Adventure & RPG Games · 35

Adventure design often works by planting a locked answer early and letting the player carry the question around for hours before the right item or clue appears. A related fact is worth keeping: The Legend of Zelda launched in 1986 and mixed action, exploration, items and secrets into a structure that encouraged players to remember places they could not yet reach. Heroes can save kingdoms, but they will still open every cupboard in somebody else's house.