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When I was a kid, my mom did NOT take to video games. My dad did though. Generally though, he liked to watch us play and he'd try his hand a bit but let us get really good at all the running, jumping and shooting. But when we rented Zelda II from a video store, my dad got very caught up in it. I enjoyed it but my dad understood it on more levels. Before I knew it my mom had bought it as a gift for him and my dad was showing me and my younger brother how to advance and understand the secrets of the game. We had never played the original Zelda. This was really the first true exploration/adventure RPG type game, yet had great fighting controls/mechanics for its time as well. The strategy involved forced you to make interesting decisions, especially when it was time to level up. When I accidentally deleted his series one night, he was heartbroken and let me know about it. But he made his way back through the game. It was clear the advanced strategy would have made it very tough for my 7-year old mind to grasp and my dad was paving the way for me and later my brother, to advance in our own respective series. Completing the game was a long term ordeal that could not have been done without the save feature and months of playing through the game. Beating the game felt very special. Even if my dad figured it out first and I was just following behind him in my series after watching him do it. We were never exposed to the original Zelda as kids. When I got older, I discovered it via emulator, and it was a really cool game, but I felt like it was limited because the top-down view was all that was available. The fighting system seemed very limited compared to the side scrolling, jumping, ducking high-low sword/shield battles of Zelda II. There were no towns, no sense of community, no direction, just a barren wasteland you were supposed to sort out on your own. I did eventually grow to enjoy and respect it for the classic that it was. But when I tried to warm my dad up to it, he could not get into it. He watched me reveal and solve some of the game's great secrets and enjoyed it as a spectator but had no desire to start a series of his own.He actually loved Zelda II and had nothing for the original Legend of Zelda. And I sort of understood. Yet none of my friends who loved old school NES ever played II or had anything but disdain or confusion for the game. Go figure.
Nice story. I had The Legend of Zelda first and then a friend loaned me this one. I like actually this one better. Have you tried to mods of Adventure of Link on emulators? Some of those are great, so I would suggest you to take a look.
billny33 I think a lot of what games you like depends a lot on them hitting a certain point of your life. I started on Atari and still can't get enough of Ice Breaker. But I still love a lot of newer games too. I simply cannot get into any Zelda after ALTTP (which is far and away the best of the whole series). Newer Final Fantasy's don't cut it for me either. They really peaked at VI.
Milky Lamb I personally wouldn't call it my favorite Zelda game, but my co-author gives me crap because I actually love this game! It was the first game I ever got with my own money; I was twelve at the time and saw it in a pawn shop. I've had an obsession with the Zelda games for most of my life, so I got this game, and despite its flaws (all games have flaws, really), I have loved it ever since.
+Milky Lamb Mine as well. It's tough as nails. A natural progression from the first. Actually, I really only like the first two games in the series. All the others are essentially a repeat of the SNES game, which I enjoyed...but not in the same way I did the first two. The first two were far more groundbreaking.
@@jdurham23 That makes sense right? so here's the thing, there's a bit of an old tradition of japanese game developers making what's called a gaiden game. it's when they take a successful game, and then instead of making a direct sequel which everyone loves, they change the graphics, genre, music, and basically everything to create a total shitshow of a game. Fire Emblem 2 and Mario bros 2 are both examples of this. The thing is, once a game franchise has been going successfully for a few decades the developers have to find new ways to twist the franchise and keep it fresh. If you do something like changing the setting too much (like turning a medieval fantasy into a steampunk fantasy) you risk splitting the fanbase, but if you go back and toy with mechanics from a previous failed game in the series, you can make something new that still feels like it fits in the series with typically little overall criticism. Two examples: 1. In mario bros 2 you can play as mario, luigi, peach, or toad. they each have different jump heights, run speeds, and luigi has a slight flutter and peach has a little float. In Mario 3D World (which is now a critically acclaimed game) they ported this mechanic over. Peach's turnips in smash bros and the shy guy enemies in paper mario are two other things which came from mario 2 (also birdo and a whole bunch of the series staples) 2. Fire Emblem 2 is widely regarded as the worst fire emblem game ever made, this is very impressive in a series of 16 less than perfect games which even fans criticize brutally. However, a few years ago Intelligent systems decided to remake their worst game for 3DS. The thing is, they somehow managed to stay true to the original game, whilst modernizing the music graphics and gameplay and wound up creating possibly the best fire emblem game ever made. It was a huge success. It reached #1 highest game sales in japan and #7 in the US of games across all platforms, that's pretty huge for a 3ds remake of a crappy nes game. Recently, with breath of the wild, Nintendo sought to find new mechanics and gimmicks to implement into the world of zelda, for much of the game they took inspiration from other open world titles and the original zelda, but they did add 1 mechanic from zelda 2: a jump button. Zelda 2 has level ups, a magic meter with spells, a different hp gauge, even attack power increases. Even if they don't directly remake zelda 2 you could still see aspects of the game seep into newer zelda titles. There was also a recent remake of Link's awakening (also a weaker zelda title) that saw decent success. So I don't think the idea is completely foreign to nintendo. It would be a trash to treasure situation, but i think it's possible and Zelda 2 has some untapped potential. (Like c'mon, Zelda as an Action rpg? it could be so cool.) Sorry for making such a long comment.
