I ran across this one guy’s blog today, Matt Gemmell. He had an interesting post about the 50 things he learned while playing Zelda games. If you have anymore that Matt left out, please post them in the comments.

  1. Firstly, and most importantly, no matter where you might find yourself, you can always obtain a sword nearby.
  2. No matter where you go, somewhere within a two-mile radius there are at least two better swords than the one you have.
  3. Despite the ready availability of large, padlocked chests, most people prefer to keep their valuables in clay pots.
  4. Breaking such pots and stealing their contents does not enrage their owner, even if the owner is watching you at the time.
  5. Regardless of what is happening around them, people always close doors behind them.
  6. Bushes and long grass and littered with valuable items, including jewels, arrows and bombs. Happily, it is impossible to accidentally collide with these items; they only appear after the greenery is cut down.
  7. Whilst on a horse, riding over items which are hidden in grass or bushes picks up those items. Riding over arrows doesn’t impale your horse, nor does riding over bombs kill you instantly.
  8. Item-rich plant-life has a strange sort of intelligence; when cut down, it often leaves behind the very type of item you need at that moment (or that you’ll need in the next area).
  9. You can run and jump and climb, without any breaks, for an unlimited period of time.

Read the other 41 lessons here