't even own a Wii. Skyward Sword is Wii exclusive... that is a problem. Also, while writing this, I missed the copy of Ocarina of Time MasterQuest that I was going to bid on, on ebay. Woops. Oh well.

With this in mind and acknowledging that I would perhaps like a partner in this endeavor, to keep me honest, or divide up the games with and have them write on here as well (there are something like 18 games)...I may contact Juice or Andy M about such a thing.

We shall see. For now, wish me luck on my new questline.

I like that this blog began with the goal (for Jenna of course, not me) of beating Zelda: Ocarina of Time and now, it returns to Zelda.

-Aerick
Soundtrack of the Moment: Ocarina of Time's Song of Storms

An amazing Project. I would love to do something like this...

Wow. (an interlude)

Things have been hectic, and I need to do some real updates. Both providing details for the (probably long term at this point) new quest line, as well as provide documentation for a new event that will be happening.

HOWEVER - for the moment I just needed to share this. Just take a look at this amazing table. Want. One. So. Bad.

http://www.geekologie.com/2012/04/wii-need-this-impressive-n-64-logo-coffe.php

For now. That is all. Included is the link to the article where I found it.

-Erik

Soundtrack of the moment: Vikings Vs. 49rs

Video Game Garage Sale - and some thoughts on vintage games

Those who know me, or who have stumbled upon this blog, know quite well that I like older video games. The graphics don't have to be flashy for me to be interested and in addition to this, from a purely financial standpoint FOR YEARS until just recently I found that I was a minimum of one generation behind in regards to video game consoles. I upgraded from N64 to GameCube when, as caretaker for my apartment building, I was charged with cleaning out an apartment with lots of abandoned stuff (which included a game cube).

This has never bothered me really. I always paid a little bit less than most people did for their games and sure I wasn't always on the forefront of gaming, but it was a small price to pay. I find that this has influence my interest in games as well. I like the new stuff that I now occasionally have access to, but I also love hunting down old games and playing through them (wait till you see the details of my new quest line).

Today I was able to check out a garage sale that was advertised on craigslist as a "game nerd garage sale," naturally I was intrigued. Despite the fact that some things had been picked over (I showed up on day 2 of the sale) I loved this sale. THIS GUY DID THINGS RIGHT.

 I managed to find a couple of cool things at reasonable prices. My good friend Juice had been looking for a new SNES, as his retro-duo is now failing to play super nintendo games (including the BattleToads Double Dragon copy I got him for his birthday).

We had discussed this dilemma, but used "retro" systems now cost more than they used to. Like I said though, props to this guy...he did it right. We got an SNES (no controllers, missing chords, but working) for 10 even.


It was an excellent experience and I found a couple cool things for my self as well:

• Sonic 2 (2$) I have sonic two in the sonic collection for genesis, but this will allow me to play w/knuckles
• Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt (2$) I don't even own an NES, but I think I'm supposed to own this.
• Madden 95 for gameboy (3$) Okay. This looks lame. It even looks unplayable in terms of badness, but! I'm a sucker for this kind of thing. It was 3 dollars and it was never removed from its original packaging.

The issue is not with this sale. This sale was excellent. Even though I missed FF Tactics , which I would have liked and possibly some other things given the number of cool things I saw. People seem to think that since they have owned some of these games for some time and as some old games go on ebay for extreme prices, they should charge these high high prices.

Some games ARE rare. I understand that. But not everything - even if its not an outdated sports game, is worth a ton of money. The internet has ruined this for us. Ebay sales of things and mint perfect sealed condition games paired with increase ability to make sales (ie: craigslist), has ironically made prices for older games go up dramatically.