Wow! Lots of memories as a young teen with this game. My brother, friend, and myself having all-nighter NES sessions. Pizza, soda, school talk, and finally falling asleep as the sun came up. To be young again...aaah.
SNES ones too. I never understood the people that preferred SEGAs sound chips over Nintendos. I had NES, Master System, Genesis and SNES and I thought Nintendos were vastly superior. Obvious SEGA has some good OSTs but overall Nintendos were way better. Strictly nostalgia is the only argument for SEGA.
@@Zazzaro703 no dude genesis had better bass than that sythesized snes stuff. Just compare the genesis megadrive ost to the snes and tell me the difference.
The intro song, just has something... mysterious, haunting and tragic. It gets under your skin, in your subconscious. I love it! It always made me feel I could input some sort of secret code for something awesome, but alas! XD
This game is incredibly difficult and incredibly rewarding when you win. To see Link use the 3 triforces on Zelda to wake up not in a cheesy cutscene but using the in-game graphics at the main temple was cool. And that gets followed by the staff roll at 17:11 and the credits. That tune gets me. That tune says yes, we understand how epic and how hard this game was. You just completed something really special. Hero's fanfare.
1:50 love that part In my quest to play every Zelda game in order, I was worried about jumping into Zelda 2 because of what the community thought of it, but I gotta say, I warmed up to it real quick. I enjoyed the first game, but this feels like an improvement in every way like a sequel should be. I'm using a walkthrough for the first two games because I don't really wanna spend weeks on end finding all the secret areas of the game that are completely hidden and blended with the environment, but the combat itself I find is challenging but very doable. Once I move on to a link to the past I'll play the game completely on my own.
14:45, minus the echo, is my ringtone. The first few seconds of the Great Palace theme are like the final moments of a person's sanity. Right before the madness loops over and over in their thoughts.
@@bradleylilleston8559 umm, you need to do a little more research. This was the shit storm of the entire series, and many peole hate it. I run a retro gaming page and have proof in the pudding from a recent post.
@@JasonsDigitalStuff The first game is just as obtuse as Zelda II can be, which I feel like is swept under the rug when people compare the two. People like to single out Zelda II because it has the side-scrolling segments, which I *personally* think are pretty rewarding if you can master the mechanics. But, to each their own.
Always loved the Title screen track to this. Always wanted to hear it in better quality and here thy is. Now off to the temple theme to this as well.... see yall Links on the other side !!!
Those goose bumbs at the title music. My God, we can be so happy, that we grown up at that time. Sure, everyone says that about his childhood. I just think we can appreciate that high-end-4k-with-10-graphic-cards-in-SLI-mode-Games, much more, than a kid which gets a Full HD smartphone at the age of 5 =)
I love this game. I actually find it easier to go back to than the first game in a lot of cases. The first game is easier overall, but this game has a lot of charm that I think a lot of people ignore because it's different, which is kind of sad.
Brings back all the childhood memories. Used to play this game a lot with my mom in the 90s, and it's one of the main inspirations for the person I have become.
Man...so many memories. It's crazy that I now write music for film, TV, and video games using the most advanced synthesizer technology, yet when I listen to these scores again, they still hold up. It's probably the nostalgia, but also the clever writing/themes/8-bit tones. I don't really know for sure, but this is some dope s%$!# ;p Btw, love the Overworld BGM!
Awesome and beautiful soundtrack from one of the most underrated Zelda games ever created. Some parts of this soundtrack were actually making me shed tears. Wow, just wow.
I LOVE Link music!! It is soothing and empowering at the same time. Takes me back 30 years when I would hear it as my son played the game. He is now 37 years old with 3 children. Granny from New Jersey
We can't escape the past. Every now and then it haunts us and it make us want to go back and enjoy those amazing moments when we were young and nothing else matters but our youth and our video games.
This is a fine job you have done! All aspects are great. Audio quality, description with timelinks included, Bashing of Nintendo for their goofy practices. This has it all.
I used to rev up my friends TV from the 1980's like a lawn mower to play this game on NES in 1990. Seriously the TV power button had to be pressed in rapid succession in just the right way to get going. Back then it was all about Now & Laters, chocolate Hostess pies for a quarter, and Die Hard on VHS.
Love the first level theme at 2:17 - corny as it may sound, it brings back that sense of adventure when you’re first exploring the whole imaginary zelda world...
Our step-mom gave this to me and my brother as a Christmas present when we were kids. This was such a great game that we played to completion one summer vacation.
