Fighting Ganon with 4 Hearts and a Wooden Sword - The Legend of Zelda (NES)

4 HEARTS, A PIECE OF WOOD AND A DREAM.
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The Legend of Zelda, originally released in Japan as The Hyrule Fantasy: Zelda no Densetsu, is an action-adventure game developed and published by Nintendo. The first game of The Legend of Zelda series, it is set in the fantasy land of Hyrule and centers on an elf-like boy named Link, who aims to collect the eight fragments of the Triforce of Wisdom in order to rescue Princess Zelda from the antagonist Ganon. During the course of the game, the player controls Link from a top-down perspective and navigates throughout the overworld and dungeons, collecting weapons, defeating enemies and uncovering secrets along the way.
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[@DrHydro-pr5ox]

Not only did this man beat the game with no sword upgrades, he did it without any tunic upgrades either! A certified madlad. I have trouble beating it maxed out. The "red potion" in this game is actually called a "2nd potion", because it refills your health completely twice (once when it's red, and a second time when it turns blue). Also, the shield you could have bought is actually an upgrade (it's called the Magical Shield, while the starter shield is known as the Wooden Shield), and it would've blocked the more powerful projectiles that were destroying you, such as the ones from the statues or the Wizzrobe's shots. Like-Likes (the "pancakes") will eat the Magical Shield if you aren't quick enough to kill them after they eat you

[@ryanlexow3875]

Right. I kept hoping he would accidently find the red ring.

[@SunriseTheEwe]

I’ll take the video at face value, but I half wonder if he knew that and purposefully avoided the shield upgrade and both rings to make the challenge harder. In the end he had every mandatory item but almost no optional items (shield, rings, magic key, map from last dungeon, etc.).

[@garysloan9793]

@@SunriseTheEwehe did get the magic book but that makes the game harder lol

[@scitizenkane1]

@@SunriseTheEwe Yea this mofo played this game before, feigning a "blind" playthrough. Video is entertaining nonetheless.

[@jktejik]

The fact he dodged the magic shield and still beat all the wizzrobs is amazing.

[@ectoBiologist]

Now that you've beaten the game, your save file starts again on the Second Quest. The overworld map is the same, but the dungeons are in different places and have different layouts. It's much harder than the first quest and basically impossible without a guide.

[@unclejoker9975]

Tough, but not impossible.

[@CharlieSoze]

@@unclejoker9975 Yup. Beat it as a kid with no guide whatsoever.

[@Levi-yp1dt]

@@CharlieSozeImpressive. How many years did it take off of your life?

[@Tyrisalthan]

​@@CharlieSozeI did the same back in the day. But you have a lot more time to play as a kid than when you have grown ups responsibilities. Haven't been able to do it after puberty.

[@colonelquack]

I'll admit the only reason I beat the second quest is because I had the Power. Nintendo Power. Red bubbles that take your sword until you touch a blue or yellow bubble, and unmarked walls you can pass through, sometimes one-way.

[@lizarddude1000]

The 4-headed dragon fight at 11:40 might be the clutchest gameplay I've seen Ryu pull off, and I've watched a LOT of one-life hail marys.

[@benjamindeh873]

Oh yeah that was SUPER clutch. First try too! I was glued to the screen thorough X)

[@snakeeyes522]

FYI - the magic shield will block fire balls and wizard spells, the pancakes will eat your magic shield if they catch you. The regular shield blocks arrows. You can also pick items up that are dropped by monster with your boomerang, like hearts, bombs, etc. The red potion is actually a 2 use potion, after the 1st use it turns blue, the 2nd use consumes the blue potion. The blue ring you could have bought for 250 halves the damage you take and turns your outfit blue. There is another hidden red ring in death mountain that turns you red and only take 1/3 normal damage. Level 8 had a magic key that lets you unlock infinite number of doors. There are 2 sword upgrades you missed, the iron sword, which is basically just as powerful as the wand, then the Magic Sword which would let you kill the brown wizards in 1 hit. The 2nd quest is insanely harder, but the hardest part about this game was the secrets and finding things. Imagine trying to finish this game without being able to look up answers. Just finding level 7 was my downfall.

