DoktorEvil
Banned
Zelda 2 is cool. I think other games did what it did better, but come on its a NES Action RPG, that's rad.
I think you might be a little too hard on the game. Remember this was the second Zelda EVER. The series didn't find its footing yet and they were probably trying different things to see what worked. The assets alone makes me think some work was put into it.
It's that and Castlevania 2. They're bad sequels.
I appreciate the attempt at innovation, but they made the actual looking for information/hints part too obscure, so obscure that you needed Nintendo Power to beat the game.