I grew up with an NES in the most literal way possible. I have memories (and pictures to prove them) of me as a baby holding an NES controller in my hand, Mario on the TV behind me. My grandmom and great uncle were massive gamers and especially loved Dragon Warrior and Zelda. My memories of earliest childhood were of Mario, Dragon Warrior, and Zelda. These games taught me how to read, believe it or not. We had Zelda 1 and 2 and I can't say I prefer one over the other. 2 gets so much flak as people consider it the black sheep of the series. Personally, I love the emphasis on 2D action and platforming. Finding the hidden zones littered across Hyrule made it truly feel that I was exploring and traversing the wild mountains, forests, and oceans I saw on the map screen. My grandmom preferred Zelda 1 but my great uncle, her brother, preferred 2. I would start and play 1 and 2 over and over and over, only beating them very rarely. But I remember spending hours simply staring at the cover art. I loved the detail the Master Sword (the Magic Sword as it was called in 1) had, with its hilt inlaid with rubies and wrought metal. But I think the opening screen is what defines adventure games to me. A slow crescendo building to that triumphant title theme, the Master Sword plunged into a mountain outcropping, the night sky over a vast sea behind it. That image stole me away. I hear the opening theme and I'm three years old again, ready to venture into Hyrule to save Princess Zelda. I'm a bit older now, but I'd like to think Little Me would see a hero in who I am today. Well, I hope so at least.
Na, NES cut off sound when it reached maximum graphic capabilities, and sometimes had slowdown, both of which happened a LOT in the Megaman series up until god's gift that was Megaman X.
Ich lasse den Soundtrack öfter mal im Hintergrund mit laufen, wenn ich im Büro arbeite und erinnere mich an meine Kindheit. Alle paar Jahre krame ich das Spiel aus dem Schrank und spiele es komplett durch.
Cant forget the music. Was a very good nes game at the time. Most people who like it either played this one first then progrrssed to link to the past, or are already link fans. Not many people like this game "just because" lol
Having come into the series with Ocarina of Time at about 10 with passive memories of that game with the elf guy on SNES- (ALTP in my young mind) I finally played this and the original Zelda on the Gamecube collection. I just couldn't get into them. I've gone back to the original many times trying to like it but never gave this one even a fair chance. Fast forward to now. I have a 7 yo daughter who has fallen in love with classic and arcade gaming. Watching how she goes about a lot of things I realized how closed minded my play style was on a lot of games and have been going back to them with a new mindset myself. When the NES classic re released I dove right into Zelda II and suddenly it is becoming one of my favorites! There is just something about how everything was handled in it that I really really like. The music obviously helps too.
"Flute 1" is actually the Fairy/Raft fanfare. "Unused 1" is the fanfare for when you use Spell to make the building appear. I'm also sad you didn't include the FDS version of the Battle theme, which was actually reused in The Minish Cap as the mid-boss theme.
As a child of the eighties I bought the first two Zelda games right off of the shelf and enjoyed them both, Nintendo GC offers a variety pack that includes the first 3 Zelda games with demos of the sequels that followed, if you are a GC collector and love Zelda I highly recommend it, that is if you can find it! I paid 50$ for it used back in 2009, don't know what it is worth now, probably more than 50!!
You can probably get the VC versions cheaper now, assuming you have a system to play them. The GC collectors disc is only good if you own a Gamecube anyway.
Underrated soundtrack to an underrated and misunderstood game; love it dude! Thanks! You did a superb job on the recreation, and even that is an underrated compliment!
There is something about this game that I actually really love. I kinda like how this one was partially a platformer. And the music was great. As weird as it may sound, but I like the graphics. I say this because it gives the scenery and characters some ambiguity so that I have freedom to imagine what they may look actually look like. The bosses and enemies are what I always liked to draw in school. The same can be said about the first one, but there’s something more to this game that I cannot quite describe.
You should do the JPN version of this. It's less reverb-y and has a completely different overworld battle theme(that was later used in Minish Cap as the miniboss theme)
I remember the first time I beat this game on my NES...about a year and a half ago I'd say. Since the save feature doesn't save extra lives, and I'd racked up a ton, I had to leave the NES on for, like, three days... My copy isn't in that pristine of a condition, but I buy my games on a budget, so....sometimes that happens. Anyway, man, the Thunderbird boss had me pretty cheesed off...I was actually surprised at how angry I got, though it was probably concern over my NES (especially since I'd recently, at that time, accidentally fried the original board, and had to get a replacement - cautionary tale of "always discharge the NES before opening it for modding or cleaning" - that was not fun, but at least I found another loose board that was the same revision as the one I borked...). Anyway, this really sounds good.
A friend of mine back in the nes days completed this game on a cartridge with the save option broken!!!(the cartridge had some internal damage).He had the game wihout the possibility to save since the first time he played it(the game was from another person).He managed to complete the game that way! after many tries,playing from the start every time!when he reached the last boss he was so trained that he beated him in one try right under my eyes.
The heck? Not to sound like a hipster, but I’ve been saying this is the best Zelda game for ages, and now people are starting to agree? Zelda 1-Pretty awesome. Zelda 2-The music has this weird, sad, dark vibe, like an 80s Crystal Castles. The graphics aren’t cutesy. The monsters feel like monsters, they’re a total PITA. Oh, and there’s a mountain called Death Mountain that lives up to its name with insanely tough axe wielding lizard dudes. All of these things combined made this game, at least to seven year old me, feel more real than any other NES title.
One of the favorite nes games hands down I can go through this start to finish from playing so much. Never know why no one liked it. Still my favorite.