I remember when you would see vintage games, or games even one generation back for cheap prices at thrift stores. This is no longer really a reality. Or if they are there...they are in glass display cases, along with rings and necklaces and for these same (too high) prices. Read this story if your interested in continuing to follow the logic of this rant. Basically this guy saw a game, in a vintage game store, that he had been hunting for. It was priced reasonably enough, but when he wanted to purchase it the store employee did an ebay search in front of his and raised the price drastically. Disgusting. Old does not mean rare and internet (with shipping as well) prices are not in person, in store, on craigslist prices. The situation has gotten rediculous and to the point, where I missed a fairly priced game on ebay, that I wanted and I was far more upset than I should have been. But the reality is that I will have a hard time getting it for a fair price now.

End of rant and tip of the hat to the true game lover running this sale today! I had to stop myself from buying StarFox for SNES, complete and in its original box for 15 $ (maybe slightly high, but by no means UNREASONABLE)

-Erik

Soundtrack of the moment: Vikings preseason game vs. Bills

New QUEST LINE Acquired!

So.
This is happening-

Details to Come....










Soundtrack of the Moment: The Soviettes - Hanging Up the Phone

Pokemon/Stephen Fry

Hey everybody,

The pokemon have captured me.
Seriously. The last few days, I live in a pokeball.
I was recently re-introduced to the MMOrpg Pokemon World Online

You have to register online in order to play it...but you get to play in the way that you kinda wished you had been able to when you were playing as a kid - That is there actually people around to battle and to trade with. It takes a little effort to get signed up and get playing...and isn't perfect, (it is fan made) but they are clear that it is still in development and have things such as a "broken Move" list, for stuff that doesn't work right. It's not perfect, but its addicting and fun w/ a community and most importantly -

Its free.

It combines the games of the golden age (as I choose to dub it) of pokemon...namely red/blue/yellow/silver/gold

You can start in Kanto (red/blue start region) or Johto (silver/gold)

Anyway Its pretty neat and worth checking out if you the old pokemon

Also...I recently rediscovered my Nintendo DS and what did I find inside of it?
Pokemon Diamond

Which I was both surprised and pleased to find and I decided to play for a few minutes. I picked it up and I was immediately surprised to find that despite the fact that the game has added all sorts of things since the good ole' red/blue days...the starts of these games look so damn similar

Pallet from Red/Blue:                                                 Twinleaf from Diamond:

Hmm...the organization of that is slightly off...but
In any event, hundreds of new pokemon later, all sorts of new features later...but in the end, the formula stays the same and it keeps on selling. All in all - pretty impressive.

Okay - So. I was also going to write about this amazing show that I've just started watching, but I've geeked out for so long now about pokemon that I feel as though I should be out of words here...
Maybe I'll write about it later..
*Looks around for a save point...does not find one*

So I'll give it a quick once over...Stephen Fry is amazing and he has a show that I've discovered called "Stephen Fry in America" where he basically just tours America and learns about the United States, under the idea that he was almost born here (his father was offered a job at Cambridge while his mother was pregnant with him, but turned it down).

It is sweet.
Found it.
*Save*

-Erik
Soundtrack of the Moment: Stepehn Fry talking about the Battle of Gettysburg - "Stepehen Fry in America"

Starting again

I have no want to start a war. After all it was my birthday yesterday.
But. I want to start writing here again...and if that causes problems, then I guess I'll figure something else out.

A lot has happened, but that is not what matters. What matters is I want to talk about video games again and this was once a cool blog that allowed for that. SO if I have to make a different one I will...but I helped come up with the concept..and the name. So for now I will continue it starting....

So...I did it

I got an Xbox360. It was long overdue I suppose..and now microsoft owns yet another piece of my soul. It was just a good enough of a deal that I didn't want to pass it up (thanks dealnews!). Basically I needed a new laptop as my old one..after about 6 years, lots of use and one notably melted part, had finally given out aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand Microsoft was running a deal where students could buy a certain type of laptop and get this xbox 360 slim for free....so all I had to do was prove I'm a student!

