I’ve been determined to finally beat Zelda II and determine that I would do it without save states and without a guide.

I know Zelda II is considered a black sheep somewhat but I really think in some ways it’s more fun than the original although I’d still pick Zelda 1 over II.

  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    1 year ago

    You really are a hero. I got stuck in Death Mountain and just haven’t gone back. That is not an easy game.

    • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      14·
      1 year ago

      I could never find Bagu and get Riverman to open the bridge to get that far as a kid. I actually found the hint accidentally trying kill the blue blob in town. Lol.

      Zelda II definitely was one of those games where they made it hard on purpose to lengthen the game. I’m doing some research for my review of this game and the director admits as much.

      • mercano@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        1 year ago

        There was a lot of that in that era. Arcade games had financial incentive to be hard as players would tolerate to eat as many quarters as possible. The home ports carried this difficulty over, and many console originals picked up on it. (See Battletoads.)

        • somethingsnappy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          1 year ago

          Battle toads can eat a schlong. Actually good games like kid icarus, etc were just as hard but actually fun to play.

        • ch00f@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          1 year ago

          For the home market, there was an incentive to make the game hard to beat before you had to return it to Blockbuster.

    • thecrotch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Death mountain is the hardest part of the game by a wide margin, weird that it’s like 1/3rd of the way through