Random: Pixel Artist Reimagines Zelda II For Game Boy Advance

I would buy this in without hesitation..... well as long as they fix the difficulty....And the flow, and the towns folk... and added a couple more dungeons.... but then I'm totally sold.

I’d buy this as well, looks great. I’m a Zelda honk, but never played II.

From a 8-bit to 32-bit system remake. But until then we will have to settle for the port on GBA. ⚔️

THIS is the Zelda that needs a remake. I love 2 but I wouldn't say no to a redesigned game.

I don’t like it. Everything is too chunky.

If any Zelda needs a remake it's this one! It has it's fans but there were always two groups of players. Those who loved it or those who hated it. Usually if you grew up with Nes chances are you were fond of this one. Even if you didn't understand what the hell they were trying to do with the drastic style change from overhead view to sidescrolling. It was different but at the time we thought cool a new zelda! We had no Idea and i don't think Nintendo did either of which direction the series would go at the time.

I love it! Zelda II deserves this remake.

Just Snesify it and add an option for easy mode for beginners and maybe maps for the dungeons and that would be perfect! Pixel art is definitely the way to go. None of that ugly 2D characters on 3D background crap. A reworked soundtrack would be cool but still keep the option to use the original music and sound effects.

I'll always love Zelda II even if it gets hate and is an oddball. It was tons of fun as a kid and helped to introduce me to lore through the first two (since Mario 2 was just a mash of randomness rom hack).

Wish they'd do something cool with the old ones instead of minor touch ups on games not even 10 years old and recycling them as "new" $60 products.

I believe one of these days it'll happen. It has to! Could even be announced this year. For all we know we might be getting a surprise reveal sooner than you think!

I loved this game always but it is hard to find the way. Too beat a enemy it is extremely hard. Dungeon music is pretty good. I have fun with looking to the gameplay. That art from Zelda 2 is pretty good. I loved. I want to check this game more but I do not have the time for it.

It looks cute, but the view is far too zoomed in to be playable.

I prefer Zelda 2 to the original, and I'd love to see a remake one day to make it more playable. Also, hearing that awesome dungeon music on modern hardware would be amazing.

Very beautiful. Like others have stated, a remake of Zelda II would be welcome. Not at full price, but a nice coat of paint with some QoL features and added bonuses/areas, and I'd be down for $40 remake.

That looks so professional and up to Nintendo’s standards.

I'm always surprised they never remade the NES Zeldas (barring the satellaview thing). They remade all of the Marios, Kirby's Adventure, Metroid, Fire Emblem 1, but not either NES Zelda.

Technically they remade Link's Awakening twice, which unless you count Master Quest makes it the most remade Zelda game, which is also very weird now that I think about it. Famicom Detective Club got a remake before Zelda 2 did. Which is a real shame because as someone whose not super into Zelda 2, I'd love to see a more modernized take on it like they did with Metroid: Zero Mission.

2 was the first Zelda game I ever played, so it was a pretty big deal to me. That being said, the game is admittedly very flawed. Great concept, arguably way ahead of it’s time, but we, the gamers, may not have been ready for that type of game at that time. And that difficulty level… woof!
I think a new Zelda game in it’s style could really be something special if done right.

The lady Link has intercourse with to regain his vigor looks awfully young there. Besides that a minish cap style remake could work. Shame we never got a sequel to it (a proper Zelda 3) or any other 2D games (except those A-M-A-Z-I-N-G CD-I games).

@Quarbit Yes, but also as someone who’s played Mega Man Zero, it could be even worse.

Has an early Camelot vibe to it, when they made stuff for SEGA.

It just looks like the Link design from Cadence of Hyrule: Crypt of the NecroDancer.

That's lovely, looks like an obscure game on the GBA called Lady Sia.

This made me realize that I really miss GBA-style graphics, lol, I hope there will be an indie revival as with 8-bit graphics.

Also Zelda II is easily the most underrated Zelda game. It's in fact one of the most influential NES games, being an inspiration for modern indie titles like Hollow Knight, Shovel Knight and Infernax.

@Gitface I am curious, what are the big flaws with Zelda II? The only major issue I see is the occasional difficulty spike (Death Mountain...)

Can't say this looks and feels like a Zelda game.

@NintendoJunkie Yes to everything, especially the difficulty. It ramps up way too quickly. And a lot of the deaths feel really cheap.

There should also be a way to recover health and magic more easily, as well. It just isn't right that there's no way to easily recover either in the original game.

And when it comes to the towns, have more stuff to do, and give the NPCs more dialogue than just "Hello," "Sorry, I know nothing," or the famous "I am Error."

This game deserves a facelift

I love it. Z2 deserves better than it got. While the original title did see a BS remaster of sorts overseas, we never got one here, and a reimagining of the original 2 NES titles would be a must buy for me. Great visual style here

This looks great. I would definitely buy this. The difficulty on the original was just fine. Later Zelda games were too easy overall. I’d like to see Zelda II get the Samus Returns treatment as well.

