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Welcome to the first real post of 1-Bit at a Time! Today I am going to be talking about a lot of firsts. The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time on the 3DS was the first video game I ever finished. I played a few games growing up but I was never able to finish any of them. I would get to the final boss and be unable to beat them no matter how hard I tried. This was also on the 2DS which was the first console and hand held I ever bought myself. This was also my first Zelda game. Even though I played a few games growing up they were mostly third party movie games, which I can’t say I’m proud of, but when you’re a kid, you are excited to play any kind of video game no matter how bad they are, really. All this to say, I had never even heard of Zelda until dating my now husband who graciously enlightened me to the wonderful world of Nintendo. But I will write about that whole thing later, back to Ocarina. So I started this game in October of 2014 and finished it in May of 2015. It takes me a very long time to play games for a multitude of reasons I may get into at some point but that is for another blog. So it took me seven months to finish and about 64 hours of game play. Now when I say finish I mean with the main story line. I am not a person who 100%s games and gets all the trophies and whatnot. No thank you. Understand that I totally admire the people who do 100% games (my husband is one of them) but personally I can’t do it. I am too impatient and get way too overwhelmed. Anyway back to the game itself. I also messed up this game quite a bit. I had no idea what I was doing through most of it. I found out the hard way what a mess the water temples in the Zelda games are. I got so lost and twisted around that I actually asked someone for help who had finished the game several times. I will never forget the moment when after messing with my game for a few minutes,  she handed me back my 2DS and said, “I’m sorry but I have no idea what you’ve done.” I still have no idea how I made it past the water temple but I somehow did end up finding the last key I needed. I also I ended up all the way to adult Link only to find out I never went to the farm where Epona was as kid Link so I couldn’t get her. So I did restart the game for that mistake. I didn’t want to have to run everywhere and you really miss out on what makes a Zelda game a, well, Zelda game if you don’t have the horse! I also stupidly didn’t realize what you name your save file is Link’s name so I called it Redo and the rest of the game everyone called Link Redo which I found quite amusing. I remember finally finishing it after months and months of working on it and that feeling of satisfaction and slight disappointment that it was finally over. Now that I’m thinking back on it, I’m not sure this was the best first ever game for me to start with. I messed up majorly and while the openness of this game is great, I think it just left me confused and unable to figure out what I was supposed to do next. Also Navi. Need I say more? All this to say I really loved this game and it will always hold a special place in my heart. This game definitely has replay value and I would for sure recommend it to anyone who hasn’t played it, just maybe not as a first game ever.    

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Hello everyone! My name is Jess and I am brand new to the gaming world. I will be sharing my thoughts and experiences from someone who did not grow up with gaming (my first gaming console was the Wii in 2010 just saying). I’ll be doing updates on what I’m playing as well as some of the struggles I am having by starting gaming way later than everyone else. I will mostly be playing Nintendo and PlayStation games but who knows I might branch out eventually! Please let me know if you are new to gaming too! Thanks for reading!