Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
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Zelda II: The Adventure of Link

Zelda II: The Adventure of Link

1987
Action, Adventure
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.

Developers:

Nintendo, Nintendo R&D4

AKAs:

Classic NES Series: Zelda II - The Adventure of Link, Zelda 2, Zelda II, Zelda II: Link no Bōken, Zelda II: Rinku no Bōken, リンクの冒険, 林克的冒險

Zelda II: The Adventure of Link

1987
Action, Adventure
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21 Jan 2018
70
54th
I AM MINI REVIEW.
03 Apr 2019
50
24th
A lot of good mechanics but ridiculous what they expected you to do just to beat the game. The (practically) unavoidable overworld enemies is a bad mechanic too. I used save states and enjoyed it overall, but I never would've even tried to finish it if I'd been playing it on a real console.
24 Oct 2018
49
30th
This was certainly different for a Zelda game. It isn't a bad side-scroller as far as the combat goes. The open world is pretty solid too. It's just too scattershot to consider it a great addition to the Zelda franchise.
04 Feb 2018
66
33rd
The mechanics - incorporating overworld and side-scrolling with some in-town exploration - are shockingly different than the original, which explains the well-tread, historical feeling of alienation. But like all underdogs, there's a charm in its weirdness. Worth a revisit.
23 Jan 2018
60
57th
I don't know what it says about a game's legacy when the most common refrain is "not that bad," but it, well, isn't. there's a lot to like here. in fact, there's a lot MORE to like than the first installment of the series, and the idea that this is somehow a black sheep in the franchise seems misguided when many of the more recent installments take inspiration from this more than the original game. the fluidity of the combat makes it fairly fun to this day.
10 Aug 2026
50
2nd
Old ahh game, dark link is cool
20 Dec 2023
70
13th
Why is Zelda II the franchise’s embarrassing cousin? Because it reveals the repressed truth of the heroic fantasy. Stripped of Campbellian cheer, its grueling difficulty isn't a design flaw, but the obscene superego injunction to enjoy your own suffering. When a villager announces "I AM ERROR," he exposes the artificiality of the digital matrix. The game forces a traumatic confrontation with our own desires. Every polished sequel since is merely a defense mechanism against its raw honesty. - Full Review
04 Dec 2019
0
2nd
Did not like this as a kid.walk here go into a level rinse and repeat.
23 Sep 2019
3
20th
Oh no why.
01 Oct 2018
80
59th
One of the only Zeldas I've ever really liked and it probably has to do with the fact that it had that side-scroller dungeon crawling and was more of an RPG. The normal Zelda formula doesn't generally do it for me.
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Developers:

Nintendo, Nintendo R&D4

AKAs:

Classic NES Series: Zelda II - The Adventure of Link, Zelda 2, Zelda II, Zelda II: Link no Bōken, Zelda II: Rinku no Bōken, リンクの冒険, 林克的冒險
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