WiiGuy , i've drank a couple of beers while listening to your soundtracks , and after mûre reflexion i think that Nintendo should get their shit together and include some of those amazing tunes in their games!! Espacially Zelda 2 OST so much melancholy and hope in those tracks its amazing!! Sry for the typos im drunk and french xD ! Nice Channel buddy!
Excellent game from start to finish! If you're finding it difficult, a little bit of grinding will help. If you're still finding it difficult... you probably find most video games difficult.
The Great Palace sounds like the normal Temples, notes, timing, etc., in every way, but the notes for each "bar" seem to be in reverse. They still use the same repetitions, but each individual 'set' of notes seems like the Temple's in reverse. (Of course, simply hitting reverse won't automatically make it become the temple theme, but still.) It seems like the notes 'climb' for each repetition, instead of descending for each repetition.
Naah, there are a good thousand probably at least a hundred thousand that love this game, just because it's not loved like the rest doesn't mean it doesn't get love ;3
I love it! My first NES game together with Super Mario Bros. Ah, those were the days ;D But damn, it was hard! I couldn't beat the boss before shadow link without Game Genie :/ Great soundtrack, great game!
Not by a long shot the only one. I'm sure it's weird to play for anyone who wasn't around when it got released but it's really a good adventure. To me one of the best in the series.
I remember playing the final battle against your shadow for weeks with my friends trying to figure out how to beat him... finally out of desperation we just kept jabbing his shield until he backed up against the wall and then he would jump over which allowed us to thrust up to hit him. We just kept repeating this over and over until we finally beat him. It was kind of ironic that when we "gave up" we accidently discovered a strategy to beat him.
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When I was a kid, my mom did NOT take to video games. My dad did though. Generally though, he liked to watch us play and he'd try his hand a bit but let us get really good at all the running, jumping and shooting. But when we rented Zelda II from a video store, my dad got very caught up in it. I enjoyed it but my dad understood it on more levels. Before I knew it my mom had bought it as a gift for him and my dad was showing me and my younger brother how to advance and understand the secrets of the game. We had never played the original Zelda. This was really the first true exploration/adventure RPG type game, yet had great fighting controls/mechanics for its time as well. The strategy involved forced you to make interesting decisions, especially when it was time to level up.
When I accidentally deleted his series one night, he was heartbroken and let me know about it. But he made his way back through the game. It was clear the advanced strategy would have made it very tough for my 7-year old mind to grasp and my dad was paving the way for me and later my brother, to advance in our own respective series.
Completing the game was a long term ordeal that could not have been done without the save feature and months of playing through the game. Beating the game felt very special. Even if my dad figured it out first and I was just following behind him in my series after watching him do it.
We were never exposed to the original Zelda as kids. When I got older, I discovered it via emulator, and it was a really cool game, but I felt like it was limited because the top-down view was all that was available. The fighting system seemed very limited compared to the side scrolling, jumping, ducking high-low sword/shield battles of Zelda II. There were no towns, no sense of community, no direction, just a barren wasteland you were supposed to sort out on your own. I did eventually grow to enjoy and respect it for the classic that it was. But when I tried to warm my dad up to it, he could not get into it. He watched me reveal and solve some of the game's great secrets and enjoyed it as a spectator but had no desire to start a series of his own.He actually loved Zelda II and had nothing for the original Legend of Zelda. And I sort of understood. Yet none of my friends who loved old school NES ever played II or had anything but disdain or confusion for the game. Go figure.
Great story. Thanks for sharing. :)
Cool story bro.
Awesome story 😥
Nice story. I had The Legend of Zelda first and then a friend loaned me this one. I like actually this one better.
Have you tried to mods of Adventure of Link on emulators? Some of those are great, so I would suggest you to take a look.
billny33 I think a lot of what games you like depends a lot on them hitting a certain point of your life. I started on Atari and still can't get enough of Ice Breaker. But I still love a lot of newer games too. I simply cannot get into any Zelda after ALTTP (which is far and away the best of the whole series). Newer Final Fantasy's don't cut it for me either. They really peaked at VI.
Believe it or not, this is actually my favorite Zelda game.
Milky Lamb it is mine too.
Milky Lamb I personally wouldn't call it my favorite Zelda game, but my co-author gives me crap because I actually love this game! It was the first game I ever got with my own money; I was twelve at the time and saw it in a pawn shop. I've had an obsession with the Zelda games for most of my life, so I got this game, and despite its flaws (all games have flaws, really), I have loved it ever since.
Milky Lamb Um....same here I guess
It's hard to decide, but I played this one more...
This is my jam
+Milky Lamb
Mine as well. It's tough as nails. A natural progression from the first. Actually, I really only like the first two games in the series. All the others are essentially a repeat of the SNES game, which I enjoyed...but not in the same way I did the first two. The first two were far more groundbreaking.
Imagine if they fully remade this game. It could be so badass.
Wow 👏
That is a great call
The game totally sucks. Why would a remake be good?
