That boss was the easiest boss in this game my opinion, and I didn't defeat him the "cheat way" like that guy did. Thankfully he never threw me in the lava pit!
yeah, it's also made in a very simple but effective way. The sprite basically consists of a front and rear part and by moving those over eachother it looks like the boss turns, but it doesn't cost any graphical memory. One of those clever tricks used back in the day.
Dude you got mad sword skills and your defense is a beauty to see. I love this game and I have beaten it alot. I will never understand the hatred for this game.😑 But when I see how u fought these bosses with style. Made me pull out my NES and start just replaying this game.
I let my friend play this game on my Wii U because I thought it would give him a hard time. He had never even picked up the game before. I had a save state right before the Dark Link battle since I had already beaten the game. So I tell my friend to fight Dark Link and I shit you not, he beat him on his first try without hardly losing any health and he didn't even use the corner trick. He straight up dominated him. I couldn't believe my eyes but he got a good laugh about it.
Theres a video series called behind the camera or smth loke that, where using emualtion hacks and cheats codes the video shows a bunch of stuff, like for instance if you take out our the curtain, it likes looks like zeldas hugging link(now obviously the game and developers where stronglt implying the obvious but if you wanna headcanon that why not)
Not only defeats all the bosses but does it with the full heart throwing swords! Not bad, for a human. EDIT...ok he does use the regular sword too but still flawless job with the bosses. Especially like how he dispatched Barba the giant lava dwelling snake. Good job man!
Attack as you come down from the height of a jump and you will almost always score a hit. Especially works on the knights in palaces in the early game. Later those blue knights and those found in the great palace I usually tend to avoid if I can.
When u play this, I wait til I have downward thrust before I take on Horsehead. The fight goes quicker for me if I jump and downward thrust on Horsehead.
I beat this gams.for the first time a couple days ago, no idea how the hell you can dodge the iron knuckle things that throw knives and still get in hits. Those contend for the most annoying enemies in the game, and pribably would be if those flying eyeballs didn't exist lol.
Thunderbird was quite a struggle for me, specially getting good enough Magic and attack to defeat him. And the Knight Boss (the 3rd one) was quite hard for me. Surpisingly, Dark Link and the wizard were the easiest bosses
Yeah, I was basicslly using his jump and strike method to beat the Iron Knuckle warriors. And yeah, the Wizard is the easiest to beat, but like a lot of the bosses, you need to know the trick to them. Like if you don't know to use the reflect spell on him, then he could be a bitch to fight.
@@DesertDragons13 Ikr? That was such a cool strategy, I just put on the jump spell and went one by one. If I ever play this game again, I'll have to try that cuz it looks slick.
I sort of agree. I’ve beat it once 100% so I did everything. It’s a decent game in my opinion, one I’m glad I beat but not one I’ll play again for a long time (especially because it’s hard a shit) but I think a remake with more polish, maybe something with combat similar to that of say Hollow Knight (quick, precise, challenging, yet fair trial and error combat) would make it the best 2D Zelda
@@hawkeye2958 He went down like a little bitch... And yes, the Zelda wiki says that the Japanese name of Barba is Volvagia - so you're both right. However they are different Barbas / Volvagias...I think.
this game facinates me . the sprite work is amazing and the boss designs are sick ! this game would really benefit from a top down remaster with some quality of life improvements
They should redo everything about this game. Though a different company, DuckTales and Castle of Illusion have been redone. Imagine what they can do nowadays to this game. I'm not talking about custom hacks or anything but completely remaster and correct all of the issues.
@@bryanna72 In theory, OOT was intended as a reboot of this and TLOZ games, fuse toether. You can even see it in some aspect of this game, as the music the fairies do, that owns the same notes of the Hyrule's field in OOT.
For me, the bosses were the easiest, because you could go all out to beat them, knowing your health and magic get replenished. It’s getting to the bosses that’s the hard part. _Everything_ is out to get you and is stressful getting through all of them, without wasting too much health, magic and lives, or it’s back to the very start.
I dont think anybody besides you has ever disliked it because it was on the NES. The NES has far more complex games than Zelda 2 that work fine. Its underrated because it was very different than its popular predecessor (also its brutally hard).
I think a major reason why people don't like this game is that the hints towards getting progress in the game where very cryptic and the brutal difficulty turned people off.
@@Psykhos Yes. Reflect cancels out it's fireballs, and as long as you face them they will not harm you at all, this way you can fight Thunderbird with minimal damage so you can duel Dark Link at full capacity
That's the only way I know how. Any other way doesn't seem to work. It also sucks that you have to go into the fight already weak from Thunderbird. Unless you have some extra lives or decent health it isn't a fair fight. No magic left for powering up since the previous fight wipes you out. I wanna say I remember a room nearby where you can find a magic jar. Sometimes though it's an enemy so you have to be cautious. Thank goodness you can start from the palace. That would be cruel to make you go all the way back to the beginning and expect to make it there and beat both bosses all on 3 lives and you might not have them all by the time you got there.
At 5:09, I see how Shadow or Dark Link falling through the floor in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time originated. At 2:44, oh! You can strike Gooma anywhere on the body and hurt him. You can't do the same thing to Mazura because he is heavily armored. I get it now.
