How is Zelda II considered the black eye in the series? I'm playing it for the first time, and in spite of its primitive graphics and sound, the game is pretty damn fun. The game is like an RPG and side scrolling action game combined together. You have your overworld to travel too. Towns to visit. Dungeons to explore. Plus you can level up your weapon/health + game magical bonuses and new abilites as well. All in all, I find it better than the original Zelda game. Show me some more Zelda II love!
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Ok, I stopped Majoras Mask to boot up Zelda II: Adventure of Link
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Zelda II is excellent, and yeah, it's damn hard. I haven't finished it yet because I got sick of trekking through the side-scrolling area with the lizard (?) things throwing rocks at me and getting all those cheap hits every time I had a game over.
DJ Demon J
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Zelda II is easy. Weaksauce gamers hate it because it's not like every other Zelda. Best Zelda ever, period (though it looks set to lose the title to the new MATURE ZELDA).
I can see the difficulty being a problem. The game definitely isn't easy that is for sure. I'm a stat leveling whore and love games where I can continually improve my character. So it'll probably eventually become a cakewalk. I'm guessing this game is emulated too because sometimes I hit mad bouts of slowdown in the game. -__-
aparisi2274
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Teddman said:
Yup. Thats how I did it. Now the boss before him, THAT was a bitch!!!!
DJ Demon J
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aparisi2274 said:
IIRC, don't you just cast a spell that auto-kills him or drains him nearly completely of life?
SiegfriedFM
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The subboss was much harder. Everyone said that you should use Thunder (to be able to hurt him at all), then Shield to survive longer and Jump so that you could reach him. I always found Jump to just mess up my timing with that floaty move, so I just used Shield and saved some magic for Life (IIRC).
The shadow was ridiculously easy. I had been told what to do, took him on my first try.
The shadow was ridiculously easy. I had been told what to do, took him on my first try.
MaddenNFL64
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Yeah, people don't like it because it's so different from other Zeldas.
I loved it though
. Plus there's that guy that says "I am Error" :lol.
I loved it though
. Plus there's that guy that says "I am Error" :lol.Semjaza Azazel
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What always pissed me off was that random house in the woods that you NEED to find in order to get further in the game. Perhaps it's really obvious, but as a kid, I had no freaking clue what to do next... I finally found a strategy guide at the store and used that (no one even talked about the internet back then lol).
It was the first zelda game i ever played, and after eventually hating it (because it played nothing like mario) i started loving it.
I don't recall finding it easy, infact i thought it was pretty hard. But in retrospect, seeing that i completed, it probably was easy. It was one of the few games i was being able to beat when i was a kid. So i clould probably just breeze through it today.
I don't recall finding it easy, infact i thought it was pretty hard. But in retrospect, seeing that i completed, it probably was easy. It was one of the few games i was being able to beat when i was a kid. So i clould probably just breeze through it today.
One of my all-time fav NES games. Really would like to see Zelda re-establish some of the principle design mechanics that this game offered. (Leveling, magic, experience generatinmg sidequests/secrets)
Late-game is pretty devious though, particularly the punishing nature of starting way back at Hyrule Castle upon losing continues. (Shortcuts help)
And that town with the invisible eyeballs Ferrio mentioned was pretty brutal.
Late-game is pretty devious though, particularly the punishing nature of starting way back at Hyrule Castle upon losing continues. (Shortcuts help)
And that town with the invisible eyeballs Ferrio mentioned was pretty brutal.
I called the Nintendo gameplay counselors in an attempt to find out how to beat the shadow, which totally kicked my ass a few times. Their sage advice?
"Use your sword."
My nine-year-old self stood there for a moment, completely confused and flustered by the utter uselessness that had just emerged from the phone. Unable to form further words, I just hung up. Never called those fuckers again.
"Use your sword."
My nine-year-old self stood there for a moment, completely confused and flustered by the utter uselessness that had just emerged from the phone. Unable to form further words, I just hung up. Never called those fuckers again.
BenT said:
Did you call the wrong number?
Nintendo's help line has always been helpful to me. I called once for help in FFII. Without telling him what game I was playing, he knew I was playing FFII, more specfically where I was, based on the music in the background. In addition they actually called me back and asked me how well I did.
Zelda II is a fantastic game. I think the hate it gets has much more to do with the fact that it plays absolutely nothing like the original, than any real complaints about the gameplay it did offer in the end. It's also aged much better than the original, although admittedly, that could be due to the fact that there are very few games that play like that, even today.
Dragona Akehi
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Zelda II is one of my favourite Zelda games ever. The hate is undeserved.
Shikamaru Ninja
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The guy who directed this game also did F-Zero X and Super Mario Kart !!!
SantaCruZer said:
Maybe not the sixth, but you have to travel to the next continent through the caves, and through the maze with the invisible enemy areas. Later on if you're at the last or second to last, you have to go through the area with the giant fence, and the caves with the invisible enemies. It's fucking ridiculous.
I had a way to get around this when I would go to beat the game years ago:AniHawk said:
I noticed that getting any level-up from xp after all stats are 8/8/8, you get a 1up at the end. And I also noticed that clearing a castle would automatically raise your xp to the next level. So I would play the whole game through and never fully finish a castle out... then, when ready to finish the game, I'd tour the whole map and kill each castle off for good, getting extra lives on the way.
Marching through those swamps and all that crap to the last boss wasn't as bad with 7 people in reserve.
jett said:
Yes, the problem is GETTING to the last palace. I haven't figured out a way to avoid the invisible enemies or kill them at all yet.
And I was at the fucking dragon boss, and when I killed it, I FELL INTO THE LAVA. GAAAAAAAHHHHH!!
It's not so much the game is difficult (I got to the 7th palace in about 5-6 hours), it's just that it has some really frusterating elements to it.
Justin Bailey
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Those bouncing skeleton heads are a pain in the ass.
Dragona Akehi
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Yeah it's in the sixth palace.
I'm still surprised the Cross got past NOA's heavy internal censorship...
I'm still surprised the Cross got past NOA's heavy internal censorship...
FortNinety
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I just wanted to say that beating Shadow Link was one of my most cherished childhood gaming memories.
And Link downthrusting is one of my favorite all time sprites.
And Link downthrusting is one of my favorite all time sprites.