@@jdurham23 That makes sense right? so here's the thing, there's a bit of an old tradition of japanese game developers making what's called a gaiden game. it's when they take a successful game, and then instead of making a direct sequel which everyone loves, they change the graphics, genre, music, and basically everything to create a total shitshow of a game. Fire Emblem 2 and Mario bros 2 are both examples of this. The thing is, once a game franchise has been going successfully for a few decades the developers have to find new ways to twist the franchise and keep it fresh. If you do something like changing the setting too much (like turning a medieval fantasy into a steampunk fantasy) you risk splitting the fanbase, but if you go back and toy with mechanics from a previous failed game in the series, you can make something new that still feels like it fits in the series with typically little overall criticism.
Two examples:
1. In mario bros 2 you can play as mario, luigi, peach, or toad. they each have different jump heights, run speeds, and luigi has a slight flutter and peach has a little float. In Mario 3D World (which is now a critically acclaimed game) they ported this mechanic over. Peach's turnips in smash bros and the shy guy enemies in paper mario are two other things which came from mario 2 (also birdo and a whole bunch of the series staples)
2. Fire Emblem 2 is widely regarded as the worst fire emblem game ever made, this is very impressive in a series of 16 less than perfect games which even fans criticize brutally. However, a few years ago Intelligent systems decided to remake their worst game for 3DS. The thing is, they somehow managed to stay true to the original game, whilst modernizing the music graphics and gameplay and wound up creating possibly the best fire emblem game ever made. It was a huge success. It reached #1 highest game sales in japan and #7 in the US of games across all platforms, that's pretty huge for a 3ds remake of a crappy nes game.
Recently, with breath of the wild, Nintendo sought to find new mechanics and gimmicks to implement into the world of zelda, for much of the game they took inspiration from other open world titles and the original zelda, but they did add 1 mechanic from zelda 2: a jump button. Zelda 2 has level ups, a magic meter with spells, a different hp gauge, even attack power increases. Even if they don't directly remake zelda 2 you could still see aspects of the game seep into newer zelda titles.
There was also a recent remake of Link's awakening (also a weaker zelda title) that saw decent success. So I don't think the idea is completely foreign to nintendo. It would be a trash to treasure situation, but i think it's possible and Zelda 2 has some untapped potential. (Like c'mon, Zelda as an Action rpg? it could be so cool.)
Sorry for making such a long comment.
This game doesn’t Suck!
Always got chills hearing the intro song to this game :) so many good memories.
Wow! Lots of memories as a young teen with this game. My brother, friend, and myself having all-nighter NES sessions. Pizza, soda, school talk, and finally falling asleep as the sun came up. To be young again...aaah.
NES osts are something that will remain in history forever
THE SOUNDTRACK OF MY YOUTH
Certain ones.
SNES ones too. I never understood the people that preferred SEGAs sound chips over Nintendos. I had NES, Master System, Genesis and SNES and I thought Nintendos were vastly superior. Obvious SEGA has some good OSTs but overall Nintendos were way better. Strictly nostalgia is the only argument for SEGA.
@@Zazzaro703 no dude genesis had better bass than that sythesized snes stuff. Just compare the genesis megadrive ost to the snes and tell me the difference.
@@theodorebennefield2030 see what I mean 😂
The intro song, just has something... mysterious, haunting and tragic. It gets under your skin, in your subconscious. I love it! It always made me feel I could input some sort of secret code for something awesome, but alas! XD
I never really cared much for the gameplay, but the music sweeps me away almost every time.
I found a mint copy of this at a thrift store for only $20 a couple weeks ago. Needless to say, I was pretty thrilled!
This game is incredibly difficult and incredibly rewarding when you win. To see Link use the 3 triforces on Zelda to wake up not in a cheesy cutscene but using the in-game graphics at the main temple was cool.
And that gets followed by the staff roll at 17:11 and the credits. That tune gets me. That tune says yes, we understand how epic and how hard this game was. You just completed something really special. Hero's fanfare.
No kidding, I had a lot of troubles with the game as a little kid xD
***** I think it was because the game was nothing like the original title, and the difficulty was a turn off for quite a few people.
1:50 love that part
In my quest to play every Zelda game in order, I was worried about jumping into Zelda 2 because of what the community thought of it, but I gotta say, I warmed up to it real quick. I enjoyed the first game, but this feels like an improvement in every way like a sequel should be. I'm using a walkthrough for the first two games because I don't really wanna spend weeks on end finding all the secret areas of the game that are completely hidden and blended with the environment, but the combat itself I find is challenging but very doable. Once I move on to a link to the past I'll play the game completely on my own.
9:02 that music brings back memories , even frustrating ones.. those damn shield knights used to drive me insane lol
only thing worse in the game ->red lizard
The birds in the final dungeon are sooo impossible.
Right or those stupid red colored temple guards. Agh super frustrating with their awesome mow hawks
14:45, minus the echo, is my ringtone. The first few seconds of the Great Palace theme are like the final moments of a person's sanity. Right before the madness loops over and over in their thoughts.
Is it just me or is that like a sound really stupid
I appreciate how the timestamps got added to the progress bar now after all this time I've had this in my playlist
One of my all time favorite Zelda games and definitely my favorite back on the nes.
My favorite NES game. Legend!
Legend was a video game!? O:
*****
Legend was a game. It was on Snes, though.
I think he's calling the game a legend like its legendary!
