Zelda II: The Adventure of Link

14 Jan 1987

Family Computer Disk System Wii Wii U Nintendo 3DS Nintendo Entertainment System
N/A rating
245 want
829 played
46 playing
26 reviews
Developer
Nintendo R&D4
Publisher
Playtronic
Nintendo

Tags

Single player Side view 🎮 Platform 🧙 RPG 🏹 Adventure 💥 Action 🐉 Fantasy 🏖️ Sandbox
Summary

Zelda II: The Adventure of Link is the second major installment in The Legend of Zelda series and the direct sequel to the first game. Like its predecessor, it features dungeons that must be located in the overworld and searched for an item that will prove useful. However, the game presents many very important gameplay changes compared to the previous one, affecting especially the movements and the combat. Moving around the world map involves encounters with enemies that take place on a side-scrolling playfield rather than the top-down perspective for which the series became known.

First playthrough of the game is with the Redux which improves QoL aspects of the game.

I dreaded playing this one for a while as I am traumatised by paying so much money for this as a kid and being stuck in the first 5 mins. But having a retro hand-held + hearing about this hack was a perfect time to revisit this.

Zelda 2 is honestly not too bad for the first half at least. Everything is balanced just right and you feel more powerful as you collect new items and level up. It's the latter part of the game where the quality falls badly. Pretty much everything is coming at you and sometimes it's straight up unfair. I would definitely recommend using a map guide for this game. There's some value to playing this game however as a lot of the series' roots stem from this game. And it's cool seeing all the things established here that were referenced in the later games.
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20 Jun 2023
** REMASTER QUEST LOG **

▪︎ Hearts: 6 (2/3)
▪︎ Magic Power: 5 (1/3)
▪︎ Atk Lvl: 6
▪︎ Magic Lvl: 5
▪︎ Con. Lvl: 7
▪︎ Max. Lives: 4

▪︎ Spells: Protect, Jump, Heal, Fairy (Cuccoo)
▪︎ Sp. Attacks: Downward Thrust, Upward Thrust
▪︎ Items: Red Candle, Power Glove, Raft, Hammer, Fairy
▪︎ Treasure: Godess Statue, Mirror, Bagu's Letter, Io Flower
▪︎ Sp. Slimes Killed: 7
▪︎ Palaces Completed: 3

▪︎ Deaths: 66
▪︎ Game Overs: 7
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08 Feb 2024
Brutal game. Had to permanently rage-quit on the last boss. Almost beat the game
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05 Apr 2023
I kinda like it more than zelda 1. Still bad but the combats fun.
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26 Nov 2023
Just don't like it at all :(

4/10 Buntys: Bad
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12 Jul 2023
-El estilo de combate y progreso es raro, no por ello es un mal juego, sin ninguna duda puedo decir que este juego está infravalorado.

-The style of combat and progress is weird, that's not why it's a bad game, without any doubt I can say that this game is underrated.
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04 May 2023
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