I’ve spent my life listening to malicious people Zelda II: Link’s Adventure as “objectively the worst Zelda game” or make other similar disparaging claims. (OK, sometimes they charge an allowance for Spiritual song even worse.) Well, I’m here to say you’re all wrong. Zelda II It’s both a great game in its own right and one of the best Zelda Game.
Zelda II represents a time when big developers are still sometimes ready to seize big opportunities and with Zelda II, Nintendo abandoned the top-down action of the original game in favor of side-scrolling combat and exploration. Part of the reason it’s so interesting, though, is that these side-scrolls are interspersed with the movement that takes place on the top-down map. It’s a choice that both helps convey the vastness of Hyrule (the entire setting of the first game only takes up a small part of the game). Zelda IIof the world) and that forces us to take into account, for the first time, with Hyrule being a three-dimensional space, a space that we see from many angles. It’s bold, innovative and exciting.
On top of that, the battle itself, with its high and low attacks, downward swings and shield blocking, is tight and engaging, its arcades are a great challenge, and the way Link earns Gaining experience and power-ups as you progress is an early example of the now-popular action role-playing mechanics. In my opinion, the Zelda the series then reached a point, typified by games like Twilight Princesswhere the formula has become too rigid and lifeless, where freedom is vain and you are just a cog in motion that the designers have laid out for you. Zelda II stand on par with those games as a lively, adventurous adventure and sometimes I wish more developers were still willing to make such big changes with their top brands these days. .