[@kds5084]

the most wild part of this run is thinking the lv2 shield is the same as the base and never upgrading so you can block magic (wizards, fireballs) and still coming out on top

[@matttyree1002]

14:47 without the complete triforce of wisdom, the old man would have stopped you from going further

[@bardinblue9830]

14:52 - There actually isn't any Zelda 1 music in Zelda 2, although the overworld map music is kind of a re-mix. "What is this?" In that room with the two fires, an old man stands in your way if you don't have the Triforce of Wisdom completed with all 8 pieces.

[@TheDarkLink7]

"Hey whats that?" In the wadda-call-it at the title screen. That is called the Magic Book. Fun fact if you did not know or haven't played. In the original Japanese version it is called Bible.

[@niallphelan28]

My favourite series from Ryu in a long time!

[@jordananastasiadis]

I agree 200%, this was awesome & reminded me of Ryu videos from years ago. Super good series ❤️😍

[@BryanatGameStop]

Mine too

[@HotBizkit]

Same!

[@jnstroik]

2nd quest, please

[@gerekw]

Same, this was awesome

[@pigs18]

The map of the final dungeon (held by one of the Petras you repeatedly ran past) is in the shape of a skull. One of the eyes has the -red ring,- the other Princess Zelda. Also, if you defeat ten enemies in a row without getting hit, the tenth enemy will drop a bomb (if it's an enemy that drops bombs). Gannon travels around in circles. Kid Icarus and Metroid are great retro challenges by Nintendo.

[@crispychicken9298]

Thnx for all the clarifications. Also great suggestions.

[@johncarpenter3751]

Parts of this were cringe but that’s because I know what I know because I’ve been playing this game since 1988 Like what does a blue potion do? 😂 I died because I knew he was going to use it by accident and not realize his screw up

[@michaelberger136]

Red ring is not in the right eye. The compass is in the right eye.

[@colonelquack]

Red ring is in the top right corner, off the map.

[@pigs18]

@@michaelberger136 Thank you.

[@SonicTheCutehog]

All without having either the Blue or Red Rings on your first playthrough? You have my respect!

[@lemonplays-gaming]

What rings?

[@SonicTheCutehog]

@@lemonplays-gaming The Blue Ring halves the amount of damage taken and the Red Ring halves damage again (taking a quarter of the damage you'd normally take without either).

[@Bubblemantis]

Or the Magic Shield!

[@DR.64A9]

Or sword upgrades

[@SonicTheCutehog]

@@DR.64A9 It isn't possible to get sword upgrades in a 3 Heart run since you need to have 5 hearts for the White Sword and 12 for the Magical Sword.

[@nosir5596]

Watching Ryu use all his bombs on wizrobes in the dungeon with like 500 bombable walls almost drove me insane but damn, what a playthrough. Also this man is so allergic to using his bow lmao.

[@benjamindeh873]

I mean the poor man had lvl 1 sword which takes like a gazillion hits to kill a single wiz. The man is fighting them with the equivalent of a stick he picked up from the ground X). Of course bombs were kind of a must.

[@johnkalyvas4838]

Blue wizzrobes take 10 hits to beat with the wooden sword. Bombs were his only hope in the mandatory wizzrobe rooms.

[@nosir5596]

@@johnkalyvas4838 It was really seeing the time or two where he used bombs even on wizzrobes that were frozen by stopwatches that got me tbh

[@overlordalfredo]

16:43 Ryu: "We are in good shape here" Heart-meter: BEEP-BEEP-BEEP-BEEP

[@venkelos6996]

The fact that you powered on through without the defense boost items, without the extra health, and without the improved swords that health makes available is quite impressive! Wonderful work! I remember playing this back in the 80s, when child me didn't know all the tricks, and there weren't websites, or even my friends, to tell me what was what, what did what, or where to go. I know so many people don't care about this game, anymore; they either never played it, or are willing to overlook it as the starting point of the great games that followed because they can instead just play those great games that followed, but I'm a nostalgic goof, and I have a lot of fond memories of playing this, AoL, and LttP, so to have you go back and do that; to see you get through at disadvantages, and without just looking everything up, was fun, and meant a lit to me.😊 Thank you for letting me revisit those old days, and playing an old game I really like!

[@mariushernandez6112]

Awesome clutch! Knowing so little about the secrets, taking no heart containers was harsh. If you'd known a few things, the same challenge would have been so much easier... like buying that expensive ring would have cut damage to half or knowing that the red potion was in fact a double health potion 😅

[@Levi-yp1dt]

Oh my gosh seriously???? That would have been a game changer lol

[@overlordalfredo]

​@@Levi-yp1dtyes and there is more stuff. Hidden in that game, you really need to know some of it in order to know where to look.

