The Legend of Zelda: Shards of Wisdom

The Legend of Zelda: Shards of Wisdom is an action-adventure video game for the Nintendo Switch and Wii U, and a remake/re-imagining of the first game in The Legend of Zelda franchise originally for the NES. The game redesigns almost all aspects of the original, with all new dungeon designs, puzzles, and enemy varieties, as well as a large open world to explore. The game's gameplay and artstyle is inspired by A Link Between Worlds with elements of Breath of the Wild.
==Changes from The Legend of Zelda 1==
*The artstyle of the game is similar to that of A Link Between Worlds, but with more enhanced graphics and textures.
*The game world is much bigger and more open, now including most of Hyrule instead of just the Death Mountain region, although some areas require an item to be unlocked before they can be accessed.
*Weather vanes act as save points similar to A Link Between Worlds.
*Players can ride horses, hunt animals, and even have pet dogs or coyotes that can follow them around.
*The health system is the same as Breath of the Wild. As such, cooking returns.
*While the basic layout of dungeons remains very similar to the original game's, dungeons are now almost entirely redesigned and feature some new puzzles, in addition to having themes added to them to make them seem distinguished.
*Bosses remain the same, but now have more in-depth and unique fights.
*Link's clothing and armor can be changed like in Breath of the Wild.
*Link can now swim, but only while wearing certain armors.
*The Second Quest features Zelda as a playable character with a new storyline that takes place after the main game.
==Dungeons==
#Eagle Tower: A high tower traversed by large spiral staircases.
#Moon Temple: A dark, cold, stony temple.
#Peace Palace: A vast lush palace filled with growing flowers and plant life.
#Snake Pit: An underground maze of water and pipes filled with reptilian creatures.
#Lizard Domain: A hot, tropical rainforest growing through the ruins of an old palace.
#Dragon Lair: A vast desert palace.
#Demon Forest: A dangerous, dark, and swampy forest.
#Lion Tundra: An icy labyrinth.
#Death Mountain: The volcanic and firey depths of Hyrule's Death Mountain where Ganon dwells.
==Characters==
*Link: The protagonist of the game and holder of the Triforce of Courage.
*Princess Zelda: The princess of Hyrule and holder of the Triforce of Wisdom
*Ganon: The huge, boar-like king of evil and the game's final boss.
*Impa: Zelda's nursemaid who is captured by Ganon's men and later freed by Link early in the game. She tells Link the story of Zelda's kidnapping which starts his journey to save her.
*The Old Man: An old man who appears in the beginning of the game, acting as a mentor of sorts to Link and giving him his first sword.
*Aquamentus: A lightning-fast dragon with a horn on its head capable of flight and the boss of levels one and seven.
*King Dodongo: A reptilian rhinocerous-like monster and the boss of level two. This version of King Dodongo does not breathe fire.
*Manhandla: A large, spinning, four-headed flower capable of spitting fireballs and the boss of level three.
*Gleeok: A two-headed (later three-headed and four-headed) dragon and boss of levels four and eight and mini-boss of level six.
*Digdogger: A big, round, eye-like monster that needs to be shrunken with the recorder in order to defeat it, and boss of level five.
*Gohma: A large, spider-like, one-eyed monster that shoots beams from its eye, and boss of level six and mini-boss of level eight.
==Second Quest==
The game's harder Second Quest begins right after completion of the main quest. In it, players control Princess Zelda, and the entire game world is switched around, with dungeons also being mismatched. Enemies are much stronger and bosses now have different fighting strategies, each level contains more mini bosses and new puzzles, and Zelda takes double the amount of damage as Link. Zelda herself plays very different from Link. She does not carry a sword but uses magic, which makes her magic meter deplete and can only be replenished by not using magic for a few seconds.
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