(Saw this question asked on another popular link aggregation website and it got me thinking)

If you could play one game for the first time all over again, what would you choose? This might be because you want to do it all again, or because you don’t think you got enough out of it the first time. It could be experiencing the game exactly as you were back then, or experiencing a game with what you know now.

For me, it’s Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past, experienced exactly as I was back in 1991.

Nothing comes close to how jaw-droppingly amazed I was by that opening sequence. The epic orchestral score, the cinematic rainstorm, creeping around in the dark… it was a generational leap above anything I’d played on 8-bit computers and consoles, and even the Megadrive. I’d love to play it again without thirty plus years of Nintendo/Zelda knowledge, or without knowing about the dark world.

  • Strayce@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Secret of Monkey Island. Like most adventure games you can only really play it once. It’d be nice to enjoy it again.

    • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I sat down with my son and let him play it. Seeing him experience it for the first time was a pretty awesome experience. He cracked up at the sword fighting.

    • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Like most adventure games you can only really play it once.

      And then there is me, who just finished Hotel Dusk again as a ritual hoping Nintendo brings it back as it is about to be with Another Code!

      • all-knight-party@kbin.run
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        1 year ago

        Agreed. I mean, The Silver Case and now Trace Memory are getting re releases so… Hotel Dusk seems like the perfect next choice

    • mifan@feddit.dkEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I think I’ve played it through more than 20 times. I roughly do it once a year… 1,2 and 3 at least. It’s no longer about the challenge, story or puzzles, it just feels like coming home.