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This was my father's first Zelda game. He is Colombian, and played this game with his brothers in Medellin. However, he had an English version of the game, and of course, he only knew Spanish. Given how important talking to NPC's is, they needed to translate it somehow, so here's what they did. He wrote down every text box on paper. He then handed it to his dad, who happened to be a principal for a school. The dad would then hand it to the English teacher, who would translate it in Spanish. The dad would then take the translations home so they could finish the game. As of today, he can finish this game in only a few hours. He's a master :)
@@zachtwilightwindwaker596 columbia was an even poorer country back then. access to translation booklets wasnt exactly easy, so it makes sense that the only person who could translate the language was the english teacher
Fun fact about Error, Bagu’s name is the Japanese word for bug (as in a glitch) but they didn’t translate it for some reason, they’re a duo and their names were originally a pun on issues with computers, Bug and Error
that's funny. so bagu is actually the bug and error is intended. for what it's worth I'm pretty sure bagu IS the translated version. like if you were to write the english word "bug" in romaji, you would write it as "bagu"
@@codesymphonyBy that logic, Error should be named Eraa. That’s transliteration, not translation. They probably just missed it, maybe the translator back then wasn’t as familiar with computer slang and couldn’t guess it should mean this.
Ah yes, the game that has so much old game BS... I love this game, very close to my favorites, but the garbage it puts the players trough sometimes... mainly 4 times in particular: Walls, floors and secret areas that have no tell-tale signs, most being mandatory "See that random hole in the ground that looks like it will kill you? Jump there" The mirror quest Bagu's House And for the anecdote: I went on every tile in my first playthrough to find Bagu, and I do mean every tile. An encounter on the correct tile made me miss it.
The purple slime in Saria tells you where to find Bagu, but you have to talk to it 4 times. No clue how anyone would know to do that considering barely any NPCs have more than one dialogue. The part that stumped me when I first played this was when you have to knock down a forest tile with the hammer, I had no idea you could even do that
I played the game so many times that I may have forgotten just how cryptic some of this crap is until seeing someone play it for the first time. Really unreal, it’s up there with Simon’s Quest for absurd things you have to do to progress.
Zelda 2 has a lot of charm as an emblem of the wild old days when you didn’t necessarily have to do anything very similar to the first game if your sequel. They took the same ideas and world of the first game, but didn’t feel obligated to take its mechanics, and it makes for a very unique and interesting experience that the series wouldn’t really do again.
Genuine question, do you not think the jump to the BOTW open world style wasn’t a similar jump to a new style, with disregard to many previous mechanics/established structure? I consider myself a bit of an outsider in understanding the older games and their flow from one to the next since I came in with BOTW, but as I’ve been watching my way through the old games the shift from Skyward to BOTW feels more and more stark
@@CamTheGalaxy BOTW is undeniably an innovator, but it had been decades since the series did something so drastic. LTTP and OOT established the 2d and 3d baselines, and the games didn't stray very far from them until BOTW. On the other hand there's Mario, who's had a bunch of super varied spinoffs over the years.
@@gabrieldoon Yeah that’s kinda what I’m saying, that BOTW actually had a very similar leap as Legend of Zelda to Zelda II. The only difference being that BOTW stuck the landing (and Zelda II probably only didn’t simply because it is so clearly a product of its time, like Linkus said it falls into that arcade early gaming energy of hard to be hard which when looked at next to the whole Zelda series, just sticks out like a sore thumb)
@CamTheGalaxy You also have to keep in mind that Zelda was always meant to encompass an "open world" philosophy that simply got lost starting with A Link To The Past. The reason why the series diverted into linearity in the first place was because it was simply much easier to develop a game that way when everything is in a straight path. BOTW was a first true attempt to go forward with that original design philosophy, so much so, that the prototype literally started out as a recreation of Zelda 1 with modern day mechanics. You can find the Zelda 1 Prototype the devs created on RUclips during the BOTW Game Conference.
Play the fan remake ZIIAOL by Hoverbat, it makes the game SO much more fun and playable! There are NPCs at the towns that save your progress and set your respawn point, and if you die in a palace, you respawn at the start of the palace. Also he doubles the number of items in the game, and ALL of the new items are absolutely amazing! There's also dungeon maps which fill out as you go through the dungeon. There's also tons and tons of new content. Plus lots of other QoL changes. Oh and 1-UPs are permanent across game overs
Yeah, I'd highly recommend Hoverbat's remake for someone who's never played Zelda 2 before. It does a pretty good job of balancing the quality of life improvements with additional challenges that make up for the reduced backtracking and less ways to cheese your way past some stuff. It's basically the same game in spirit, but with more tie-ins to the rest of the Zelda series. Feels roughly like the Final Fantasy GBA ports if I were to compare it to anything.
