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bouzane said:
StarOcean said:

Though it is definitely not my favorite Zelda, I've never seen it as overrated. Is it highly regarded amongst a lot of people?


Not particularly but any praise is too much for such a mediocre game. It kills me how millions of people play it just because it is Zelda but superior titles from the era get overlooked.


Zelda 2 is one of those games where it's become "cool" to say you like it. You know how that goes. Game X comes out, flops, 10-20 years later, a bunch of hipsters find out about it being a flop and decide they want to be "cool" and "underground" and claim the game is really some misunderstood masterpiece when in reality, it's just not all that great.

Zelda 2 wasn't great when it launched (I am old enough to have played it back then) and it's not great now. It's an ok game, but like the fake US SMB2, it's an odd ball game that doesn't know what the hell it wants to be lol.

Thank god for Miyamoto and co. realizing their error and fixing the formula with ALTTP.