OTBWY on 23 January 2018
| vivster said: It didn't help that they completely changed the gameplay from the first one but I believe even as a standalone game it's not very good. |
There was no standard formula for Zelda yet. They still used top down DQ style gameplay, but added rpg elements (logical step from DQ) and added side scrolling stages to A: make battles more engaging and B: platform gams were the most popular games of that era. It was completely logical at the time. Now if we look at 3D Zelda, from a certain point of view, it was a big change from the top down style of previous iterations. I like to think that Zelda II is such a game, that is comparable to the 3D games of Zelda. It was just a decade earlier.
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