Thank you very much for pointing out Hoverbat's ZIIAOL. I don't 100% remember ZII, but what I do remember mixed what I'm experiencing new has been a great time (as far as Nintendo Hard goes)!
Zelda II is probably in my top 3 for the series; it's for sure not great as the adventure game most people expect from the series, but on its own merit it has incredibly deep combat for how simplistic it is. It's super rough to play for the first time, but this is by far the game in the series I've replayed the most. I generally consider it more akin to a very primitive Dark Souls, at least in the sense that it's an action game with an extremely simple combat system with tons of depth in both execution and knowledge; I find that the Souls fans I've recommended it to tend to really take to it once they get past the obtuse "puzzles".
@@Smoove_J Deep doesn't mean complicated or hard to learn. You can do a lot with crouching jump slashes, but there's a lot of really interesting techniques that are way better in many situations, especially when compared to other NES games, and other Zelda games broadly. Few NES games have anything past "hit the enemy when they're next to you," and I can't think of any Zelda games that don't have an extremely low skill ceiling on their combat mechanics (which is by design, as from OoT on Zelda was decidedly about puzzle solving and not combat). I might be biased from playing this on hardware without save states, and from doing a fair bit of challenge running, but running in and doing crouching jump slashes isn't a silver bullet that blows the game right open, it's just a powerful tool in your kit.
@@cephelos1098 I can see what you mean, Castlevania/maps-from-ff3A is the vibe I get from it and approaching it more like that does kinda give some room for comparison rather than directly comparing it to any other Zelda game. It would be like comparing tears of the kingdom to minish cap, Zelda II is closer to Totk in terms of experimenting with a different play style. Edit: The translations and dialogue however are atrocious.
@@Br0ken_Rob0ts Oh yeah, game is super rough. idr the name but there's a qol romhack that keeps as much of the core game unchanged while tuning a lot of the backtracking and the onerous parts. The original is perhaps worth playing for the authentic experience, but there's a ton of options for fanmade "DX" versions that are way better for replay value.
yep! this game was actually the base of oot, as it was meant to be a zelda 2 remake! probably my favorite fun fact, because all oot fans should give zelda 2 a BIG thank you
@@codesymphony nope, i was there! absolutely 0 help from chat was tolerated unless he asked, and for the most part no one spoiled. he found it completely on his own which was shocking, the mirror find was him just randomly stabbing shit for no reason.
Unfortunately no, the river of lava might be hardest, which is also right before the only other checkpoint in the game. I say might be because I never got past it
Zelda II is a bit obtuse (okay, it’s really obtuse) but it’s fun!! After playing through it I wanted another side scrolling title in the series like this, I think they could make something really special building on this formula.
The ironunuckle statue at the entrance to the third dungeon is a great place to grind XP. You can leave and re-enter to fight him again any number of times (until you place the crystal in the statue at the end of the palace, anyway).
Here is some Advice: You can level each stat up to Level 8, after that you cannot increase either of the stats and instead they give you 1-ups, so if you find the right enemies to farm exp from then the way to the final Dungeon would be a piece of cake
14:00 - The background bricks, and how it looks to your eyes, is probably because they wanted it to blur for old CRTs. Lots of 8 bit stuff looked way better on CRT just because it was less high resolution.
At least Zelda 2 is loved by some people(Vinny), I have never known anyone that said anything good about the CDI games other than the cutscenes being so bad that they're good
I love Zelda 2! I beat it blind, guideless, and without save-states, for the first time back when it got ported to the 3DS, and it was some of the most fun I've ever had! It's very hard, but never felt particularly unfair to me, because everything has a strategy. And the backtracking does suck, but it's honestly not too terrible for most of the game. The only real gripe I personally have with the game is what you need to do to enter the final dungeon. It feels unlikely to happen, but I'd be so dang happy if this game got an official remake/remaster someday.
Fun Fact: The Minish Cap Mini Boss Theme actually originates from Zelda II. Its the overworld battle theme in the Japanese version of the game. The reason the US version has a different theme is mainly due to the famicom having extra audio tune capabilities that the NES didnt have. Also the bottom left area where the hammer is located is actually the Zelda 1 overworld zoomed out.
Zelda II is so weird to me. They decide to go in a completely different direction for only the second game. Usually when this is the case, it started out as a different game from a completely different series, but Zelda II was always designed to be a Zelda game.
15:35 The notorios difficulty of many NES games were influenced by the era of coin-operated arcade games, which were designed with a certain level of difficulty so that people would spend more money in order to keep playing
So this is where some parts of link's moveset in smash came from was honestly not expecting Sakurai to take aspects of this game of all things to base some things for Link in Smash
Yeah there's even an upwards stab in one of Zelda II's later towns. The whole start of the game you're annoyed by one tile high baddies - suddenly just bounce on them with the down attack, game gets way easier.
