>>11899452
>Zelda 1 feels really lonely and I don't think this was the intention
I don't know man, shit's pretty fucked in Zelda 1
The Prince of Darkness had already attacked the kingdom and basically won, Zelda had to shatter the Triforce before her forces lost and Ganon's army took control of the land, Impa traveled over mountains and yet everywhere was full of Ganon's henchmen who almost gave her "a fate worse than death" (Impa was about to be gangraped to death, the manual implies) when Link saved her; people are so scared that they would rather live in caves underground and the very land seems to birth monsters.
It's a bleak situation, I don't think a village would make sense here