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I really enjoyed this. Bravo to the creator! The difficulty was pretty extreme (I made heavy use of the save state feature in my emulator). As a kid I really enjoyed the original Zelda 2 on the NES and lamented that Nintendo never made a sequel with a similar feel (they obviously went a different direction). I stumbled upon this recently and I'm amazed at the level of detail. A lot of twists and challenges, lots of death defying jumps from platform to platform, caves that almost felt like mini levels at times, creative use of pitfalls, and much more. This hack has far more depth than the original. If you enjoyed the original, and are able to beat it without too much difficulty, then you will thoroughly enjoy this hack.

This hack is totally excellent. COMPLETELY different than the original. Items have been moved to different places. I don't want to give away any of the surprise item locations but it's really great right from the beginning. It's definitely hard but not as hard as Zelda II parts II or III. You see some really crazy interesting side scrolling screens and it's a little intimidating at first but with a little practice it gets much easier. Very interesting twists on things such as the things people say in town, quests to get spells and items, town layouts, changes to the way enemies move like slow moving birds that speed up when you jump to the same height as they are. You see these 3 birds slow cruising right next to each other like they are on patrol and then they come at you. It's great. Lots of caves. Lots of places where multiple monsters are piled up on top of each other in ways never seen before in other Zelda 2 hacks. The layouts in the side scrolling parts are so amazing with beautiful new backgrounds in some caves like I've never seen before. I'm trying to remember the rest that makes this so great but it's been about 4 months since I played it so I can't remember everything other than that it is great, and it stands out as being a totally unique adventure much different than any other Zelda II hack. If you're looking for something totally different but still Zelda 2 then this is it. But the difficulty has definitely been turned up. You will have to navigate through a ton of caves and survive many obstacles and difficult jumps to get very far. I personally have struggled so much. I've had to try over and over again to slowly improve a little here and there to get through the caves. It's frustrating at times when you get knocked into pits trying to navigate through what feels like 20 caves... But I'm getting used to that sort of thing in Zelda 2 hacks. This is a really great game that I highly recommend trying. Excellent!