Zelda 2 just needs a remaster. Modern hitboxes and graphics, maybe some remixes of the music, but keep the sidescroller style! Quite an amazing game, just needs some love.
I just finished a run of this on an og nes, had to pick between controller with either: sketchy B button, start/select require significant force, or sketchy d-pad. High-force start/sel was the pick to start off since you have limited magic, but by the time I had life, failing many sword strikes was less bad than missing one magic cast. Crippling your distance control was never an option.
Just because Zelda 2 is the hardest game in the series doesn't make it bad, though certain sections are definitely cheap and rough around the edges. I think a largely combat-focused sidescrolling Zelda game makes for an interesting experiment. That said, this was never one of my favorites and I played little of it myself, preferring to watch my father replay it instead. God bless the Wii Virtual Console.
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I think this game is one that Nintendo should've remade first, honestly, it's the one that needs it the most. Remove the frustrating things like the backtracking after deaths, and instant death pits. Make the pits work like they do in later Zeldas, where it saps a portion of your life bar but puts you at the start of the room instead. Also Link's sword range sucks, make it longer so you don't get hit trying to deal a hit on contact damage, lol.
I can't beat this game without the easy mode mod. WHAT?! HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO SEE!? WHAT!? I DIED?! That happens a lot. That is not west! I was wondering where the palace theme was from when I heard it in Smash Bros Melee. I really hate Darknuts. They are a pain in the ass to fight. HOW MANY ARMS DOES HE HAVE!? HOW DOES HE SLASH OUT OF HIS PEE- I didn't notice extra arms. The last dungeon is a pain in the ass to get to but good luck actually reaching that point. DRACULA IS IN THIS GAME!? No Ganon is Dracula since blood on his ashes can revive him and he is weak to silver. What you saw was an Acheman. TOXIC BUBBLES!? I thought they were acid. I DON'T HAVE THE MAGIC! If I die, I have to go back through that cave. If you get the hammer you won't have to but that is even more of a pain to get. WHAAAAAAAT!? Be careful, some villagers will turn into bats. 12:41 Talking to this slime several times has him say something else. He gives you a clue that is not that useful. DUDE! HOW MANY CHUCHUS LIVE HERE?! That's not a Chuchu, that's a Bot (yes I'm serious. I'd be surprised if you weren't frustrated with this game. That's why I hate this game. And people think Elden Ring is hard. Isn't it? I don't know because I refuse to play Souls-like games. Lies of P gave me so much grief and brick walled me very early. I'm never playing a Souls game again (Rise of the Ronin doesn't count since it's not brutally hard). ARE YOU KIDDING ME!? You actually finished two dungeons. I couldn't do it. 18:23 Did you actually find that without a guide? I refuse to play Zelda 2 without save states because of how frustrating it is. WHAT IS THIS DOG FACE!? That is a Mau.
I don't think this game is "bad," but I do think this game belongs in 2D Soulsborne genre. 1:30 Presumably the correct translation would have been, "take the candle in the palace, THEN go west" 3:15 >"I don't get the xp?" Much worse than that. (at 3:10 or 3:38, see upper-right corner of the screen) 10:23 fun fact: JP version doesn't have "item get" animation. Whoever added it sure did a sloppy job.
I’m playing Zelda II since it’s the one Zelda game I haven’t beaten alongside Phantom Hourglass (which I’m also working on, I’ve got one pure metal left before I get the phantom sword), I definitely think it’s underrated, but holy shit it is unforgiving, I had war flashbacks when I reached the second dungeon and saw those flying dragon(?) heads because of the Castlevania Medusa heads
I'm watching this video learning that half of what Link brought to Super Smash Brothers was from this game. Makes sense, I guess, both of them being side-scrolling combat games.
Zelda 2's biggest issue IMO is conveyance. Since the gameplay is broken up into 2D platforming and overworld exploration, they couldn't do the seamless, wordless, invisible guiding of the player Zelda 1 does quite as well. Like, it's there, but it's got the janky crutches of poorly translated NPC dialogue to prop it up and keep the player going the right way. Still a solid game, and even a solid Zelda game. It's just got some stiff competition from it's predecessor and descendants.
There is a difference between backtracking and runbacks. Zelda 2 has some bad runbacks, especially for Palace 2 or Death Mounting without the hammer, Palace 4 without the boots, Palace 6 isn't too bad, technically, and Palace 7 doesn't require a runback.
