My cartridge had this bizarre issue where it would freeze up during the Thunderbird fight (it was used, so who knows what someone did to it), so I was never able to beat it until I got the Collector’s Edition disc for Gamecube years later. Now that I have a Wii, I’m probably going to buy it for VC soon, and I both look forward to and dread trying to beat it again.

I’ll try to play it every once in a while, but never really get past the first palace.

I have no issues with the fact that it plays differently. I do, however, get this “sick” feeling when I do sit down with it. Maybe it’s the color scheme or the character designs, or something.

I have made it farther in “Zelda II” than I have in the original, though, I’m sad to say. Haha…

Sometimes franchises characters will cloud your judgment because you usually have an emotional attachment to them. So when I don’t know if I like a game or not I always try to picture different characters. Like would you play Mario Sunshine if it didn’t have Mario but instead a wallabie and he had to save his kangaroo girlfriend? I wouldn’t, which makes me clearly know that I hate Mario Sunshine. But if you could still play it with different characters then yea, it’s a good game. I’m not saying do this to all games, but if you have to think about if you like a game or not, it’s not a bad idea.

So if Link II had different characters… if it had some girl trying to save her boyfriend? I think I would still play it. It still seems fun challenging years after it’s release. I would maybe get sick of playing quicker but I’d still be playing it.