Nah I was referencing the Legend movie, after all these years, that joke is still stupid :P
I really like this one too. Sure it's hard but there are harder NES titles out there. This has a unique atmosphere.
This was my favorite Zelda game.
its not snes xD
Mine too!👍
Why can't we get a new Zelda game in Zelda 2's style?
probably because it sucked.
The music Especially!!!
@@JasonsDigitalStuff lol said no-one ever, you clearly do not know what you are talking about.
@@bradleylilleston8559 umm, you need to do a little more research. This was the shit storm of the entire series, and many peole hate it. I run a retro gaming page and have proof in the pudding from a recent post.
@@JasonsDigitalStuff The first game is just as obtuse as Zelda II can be, which I feel like is swept under the rug when people compare the two. People like to single out Zelda II because it has the side-scrolling segments, which I *personally* think are pretty rewarding if you can master the mechanics. But, to each their own.
9:02 Palace Theme 1 (best track)
Eric Alan agreed. I’ll never ever forget this even now 30 years later. Haha
Thank you!
Also has a really good remix in Smash Bros
Always loved the Title screen track to this. Always wanted to hear it in better quality and here thy is.
Now off to the temple theme to this as well.... see yall Links on the other side !!!
This music is amazing.
Those goose bumbs at the title music. My God, we can be so happy, that we grown up at that time. Sure, everyone says that about his childhood. I just think we can appreciate that high-end-4k-with-10-graphic-cards-in-SLI-mode-Games, much more, than a kid which gets a Full HD smartphone at the age of 5 =)
The 9:02 Palace Theme is so awesome. I'm glad it got some love in Smash Bros!
I love this game. I actually find it easier to go back to than the first game in a lot of cases. The first game is easier overall, but this game has a lot of charm that I think a lot of people ignore because it's different, which is kind of sad.
The dungeon music was outstanding.
I feel it's because of how cryptic the original is.
I'm getting chills! It's been so long since I heard this music in its clean form. Wow, this really takes me back.
Brings back all the childhood memories. Used to play this game a lot with my mom in the 90s, and it's one of the main inspirations for the person I have become.
Man...so many memories. It's crazy that I now write music for film, TV, and video games using the most advanced synthesizer technology, yet when I listen to these scores again, they still hold up. It's probably the nostalgia, but also the clever writing/themes/8-bit tones. I don't really know for sure, but this is some dope s%$!# ;p
Btw, love the Overworld BGM!
I AM ERROR!
Dr. Earthworm Robotnik I AM BAGU!
+Kanto Of Onett I CANNOT HELP YOU.
+Dr. Earthworm Robotnik SORRY. I KNOW NOTHING!
HAMMER... SPECTACLE ROCK... DEATH MTN.
+Dr. Earthworm Robotnik ZZZ...
Awesome and beautiful soundtrack from one of the most underrated Zelda games ever created. Some parts of this soundtrack were actually making me shed tears. Wow, just wow.
14:45 the most underrated final Boss music ever.
5:37....fantastic
This music is so addictive. I play it over and over when I am working at my desk.
terribly underrated zelda/zelda ost. . .
Would love to hear some of these tracks in some modern titles.
The Title Screen/Prologue is still one of the coolest tunes ever.
I LOVE Link music!! It is soothing and empowering at the same time. Takes me back 30 years when I would hear it as my son played the game. He is now 37 years old with 3 children. Granny from New Jersey
We can't escape the past. Every now and then it haunts us and it make us want to go back and enjoy those amazing moments when we were young and nothing else matters but our youth and our video games.
This is a fine job you have done! All aspects are great. Audio quality, description with timelinks included, Bashing of Nintendo for their goofy practices. This has it all.
Man thanx for all the video you put on YT.... all these 8 bit theme mean a lots for me :D
I finally beat this game! It was a long and hard journey. :)
Congratulations! It's not that hard once you figure out how to play it. The key is to level up your life and magic.
Greatest _Zelda_ soundtrack of all time. So many feels.
That great temple music is great, however, I still have nightmares about those bird knights in that temple. Dear god they were brutal.
The tune @ 2:18 has been stuck in my head for years. I've never forgotten it.
I used to rev up my friends TV from the 1980's like a lawn mower to play this game on NES in 1990. Seriously the TV power button had to be pressed in rapid succession in just the right way to get going. Back then it was all about Now & Laters, chocolate Hostess pies for a quarter, and Die Hard on VHS.
9:02 is where its at 8)
indeed
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Those orange guards that duck and swipe at you from all over the place.
Miss this one so much, so many hours on this one. Great music.
My first Nintendo game had to beg my dad for Xmas, i think this was better than part 1
it was. but part 3 snes a link to the past came along. (still the best damn zelda game 2-3)
I still play this game. Love it!
Love the first level theme at 2:17 - corny as it may sound, it brings back that sense of adventure when you’re first exploring the whole imaginary zelda world...
Our step-mom gave this to me and my brother as a Christmas present when we were kids. This was such a great game that we played to completion one summer vacation.
I grew up with an NES in the most literal way possible. I have memories (and pictures to prove them) of me as a baby holding an NES controller in my hand, Mario on the TV behind me. My grandmom and great uncle were massive gamers and especially loved Dragon Warrior and Zelda. My memories of earliest childhood were of Mario, Dragon Warrior, and Zelda. These games taught me how to read, believe it or not.