After trying it this game is terrible. Not because its old but because its poorly designed. I played the original zelda 1986 a few years ago and loved playing it despite how old it was. The original was well designed for the most part. Zelda 2 is completely awful. No check points, except for the last dungeon, too many projectiles in levels and input reading enemys make for a terrible play experience.
16:13 Yeeeeah, when people say "[modern game] is hard" I'll play it, and I'll concede. "Sure. It's not super easy. But you never got to the end of Ghosts N Goblins only for it to tell you to beat it TWICE in one go, to get the true ending."
Yeah, old games just made you die over and over until you learn the solution, OR until the solution exceeded your skill level. Then you just put the game down and never finish it, aka me with Ecco the Dolphin (Game Gear version) 😂
oh, i know of a few Zelda games that are arguably worse, BUT they were actually made by a different company, for a system called the Cd-I. "Link: the faces of evil" is the first one.
I was just saying yesterday that I don't really like Zelda 2. I don't think it's the worst Zelda game ever released, but it's very confusing and difficult to get around. Honestly though, it's not really as bad as it's made out to be. *I hate the Iron Knuckles.*
dude, i never played zelda 2 but seeing this i can see the dificulty being that people dont chill out, half your death would be avoidable if you stopped thought and made a move. WHICH i would point games should be more like that instead of brianlessly move forward xd
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Zelda II was definitely the hardest Zelda game I have ever played, lots of deaths and rage moments, with a high learning curve. ENJOY!! ^^
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Yup... he regrets it...
Someone should count how many times he died
are you not going to finish the game?
Wait till the thurderbird boss at the end
This was my father's first Zelda game. He is Colombian, and played this game with his brothers in Medellin. However, he had an English version of the game, and of course, he only knew Spanish. Given how important talking to NPC's is, they needed to translate it somehow, so here's what they did.
He wrote down every text box on paper.
He then handed it to his dad, who happened to be a principal for a school.
The dad would then hand it to the English teacher, who would translate it in Spanish.
The dad would then take the translations home so they could finish the game.
As of today, he can finish this game in only a few hours. He's a master :)
Wouldn't it be easier to use a translation booklet of some kind?
@@zachtwilightwindwaker596this was likely before it was easy to get translations
@@Android21Plushie I'm talking about a book not a digital device.
@@zachtwilightwindwaker596 columbia was an even poorer country back then. access to translation booklets wasnt exactly easy, so it makes sense that the only person who could translate the language was the english teacher
Top 2 zelda game
Fun fact about Error, Bagu’s name is the Japanese word for bug (as in a glitch) but they didn’t translate it for some reason, they’re a duo and their names were originally a pun on issues with computers, Bug and Error
Translators 30+ years ago were hot garbage and constantly missed references.
that's funny. so bagu is actually the bug and error is intended. for what it's worth I'm pretty sure bagu IS the translated version. like if you were to write the english word "bug" in romaji, you would write it as "bagu"
@@codesymphonyBy that logic, Error should be named Eraa. That’s transliteration, not translation. They probably just missed it, maybe the translator back then wasn’t as familiar with computer slang and couldn’t guess it should mean this.
Ah yes, the game that has so much old game BS...
I love this game, very close to my favorites, but the garbage it puts the players trough sometimes... mainly 4 times in particular:
Walls, floors and secret areas that have no tell-tale signs, most being mandatory
"See that random hole in the ground that looks like it will kill you? Jump there"
The mirror quest
Bagu's House
And for the anecdote: I went on every tile in my first playthrough to find Bagu, and I do mean every tile.
An encounter on the correct tile made me miss it.
The purple slime in Saria tells you where to find Bagu, but you have to talk to it 4 times. No clue how anyone would know to do that considering barely any NPCs have more than one dialogue. The part that stumped me when I first played this was when you have to knock down a forest tile with the hammer, I had no idea you could even do that
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It says in the forest, but nothing more.
I played the game so many times that I may have forgotten just how cryptic some of this crap is until seeing someone play it for the first time. Really unreal, it’s up there with Simon’s Quest for absurd things you have to do to progress.
24:05 the cutoff of him falling into the lava 💀💀
I was going to point this out lmao
easiest way to backtrack
He ded!
Game over: return of dumas
Was going to comment about that lmaoooo
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I know! It's like a Linkus overload!
It's the end of the month brother. All primary streamers do this to shove in all their sponsor deals
His sponsors require a specific number of videos per month. Thanks to Linkus' amazing scheduling skills, almost all of them end up being last minute.
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Zelda's Adventure. If we truly wanna see our boy break.
Zelda 2 has a lot of charm as an emblem of the wild old days when you didn’t necessarily have to do anything very similar to the first game if your sequel. They took the same ideas and world of the first game, but didn’t feel obligated to take its mechanics, and it makes for a very unique and interesting experience that the series wouldn’t really do again.