And I quickly I became the owner of 2 (really 3) things...
1. Something to help me do my homework
2. Something to help me play modern video games
3. Something to distract me from my homework with modern PC games

You might notice that the third one bares a striking resemblance to the first.
In any event. The xbox360 I got is technically the new "slim" varient of them. This is amusing to me, as I remember the original xboxes and how they were refereed to as an "Xbrick" by me and many of my friends as, quite frankly they were HUGE. I also seem to remember that I had decided I was going to stick with Sony as my gaming systems of choice and nintendo depending on what I wanted to do, as I did not want microsoft to corner all of the gaming market...

Woops.

In any event. The original xbox's younger, slimmer, stronger cousin has been awesome. So what games have I been playing you might ask? Skyrim Nope. I never understood what was making people give over their entire lives to that game....just didn't get it, but then...
I started playing Oblivion. Okay. I get it now. WOW. Just wow.
For those who don't know, Oblivion is the game that came before Skyrim in the Elder Scrolls series. I wasn't sure I was so interested, but then Boris gave me his copy and I totally get it. The game has borrowed (Read: knocked down, beat senseless and stolen) large amounts of my time and apparently Skyrim is only more involved.

Now Juice wants me to play Skyrim, but I can't I've started down this path and I just need to restore Uriel Septim's heir to the throne...

Anyway, so far its been great and while I have more I want to write about more games and such, I should really be doing other things and this is already super long for a "return to form" post.
So. I'll leave you with this. If you live video game music, at least abstractly in the "I like musical scores" area and don't mind the occasional 16 bit version of it...check out Sound-test.org amongst other things, it is a very cool internet radio station for video game music. You'll hear old favorites and discover some new ones.

Till next time lets not make the blog go boom,
- Erik
Soundtrack of the moment: Yoko Shimomura - "In the flower garden" (SUPER MARIO RPG)

School...Food Poisoning...Music and Video Games

What a messed up week (weak week) folks.

I'm not gonna just complain over here as...alas while I am a contributor over here, I feel its not really my place to do so.
MY video game productivity has come crashing down.

So, I spent all sorts of time up until Monday studying for my History of War exam (Yes, this class is just about as cool as you can imagine...that having been said it is also.....a Trireme load of work) which went quite well I'm glad to say. And because of this on Monday evening after I finished the exam I decided that I aught to reward myself with a little video game time.

It being largely theme appropriate I decided to play Civilization IV for a few hours. As you may well know the Civilization serries of games, Pioneered by Cid Meier are basically the pinnacle of strategy gaming. Its amazing stuff and while Civ V has recently been release I have not allowed myself to purchase it. This is for two reasons. One, I feel I have yet to exhaust myself on Civ IV, especially given how much better my new computer makes it. And Two, I am fully aware that if it is anywhere near as incredible as I anticipate it to be (Civilization games, while the seem to change number to number, there is always an improvement, basically never a downgrade....which is saying something) I would promptly fail all of my classes.

But so I decided to play civ IV for a bit...and stayed up till 3:30 in the morning, thus derailing my entire week (weak).
But so after recovering from myselfimpossed sleep deprivation...and playing some more civ, I was ready to power through the rest of the week. However...

I HAVE BEEN POISONED! (...by food)
Wednesday night I did not sleep as I was up all night throwing up...I slept in the hallway of the apartment as to be closer to the bathroom. I do not know what it was I ate...and for a while I thought it might just be the flu....but as I am feeling much better today!I Feel it is safe to say.
TTHAT I WAS POISONED!
AND SURVIVED.

During these last few days, I've wanted nothing more than to be able to play video games, as I could scarcely get out of bed. But I couldn't even so much as watch a movie...I could lay there and be miserable...and that was about it. And while I am not perfectly out of the woods, I am happy to report much better feelings overall...AND! I'm off to go play a game of some sort!

-E

Soundtrack of the moment: Ratatat - Spanish Armada

Life Lessons & the Stupid Forest Temple

Long weekend. Played as much as I could. Spent Friday night drinking and enjoying different video games at Dave & Buster's for a birthday party.