We had Zelda 1 and 2 and I can't say I prefer one over the other. 2 gets so much flak as people consider it the black sheep of the series. Personally, I love the emphasis on 2D action and platforming. Finding the hidden zones littered across Hyrule made it truly feel that I was exploring and traversing the wild mountains, forests, and oceans I saw on the map screen.
My grandmom preferred Zelda 1 but my great uncle, her brother, preferred 2. I would start and play 1 and 2 over and over and over, only beating them very rarely. But I remember spending hours simply staring at the cover art. I loved the detail the Master Sword (the Magic Sword as it was called in 1) had, with its hilt inlaid with rubies and wrought metal. But I think the opening screen is what defines adventure games to me. A slow crescendo building to that triumphant title theme, the Master Sword plunged into a mountain outcropping, the night sky over a vast sea behind it. That image stole me away.
I hear the opening theme and I'm three years old again, ready to venture into Hyrule to save Princess Zelda. I'm a bit older now, but I'd like to think Little Me would see a hero in who I am today. Well, I hope so at least.
I just played through this last weekend again, love this game. What a great era the 8 bit was. I probably had the most fun during that time period.
It was weird hearing the overland music without the lag that always seemed to happen at a particular part.
So that slowdown wasn't intended?? My life is a lie.
Na, NES cut off sound when it reached maximum graphic capabilities, and sometimes had slowdown, both of which happened a LOT in the Megaman series up until god's gift that was Megaman X.
Ich lasse den Soundtrack öfter mal im Hintergrund mit laufen, wenn ich im Büro arbeite und erinnere mich an meine Kindheit.
Alle paar Jahre krame ich das Spiel aus dem Schrank und spiele es komplett durch.
That title theme still gives me an overwhelming amount of nostalgia..
Cant forget the music. Was a very good nes game at the time. Most people who like it either played this one first then progrrssed to link to the past, or are already link fans. Not many people like this game "just because" lol
Love this game and music. So underrated. One of my faves
Ok. SUBSCRIBED! Dude! This is one of those game I would just LISTEN to! Thank you so much!
Thanks a lot! You're very welcome! :)
If all else fails use fire
Manuel García You need the all caps in this comment.
DODONGO DISLIKES SMOKE.
I AM ERROR.
traduction approximative : Si tout foire, fout l'feu.
ça m'fera toujours marré ahah
When did a game or a movie have a truly memorable soundtrack like this masterpiece?!
Also, fuck Death Mountain.
2:17 over world !!
Link is here! back to the my childhood when I'm playing.
I missed so much. Wish I got to play and listen to these amazing games.
emulators are an option.
ThatGarfleeKid Yeah you can still play this stuff, heck I might go home now and do it.
I still dream of a LoZ reboot where they somehow merge the first 3 Zelda games into one..... as those are the most bad-ass!
The Great Palace and Palace themes are two of my favorites on the NES.
the stereo sound so good.Especially the bass..damn
*subscribed
This game had, by far, the absolute best house theme of any Zelda game.
I still remember the 1st time I rented it as a kid; Ganon's laugh ("Game Over" screen) still haunts/scares me to dis day! 🎮⏳️😱😅
The indoors themes sounds like they inspired the Pokemon overworld theme.
This is one of my favorite town themes of all time. Not sure why but it just... Resonates
Even though Shigeru had nothing to do with this, I still love it! Must of play it at the mall back in 88 when I was 4
F*cking wonderful. It's like a timetravel back in time. A lot of blood, sweat and tears. But also fantastic moments. NES, what a great machine.
I can get sweat and tears, but blood? Man, intense times X3
I loved this soundtrack and still do. It was one of the few Shigeru Miyamoto games that did not have Koji Kondo do the music to them.
Having come into the series with Ocarina of Time at about 10 with passive memories of that game with the elf guy on SNES- (ALTP in my young mind) I finally played this and the original Zelda on the Gamecube collection. I just couldn't get into them. I've gone back to the original many times trying to like it but never gave this one even a fair chance. Fast forward to now. I have a 7 yo daughter who has fallen in love with classic and arcade gaming. Watching how she goes about a lot of things I realized how closed minded my play style was on a lot of games and have been going back to them with a new mindset myself. When the NES classic re released I dove right into Zelda II and suddenly it is becoming one of my favorites! There is just something about how everything was handled in it that I really really like. The music obviously helps too.
"Flute 1" is actually the Fairy/Raft fanfare. "Unused 1" is the fanfare for when you use Spell to make the building appear.
I'm also sad you didn't include the FDS version of the Battle theme, which was actually reused in The Minish Cap as the mid-boss theme.
Always loved 7:57
i remember my dad telling me i was too young for this game when i was 3
now it's one of my favorites
As a child of the eighties I bought the first two Zelda games right off of the shelf and enjoyed them both, Nintendo GC offers a variety pack that includes the first 3 Zelda games with demos of the sequels that followed, if you are a GC collector and love Zelda I highly recommend it, that is if you can find it! I paid 50$ for it used back in 2009, don't know what it is worth now, probably more than 50!!