Genuine question, do you not think the jump to the BOTW open world style wasn’t a similar jump to a new style, with disregard to many previous mechanics/established structure? I consider myself a bit of an outsider in understanding the older games and their flow from one to the next since I came in with BOTW, but as I’ve been watching my way through the old games the shift from Skyward to BOTW feels more and more stark
@@CamTheGalaxy BOTW is undeniably an innovator, but it had been decades since the series did something so drastic. LTTP and OOT established the 2d and 3d baselines, and the games didn't stray very far from them until BOTW. On the other hand there's Mario, who's had a bunch of super varied spinoffs over the years.
@@gabrieldoon Yeah that’s kinda what I’m saying, that BOTW actually had a very similar leap as Legend of Zelda to Zelda II. The only difference being that BOTW stuck the landing (and Zelda II probably only didn’t simply because it is so clearly a product of its time, like Linkus said it falls into that arcade early gaming energy of hard to be hard which when looked at next to the whole Zelda series, just sticks out like a sore thumb)
@CamTheGalaxy
You also have to keep in mind that Zelda was always meant to encompass an "open world" philosophy that simply got lost starting with A Link To The Past.
The reason why the series diverted into linearity in the first place was because it was simply much easier to develop a game that way when everything is in a straight path.
BOTW was a first true attempt to go forward with that original design philosophy, so much so, that the prototype literally started out as a recreation of Zelda 1 with modern day mechanics.
You can find the Zelda 1 Prototype the devs created on RUclips during the BOTW Game Conference.
Play the fan remake ZIIAOL by Hoverbat, it makes the game SO much more fun and playable! There are NPCs at the towns that save your progress and set your respawn point, and if you die in a palace, you respawn at the start of the palace. Also he doubles the number of items in the game, and ALL of the new items are absolutely amazing! There's also dungeon maps which fill out as you go through the dungeon. There's also tons and tons of new content. Plus lots of other QoL changes.
Oh and 1-UPs are permanent across game overs
Yeah, I'd highly recommend Hoverbat's remake for someone who's never played Zelda 2 before. It does a pretty good job of balancing the quality of life improvements with additional challenges that make up for the reduced backtracking and less ways to cheese your way past some stuff. It's basically the same game in spirit, but with more tie-ins to the rest of the Zelda series. Feels roughly like the Final Fantasy GBA ports if I were to compare it to anything.
Thank you very much for pointing out Hoverbat's ZIIAOL. I don't 100% remember ZII, but what I do remember mixed what I'm experiencing new has been a great time (as far as Nintendo Hard goes)!
24:06 "Okay, we did it!" Then proceeds to jump in lava ^^
Death Warping is faster than backtracking in Ye Olde Games
@@tigerwarrior1787 I think it's a trick in Zelda's Adventure since the screen transition loading is abysmal.
"town of Ruto? any birds here?" bruh 💀
Zelda II is probably in my top 3 for the series; it's for sure not great as the adventure game most people expect from the series, but on its own merit it has incredibly deep combat for how simplistic it is. It's super rough to play for the first time, but this is by far the game in the series I've replayed the most. I generally consider it more akin to a very primitive Dark Souls, at least in the sense that it's an action game with an extremely simple combat system with tons of depth in both execution and knowledge; I find that the Souls fans I've recommended it to tend to really take to it once they get past the obtuse "puzzles".
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Deep combat? You just spam that jumping slash attack 90% of the time.
@@Smoove_J Deep doesn't mean complicated or hard to learn. You can do a lot with crouching jump slashes, but there's a lot of really interesting techniques that are way better in many situations, especially when compared to other NES games, and other Zelda games broadly. Few NES games have anything past "hit the enemy when they're next to you," and I can't think of any Zelda games that don't have an extremely low skill ceiling on their combat mechanics (which is by design, as from OoT on Zelda was decidedly about puzzle solving and not combat). I might be biased from playing this on hardware without save states, and from doing a fair bit of challenge running, but running in and doing crouching jump slashes isn't a silver bullet that blows the game right open, it's just a powerful tool in your kit.
@@cephelos1098 I can see what you mean, Castlevania/maps-from-ff3A is the vibe I get from it and approaching it more like that does kinda give some room for comparison rather than directly comparing it to any other Zelda game.
It would be like comparing tears of the kingdom to minish cap, Zelda II is closer to Totk in terms of experimenting with a different play style.
Edit: The translations and dialogue however are atrocious.
