(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.
its not exact but LTTP rando gives that sense of new game feel each and every time. The races are great.
Then I double teamed it with https://samus.link/ which is SMZ3 crossover. Races are even better again.
Course all the wonderful hacks for both games. Parallel Worlds for LTTP is wickedly hard but a lot of fun.
Getting in to SM arcade mode recently too.
Both Super Metroid and Zelda are phenomenal.