Did it deserve the black sheep status?
>>12156736Maybe grey sheep status. It is incredibly punishing, way more than it needs to be. The early game especially.
Yes. They made the same mistake with Zelda 2 that they did with Super Mario 2 (The lost levels not Doki Doki Mario Madness). They took an easy game for children and betrayed the target audience by adding a mild challenge. People who want to have their skills tested do not play Nintendo games.
>>12156742Making the candle the first item hurdle is INSANE. You start the game and almost right away you’re fighting invisible enemies. Yes, the only dark rooms you are required to traverse to get the candle are easy, but you will likely die tons of times in the hard ones before you figure that out. Also, before you get the healing spell, the risk-reward ratio to do anything is way too high.
>>12156746Yes, it does test your skill. It also tests your patience for trial and error, and dying while backtracking.
>>12156751The dungeons are a fun challenge, very tough but mostly fair. The overall game flow and cryptic NPC hints are just badly designed. The PC port improves this a lot without lowering the difficulty.
>>12156746You know better than that. Zelda 1 could actually be a tough game to complete.
>>12156736its the best game on the nes
>>12156736Why don't you go read one of the 10,000 other times this has been discussed on the internet? Fuck off.
>>12156736"Black sheep" was always just a surface level analysis convenient when writing small blurbs.
It's not a black sheep, it's a black horse.
The last boss was bullshit
is there a ROM hack that makes the sword one pixel longer?that's all i want.
>>12156736Heh based OP is a man of culture
>>12156736It's an alright game. Would like it better if you could get different weapons to use like the other entries.>>12156758>The PC port improves this a lot without lowering the difficulty.I almost forgot about that. Can it still be downloaded?>>12156782Why are people on this board so allergic to discussion? If you have nothing to contribute then stfu.
imagine if this was just some other NES slopware called 'Elf Adventure' or something, and didn't have the 'Zelda' game on it lol
>>12157012>If you have nothing to contribute then stfu.OP contributed nothing with his original post. Why should I feel compelled to interact with him?
>>12156746you weren't born
>>12156742People keep saying that when in reality, it just has a steep learning curve. The game DOES get punishing though when you tackle the gauntlet to the great palace and the palace itself.
>>12156736i loved that game so much back in the day. it was a huge departure from the legend of zelda and when i first played it i was unhappy but then it grew on me. it was fucking hard. this game is an example of where the term 'nintendo hard' came from. so, as you got better at fighting and solving the puzzles, it really made you feel powerful. you weren't just pushing blocks around and wandering the overworld anymore, you were in vicious sword fights with armored knights. it was an action game with just the right amount of rpg elements. only the best could get to the end and beat it. i did it, but i had a lot of help from friends, family, and strategy guides.
>>12156748Kek. It's either farming those fucken chuchu blobs to refill the piddly amount of life you have or die while you're out and about doing your thing.
>>12157030Then people would be looking at the studio making it and trying to find other games made by them.
>>12156746I hope this is trolling.
>>12157012>Why are people on this board so allergic to discussion? If you have nothing to contribute then stfu.Zelda II is discussed and discussed and discussed and discussed here. ONE PERSON complained (with good reason) about /vr/'s endless hunger for more, more, more digestion of the immortal question of whether Zelda II is good or bad. Others continue to discuss, for the thousandth time. You can wait a couple of weeks and make this thread again and they'll do it all over again for you. The curse is unbreakable.Make a thread here about a good but unpopular game, and it might just sink to the last page and fall off the board with little response. Then repeat your complaint about allergy to discussion. It will fit that situation much better.
>>12156736>>12156868
>>12156782Because, unfortunately, OP just wanted to talk about his cringe fetish pornography on /vr/.OP likely fucked off back to /v/ or /vp/ since nobody was interested and talked about retro vidya.
>>12156736It was considered another Zelda game h til the eceleb era pushed this narrative.
>>12157564>mfw it's not even good porn>just the same type of loweffort garbage spread by Roblox groomersI fucking hate gen z so much.
>>12157564I don’t get it. I’m not a zoomer tiktok por. addict which I’m assuming this is a reference to.
>>12157463If it's not Dork Soles, it's not a game - rather, it's some retro curiosity that should have a YouTube video made about how bad it is, meanwhile you actually play real, rewarding games with a riveting story like Daemon Shultz or Dork Soles Too.
>>12157605Zoomie tiktokers think toilets are sexual objects - especially if their mom used it right before them.
>>12156736No, that's a narrative they came up to promote aonumaslop (the semi slow death of the series).