@@Br0ken_Rob0ts Oh yeah, game is super rough. idr the name but there's a qol romhack that keeps as much of the core game unchanged while tuning a lot of the backtracking and the onerous parts. The original is perhaps worth playing for the authentic experience, but there's a ton of options for fanmade "DX" versions that are way better for replay value.
zelda 2 reminds me of somebodys weird uncle, really weird, hard to connect to, but you always remember it
I played this game first a year ago or so and was SHOCKED when I realized all of the OoT sage names are references to the towns from this game
yep! this game was actually the base of oot, as it was meant to be a zelda 2 remake! probably my favorite fun fact, because all oot fans should give zelda 2 a BIG thank you
@@murmirr this is one of the coolest facts I’ve heard, where did you learn it??
Linkus finding the mirror and Bagu with no prior knowledge is insane
i'm sure he had a bit of help from chat but yeah i would have never found that one tile of grass lol
@@codesymphony nope, i was there! absolutely 0 help from chat was tolerated unless he asked, and for the most part no one spoiled. he found it completely on his own which was shocking, the mirror find was him just randomly stabbing shit for no reason.
@@murmirr actually a god gamer its insane
24:24 "She was a Fairy 🧚"
4:38 "How does he slash out of his PEEN" that was just way to funny to me for some reason.
10:28 Ah yes. I believe this type of game design was famously brought back into popularity by game developer Hidetaka Miyazaki of the "Souls" series.
18:45 'What am I looking at?'. That, my friend, is Death Mountain. So called because you will die. Possibly the hardest part of the game
Unfortunately no, the river of lava might be hardest, which is also right before the only other checkpoint in the game. I say might be because I never got past it
It's called Death Mountain cause you will DIE! Why is this part so hard, Jesus why?!
13:09 well you asked for a hammer. A hammer bro showed up for you.
Zelda II is a bit obtuse (okay, it’s really obtuse) but it’s fun!! After playing through it I wanted another side scrolling title in the series like this, I think they could make something really special building on this formula.
I honestly enjoyed the Metroidvania elements.
The CD-i games are 2d 🤷♂️
There are side scrolling sections in Link's Awakening, and Echoes of Wisdom now
@@west3Dgaming And the Oracle games.
The ironunuckle statue at the entrance to the third dungeon is a great place to grind XP. You can leave and re-enter to fight him again any number of times (until you place the crystal in the statue at the end of the palace, anyway).
The Temple theme from Zelda 2 is GOATed for sure
Here is some Advice:
You can level each stat up to Level 8, after that you cannot increase either of the stats and instead they give you 1-ups, so if you find the right enemies to farm exp from then the way to the final Dungeon would be a piece of cake
This is the one Zelda game I can’t bring myself to play so mad respect to you Linkus for playing it ❤️
14:00 - The background bricks, and how it looks to your eyes, is probably because they wanted it to blur for old CRTs. Lots of 8 bit stuff looked way better on CRT just because it was less high resolution.
I’ve never beaten this game even with save states 😂😭
Same here 😂
learn the down thrust on enemy head, and change to a stab.. It's a good explot for those annoying enemies with shields
That profile pic XD.
People saying zelda 2 is the worst zelda game when the cdi games exist:
At least Zelda 2 is loved by some people(Vinny), I have never known anyone that said anything good about the CDI games other than the cutscenes being so bad that they're good
@@Beelzemon09They have some good music, which makes sense, the CDi is basically a piece of music equipment
I love Zelda 2! I beat it blind, guideless, and without save-states, for the first time back when it got ported to the 3DS, and it was some of the most fun I've ever had! It's very hard, but never felt particularly unfair to me, because everything has a strategy. And the backtracking does suck, but it's honestly not too terrible for most of the game. The only real gripe I personally have with the game is what you need to do to enter the final dungeon.
It feels unlikely to happen, but I'd be so dang happy if this game got an official remake/remaster someday.
Fun Fact: The Minish Cap Mini Boss Theme actually originates from Zelda II. Its the overworld battle theme in the Japanese version of the game. The reason the US version has a different theme is mainly due to the famicom having extra audio tune capabilities that the NES didnt have.
Also the bottom left area where the hammer is located is actually the Zelda 1 overworld zoomed out.
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The comedic timing is on point.
I laughed way too loud at 25:30 when he was mowed down by the boss XD
18:46 WELCOME TO DEATH MOUNTAIN!!!!
Linkus 7??? more like linkus 24/7 because now I have content to watch all day !!!!!!!!!
Zelda II is so weird to me. They decide to go in a completely different direction for only the second game. Usually when this is the case, it started out as a different game from a completely different series, but Zelda II was always designed to be a Zelda game.
NEED THE SECOND HALF NOW! Seeing you push through all the pain that I experienced as a kid with the Gamecube demo disc was amazing
he beat it just now! just got off stream so the video will be here once it's edited!
You should try Link : faces of evil or Link : the wand of Gamelon. I heard they were pretty easy games.
Didn’t even read the instruction manual…cmon it’s an NES game.