Okay, this game needs to be remade in this (or a similar style) lol. I enjoyed my time with Zelda II, but I highly doubt I would've beaten it on 3DS VC if I hadn't used restore points. Fix/smooth the difficulty, visuals, pacing, some text (but please leave in I AM ERROR - that's too iconic), and some of the dungeon design, and this would be a more accessible game.

Its a great game and should get a remaster of some sort. I found Metroid to be harder than Zelda 2 tbh. I always hit death mountain right after the first dungeon. that's the way to go. people say that the npcs don't give any information etc. but a lot of nes games and master system games were like that then. especially rpgs like say miracle warriors or faria etc.

@Truegamer79 There were basically no video game sequels at that point. Very few anyway. Nobody had expectations of what a sequel "should" be like. Look at SMB2.

Love Zelda 2 and just had a great time with Infernax. This art is pretty but it doesn’t give me the Zelda vibe or the doom and gloom feel of Z2.

@Beefcakeyamato Definitely true about NPC conversations. Playing the games back then, the cryptic nature of the clues from the townsfolk in Z2 and old hermits in Zelda was challenging but part of the fun, and it was all we knew. Part of that was also space limitations in data and translation. Even Final Fantasy 7, years later and on CD suffered great difficulties in translation and localization because the text boxes couldn’t fit as much English as Japanese.

@AstroTheGamosian To be fair, while the Error interaction is strange and unfortunate, you have to know his name is Error to finish a quest later in the game. They should have called him Errol or Eric, or any damn thing but Sue just to make it more obvious he was telling us his name.

Looks and feels too much like Souldier, Lady Sia, and Shantae but a Legend of Zelda: The Adventure of Link in 2D side-scrolling Metroidvania form isn't too bad.

@FantasiaWHT
Yeah that thing with Mario 2 was such a rip off. If only i knew then that it was never actually a Mario game to begin with. Still what we got had it's own charm and not knowing any better we all believed it was totally the legit sequel. I always loved the ending where it's all revealed to be a dream and you see Mario in bed snoring away! ☺

@chipia To preface, I love the game, so I am not just trying to knock on it here, but difficulty spikes and overly cryptic puzzles are going to make it difficult for newcomers to enjoy it. Also, cheap deaths can happen often, which can be very frustrating.
Part of the issue too is that the NES hardware really limited the game as well (cut and paste towns, samey looking dungeons, bland overworld map). This is part of the reason I think the game was really ahead of its time. The concept was very inspired, but imagine how much more this game could have been had it been designed for the SNES. Admittedly though, they did accomplish a lot with the game considering hardware limitations.

I didn't play this game until about 2010, on the GBA, no restore points... and I loved it! Great game that is severely underappreciated. I've beaten it multiple times since then.

In many ways it's similar to Dark Souls in that it is tough but can be mastered. The combat has quite a bit of nuance for such an old game.

Anyway, I love this visual update. I would definitely play a remake like that.

@AstroTheGamosian a remaster would be incredible. But I definitely would want to keep the "I am error" maybe he (Error) can give you a bunch of self aware quests.

It looks cute. A bit too 16 bit SE anime though.

@NintendoJunkie Nothing was wrong with any of that.

@chipia There isn't really any, besides 3 difficult areas. Modern gamers don't seem to understand that starting at the castle while saving all that you've accomplished is not a flaw, or that a challenging videogame is not a bad thing.

@sketchturner Its nowhere near as tough as dark souls. The challenge is somewhere in the middle.

The sad thing is that nintendo actually DID attempt a 3D-Remake of Zelda II - for the SNES no less: https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2014/07/ocarina_of_time_began_life_as_a_remake_of_zelda_ii_the_adventure_of_link

It looks like a $2 iOS game with ***** controls. I would want some with greater screen real estate before I buy a remake of Zelda II.

@Tempestryke I'm not saying it's as hard as Dark Souls. Some people think it's much harder, some would say it's much easier. My point is simply that some hard games have annoying, cheap difficulty (e.g., many NES games) while others are tough but can be reasonably mastered with practice. DS and AoL both fit into that as far as I'm concerned.

As someone who played and finished Zelda 2 both on the NES and on emulation, I would love a remaster that modernizes the game but still has that difficult combat.

Love Zelda II to death, and this looks beautiful! Can we see what the Lanky Man and the Full-Figured Woman look like in 16-bit?

@Tempestryke Oh man, I don't know... Dark Souls is a pretty tough game, but I honestly cannot recall any part of Dark Souls being as big of a nightmare as trying to get through Zelda II's Death Mountain without a walkthrough back in the day.

I would pay good money for this, but no deal if Error gets renamed.

@Deady Yeah exactly. or we had Nintendo power to help, Phone help lines. lol I never used them but my cousin did lol