You can read the blog post for an earlier diary strip that explains my motivation for attempting a 25-year-old Nintendo game without any assistance. What started out as nothing more than a nerdy challenge quickly became something of an obsession. It only took a few dungeons to realize that the more effort I put into the game the more I got out of the experience. As the game got more difficult I also realized that I’d need to seriously invest myself in finding secrets if I wanted any chance of reaching the end. Having only played the game with guides in the past I remembered only one or two secret locations.

That’s when the map making started. It was only through systematically trying likely locations (and keeping track of them) that I made any headway with secrets. The map making turned out to be one of my most enjoyable elements of the play through. As a reward for sticking through all these nerdy comics I thought I’d share some of my maps.

If you’ve read this far, you might enjoy some of the other recent strips about Zelda



Also, here’s some awesome Zelda-inspired fanart my cousin made for me