[@openyoureyes311]

This was great! I'm really hoping you continue from where you left off and do the second quest. It's much harder than the first, and has surprises that are unique to it!

[@paularized1]

35:51 I’ve got a feeling Ganon will be back. Like 17 more times.

[@zarinblade5936]

14:09 darknuts have appeared in several other Zelda games, (Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, Minish Cap) and they’re not to be confused with Ironknuckles which appear in Zelda 2, Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask.

[@BmanHall1]

3:24 - One of the hardest rooms in the game. A strategy I used to use for this room when I was a kid was to open the room to the right. There's enough space for Link to stand in the doorway without moving the screen to the next room. As long as you are in that space, you will never take damage. This strategy can be used in any open doorway in any dungeon. Doorways that have been opened by bombs do not work as they force link into the next room. The only enemy exception I've found with this strategy are the Blue Wizrobes as they can phase through objects and hit Link if they phase into the doorway he's standing in.

[@andyq524]

Nicely done! I can't believe you did it without either of the rings. The magic shield would've really helped with the wizards. It reflects their magic. Great series!

[@TheIrishAlchemist205]

Not to mention blocking other projectiles while moving. I cried a little when he said it was "just another shield" in the beginning! Lol

[@overlordalfredo]

15:05 Ryu's expression of pure panic and anxiety: "no."

[@aarontavernier5605]

1st playthrough, 4 hearts cause you didn't know the forced container, no magic rings, no sword upgrades, and a basic lack of knowledge at all for this game, and only 35 deaths!! You sir, are a gaming God. I bow to your supremecy. This has been one of the best series I've ever watched. The nostalgia is at an all time high. Thank you for the trip down memory lane Ryu.

[@overlordalfredo]

Congratulations 🎉 I recommend you doing a 100% run on stream some day it's not too long guided maybe with support from chat, but you missed out on. A lot of stuff (items, teleporters, upgrades, secrets, and weird hints 😅 ) And if you feel particularly fancy do the 2nd quest as well, it's harder and has more obscure puzzles...

[@Austin.D]

Dude even i was struggling with lvl 8 and I was fully equipped this dude managed to still beat it using the basic starter items and with 4 hearts major respect !!!

[@priestesslucy3299]

Basic Starter Items and the magic staff lol. That thing was such an asset for this run {an asset that became a bit of a liability when it started throwing fire 😂}

[@olivercromwell9294]

That Gleeok kill at 13:05 was the most clutch NES action I have ever seen. And I'm 39

[@dirtonknees2]

So many things I wanted to say through this whole run! Cant remembet now 🤣 All I know is he's so lucky he found that silver arrow before finding Ganon. Great gaming as always RYU!

[@jameswoodland2719]

The second quest is quite different from the first. New dungeon layouts, new enemies and surprises, and overall a ton of challenge. If you like the first you'll probably like the second, though it's secrets are so random you'll probably need a guide.

[@cjg8763]

Some aspects of that quest are just strange and way more cryptic, like how are you supposed to figure out walking through walls without a guide lol.

[@andyallen9216]

My favorite Ryu series yet. (Debunking the Difficulty is a close second) The Legend of Zelda was the first Nintendo game I played when we got the console in '87. It was really cool seeing someone play it with fresh eyes. Well done, Ryu.

[@UninvitedGhost]

I like this way more than debunking the difficulty because this wasn’t full of exploits.

[@jaanaredflower8233]

29:50 almost a complete softlock - You were so lucky to get full hearts again!

[@positivecynik]

14:46 the black room at the beginning of level 9 serves as a blockade of you haven't collected all 8 Triforce pieces. If you are short any pieces, the Old Man tells you take a hike (not verbatim).

[@davidshowalter120]

That was simply phenomenal to watch start to finish. Loved every second. I knew you could do it. Thank you, Ryukahr!

[@markaitkenguitar]

The elation after beating 8 was the best! Congratulations you flippin’ maniac!

[@firestar4430]

This was fantastic to watch. Please finish Zelda 2 next! I know you tried it out, but finishing a full playthrough would be awesome. It's my favorite NES game. I don't think you'd be able to do a no upgrades run, but the normal game is challenging enough as it is!

[@BardicLasher]

You're not done yet! You've got another 9 dungeons to go through!