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News: Erik decided, after much deliberation, that the due date for this quest will be extended to next Tuesday, October 19th (still at 5:30). I'm very grateful for this, considering the fact that, although I have played through a lot of the game and watched even more, I don't remember where everything is.

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Life lessons learned from Ocarina of Time so far:
-- If you don't do certain things right as a kid, it can come back and bite you in the ass as an adult.
-- Large life tasks (a.k.a dungeons) are adventures to you as a child and puzzles to you as an adult.
-- The world is bright and cheery when you're a child, even though there are some scary things every once in a while. The world seems darker as an adult, but you can find the beauty and bright side if you look well enough.
-- Good friends always stay friends, and will help you out for your entire life.
-- When you do good things for people, they remember it, and will return the favor someday.
-- There are some things that are just as scary as they were when you were a kid, but as an adult, you're better equipped to handle them.

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Game Update:
-- Went to the graveyard, got the hookshot, thanks to Dampe's ghost.
-- Eventually beat the Forest Temple, after dealing with ALL sorts of crazy monsters (i.e. The creepy fucker known as a wallmaster, as well as the tricky Poe Sisters) and puzzles (This Temple sucked out some of my soul in the process.). Also, GANONDORF's Phantom was the boss there... Made my heart almost punch its way through my rib cage once again. (He has quite the evil laugh)
-- Also, in the Forest Temple, I got the Fairy Bow! which allows me to shoot things further away (It's also how I killed Phantom Ganondorf. MUah ha ha ha!)
-- Tried about six times to get Epona.. I guess I just haven't figured out the trick to beating Ingo, yet.
-- After that, Navi mentioned that the clouds over Death Mountain look funny, and that we should probably go check it out.
-- Did that. Turns out, that the Gorons have disappeared. All except for Darunia's son, who was named after me(Pretty legendary, huh?)! (Oh, they also left the shopkeeper behind to keep the economy going.) He (Darunia's son, not the shopkeeper) told me that they've been captured and brought into the Fire Temple.
-- I entered the Death Mountain Crater in an attempt to get into the temple. It was a no-go. No place for me to go... I guess I'll have to figure it out tomorrow.

Alrighty. Later.

Getting set for winter, with bikes and videogames.

So. For those of you who don't know (as jenna has dubbed me..."Navi" here by the way) I'm really into biking. So, as winter creeps around....and by that I mean late fallish time, I will prepare a winter bike...but more to the point, I have placed my touring bike upon my bike training stand (so that I can workout indoors as well)...and proceeded to work out for an hour and a half today...Video game fans take a peek at my new cockpit...

I "installed" a little addition...can you tell?

-E
Soundtrack of the moment: The Bad Plus, "Never Stop"

At least I had a fairy in a bottle...

Today was kind of a day of failing at life, so when I came home from work, I expected the same from my continuation of attempting to beat Ocarina of Time/Quest One.

I was sort of right.

"When we last left our hero, he (she) had attempted to beat Dodongo's Cavern, but had not yet been victorious." Luckily, the tricks for slaying King Dodongo were as fresh in my mind as they could be. I destroyed that giant fire lizard with hardly a mark on me.

Darunia rewarded me with the Goron's Ruby, and then one of the Great Fairies gave me Din's Fire, which will probably be pretty useful down the line.

From there, things. went. really. slowly.

I couldn't remember for the life of me what to do next.

I decided to check out Lon Lon Ranch, since I hadn't visited yet. Got Epona's Song. I kind of figured this was not where I needed to go next... so I left.

