I’ve heard that Zelda II is actually pretty good, just a departure from the norm.
I usually take time to replay Ocarina of Time once a year, but life has been too crazy for me to get it done for a few years now. I do have the fancy 3D Remastered edition on 3DS though, and it’s decent, but I’ll miss the chanting in the Fire Temple ambience.
Play the n64 version on an emulator with the texture pack. The graphics are honestly better than the 3ds version and you still get the chanting.
I too try to play it about once a year.
Yeah, I actually have it on an emulator as well, but haven’t done much with it.
I’ve heard that Zelda II is actually pretty good, just a departure from the norm.
Zelda II is GREAT! It’s one of my favorite Zelda titles. People don’t like it because it’s HARD. Really hard. And there’s a lives system and when your lives are up you gotta start from the beginning point. and work your way back to where you were (keeping all items and such).
That actually probably sounds like more of a pain that it really is though.
The combat is incredibly fun! Nothing on the NES can touch that.
It’s not perfect, but it doesn’t deserve the flack that it gets. In fact it set in place many of the things the series is known for.
Also, Zelda II has the best music in the series. It’s only a bout 4 tunes, so it can’t compete with soundtracks like OOT or SS, but the themes beat all the other games in my opinion. Youtube the ‘palace theme’. It’s too good!
I’ve watched a few playthroughs of it and it honestly doesn’t look too bad, but Death Mountain being so early on probably threw a lot of people off. And there are definitely some iconic themes in the soundtrack!