The Elitist's Least Favorite Game Moments: The Legend of Zelda.

     As you may have gathered, and as all who know me are well aware, I love Legend of Zelda. I have played them all, and save for Zelda II, there is not one I don't like. Granted, there are others I like more, but I enjoy them all (again, save for that piece of refuse, Zelda II..grrrr). Yet, somehow, a Zelda game has popped up in my least favorite moments. Well, my explanation to that, is these are the games that I have put the most time into and therefore I know them better than any other game I have played. This moment, is once again, about an ending, but not so much how the game ends because (um... spoilers alert..?)
lets be serious, you kill Ganon, save Zelda.. the end...
but actually last thing you do in the game. Defeat Ganon.

   

    
     Now, this is not going to be a whine-fest of me complaining how bastard hard Ganon was, because honestly, after recently beating the game again, he really isn't that hard. My issue with that final fight as to be taken in context. And for that, we must go back to simpler days of Power Rangers, Super Nintendos (well.. NES in this case...) and bruised knees, to my childhood!!

     So, lets imagine, I am probably about 8, maybe 9 years old now, I have sufficiently trounced Bowser and saved Princess Peach over and over, when my mother (who was a huge gamer, and quite the nerd, taught me everything I know! *tear*) suggested I play Zelda, she had the special edition, with a map, that she had filled in almost 100%, and that I would really enjoy it. I fell in love with it, and started my, to this day, adoration for the franchise. I played for weeks and weeks (cause games are a whole lot harder when you are 8, they don't give you glowing trails or arrows to your destination, and you don't really have an Internet to help you.) and I finally make it to the final labyrinth, I make my way through a (still) ridiculously difficult final dungeon, to arrive at the ultimate challenge, Ganon.
Imagine my disenchantment, when I have to face this (remember, I'm 8)





     So, I walk in, I see Ganon, then poof. He is gone. I haven't been playing video games for 12 years yet, I don't realize that those fireballs emanating from nowhere are probably Ganon, I flee from fireball after fireball hoping to sweet Jesus that he delivers me from this hellish rat race. Okay, well primarily I just die, over and over again. I become frustrated and I quit. 2 days later I make a new file, and go through it all again! With no Internet to help, no friends who were gamers, and a mother who had never beaten him either, I was simply lost. The boss frustrated me over and over again until just recently (2-3 years ago I guess) I decided to play through it again, and was able to beat him without much trouble.

     Now, you have to understand, I don't dislike this moment, for what it is, explicitly, but for what it was to me when I experienced it for the first time. It was frustrating, angering, and as far as I could tell, impossible. It nearly ruined the game for me. Luckily I was a child and cared not for such things. For me this was a moment that seemed to be the only flaw in an other wise perfect game.