Babe wake up, new linkus7 vid just dropped
Nice to see Zelda 2 get some love!
It was one of my dad’s favorite NES games, not many people talk about it.
Same. My dad loves beating this game in less that 4 hours
This really inspiring me to try again
(It’s not gonna end well😭)
15:35 The notorios difficulty of many NES games were influenced by the era of coin-operated arcade games, which were designed with a certain level of difficulty so that people would spend more money in order to keep playing
This is one of my dad’s defining childhood games, meaning this was my first Zelda game. I still have a soft spot for it.
So this is where some parts of link's moveset in smash came from
was honestly not expecting Sakurai to take aspects of this game of all things to base some things for Link in Smash
Yeah there's even an upwards stab in one of Zelda II's later towns.
The whole start of the game you're annoyed by one tile high baddies - suddenly just bounce on them with the down attack, game gets way easier.
the downward stab in mid-air from smash bros N64 is CANNON??
You learn something every day
Yeah there's even a mid-air upwards stab in Zelda II some town later.
The CD-i Zelda games are the worst but this is also bad because IT'S TOO F**KING HARD!
HAHAHAHAHAHA your mind is set to speed running that's why U are bad in this game. You try to avoid enemies and will keep dieing
I love this fucking game. The only one that’s better is Zelda 1
I just beat this game about 10 minutes ago, this game is stupid difficult and I HATE the game
The second half is really where it gets difficult the last area took me days
this game is hard
Zelda 2 isn't a bad game per se, but it's hard, because... many NES games are hard and unfair
Never played it, but honestly looks like it could be fun in the same vein as a souls game
Strange, this doesn't look like Zelda's adventure for the CDI
my personal review of the game: its aight.
Zelda 2 just needs a remaster. Modern hitboxes and graphics, maybe some remixes of the music, but keep the sidescroller style! Quite an amazing game, just needs some love.
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Welcome to the few people who went through this horror, now 100%
I was in chat for 1 frame. Let's go 0:28 spam pause button
Hi youtub-
0:28 I have it paused on the exact frame so hopefully if you pause and click this it will be shown
Aw nvm
finish it!
The hardest?
The WORST????
--> Zelda's Adventure.
You don't have the balls. I dare you to try finish it!
I double dare you.
Play Zelda's Adventure, an official Legend of Zelda game for the Phillips Cdi. Maaaaaybe an emulator exists. Lrobably not though.
You should teach classes in over-acting and change the title to reflect that
Finally I love this game as a 2D platformer with an amazing interface 🤩
I just finished a run of this on an og nes, had to pick between controller with either: sketchy B button, start/select require significant force, or sketchy d-pad.
High-force start/sel was the pick to start off since you have limited magic, but by the time I had life, failing many sword strikes was less bad than missing one magic cast. Crippling your distance control was never an option.
Turn around to block the boomerang return damage lol
It's kinda embarrassing that he doesn't notice his shield blocking some enemy attacks and then just lets himself take pointless damage.
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unironically one of my favourite zelda games
This was my first zelda game (:
Ooooh boy, Zelda 2!
You should play minish cap. One of the best 2d zeldas
Linkus where did the Minish cap rando vid go?
This game was impossible for me to beat as a kid even WITH a Game Genie
Will you finish the game in another video?
I literally just beat this game for the first time yesterday and now I see linkus’s video
he's better at the game then Me
12 times he said "Are you kidding me"
best game IDK
Welcome to Zelda Hell lol
When I delt with the guys that move their shield, most of the time, I just tanked through them
Just because Zelda 2 is the hardest game in the series doesn't make it bad, though certain sections are definitely cheap and rough around the edges. I think a largely combat-focused sidescrolling Zelda game makes for an interesting experiment. That said, this was never one of my favorites and I played little of it myself, preferring to watch my father replay it instead. God bless the Wii Virtual Console.
Only people who say Zelda 2 is a bad game are those who have not played it fully.
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This game rocks continue with it please
3 uploads love the work linkus thankyou for all the great content keep it up linkus
You are pumping out the great videos recently, great content for all of them!
I think this game is one that Nintendo should've remade first, honestly, it's the one that needs it the most. Remove the frustrating things like the backtracking after deaths, and instant death pits. Make the pits work like they do in later Zeldas, where it saps a portion of your life bar but puts you at the start of the room instead. Also Link's sword range sucks, make it longer so you don't get hit trying to deal a hit on contact damage, lol.
Worst game? WTF you mean?
I can't beat this game without the easy mode mod.
WHAT?! HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO SEE!? WHAT!? I DIED?! That happens a lot. That is not west! I was wondering where the palace theme was from when I heard it in Smash Bros Melee.