[@delegance1086]

Really enjoyed this segment. Made me go back to my childhood. Well done

[@mattb6522]

Congrats on the victory! This game is no joke and especially on a blind, limited heart run! Dungeon 9 is pretty nasty! The stopwatch can definitely make things more manageable if you get it in certain rooms. Hope to see Ryu conquer more classic NES games! I'd love to see him play like Kid Icarus or Metroid!

[@Sp0ntanius]

I was dancin with you on the Gleeok clutch! I always love a blind Zelda playthough and this was great!

[@yoshisretrogaming3012]

This was the best series on youtube in the past weeks. It was so fn awesome! I would love if you'd do some more of these games.

[@bardinblue9830]

Congratulations! Now you can do this challenge all over again in The Second Quest! New dungeons with the same items, but everything in new different places!

[@eddiez1247]

epic series that gave me a new appreciation of your style and ability. soooo fun

[@AlderDragon]

This was a lot of fun to watch! So many clutch moments, even aside from the combat. You missed the magical (infinite) key in Level 8 but still squeaked by with the keys you had built up. Neither of the bomb capacity upgrades are on the critical path, so it's really lucky you found them. Btw, you can skip the heart from Aquamentus in Level 1 by damage boosting behind him before the final hit. With 3 hearts, wizzrobes (both red and blue) are instant death if you bump into them. I did a 3 heart minimalist/swordless run years ago, and you ended up on a pretty similar path: getting the wand early and relying a lot on bombs to handle darknuts and wizzrobes. And yes, darknuts are in future Zelda games, notably Wind Waker - and the pancakes are Like Likes, lol.

[@gordonramsayd2651]

Unbelievable you were able to do this😯 This was a great series and fun to watch!

[@ceejluige4816]

If you buy the upgraded shield, the wizard's beams don't hurt you. You can find it in a couple of the hidden rooms throughout the map for like 160 rupees. But just so you know, if you get caught by a "pancake", they take your upgraded shield away and leave you with your original shield.

[@spoonybardtoma]

160 is a ripoff price. Hidden shops sell it for 90

[@matttyree1002]

There was a second treasure in level 8, which would really help out in level 9

[@tskmaster3837]

There was one in level 9 that would have REALLY helped.

[@cjeelde]

Exactly! And I don't wanna help to spoil what it is. Let's hope that he can return to Level 8 and find out what that is :)

[@cjeelde]

@@tskmaster3837yeah and that too! Let's not reveal what that is! :)

[@derecknorman5487]

Probably my favorite Ryu series! Thoroughly enjoyed it. I was so glad he never got the blue or red ring. Please do the 2nd quest!

[@colonelquack]

Level 8 also had a skeleton key, which you don't need. Level 9 also had the red ring. I typically don't get the book, because I end up running into the wand fire.

[@thememelordbobbeh3107]

Level 7 is a fun romp. Level 8 is a nightmare. Anyways, now that you won, some stuff you missed: 1. The swords you can pick up are tied to the number of hearts you have. The white sword at the top of the waterfall takes 5 hearts. The magic sword in the grave takes 12 hearts. 2. The power bracelet is underneath one of the armos statues in the mountains, and it lets you push those funny rocks that open paths to the warp zones. 3. Speaking of warping, using the flute outside dungeons warps you to a random dungeon you have already completed. 4. Level 8 also has the magic key to find, which serves as infinite keys. 5. The expensive ring you found in the shop is the Blue ring. It turns your tunic and some other sprites silver/white, and halves all damage you take. Level 9 also has the red ring, which quarters incoming damage. 6. Blue potions restore you to full health. Red potions just have 2 doses, and downgrade to blue when used the first time. 7. Some of the dungeon hints refer to the shape of the dungeon itself. "The eyes of the skull has a secret" is referring to the hidden rooms in the eyes of the skull-shaped level 9 map. 8. The magic shield you purchase from shops can block more attacks than the default shield, but if the "pancake" like-likes grab you and you don't kill them fast enough, they will eat your magic shield, leaving you with the small default one. 9. The clock item makes you invincible, and lasts until you move to another screen. No need to waste your bombs or dodge spike traps. If you try the second quest, beware! It has even more cryptic BS.