Then Navi suggested I talk to Saria, since Saria, of course, knows everything I'm up to and what I should do next. This, in the past, implied that I should go back to Kokiri Forest. So I went back to the Forest, and made my way through the Lost Woods. Having to re-enter twice after picking the wrong log to walk through, I eventually made it to the Sacred Forest Meadow (a.k.a. Saria's "Secret Place"). I found that girl-next-door, and she doesn't tell me anything. No-thing. I started leaving, and then Navi bugged me again to talk to Saria. Then I played Saria's Song. Saria tells me to go to get the third Spiritual Stone from the Zoras, down at Zora's Domain. She couldn't have told me that while I was standing right next to her and after I had ran through the pain-in-the-ass Lost Woods? Fine. I guess I'll just call you on my ocarina when I want to talk to you since you just got all awkward face-to-face. Then, I went to get the last spiritual stone from the Zoras.

I made it to Zora's Domain. I even met King Zora himself. However, he seemed as if he didn't even notice I was there. He just said something about the princess going missing. I tried everything to get his attention. Nothing. I wandered around the Domain. Nothing. Some guy asked if I wanted to play a diving game. Like I have time?!? Kept wandering around. Left. Came back. Left. Visited Lake Hylia (It's quite pretty this time of year). Noticed something on the bottom that I couldn't quite reach. Wandered around. Came back. Tried talking to the King again. Thought about offering him a fish. Then I realized that he kind of is a fish. This time I decided to take that diving game guy up on his offer since I obviously didn't know what to do. He took my rupees and threw them off the cliff. "Go get them and you will get a prize." Oh, really? Like a biscuit? Okay, fine. I dove the most beautiful swan dive, and then collected the rupees in the 20-something seconds. Went back up to get my prize.

Turns out it was a pretty cool (and completely necessary) prize: a Silver Scale. It let me dive more deeply. It also turns out the Zoras have a shortcut between their Domain and Lake Hylia. I snuck back, and got that thing in the water. Letter from Princess Ruto. Great, now the King will pay attention to me and I can just get that third Spiritual Stone. I show it to him, and he implores me to go get Princess Ruto out from Jabu-Jabu's belly. Fuck. What? [Side note: Jabu-Jabu is the furthest I have ever gotten in the game. I've watched some people get further, but that's it.]

Speeding up the story:
-- Got through Jabu-Jabu's belly by beating a merry-go-round of jellyfish death.
-- Got the third Spiritual Stone: Zora's Sapphire (by getting engaged to Ruto).
-- Went to the castle to meet up with Zelda
-- Watched Zelda & Impa get chased out of Hyrule by none other than GANONDORF
-- Zelda tossed the Ocarina of Time (!) in the moat before He-Who-I-Call-GANONDORF could see
-- GANONDORF made fun of me because I tried to be the hero that everyone's been telling me I am
-- I picked up that new Ocarina, listened to Zelda talk to me (apparently ocarinas were used instead of phones back then), then headed to the Temple of Time
-- A lot of crazy shit happened, and I woke up seven (7!) years later. With the worst hangover ever. And then this dude with an amazing mustache tells me that GANONDORF has taken over as an evil king and has the Triforce. Dude. Can I at least get some coffee here? Isn't now the time to give up? No, I guess not. He talks me into saving the world now that I'm all grown up.
-- I get a hint from somewhere that I should head to Kakariko Village. So I do.
-- Someone tells me that Impa's in the graveyard dealing with some ghosts...

That's when I decided I should stop. This was a good place to decide that today was not a complete waste. Afterall, I completed my original goal (spiritual stones) and then some (dealing with that fucking Jabu-Jabu's belly), and then some more (7 years later...).


Later.

Goddamnit, Navi!!

I did end up spending about 45 more minutes on the game last night. Got through Sir Great Deku. And then he **spoiler alert??** died. And we were sad. But. We (I guess "we" means Link ("me") and Navi) did get the first Spiritual Stone! The Kokiri's Emerald. Beautiful.


Today: spent about 2 1/2 hours working through it. It's so hard to not get distracted by side quests...

Then the whole tense event of sneaking by all the palace guards. I kept getting impatient and tried rushing through, ultimately having to restart the section FIVE times. Whoops. But we did meet the adorable Princess Zelda where, after meeting me, immediately told me that I need to go save the world. So I said, "Okay." She also taught me Zelda's Lullaby, which I guess has some crazy powers.

