I’ve been determined to finally beat Zelda II and determine that I would do it without save states and without a guide.
I know Zelda II is considered a black sheep somewhat but I really think in some ways it’s more fun than the original although I’d still pick Zelda 1 over II.
This is one of the few Zelda games I haven’t completed yet. Someday.
Congrats!
Congrats! I know how brutal some of those hallway fights can be.
i am error
(but for real congrats!!) ❤️
Congrats! It’s good to see some Zelda II love. It took me years to beat this as a kid, and you bet your ass I got some tips from Nintendo Power lol. To this day it’s still one of my favorite NES games.
I still like that dumb game. Congrats!
“I love this dumb game” is the experience in a nutshell. Every time I’d get a game over and Ganon would do his stupid laugh I’d think I’m done and then go right back to grinding it out some more!
I’ve been meaning to play both Zelda and Zelda II on Switch Online, maybe I’ll take a crack at them over Xmas break; they’re a couple of blind spots that I’ve had for no good reason and I need to fix that
how long exactly is your christmas break
why would you pick Zelda 1 over Zelda 2 if you think 2 is more fun
Zelda 1 had better music, the second quest after you master it, and is still really solid.
What I was trying to say is, that at its highs, Zelda II is more fun at the original but considering from minute 1 to the end of the game, I would still take the first game as the better experience overall.
jesus christ man well done. I tried again on the switch about 6 months ago and just fuckin cant do it
You have proved to be a real Hylian bean and a real hero!
Congratz!!!
Congrats! I’ve beaten most of the Zelda games and this is one of my favorites. (I tend to like the quirky first sequels where they tried something different, even if it doesn’t quite work: Zelda 2, Mario 2 (USA), Final Fantasy 2 (Japan), Castlevania 2…)
I remember this one. Yeah, that one was tough, I never bothered to pick it up again after I beat it. The og Zelda and LTTP for sure, multiple times, but not Zelda II. I mean, I remember liking it, but it just didn’t scratch that itch the way the top-down adventuring style did, ya know?
That said, congrats! A hero is you!
Wow, I finished it with my SO last year - but in the last temple, we needed a guide (the map is wtf levels of traps and dead ends) and save states to retry the boss combo. We wouldn’t have been able to finish it
Yeah the great palace is a crazy labyrinth. I spent my first set of lives just wandering and game-overed without making any headway, happened to fall through the floor on my second set of lives and lucked into finding the right way.
Apparently “down and to the right” gets you through all the maze-like parts of that game (except maze island)
You really are a hero. I got stuck in Death Mountain and just haven’t gone back. That is not an easy game.
I could never find Bagu and get Riverman to open the bridge to get that far as a kid. I actually found the hint accidentally trying kill the blue blob in town. Lol.
Zelda II definitely was one of those games where they made it hard on purpose to lengthen the game. I’m doing some research for my review of this game and the director admits as much.
There was a lot of that in that era. Arcade games had financial incentive to be hard as players would tolerate to eat as many quarters as possible. The home ports carried this difficulty over, and many console originals picked up on it. (See Battletoads.)
Battle toads can eat a schlong. Actually good games like kid icarus, etc were just as hard but actually fun to play.
For the home market, there was an incentive to make the game hard to beat before you had to return it to Blockbuster.
Death mountain is the hardest part of the game by a wide margin, weird that it’s like 1/3rd of the way through
This game rules
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