You can probably get the VC versions cheaper now, assuming you have a system to play them. The GC collectors disc is only good if you own a Gamecube anyway.
This sounds incredible!
Underrated soundtrack to an underrated and misunderstood game; love it dude! Thanks! You did a superb job on the recreation, and even that is an underrated compliment!
The soundtrack is actually pretty well-respected.
There is something about this game that I actually really love. I kinda like how this one was partially a platformer. And the music was great.
As weird as it may sound, but I like the graphics. I say this because it gives the scenery and characters some ambiguity so that I have freedom to imagine what they may look actually look like. The bosses and enemies are what I always liked to draw in school. The same can be said about the first one, but there’s something more to this game that I cannot quite describe.
I bought this for the 3DS VC. Time to have fun and getting frustrated loll
You should do the JPN version of this. It's less reverb-y and has a completely different overworld battle theme(that was later used in Minish Cap as the miniboss theme)
The reverb has nothing to do with the region of the game he just added that effect for some reason
good old memoeries , i used to play this game a lot on my ps1
i play it using an emulator , i got like 600 nes game on a single ps1 cd
that's because you can eumulate gba or any low spec console in a psp including n64 and ps1
***** there is no online with the Wii and hasnt been since GameSpy shut down. Most of the Wii network used GameSpy.
I remember the first time I beat this game on my NES...about a year and a half ago I'd say. Since the save feature doesn't save extra lives, and I'd racked up a ton, I had to leave the NES on for, like, three days... My copy isn't in that pristine of a condition, but I buy my games on a budget, so....sometimes that happens. Anyway, man, the Thunderbird boss had me pretty cheesed off...I was actually surprised at how angry I got, though it was probably concern over my NES (especially since I'd recently, at that time, accidentally fried the original board, and had to get a replacement - cautionary tale of "always discharge the NES before opening it for modding or cleaning" - that was not fun, but at least I found another loose board that was the same revision as the one I borked...). Anyway, this really sounds good.
A friend of mine back in the nes days completed this game on a cartridge with the save option broken!!!(the cartridge had some internal damage).He had the game wihout the possibility to save since the first time he played it(the game was from another person).He managed to complete the game that way! after many tries,playing from the start every time!when he reached the last boss he was so trained that he beated him in one try right under my eyes.
That sword is cool.
The heck? Not to sound like a hipster, but I’ve been saying this is the best Zelda game for ages, and now people are starting to agree? Zelda 1-Pretty awesome.
Zelda 2-The music has this weird, sad, dark vibe, like an 80s Crystal Castles. The graphics aren’t cutesy. The monsters feel like monsters, they’re a total PITA. Oh, and there’s a mountain called Death Mountain that lives up to its name with insanely tough axe wielding lizard dudes. All of these things combined made this game, at least to seven year old me, feel more real than any other NES title.
God how great is this
One of the favorite nes games hands down I can go through this start to finish from playing so much. Never know why no one liked it. Still my favorite.
WiiGuy , i've drank a couple of beers while listening to your soundtracks , and after mûre reflexion i think that Nintendo should get their shit together and include some of those amazing tunes in their games!! Espacially Zelda 2 OST so much melancholy and hope in those tracks its amazing!! Sry for the typos im drunk and french xD ! Nice Channel buddy!
Excellent game from start to finish! If you're finding it difficult, a little bit of grinding will help. If you're still finding it difficult... you probably find most video games difficult.
I love the retro sound effects that they had in these games
The reverb is not in the original game it was added by him
The Great Palace sounds like the normal Temples, notes, timing, etc., in every way, but the notes for each "bar" seem to be in reverse. They still use the same repetitions, but each individual 'set' of notes seems like the Temple's in reverse. (Of course, simply hitting reverse won't automatically make it become the temple theme, but still.) It seems like the notes 'climb' for each repetition, instead of descending for each repetition.
Or, perhaps it uses a different key, or maybe it's using major instead of minor. I don't know enough about music to be able to really tell...yet.
The title theme is my favorite piece of Zelda music.
Am i the only person who actually liked this game a lot.
Naah, there are a good thousand probably at least a hundred thousand that love this game, just because it's not loved like the rest doesn't mean it doesn't get love ;3
I love it! My first NES game together with Super Mario Bros. Ah, those were the days ;D But damn, it was hard! I couldn't beat the boss before shadow link without Game Genie :/ Great soundtrack, great game!
No.
i liked it a lot. More than the original Zelda in fact.
Not by a long shot the only one. I'm sure it's weird to play for anyone who wasn't around when it got released but it's really a good adventure. To me one of the best in the series.
One of my favorite games and also one of the hardest I've played.
Great soundtrack, underrated game. It just came between 2 classic Zelda titles
Classic game music 🎶🎵 love it!!
I remember playing the final battle against your shadow for weeks with my friends trying to figure out how to beat him... finally out of desperation we just kept jabbing his shield until he backed up against the wall and then he would jump over which allowed us to thrust up to hit him. We just kept repeating this over and over until we finally beat him. It was kind of ironic that when we "gave up" we accidently discovered a strategy to beat him.