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>>12157615I know you're shitposting, but considering the current age of porn shit, you're not far off.
>>12157624The series is certainly dead (along with gaming as a whole), but there's no other entry like Zelda II. That's the definition of black sheep. The term doesn't imply something's good or bad, just different.
>>12157653Porn addicts shit up every board.
>>12157473>complains that people discuss old games on the forum dedicated to old games>complains that people don't wanna talk about unpopular gamesGood bait.
>>12156736at a basic level it's very intriguing as an action game, feels like a translation of mario into action as much as it is zelda into a sidescroller. the way that actually plays out over the course of the game with different enemy encounters is another story though.
>>12157653you're gonna tell me there's a zelda 2 porn game and it's NOT about fucking the healer lady? or at least zelda or the fat lady like come on
>>12158769actually wait i have a genius idea. make a zelda 2 romhack where instead of fighting you fuck your way through the palaces and fuck the bosses with your magical cock. obviously the fireball spell will be cum instead. call it leisure suit link
>>12157658"Black sheep" is a member of a family or group who is regarded as a disgrace to it. Blockbuster hits that were extremely well received like Zelda II are no such thing.
Play the hoverbat versionhttps://hoverbat.itch.io/ziiaol
Zelda II has always been awesomealso The Battle of Olympus
>>12156748>Making the candle the first item hurdle is INSANE. You start the game and almost right away you’re fighting invisible enemies.This.I might not phrase it like that, but it's a seriously questionable design. There's almost no opportunity to explore and accomplish anything before the game is already fucking with you.>>12157963That guy wasn't complaining he was just stating truth.>>12158787Sometimes "Black Sheep" just means different, the one that doesn't fit in with the rest. By that definition, AoL definitely qualifies.
>>12158780call it Link's Quest for Ass and we may have a firm handshake on our hands
>>12156792Right, because it's so different from all the other games in the series. There's a fundamental difference between the top-down 2D games and the 3D games, but a lot of people are too mentally retarded to notice. And to be fair, they do use similar formulas. But even the dumbest drooler can see that AoL doesn't play like any of the others. Whether the game itself is good or not is irrelevant, it just doesn't fit in with the rest.
>>12156736The game would be fun if your main weapon extended more than 8px in-front of your character. That and the shitty hit detection.
>>12156736WTF is that?That's not an enemy in Zelda 2
>>12156736zelda is the most unoriginal derivative crap ever made, all of it, a jap coporation latching onto old 8 bit western fantasy games and making them gay and on an overpriced cartridge amnd then ripping off other better jap game designers to rub salt into the gay they created
>>12156736The short dicked sword was butt ugly and just 2D was stupid. Links Awakening solved that better by having 2D cellars that were fun to play and otherwise bird perspective.
>>12156736Lives in an adventure game are retardedSidescrolling adventure games are also retarded
>>12158769They're called nintendtrannies for a reason.
>>12156746I'm sure this is a troll, but most people should know that it used to be a common phrase in the NES/SNES era that a game could be "Nintendo hard."
>>12158803This is a good version, but because there is so much added and so many fundamental changes to the game, I would outright say that playing this is not at all equivalent to playing Zelda 2. If you only played Hoverbat's "Link is Adventuresome," you unironically did not beat Zelda 2.
Zelda Zero
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>>12156867Good luck. I've been wishing my whole life for my sword to be one pixel longer.
>>12156736This game is actually really bad.
>>12156736since nothing ever came close to it ever again, probably.
bumping because of the sega faggot spammer
>>12162289who do you think made this thread?
>>12158769porn artists don't play the game, the amateurs just find whatever and put it out there.
Zelda 2 is a good wonderboy-like.
>>12163681Monsters from the game do appear on the video though....
>>12160992It's an action game
>>12156736>Did it deserve the black sheep status?yes. i never liked it as a kid and finally played thru it a few years ago and dont plan to again.
>>12162568NTA
Im enjoying it with the Redux patch>inb4 you didn't beat the gameDon't care. Its actually fun now. The original is just a bit too frustrating
>>12161163Yeah but I think this was more referring to third party and Arcade ports, not sure for First party
>>12166717how is the patch? my biggest grip with the original was monster spawning even when you don't move and combat triggering even if you get hit on a road (with the battle being empty), losing xp when you restart and maybe the lack of checkpoint at the beginning of a dungeon.
>>12166724Pretty good. Id read the patch notes to see if its for you. It doesn't fix all of those things.
>>12156736zelda is a shit franchise, generally way overrated, 2 was particularly crap
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>>12156736That boss was hard as fuck
>babydick swordPASS