[@TheWarrrenator]

I’ve NEVER seen Zelda in a green dress before! Usually by the end, Link upgrades to blue with the blue ring and finally red with the red ring and Zelda has a red dress. Yeah it’s awful because you made the game hard on yourself! lol The enemies get easier with sword upgrades but you need 6 and then 12 heart containers to get them. Plus the rings reduce damage. Also the lion key is in dungeon 8 that opens all the keys. This series was endlessly entertaining and it inspired me to challenge myself with a Zelda 1 game but this time it was a key saver. I saved 19 keys before the Lion Key but I could probably max at 20. The trick is if you know where all the hidden heart containers are, you can OP yourself with the master sword before going into any dungeons to begin with. Great stuff Ryu! Thanks!

[@rj8877]

Top playthrough! Did better than I still do in many strokes. I have a bad habit of finding Ganon *before* the silver arrows... To be 'that guy' and clarify a few points: 10th enemy has the bomb - if you kill your 10th consecutive enemy with a bomb, you get bombs as a drop. Go to the next room - works both ways, left is the way forward, the room to the right has the red ring (you have to go down and around). Eyes of the skull - Level 9's map is a skull shape, Zelda is in the left eye the compass is in the right. Blue potion - just a second health potion, if you buy blue you have one, if you buy red you have two. Those random rock formations in the overworld that look like they should move - they do if you have the power bracelet which is hidden under a moving statue near Death Mountain. They just reveal warp staircases that help get around the overworld easily. Dungeon key shortage - There's a master Lion key in Level 8 that negates the need for these again. Ganon - goes around in a sort of circle pattern but every time you hit him he changes direction. Darknuts - are a recurring enemy in 2D Zelda, it's theorised that Iron Knuckles in the 3D titles are these under an alternative name due to their vulnerable backs. Pancakes - are Like-Likes! If you get sucked in while carrying the big shield they eat it. Spider boss - Gohma. Moldorm - is actually the featureless lava snake from earlier dungeons, at this stage it was just a big old earthworm looking thing. The basic boss unicorn dragon - Aquamentus, referenced in the Aquame Bridge in BOTW. The four headed plant monster - Manhandla, features in Hyrule Warriors and also referenced in BOTW's Manhala Bridge.

[@macethorns1168]

10th enemy has the bomb if it's an enemy that drops bombs and you don't get hurt killing your ten in a row.

[@Opethaholic]

That level 8 boss fight was insane Ryu… as a long time Zelda player my jaw was dropped the whole fight. Well played sir!! I Love the throwback content with this game!

[@lostspider343]

thx soooooooo much for taking my request to do a playthrough of this! it was as delightful as id hoped ^u^ u shuld consider playing through zelda 2! very strange but entertaining entry in the series plus u were very skilled at this so u mite b able to handle its ludicrous difficulty

[@ChicagoRetroGamer]

Oh wow! I have always loved this game, and I applaud your challenge!

[@mejasiu]

Holy Moly!!!! What a incredible run! I did not think that would be possible but you sure showed me!

[@chymera1221]

Great Series, loved it.

[@justinwill7420]

Yay! Now you're half way through the game. I hope you play the second quest too!

[@parameter303]

1UP. You rock, that was completely hilarious and brought some good memories back

[@snakeeyes522]

I used to always think the Tri-force pieces were what you needed to get the upgraded swords. But it might be heart containers, so he didn't miss the sword upgrades, because he couldn't get any with only 4 heart containers.

[@wistfulanthophila9317]

you need either 13 or 14 hearts to get magical sword. (the best one) not sure how many you need for the white sword but it's probably about half that.

[@chopshopgames9897]

Well done. Great series

[@gwgux]

Mad respect man. That's not easy to do and may have attempted it and few have done it. You should do a 100% run someday and see what you missed and then you'll get a feeling for just how much harder you made this on yourself. lol

[@derekp4201]

This has been fantastic! Thank you!

[@seanp6417]

Nice job! On level 1, you can avoid the heart drop by walking through the boss while it is alive and killing it from the right hand side. The hitbox is only on the head! If you do 3 heart challenge on the second quest, know that you can't go below 3 heart containers. The rooms that ask you to give up a heart container will leave you at 3 heart containers, but you'll be 1 hit from death.

[@MUGTOWN4LIFE]

Congratulations on beating this game. I enjoyed you playing this. Never saw gameplay of this until you so thanks for that. 👌👈

[@michaelplantarich3375]

Congrats my guy! Great ending fight to a fun series!

