>game is radically different from the series' usual gameplay, yet officially not designated as a spin-off>it's one of the best games in the franchisePost 'em, /vr/.
>>12841762Stop shitting up the board with your low effort zelda 2 spam.
>>12841768https://4chan.org/janitorapp>>12841762Sonic R, the racing game
>>12841768? This is the only Zelda 2 thread I've made this year.
>>12841775It's some schizo accusing everyone of spamming threads that haven't been spammed at all. New auster gimmick maybe.
>>12841762>radically different from the series' usual gameplayThere was only 1 Zelda game before it
>>12841762Resident Evil 4 and it's the worst.
>>12841919Resident Evil Survivor... and it's the best.
>>12841762Terrible example because it’s only the second game in the series, similar to Simon’s Quest. They were still experimenting and figuring things out.
>>12841762>>12841772>>12841775>>12841778Hello Auster.
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>>12841909And yet it's different from everything that comes after it.
>>12841762>it's one of the best games in the franchiseOpinion discarded.
Does Parasite Eve count
>>12841996>not designated as a spin-off
>>12842103Okay, but that’s not the premise of the thread. See >>12841938
Here’s a non-shitpost answer just to get this thread going in the right direction. The first Yoshi’s Island game is officially titled as Super Mario World 2.
>>12842159The premise of the thread is being different from the usual gameplay. Being different from games later in the series, indeed, is still being different.
>>12842175Nope, because that’s only in hindsight. This is the retro board.
>>12842176Also: Majora’s Mask would be a better example of a later entry that departed from the established Zelda formula.
>>12842162Would Final Fantasy II for the nes count? The leveling up system they used was not done again in the series? I know FFII stat gaining went into the SaGa series.>Hate for Zelda IIYou are brain dead if you think Zelda II is a bad game, you probably also think FFVII is good and not an entire pile of rotten dog shit.
>>12842178Maybe? It still has the core mechanics of OoT though? Man, I should replay Majoras Mask but the intro going through the three days sucks ass.
>>12842181It has the core mechanics as in it re-uses assets, but Majora definitely has a different structure by comparison to ALttP/OoT.
>>12842176>Nope, because that’s only in hindsight.Irrelevant. The wording is clear.
>>12842180I don’t think you can count the second entry in any long running series because back then game devs were just throwing out ideas at the wall to see what would stick.
>>12842186Defeats the thought exercise of the thread imo. Devs making a sequel back then had no clear idea of what these big franchises would eventually become.
>play and enjoy Super Mario Bros., a side scrolling platformer, for the Nintendo Entertainment System>buy Super Mario Bros. 2 with the expectation I'll get more of that>get Mario Chess>"well you see there was no norm back then, the expectation was that you completely changed genres every game"
>>12842193>"well you see there was no norm back then, the expectation was that you completely changed genres every game"yeschad.jpg
>>12842193>>12842195Yeah, but we didn’t know at the time that SMB2 Japan existed.
>>12842193The fuck are you talking about? SMB2 was also a sidescrolling platformer.
>>12842162No wonder it sucked balls.
>>12842187I think you shouldn't clog up a potentially interesting thread with pedantry.
>>12841762I'm a zoomer and... zelda 2 is my favourite zelda game, not many games really made you feel like you're going on a real quest like this one did. I think the difficulty compliments it, definitely not near as cryptic as the original zelda but not that easy either. It's a good blend, and I like how the NPCs actually make the world feel alive unlike the last game.
>>12842597How is it being pedantic? The game devs had only made one previous Zelda game when they were working on Zelda II. They didn’t know what the overall series was going to be like yet at the time. Like I said, Majora’s Mask is a better example.
>>12842712On top of that, I even provided another example here >>12842162
Final Fantasy XI is another obvious one. It’s an officially numbered entry despite being an MMO.
