[Nephilim]

So I was at Target today, and saw "Legend of Zelda 2" for Gameboy Advance on sale super cheapo - under $10 - so I picked it up, hoping to see what the early buzz about Legend of Zelda was all about.

This game sucks. It's more like a platformer than anything else, which is fine except that I suck at platformer games. But the worst part is that the RPG-like elements are so player-hostile, it's practically unplayable. You need hundreds of experience points to go up a level, and the stuff I'm currently fighting typically yields about 2 xp per critter - many foes you fight yield no xp at all. That much is fine, but whenever you save your game to turn off your Gameboy Advance, your xp towards the next level are reset back to zero! What is up with that? It's hard enough ekeing out the time to play it at the lower levels - when I start needing even more xp to go up a level, I'm not going to be able to advance in the game because I won't be able to carve out a long enough block of time to level completely from scratch in one sitting.

I guess I'm discovering why Zelda 2 is cluttering up the cheapo bins. I'm all for bringing back old games for new platforms - especially ones I missed the first time around - but they really should use the new tech to at least make things like user interfaces better. You can leave the original graphics and stuff for nostalgia value, but fix the bad human-interface design problems.
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[Gooseman]

Zelda 2 is often thought of as the worst in the series. Nobody actually knows why Nintendo bothered to go 'platform' style...

Play Zelda 1 instead. Thats cool!

[Terry]

Or Battle of Olympus! It's a game built with the Zelda II engine that for some reason Zelda fans hate, even though it's probably one of the best NES RPGs ever.

I think Nintendo should have had better sense than to rerelease one of their weakest games. Just my opinion though.
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[Rainer Deyke]

I liked Zelda 2. However, I played it on an emulator, which took most of the frustration out of it. Out of the Zelda games I played, I consider Majora's Mask the weakest one.

[Ren]

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[Nephilim]

[tcaudilllg]

I made it all the way to Dark Link. On the NES.

I didn't win of course, because the AI is quite a trick. My cousin narrowly won, so I saw the ending anyway and stopped trying.

The secret to leveling up is to kill the flying unicorn heads. They grant something like 20 points a pop, I think?

[Nephilim]

[tcaudilllg]

...It's not an RPG... really....

Suit yourself. It gets better, though.

[Sirocco]

I remember getting to the next to the last dungeon and thinking "I really don't want to bother with this crap." That's about the time I bought my first SNES game, so... :)

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[Verious]

I think one of the best side-scrolling RPGs (I'm using the term RPG loosely) I've played is Simon's Quest for the NES.

[Rainer Deyke]

I've tried Simon's Quest, and found it to be so insanely difficult that I was unable to make any progress even on an emulator. Too bad, because the game really looked interesting.

My vote for the best: Feyna's Quest, unless I'm not allowed to vote for my own game, in which case I'd have to go with Sorcerian.

[Ren]

I totally agree about simons quest. In fact, when I saw it in the shops nearby I couldn't stop myself from buying it. Well, it was the best on the NES anyway, the later castlevania's on the GBA were better graphically while essentially being the same game. "Oh what a horrible night to have a curse..."
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