[@Andrew-qu7lq]

Another little trick to make some of those rooms easier: Rooms track how many enemies were killed, but not the type. So the ones with 2 Like-Likes, 2 Red Wizzrobes, 2 Blue Wizzrobes, you can kill the two Like-Likes, leave and come back, and the 4 remaining enemies will be split among all three types, meaning one or two of the wizzrobes will turn into another Like Like. You can redo this and kill the entire room forcing them to all turn into Like Likes.

[@justanotherlikeyou]

Congratulations on your win! Welcome to the even more difficult Second Quest!

[@iketurner7091]

The 4 head gleeok clutch! Amazing. Great series 👏

[@DenizenoftheAges]

Never bought the big shield. Never got a ring. Never got the power bracelet. Jeebus, Ryu. Stop being a gaming God. 😅 24:53

[@brunnin]

Awesome play through ❤

[@GeorgeZorin69420]

Epic series. That Ganon clutch, though. Beauty. You should rock some Rygar sometime.

[@rectalespionagesailboat4819]

I miss the series 'extraordinarily hard games' but I think you've basically beaten the major ones. This challenge is the true 2023 successor to that series, and also arguably my favorite of your recent playthroughs across all 3 channels. (FF is great but there is just something about the merciless brutality of original nintendo games) Also ........ is the flute noise in this game nearly identical to the whistles in Mario 3, or am I crazy?

[@chillzone301]

Just finished watching, all. five. episodes. Great job though and now I'm gonna watch your Link to the Past!

[@BoojieD]

I really want to see Ryu play the game casually, with a guide. He deserves at least that. Plus, I’d be interested to see how he destroys the game in probably under an hour

[@pjvideoguy]

Well done, really enjoyed this series.

[@kds5065]

Loved the series and hope to see more Nintendo NES Classics (Metroid mostly) played by Ryu.

[@TKnightcrawler]

Well done! I'm glad you killed Ganon on your second try. I could see that taking many tries and getting really frustrating. So you were actually missing a bunch of key items. There's the Power Bracelet, which gives you places you can teleport around to, and other hidden places you can access. Speaking of teleporting, you can use the Flute to teleport between dungeons. You didn't get the Magic Shield (the one you saw in shops), which lets you block magic fireballs and Wizrobe beams, although if you get eaten by a Likelike, it will be lost. You didn't get the Magic Key, which lets you open as many doors as you want. You didn't get either the Blue Ring (which you can buy before entering any dungeons), or the Red Ring which is in Level 9; those negate damage by 2x per level. You didn't get any sword upgrades because you need to get to certain Heart Container thresholds to get them. The Potions are graded. The Red One can be used to restore all your health, after which it becomes Blue, which you can use again to restore all your health. It's like Milk in Ocarina of Time, except restoring way more health. If you have a Blue Potion, you can upgrade it to Red by buying another Blue one. You never used the Bait in combat, but nobody ever does. Another thing: you actually have two different maps in dungeons. There's the one you pick up that shows the entire map in blue. Then there's the map that Link makes in the dungeon. So if you compare the two, you can see where you've been and where you haven't been. Also, the dungeons have shapes that offer clues as to secrets. Level 9 is shaped like a skull, so when the old man was saying the eyes of the skull has a secret, that's what he's talking about. It seems like you noticed this, but if not, the pushable block in dungeons is *always* the leftmost block in the middle row. The NG+ in Zelda 1 is actually pretty cool. The dungeons are all different, the secrets in the world are different, there are a few new room types, traps, and enemies. It's harder than the first quest; it's basically what all later Zelda "Hero modes" wish they were.

[@papajoeisawesome2477]

You are a gaming master dare I say god? Congratulations on your first win at LoZ NES, what a fun watch Ryu. It was truly remarkable. 🎉

[@michaelsoftman]

An extreme challenge idea for you, Ryu. In level 8, you can obtain the Magical Key. It lets you open every single locked door in the game, it's unlimited. Start the game brand new, only get the candle and some bombs for access, and go straight into level 8 for the key. Then see how fast you can blow through every other dungeon.

[@lesliemartin1520]

Unreal. I can't believe you beat this with these crazy limitations. You are a gaming master.

[@cjg8763]

I enjoyed this playthrough. You compelted this game without collecting everything which is pretty impressive. Didn't get all possible items such as big shield which protects against almost everything and no blue or red ring, didn't upgrade the sword (which you can't do without collecting the heart containers anyway) and you missed tons of over world secrets. Now see if you can do it again on second quest, which is mixed up and much more difficult.

