User:Andy44

Though I'm new to this website, I've been a Zelda fan since 1998, when I saw my cousin playing Ocarina of Time. She had been a fan from the very beginning of the The Legend of Zelda series, but I was accustomed to games that could be completed from start to finish in less than an hour. RPG's required so much time in my world that I feared I'd give up before completing such a game, or that it would take too much time away from my other pleasures (which I think it did, lol).

One day my cousin brought her OoT cartridge over, hoping I could somehow help her decipher why she was stuck and couldn't progress (I did have N64 by then, and was softening to RPG's because of their save features). For its time, OoT was captivating, and really looked like an epic production; I had to try it out for myself. The rest is history; I'm hooked for life! I still play OoT regularly, and love finding more than 100 spider tokens and making fake bottles out of useless items.

I've played many of the Zelda games since then. The exceptions are the original TLOZ, Link's Awakening and the original Four Swords that came with the ALTTP release for GBA. After playing the others, I realize it was good I started with OoT, because it not only provides many more opportunities to stay alive (finding fairies that restore all your health) but also items to keep fighting with. I'd have been too easily irked by the way other Zelda games function.

Now I'm anxiously anticipating Twilight Princess! That's me - Anxious Andy!