I really hate Darknuts. They are a pain in the ass to fight. HOW MANY ARMS DOES HE HAVE!? HOW DOES HE SLASH OUT OF HIS PEE- I didn't notice extra arms. The last dungeon is a pain in the ass to get to but good luck actually reaching that point.
DRACULA IS IN THIS GAME!? No Ganon is Dracula since blood on his ashes can revive him and he is weak to silver. What you saw was an Acheman.
TOXIC BUBBLES!? I thought they were acid.
I DON'T HAVE THE MAGIC! If I die, I have to go back through that cave. If you get the hammer you won't have to but that is even more of a pain to get. WHAAAAAAAT!? Be careful, some villagers will turn into bats. 12:41 Talking to this slime several times has him say something else. He gives you a clue that is not that useful.
DUDE! HOW MANY CHUCHUS LIVE HERE?! That's not a Chuchu, that's a Bot (yes I'm serious.
I'd be surprised if you weren't frustrated with this game. That's why I hate this game. And people think Elden Ring is hard. Isn't it? I don't know because I refuse to play Souls-like games. Lies of P gave me so much grief and brick walled me very early. I'm never playing a Souls game again (Rise of the Ronin doesn't count since it's not brutally hard).
ARE YOU KIDDING ME!? You actually finished two dungeons. I couldn't do it. 18:23 Did you actually find that without a guide?
I refuse to play Zelda 2 without save states because of how frustrating it is.
WHAT IS THIS DOG FACE!? That is a Mau.
I don't think this game is "bad," but I do think this game belongs in 2D Soulsborne genre.
1:30 Presumably the correct translation would have been, "take the candle in the palace, THEN go west"
3:15 >"I don't get the xp?"
Much worse than that. (at 3:10 or 3:38, see upper-right corner of the screen)
10:23 fun fact: JP version doesn't have "item get" animation. Whoever added it sure did a sloppy job.
They meant west in the dungeon
I’m playing Zelda II since it’s the one Zelda game I haven’t beaten alongside Phantom Hourglass (which I’m also working on, I’ve got one pure metal left before I get the phantom sword), I definitely think it’s underrated, but holy shit it is unforgiving, I had war flashbacks when I reached the second dungeon and saw those flying dragon(?) heads because of the Castlevania Medusa heads
I've been saying for years that the NES LoZ games are the actual origin of the soulslike genre, & I feel like this one makes my case really well
I'm watching this video learning that half of what Link brought to Super Smash Brothers was from this game. Makes sense, I guess, both of them being side-scrolling combat games.
18:47 Welcome to Death Mountain. Welcome to hell.
Hello Parson, welcome to hell!
Zelda 2's biggest issue IMO is conveyance. Since the gameplay is broken up into 2D platforming and overworld exploration, they couldn't do the seamless, wordless, invisible guiding of the player Zelda 1 does quite as well. Like, it's there, but it's got the janky crutches of poorly translated NPC dialogue to prop it up and keep the player going the right way. Still a solid game, and even a solid Zelda game. It's just got some stiff competition from it's predecessor and descendants.
There is a difference between backtracking and runbacks. Zelda 2 has some bad runbacks, especially for Palace 2 or Death Mounting without the hammer, Palace 4 without the boots, Palace 6 isn't too bad, technically, and Palace 7 doesn't require a runback.
After trying it this game is terrible. Not because its old but because its poorly designed. I played the original zelda 1986 a few years ago and loved playing it despite how old it was. The original was well designed for the most part. Zelda 2 is completely awful. No check points, except for the last dungeon, too many projectiles in levels and input reading enemys make for a terrible play experience.
16:13 Yeeeeah, when people say "[modern game] is hard" I'll play it, and I'll concede. "Sure. It's not super easy. But you never got to the end of Ghosts N Goblins only for it to tell you to beat it TWICE in one go, to get the true ending."
Bruh...for old games: READ THE INSTRUCTION MANUAL. So many mechanics explained. Well done tho
Yeah, old games just made you die over and over until you learn the solution, OR until the solution exceeded your skill level. Then you just put the game down and never finish it, aka me with Ecco the Dolphin (Game Gear version) 😂
oh, i know of a few Zelda games that are arguably worse, BUT they were actually made by a different company, for a system called the Cd-I.
"Link: the faces of evil" is the first one.
I was just saying yesterday that I don't really like Zelda 2. I don't think it's the worst Zelda game ever released, but it's very confusing and difficult to get around. Honestly though, it's not really as bad as it's made out to be.
*I hate the Iron Knuckles.*
dude, i never played zelda 2 but seeing this i can see the dificulty being that people dont chill out, half your death would be avoidable if you stopped thought and made a move. WHICH i would point games should be more like that instead of brianlessly move forward xd