joshua

Mike I think it's amazing that people will complain Zelda II is too difficult when I find the entire game easier than the Goron races in MM.

If a game over in a dungeon started you at the beginning of that dungeon, I think that would fix a lot of people's complaints about the difficulty, but personally I don't find it too difficult.

I would love to see a remake of it, for sure

Wind Waker, Tears of the Kingdom, Zelda II: Adventure of Link, Ocarina of Time, Breath of the Wild.

Even Miyamoto would disagree with your basic premise, that they did not take the series in the direction of Zelda II. The entire idea was a swordfighting game, and he said in interviews that he was trying to expand on that when they were making OoT. It would be absurd to suggest that OoT hasn't defined the concept, tone, style, and mechanics of Zelda games, and he said himself that he was trying to develop further the ideas in Zelda II. Case in point: iconic battle with Dark Link in S2, iconic battle with Dark Link in OoT.

Swordfighting is a big component, including learning new techniques, you go around villages talking with people who ask you to do favors for them and then give you rewards, tons of other classic Zelda tropes and mechanics; I would argue that it looks and feels more like a console Zelda game than the original, where the original informed the direction of the handheld ones.

I recently played every console Zelda game, and Zelda II was a joy. It's easily the best NES game I've ever played.

I don't understand the hate for it at all.