Rath on 08 August 2011
Plus you couldn't do any of the more elaborate designs on the shield on the NES.
Who else here would kill for some sort of Zelda anthology with a whole bunch of the early Zelda games on it? The first four would be awesome - Zelda, Adventure of Link, Link to the Past and Links Awakening.
Edit: @Joel. The cross on the shield is hardly going to alienate a significant portion of the western audience. The vast majority of people don't care. It's the same with how the more fundamentalist Christians in the west reacted really badly to Harry Potter but most people just thought they were a pretty good read.
