The Official Legend of Zelda Thread: Echoes of Wisdom Sells 2.58 Million Units

[HylianSwordsman]

Veknoid_Outcast said:

Here is Part I of XVIII :P

http://www.vgchartz.com/article/439515/zelda-replay-part-i-the-legend-of-zelda/

The original Zelda actually went up in my estimation during this replay. I know it’s become cliche to compare everything to Dark Souls, but TLoZ kind of captured that essence 25 years earlier. It’s dangerous, cryptic, and lonely, and if you enter a gauntlet under-equipped, under-powered, or otherwise unprepared the game will punish you for it.

That isn't the first time I've seen the "Zelda was Dark Souls before Dark Souls" comparison. It really did accomplish a lot of the same things as Dark Souls with similar design philsophy. It's a very fair comparison, cliche be damned.