| RolStoppable said:
You had no internet back when Zelda II got released. Additionally, there wasn't much game journalism during that time either, so if Zelda II was not critically acclaimed (something I doubt anyway), it only was because there were not many critics around. |
You must've forgotten that back in the day people talked about games in schoolyards, and Zelda II was never considered a great game, always considered some bastard child between Mario and Zelda, yet you couldn't stomp on ennemies. Forget critically acclaimed here, think popular opinion.
But I loved it.
@amp. Whether it took ideas from Alice in Wonderland or not, it was full of things we'd never seen in a video game. Giant mushrooms to walk on, hidden green mushrooms for a life, magic beanstalks, a pipe is not a rabbit hole. Also, Miyamoto is a romantic creator, he sees things where they weren't, and can create worlds nobody ever imagined. That's what was infused into Super Mario Bros.
