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_Blur_ posted...

I just think Zelda 1 does it extremely poorly and it is indeed "old design bad" to me.

I mean it's certainly not perfect or anything, but often I find these arguments are actually purely subjective because it comes down to "I didn't get it, so I hate it" or "I DID get it, so I like it"

I feel like this gets into a whole can of worms though where I can describe some types of game design as like climbing a mountain, because the mountain wasn't meant to be climbed. Do we really need all game design things to be well communicated? Do we need to beat every game? Why not have some things that are just there because it's difficult and it IS unfair but that's just how it is.