Thread by @LuigiBlood

I did it, for the first time. #NES #NintendoSwitch

Now, my opinion on this game: I like it but it's highly flawed for many reasons:
I needed a walkthrough quite a couple times because NPCs just don't give enough hints and I really hate how some things are just randomly placed without any logic.

I did play the majority of Zelda 2 without a guide and I did really listen to as many NPCs as I could for hints and definitely that helped a lot. And then there's parts where you need more magic and you don't know where to get them because you have to search every tile.

The game is also extremely difficult, way above my skills would allow, so I definitely abused rewind sometimes.
When the game wasn't confusing, I kinda enjoyed it.

The most difficult part of the game are genuinely enemies with a shield. All I ended up doing was aiming their head because it just felt impossible otherwise, sorta making the sword fighting either tedious or boring.
There's potential, but it is not as fun as I thought.

I did try to beat Dark Link legitimately. Quite a few times. Then I cheapened out because I just kinda wanted to finish the game at this point. Also I hate how the final dungeon has two potential paths, and after going through 15 minutes of hell, it's just a dead end. Nice.

It's an odd game, riddled with what I consider to be design flaws, it is also very hard. I think the swordfighting definitely needs improvements to make it interesting, there's a lot of gain if you could make enemies tired or something.