Do you think Zelda II is a bad game?

[CladInShadows]

Great game! Played and finished it as a kid. Yes, it was very hard. It took a lot of practice and patience, but it was beatable. By a kid. On an actual NES. Still have my original cartridge.

Also, I think a lot of negativity you hear on this game is in retrospect. People look back on it with the added perspective of an entire library of Zelda games which have built up certain gameplay mechanics and styles. So it's easy to look back on it now and say that it was the black sheep of the series. But when it came out, we didn't have a good Zelda game and a bad Zelda game. We just had two very different Zelda games. Some liked the first one better, and some liked the second one better. But both were well-loved.