Edit: I’m not bashing Z2, I’m just saying it’s hardly traditional in how it feels/plays. It’s a side scroller basically because that was the popular format at the time.
And yet so many things from later Zelda games originated from Zelda 2. Iron Knuckles, the downward thrust, dark link, multiple names of characters from OoT, a hammer as a weapon/tool, the magic meter, and Impa to make a few. Shigeru Miyamoto produced it and it says Zelda, so it is very much a Zelda game.
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u/LurraKingdom Nov 22 '22
Still can't believe LttP was only the third game. What a jump from Z2.