Zelda 2

Zelda 2 was a complete letdown when it was released. Anyone who tells you different is someone who didn't completely love Zelda 1 or played Zelda 2 years after the fact.


To give you some sort of analogy that modern gamers can understand. It would be like absolutely loving Halo 1 ... and 4 years later Bungie release Halo 2 as an above-average RTS game. The shock of having something you love reformulated into something else is hard to equate into terms.

Zelda 2's style would've worked alot better on the SNES (like most NES games did) The overworld on the NES version was primitive, and the towns were not interactive at all. The only thing that was redeeming was the magic system and to some degree the EXP.

In retrospect, Zelda 2 seems like a fun break from the "typical" Zelda style game .. but at the time, Zelda 2 should have been LttP and not Zelda meets Metroid/Dragon Warrior.

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Originally Posted by toxic

Zelda 2 was a complete letdown when it was released. Anyone who tells you different is someone who didn't completely love Zelda 1 or played Zelda 2 years after the fact.

To give you some sort of analogy that modern gamers can understand. It would be like absolutely loving Halo 1 ... and 4 years later Bungie release Halo 2 as an above-average RTS game. The shock of having something you love reformulated into something else is hard to equate into terms.

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Well, yeah, it was a letdown, but it wasn't a bad game. I loved Zelda 1, and I never got Zelda II at the time. Why? Because it didn't interest my eight year old self. I played it seriously sometime in the early PSX era, and I created the opinion I posted about previously.

Also, I wouldn't call myself a modern gamer by any stretch of the word(s).

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Originally Posted by bbobb

Yes, because I remember years ago when RE4 came out I thought it was the most amazing thing ever. But now going back and playing it I see it wasn't as good as I remember.

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Originally Posted by portnoyd

I'm not following you.

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That's pretty funny.

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Originally Posted by Mzo

That's pretty funny.

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I'm.... not following you.

:lol:
This second to last dungeon is a bitch. Blindly jumping into pits in the hope that you'll live sucks.

But so far I'm 1/1.

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Originally Posted by toxic

I'm a huge Zelda fan, and I hated Zelda 2.

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same here the game just didnt work for me

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Originally Posted by toxic

Zelda 2 was a complete letdown when it was released. Anyone who tells you different is someone who didn't completely love Zelda 1 or played Zelda 2 years after the fact.

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Wrong. I absolutely loved Zelda 1, played both games right when they came out and still loved Zelda 2. It wasn't quite as good as the first game but I didn't feel let down by it. Zelda 2 aged quicker due to the side-scrolling adventure game being done much better by Wonder Boy 3 not long afterwards but I still feel it was a great game at the time.

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Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater

played both games right when they came out and still loved Zelda 2. .

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I'm not going to argue with your enjoyment of a game, but clearly you agree that LoZ was better than 2. So, in a sense, you were let down because it did not exceed the original.

I think the real proof is that Nintendo never tried another Zelda 2 playstyle in the 2d format again.

I really enjoyed Ys III, and the Wizards & Warriors games. For me, both were better than Zelda 2.

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Originally Posted by toxic

I think the real proof is that Nintendo never tried another Zelda 2 playstyle in the 2d format again.

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I think it's about time they tried a different view with the series again. I bought Minish Cap today and although I enjoy it I feel conflicted buying it because I'm supporting a lack of change with the series. A breath of fresh air is needed.