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what we're going to allow it so Zelda 2 2, also a tough game, but in a different way.

It's just, you know, it's very difficult.

It's very challenging.

And it's also very different than the original Zelda,

which, you know was I don't think that sat well with people but

we'll talk about later we'll talk about how the Zelda series has sort of repatriated

Zelda 2 into the fold. That actually happened quite a while ago now, but

you know it for a long time it was kind of the the weird Zelda because the third Zelda game went back to the top-down style and was basically a refined version of the original Zelda

So it just made this one the odd the odd game out

But it didn't come to exist like Like I said in a vacuum, there are reasons why

Zelda 2 went the direction that it did, and we're going to talk about those or

at least speculate about them. Kind of paint a canvas here with potential reasons for

Zolta II to have been so weird. But one thing that I do think is worth noting

before we get started and when I put together my NES works video on Zelda 2 like a year ago

I really spent some time digging into Nintendo's coverage of the game pre-launch and holy cow they went ham on Zelda 2. They were determined to sell you on it and they gave away so much of the game before it launched due to the shipping delays.

I mean they were covering it.

Basically they announced it alongside the original Zelda for the US.

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