The Twitch Plays Pokemon phenomenon can't be stopped! After the continuing success of that massively multiplayer co-op game (day eleven and counting!) copycats came from everywhere. Other editions of Pokmeon were started up and now we have the most ambitious undertaking of them all- a co-op version of the original NES The Legend of Zelda.
Pokemon made sense for the format, which lets people in the Twitch chat enter commands and play the game, button press by button press. (You can see a hilarious video summary of it here.) But the big change with The Legend of Zelda is that it's an action/adventure title, not turn-based like Pokemon. That makes things infinitely more difficult and creator Zach Gerlock has had to implement some changes in order to get it to work.
It's not changes like the Oculus Rift version of the game, but Link now has infinite hearts instead of the three you usually start off with, as well as infinite bombs and arrows. Otherwise it simply wouldn't be possible to get anywhere. Link can now switch items (a feature not found in the game) and the start button has been disabled in order to stop potential trolls from keeping everyone in the menu and making the game slow. Well, slower. I left the feed on for 15 minutes and watched Link try and try to a bridge in order to cross it and fail to even step foot on it every single time, getting hit by fireballs from Zoras and moving up and down trying to align himself in vain.
Playing the game's a bit different than Pokemon as well. Instead of just hitting simple up/down directional commands you have to type a direction and a number of frames- up20, for example. It's about ten frames to a tile so you have to take that into consideration while giving commands, also remembering that there are thousands of other people giving commands at the exact same time.
It's ridiculous and fun and definitely the best place to listen to the Legend of Zelda soundtrack in a loop. Good luck for all of the players- this does seem impossible to attain, but the internet is a funny place. Check out the feed and expect many more of these experiments in the future- Twitch is just getting bigger and bigger by the day.
