Has anyone played through a Zelda game without a guide?

The original one... But I needed a map for the second time through (where the dungeons are different) I've also beaten WW and OoT without a strategy guide, but I always use them for side quests and heart pieces and things like that.

All of them. not! xD Idk

without a guide, yes.
the only one i used a guide for was AlttP, and the only reason i even used it was because i had it laying under my bed. lol

Yep OOT and TP.

I ALWAYS am against using a guide.

i don't use walk through s that make it hard as hell

I didn't use a single guide for any of the LOZs i've beaten, which is LOZ 1 and 2, LttP, OoT, MM, WW, and TP (on Gamecube).

I still have yet to but LA DX and the Minish Cap and Phantom Hourglass

P.S: I don't even count the Four Swords games as part of the "Real" LOZ series lol

I don't really use a guide that much...

When I was playing TP for the first time, I used a guide the whole time I was playing it.. But now, that I'm playing it a second time, my parents told me that I'm not allowed to use the guide, and I haven't yet... Well.. Only once, to solve that puzzle, to get to the master sword... XD

And also, for Phantom Hourglass, I haven't used a guide for that yet... Wait... I have, but just to get through one level in the Temple of the Ocean King... But that's it.

And I haven't used a guide yet, in Ocarina of Time, so... I'm doing fairly well so far, for that.

thr zelda -games i playd without a guide was OoT, TWW,OoA,LA,FSA, ALttP,PH
Yeah i think thats was all....yeah

I only ever used a guide for TP and PH, but I could of easily done them both without guides (I didn't wanna waste the guides). As for the rest of the zelda games, I might of searched for clues on the internet a few times, but I can't remember ever doing it.

Yes. Most of them. Only used a guide once. It was for MM long ago, but other that that I always go the first time without one after that I check if I have missed something like heartpieces or secrets. But I don't want to ruin the game by using a guide. I want to figure thing on my own and lately in the later games it has unfortunately never been a challenge. I want the challenge back!

There is much reward in finding the right thing to do and I just love the old games with their trading quests, finding someone that says something that you remember when you get a certain item and there you have the next step. I just love the 2D trading quests and want more of them. You don't use guides to do that. You find it on your own. Exploration is a big part of Zelda and we need more of that in the newer games too.

Originally Posted by tpwasmyfirst

I haven't because I'm a n00b lol. But I can't think of anybody who didn't need a guide or that issue of Nintendo Power with the original game's maps! If you have, you are a genius!!!

I have never used A guide in Zelda games heh. I know them all by heart now tho, I've beaten MM, OoT, and TP so much lol.