Next was a little visit to go see my old friend Saria because I felt bad for thinking Zelda was adorable. And poor Saria's just the girl next door/childhood friend. Right? Oh, also, she taught me my second song: Saria's Song, and told me I could talk to her anytime I played it. How sweet of her!

I made it up Death Mountain to get the second Spiritual Stone: the Goron's Ruby, but King Darunia was pissed off about something. So I played him a song that cheers me up: Saria's Song! And it worked! That big, crazy guy danced all over the place! However, he said I had to go kill a bunch of fire lizards (a.k.a. dodongos) to give him good reason to give it to me. The Gorons also wanted their tasty rocks back, which I guess are all in Dodongo's Cavern. So I said, "Okay."

I got through most of it before having to leave for dance tonight, but I'm going to have to run through all of those stupid rooms that I worked through already. And, of course, whenever I would enter a room that I got the heebie-jeebies about, I would creep in slowly, look around, and then Navi shouts at me: "HEY! LISTEN!" and my heart would almost stop. Then I shouted back, "Goddamnit, Navi!" I know she was just trying to help me out, but the shouting? Really?

Anyhow, that's how far I am. And I know tomorrow I'll have even more time to play, and see how much further I get.


*save*

*quit*

Just an hour in...

Obstacle that I've already realized:
"Seven days" is sooo far from really being seven days. I am gone for work from about 7:15 in the morning until about 5:00/5:30 at night. Tuesday and Wednesday evenings I have community ed classes that run for about two hours starting at 7:00 and 7:30, respectively. This weekend, I actually have things to attend on both Friday and Saturday nights.

Because of this, I was able to play for an hour today. And I'm already stuck. I'm in the Great Deku Tree, and I can't remember what the fuck to do next. It really doesn't matter that I've watched countless people play through this part. And the ticking of all the skulltulas, gold skulltulas, and deku babas is destroying my nerves, as I try to rush through the whole thing.


I also forgot about my game anxiety. Yes, game anxiety. I get so into these games that, when I hear the music pick up or build tension, my heart starts pounding. Not just pounding. It feels like it's trying to rhythmically punch its way out of my chest. I think this is part of the reason why I've never finished a game. I get too tense about the whole thing, stop playing, and then pick it up when I'm ready for another round of anxiety.


Well, now I am winding down because I have to sleep. Maybe I will play for another half hour. I'm never going to be able to sleep if I haven't been able to figure out the next step.

Hey! Listen!

I love video games. I love playing them, and I love watching them. However, I have never officially completed a single video game in my life... (*gasp*) beyond the original Super Mario Bros. (in which I used every shortcut possible). I know. Ridiculous. To remedy this, Erik/Navi has decided that he/she/it will come up with regular missions [entitled "Hey!"] for me to complete. This is to at least get the ball rolling on this whole thing.

There will be rules & regulations with every mission [entitled "Listen!"].

[By the way, if you are confused by the titles, I assume you have never played/watched Ocarina of Time. Otherwise, you would be familiar with Navi's method of getting your attention. Or you're just slower than I assumed...]

The goal of the blog: To receive missions and instructions from Navi (the mystical fairy) for video game completions.

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Quest One

Hey!: Complete The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time start to finish in seven days, beginning Tuesday, October 5th at 5:30pm (that's Central - we're running on Central here in the Midwest), and ending Tuesday, October 12th at 5:30pm.

I know this quest doesn't sound too crazy if you know some of the records. But I am not an amazing gamer. I'm not really even a gamer. I'm a lady (a classy one at that) who loves video games and needs to beat a lot of them.


Listen!: Walkthroughs are not allowed (Most likely a rule for every mission/quest). Avoid as many side quests as wanted. [No requirements as far as collecting Skulltulas, Poes, glass bottles, masks, etc.]


Navi's going easy on me for this first one. "Easy." Ya.

Yikes.

Wish me luck.