Tuesday, August 19, 2014

The Flaws With: Old N.E.S save abilities

This might sound odd to talk about, as this was a revolutionary feature for games when it came out.  However, this was when it was in it's early stages, there were still flaws with saving at the time.  So I'm here to look at the flaws.

First off, the biggest flaw is that the battery for the save feature could run out.  This might not seem bad, but believe me it's a major flaws.  Here's my story,  I bought the Legend of Zelda for N.E.S. on Amazon and played right away.  I loved the game, it had great music, game play, and was a great adventure(see my review for more details).  One day, I had all of the tri force pieces and was ready to fight Ganon.  So I was at the last boss, and died.  I didn't think this was bad, I just saved and decided to play it later and beat Ganon.  When I turned the game back on, my save file was gone.  I was so mad at this, all of my work, hours spent fighting through dungeons, finally making it to Ganon, and my save file disappears.  It was terrible.  So now I have to go through the entire game all over from square one.

This is the main gripe I have with it.  It was revolutionary though.  You didn't need long passwords anymore to save your progress.  It did have some flaws early on, thankfully they fixed these issues later.  Thanks for reading, and remember to keep ranting n' raving.

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