Comments on: Feature Review: Zelda II: The Adventure of Link

By: Lusipurr

Lusipurr — Sun, 26 Jul 2015 00:53:15 +0000

One thing I regret not mentioning in my review are the single-use (or near-single-use) spells, most glaring of which is the Thunder spell (only used to make the Thunderbird vulnerable to attacks). Lazy design. Very lazy.

By: Lusipurr

Lusipurr — Sat, 25 Jul 2015 03:11:37 +0000

@Lane: You missed out on five seconds of being told that you were a hero.

5-year-old you would have appreciated knowing this.

By: Lane

Lane — Sat, 25 Jul 2015 03:09:30 +0000

“If at first you do not succeed, try fire.”

This game was frustratingly obtuse to 5-year-old me. I got to the Thunderbird and quit.

By: Lusipurr

Lusipurr — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 22:38:06 +0000

@Bup: It was actually always intended to be a Zelda team, but it was done by a completely different team than the original LoZ team, and it was produced in a very, very short time so that it could follow up LoZ inside of a year.

@Rabid: It’s terrible, and the best that can be said is that Nintendo recognised it was a mistake and did not repeat the error.

I sat down today for my first few minutes of streaming with Milon’s Secret Castle. It is far worse than Zelda II.

By: RabidKitten

RabidKitten — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 22:14:56 +0000

I never liked it as a kid. I loved the original Zelda and couldn’t figure out why they took a step backwards for the Adventure of Link.

By: Bup

Bup — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 12:53:37 +0000

I can’t even understand why someone would think it was “good for the era.” I feel like it was developed kind of like Super Mario Bros. 2. It was a completely different non-Zelda game, but they just redid some of the sprites and pasted a Zelda logo on it.

By: Lusipurr

Lusipurr — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 20:10:47 +0000

@DM: Trust me, the nasty pizza was better.

@Ashes: It really is a pile of poo. Truly, Zelda Train Simulator is a far better experience (and more fulfilling withal).

By: Ashes3000

Ashes3000 — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 19:09:39 +0000

I’ve made it a point to track down and play every Zelda game in some form, even Zelda train simulator, except for this and CDi titles. Despite what people have told me about this being good for the era I still can’t bring myself to try it and after this review I feel justified.

By: Dancing Matt

Dancing Matt — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 17:04:11 +0000

The first time I rented Zelda II, dad and I stopped at an Olive Garden on the way back from Blockbuster. I was reading about it in a Nintendo Power strategy guide, and we ate the worst goat-ass-cheese pizza ever. That game and that pizza are forever correlated in my mind.

By: Lusipurr

Lusipurr — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 19:05:12 +0000

@LegendaryApple: Thou hast chosen WISELY.

By: LegendaryApple

LegendaryApple — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 19:03:57 +0000

Zelda is my favorite game series. I only played Zelda II for about an hour. Didn’t need it in my life.

By: Lusipurr

Lusipurr — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 15:53:39 +0000

@SN: 1) You’re an idiot.

2) When have you ever played through Zelda II?

3) See 1.

By: SiliconNooB

SiliconNooB — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 11:10:09 +0000

D for delightful! ;D

By: Mel

Mel — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 00:11:30 +0000

evilpaul? That’s a blast from the past…

Also Zelda 2 is a butt-pile.

By: Lusipurr

Lusipurr — Tue, 21 Jul 2015 20:29:13 +0000

@Ferchu: It is a poor game, but it is not *broken* or unbearable. It is entirely possible to complete it and to do so reasonably, although it would be tiresome so to do. D, not F.

By: Ferchu

Ferchu — Tue, 21 Jul 2015 16:38:49 +0000

so basically is not only bad but boring, episode one boring. I thought you were going to give the game a F though.

In the famicom era ( there was never a nintendo entertainment system era in Argentina) there was never a zelda game around, not the first or the second, but I don’t think it would have been possible to complete the first one since all the famicom games are in japanese.

Always a joy to read your reviews . I wonder what is worse, this game or the Vanilla Ice movie….

By: Imitanis

Imitanis — Tue, 21 Jul 2015 16:34:41 +0000

Having listened to Lusi playing the game twice, I actually feel like giving it a go myself. Then I remember I have good games still to play.

By: Bup

Bup — Tue, 21 Jul 2015 16:24:00 +0000

This game is crap. I couldn’t even stand watching Lusipurr play it.

By: Lusipurr

Lusipurr — Tue, 21 Jul 2015 07:47:35 +0000

@evilpaul: My stats were always within one level of parity (I did them sequentially as intended) and I never ran out of lives. So there.
Click the last picture in the article. :p

By: evilpaul

evilpaul — Tue, 21 Jul 2015 06:54:47 +0000

If I’m remembering this correctly from Retronauts… You guys are playing the Easy Mode gaijin version. The original masterpiece didn’t allow you to raise your HP, Magic, and Attack out of step with one another by more than one and if you ran out of lives it rounded your one or two stats down so all three were even.

By: Lusipurr

Lusipurr — Tue, 21 Jul 2015 06:42:26 +0000

@Wolfe: Ah, but you WERE doing something wrong: you were playing it!

By: Wolfe

Wolfe — Tue, 21 Jul 2015 06:37:03 +0000

No arguing that. Even back then I remember thinking that I just -had- to be doing something wrong. When I got the collection on the Gamecube years after I finally concluded that the game just hated players.

By: Lusipurr

Lusipurr — Tue, 21 Jul 2015 06:21:05 +0000

@Wolfe: The difficulty of the game is really astronomical at points. This is made worse by some TERRIBLE design decisions: dying three times erases any XP gain to the next level and sends the player back to the start point, and there are enemies that drain XP in addition to life.

Taking away XP is not, and never has been, a ‘fair’ mechanic, nor does it serve any purpose from a development standpoint. It’s just a dick move.

By: Wolfe

Wolfe — Tue, 21 Jul 2015 06:14:44 +0000

It was a baffling game to me as a child. Without Nintendo Power, I’d have had no idea what to do or where to go. All these years later I’m still not sure what to make of it. I couldn’t even say if I liked it or not. It was just… a curiosity I guess.

By: Lusipurr

Lusipurr — Tue, 21 Jul 2015 05:48:30 +0000

@Evilpaul: No! Bad! Bad Evilpaul!