Topic: I'd like to see a 2D Zelda platformer

It was originally released as a bonus within the Link to the Past GBA game. It has to be a spin-off.

4 swords got a 3ds/dsi reboat.... it had wireless 4 player play, also it had some retro couseses that u could play..... and it was FREE honoring the 25th anniversary of zelda! They could've picked almost any 2d zelda game they wanted too, that success in my eyes

Someone was actually arguing in this thread that JRPGs are not RPGs at all? Now that's absurd.

Anyhow, the pinnacle of 2D Zelda platforming fun was Four Swords Adventures, such an amazing game (in many ways, my favorite Zelda of all time):

I dont think it would work. It could be done, but if it's similar to Zelda 2 then it wouldnt work well. The problem with the second Zelda game was that they tried to combine what made the first Zelda great along with RPG elements, and it just didnt fit.

Zelda II was awesome. I feel sorry for those who can't appreciate it. Actually, I don't feel sorry at all.

You might be having a bad case of nostalgia there.

This. Zelda II is great.
It's not automatically for everyone, but typically the people that bash on it do so because either (A) it's different, or (B) it's "too hard!!!11!!!" and they suck at it.

I'm currently experiencing a good case of shpydarism!!!

It's very easy to make a difficult game. To make a game where the difficulty doesnt feel cheap or artifical is the challenge and should always be the main aim. Many people find Zelda II frustrating, and much of that is sadly for the wrong reasons. Respawning outside the temple after every death and having limited lives (needing to restart the whole game) are used to artificially extend the time you spend playing and overall feel like very cheap mechanics. You can try and say that people who dont like a game for this reason simply "suck at it", but this immature reasoning cant be used to defend every game out there - cheap difficulty or not.

There's no problem with a game being different - but Zelda II tried to combine it's own qualities with RPG's, and in the end didnt master either. The standard 'Zelda experience' is stronger in every other Zelda game, and the RPG aspects are weaker than in other RPG's for the stystem.

Nostalgia doesn't make a person's opinion invalid. Differant people just like differant things.

I'd like to see another Zelda game with gameplay similar to The Adventure Of Link. It would certainly be interesting, as long as they address some of the problems that turned people away from Zelda II. I like the second NES game but I'm not about to say it hasn't got its faults.

Then what does that make Kirby Super Star? :3

I can't beat Thunderbird, so it sux

Sounds like a battle of the birds to me! C'mon, Lz - your bird powers far surpass any of those possessed by lame Thunderbird

Not really. He can shoot fireballs at me!! and they hurt

heres a handicap for you people who couldn't beat the game

Genres are relatively pointless in this day and agae, where the lines between two different ones are being constantly blurred, and in some genres they're all so incredibly different that trying to lump them all under the same label is useless.

Mostly B. lol

Aren't Zelda II: The Adventure of Link and Link's Awakening good enough to be platformers for you?

The LoZ games are really great in my eyes.... Alot of them are..... The First one, Ocarina of Time, and Majora's Mask! I think this 3 games we delt with a lot of RESPECT I just beat Ocarina and Majora's masks they are GREAT games. I love the invention to 3D that those 3D games give Zelda....... Its amazing! IMO I am currently playing DX and the Original LoZ... Both Retro and modern Zelda games are great in my eyes Except the CDi ones..........

And I want Unicorns to be real. Cmon, lets get real now.