[@HotBizkit]

YES. I was waiting for this 😀

[@matttyree1002]

You could burn the level 8 bush with the blue candle too, you just never happened upon it i guess

[@TheDarkLink7]

Oh for anyone who is doing NES Zelda. Little trick when it comes to the bubble things. They take away your sword for a little while. So if you are hit by one. Play the recorder and it'll take the time away so you can hit with your sword if you didn't know.

[@stang6552]

You are a mad lad for doing this! Goodness man that was crazy.

[@ethanwalters3445]

My favorite series for a while! Please do the second quest! (But expect to have to look things up)

[@LoneWolfes]

The big shield reflects the wizards powers. Man, I could beat this game how he's playing it. I would need all the hearts, shield armor, and swords.

[@tommytowse96]

12:59 absolute clutch ! Well done

[@popskull42]

Crazy thing ab ut darknuts and bombs. Darknut hitboxes are direction-sensitive, which is how they "block" your sword strikes head-on. Bomb hits also have a direction encoded in them, which is the direction you were facing when you planted them. Think about them like a delayed sword strike that stays in place after you move. So, the bomb strike has to hit the darknut in a direction he cannot block for it to have an effect.

[@Lonewolf3515]

Legend of Zelda has a "second quest" Ryu. It's way harder, way more confusing, and I've yet to ever beat it... Probably because I never took the time to. If you plan on playing it, I will surely watch. :) In any case, this has been one of my favorite series so far for sure!

[@ryanmiddleton109]

Do the second quest now! Could be an epic 20-video series!

[@brianwilliams5121]

I always laugh when I get to those rooms where they say pay and Ill talk. Then of course they want the most expensive amount or theyll say 'this aint enough to talk'

[@phireborn]

Great run Ryu. I wanna see that same energy on Zelda 2

[@tmntman3086]

Since you finished, here's a few things you missed/didn't figure out/ or intentionally skipped. That blue wedge item is a letter. Taking it to the old woman two up and three (maybe four) west of the start allows you to buy life restoring potion. You can also get them from some spots where you choose a heart container or potion. (So they are useful to find even on a 3 heart run.) The magic shield will block many attacks which the regular shield can't such as the lynels, wizrobe blasts and some fire balls. It can also be eaten by the Like-Like (pulsating pancake enemy) There are two rings in the game (blue and red) You saw the blue ring in one spot. They half and then quarter the damage you take. Getting upgraded swords require additional hearts to earn the stronger swords. Level 8 has a second item, the master key which allows you to unlock any door. When exploring dungeons, the game remembers what enemies you kill. If you go more than a few rooms away from a cleared room, the enemies reset. But you can leave one enemy survivor to stop the reset.

[@SilverKnight16]

27:54 I remember doing that EXACT softlock when I first beat this as a kid. It made me so mad lol

[@IONATVS]

Darknuts (probably originally supposed to be translated as “Dark Knights,” but the weird name stuck) are supposed to be highly skilled and heavily armored knights of Hyrule who betrayed the kingdom for dark powers. They’ve appeared in many other Zelda games, most notably their 3D appearances in The Windwaker and Twilight Princess, where they’re treated similarly to lynels-as some of the strongest regular enemies and sometimes treated as minibosses. but most often in the 2D games. The Iron Knuckle is a similar enemy, first appearing in Zelda II and famously appearing in the N64 games, and the two are basically mutually exclusive-games with one rarely if ever have the other. The difference being Iron Knuckles seem to be possessed/enchanted armor or *mind controlled* warriors, not willing traitors, and as such are generally more a show of brute strength, wearing heavier armor and wielding huge axes, hammers, or iron balls on chains. I was honestly kinda disappointed neither showed up in TotK, because they’d be a perfect counterpart to Lynels, but it and BotW are great games regardless, so no big deal.

[@alexbest1210]

congrats on beating the game! Will you attempt the 2nd quest? a whole new adventure awaits the hero...

[@claireradke7029]

I am so pissssed you fluked your way through Gannon on YOUR SECOND TRY

[@lombers]

EPIC!!! Greatest Zelda play through ever!

[@baddmatt9588]

Awesome job!

[@FrostGiant17]

10/10 gameplay. Recommend doing the second quest just because of the new challenge it presents! (Also maybe consider the rings and sword upgrade next time) 🤣

[@RetroDeath]

The music from level 9 is also the music in the caves in the Goron region from Tears of the Kingdom.