Although it's probably just NES sound limitations and the sword hitting an invulnerable part, I consider the two separate sounds when attacking to be normal attacks and critical attacks. :)
Unpopular opinion but AOL has much better bosses than ALTTP. Heck even the original has some bosses that are better (Ganon, the eyeball thing you use the flute on, the multi head plant thing) To me Zelda bosses should be clever and puzzle like and ALTTP although a great game imo has bosses that feel kinda lazy. Like I know people complain about “use dungeon item on boss” for pretty much every single Zelda game after ALTTP but honestly ALTTP inclusion is the worse because they are straight forward and boring imo. Like say what you will about OOT or LA but they had some very creative boss battles (Phantom Ganon, Genie, Twinrova, Ganon, the eel hook shot one) while others sucked (morpha, ghoma, bongo bongo, Ganondorf)
Dude this game is so hard, I honestly just pretend the game is over once I reach the Great Palace. I've spent so much time trying to kill the stupid flying sarcophagus looking thing. I really wish Link Dolls permanently gave you an extra life, that would make this game so much more balanced and enjoyable.
I don’t buy the Dark Link. I’ve never seen that kind of behavior from it. Always crouch attacking and didn’t even attack at height level once? Something is fishy.
I love how you see Link's shadow after you defeat each boss. Almost foreshadowing.
Don't you mean...
fore-SHADOWING?
Ba dum tss.
Exept dark link.
@@milesmonaco2625 *Insert bass boosted Ultimate here*
DAH DUM TSSSSSSSSS!
You make this look so easy!
3:21 Not enough numbers exist to count how many times that b*tch threw me into the lava pit. Didn't know you could kill him how you did
That boss was the easiest boss in this game my opinion, and I didn't defeat him the "cheat way" like that guy did. Thankfully he never threw me in the lava pit!
He fires a linear beam of fire at the platform you’re standing on, so use the jump spell and jump over it as soon as he is ab to fire it.
@@elephant35egooma is easier
Danm I forgot the 3rd boss actually has a turn animation instead of just flipping , that’s actually cool for its day
yeah, it's also made in a very simple but effective way. The sprite basically consists of a front and rear part and by moving those over eachother it looks like the boss turns, but it doesn't cost any graphical memory. One of those clever tricks used back in the day.
Dude you got mad sword skills and your defense is a beauty to see. I love this game and I have beaten it alot. I will never understand the hatred for this game.😑 But when I see how u fought these bosses with style. Made me pull out my NES and start just replaying this game.
3:21 Link said “Who gave you the right to live? Die, serpent!”
love the boss music.
I let my friend play this game on my Wii U because I thought it would give him a hard time. He had never even picked up the game before. I had a save state right before the Dark Link battle since I had already beaten the game.
So I tell my friend to fight Dark Link and I shit you not, he beat him on his first try without hardly losing any health and he didn't even use the corner trick. He straight up dominated him. I couldn't believe my eyes but he got a good laugh about it.
I suppose that he used jump strike technique.
You jackhammered that lava dragon. Rekt!
Community terms.
5:57 link finally got a kiss
Nope friendzoned
HEY! EXCUUUUUUUUUUUSE me, Princess!
Theres a video series called behind the camera or smth loke that, where using emualtion hacks and cheats codes the video shows a bunch of stuff, like for instance if you take out our the curtain, it likes looks like zeldas hugging link(now obviously the game and developers where stronglt implying the obvious but if you wanna headcanon that why not)
You are crazy!
But that means, you are a super player. :D
“I’ll take real good of Zelda” - Blk Link
I love that *smooth* moves at the 3rd boss
Now we need all the bosses from the faces of evil
that game is the face of evil
Too bad after she says "You're a real hero" He didn't go..." excuuuuuse me, Princess"
Not only defeats all the bosses but does it with the full heart throwing swords! Not bad, for a human. EDIT...ok he does use the regular sword too but still flawless job with the bosses. Especially like how he dispatched Barba the giant lava dwelling snake. Good job man!
Gaming fact: Gooma wasn't in the Japanese release. His fight was actually suppose to be a rematch against Helmet Head.
oh no... links a poon hound
It’s been 10 months but I’m here and that is by the AVGN by cinnimasicre
The game where Link finally got a kiss for once in his life behind the curtain of Super Mario 3
OK after watching a video on how to defeat an iron knuckle, I'm starting to think that the secret to all Zelda 2's difficult enemies is jump & attack.
Yeah, I learned the same thing.
Attack as you come down from the height of a jump and you will almost always score a hit. Especially works on the knights in palaces in the early game. Later those blue knights and those found in the great palace I usually tend to avoid if I can.
3:15... ARE YOU SERIOUS?! XD
3:20 wow that was too fast lmao
Y pensar que darkar lo ha jugado
i had to use save states to beat the thunder bird. as for shadow link I camped on the left side of the screen and spammed crouch stab.
So to obtain the Triforce of Courage, Link had to destroy the evil part of himself? Like Kami from DBZ.
Barba's got a splitting headache.
I thought A Link To The Past was the hardest Zelda game. I still think it.
Dude the game is easy
Also i know im late
When u play this, I wait til I have downward thrust before I take on Horsehead. The fight goes quicker for me if I jump and downward thrust on Horsehead.
2:12 Bob from "SMG4"
Master Adam 87 friends T.V. Thats a Wizrobe, Bob is a Garo
U made that look so easy
Wait, how do you make rebonack stay at the screen instead of just going through and coming back?
上手い！
I hope someday Zelda II will get a HD remake for the newer consoles.
HD? Why? It's perfect as it is
What's the spell at 2:13 ???
Im in a jorney in that game;)
how does he not take damage to thunderbird?!
cheating.
Zelda’s graphics have improved since this game came out 🤔
Holy shit.
poor barba
How in the fk did you Dodge all them fire balls from the fire bird
I beat this gams.for the first time a couple days ago, no idea how the hell you can dodge the iron knuckle things that throw knives and still get in hits. Those contend for the most annoying enemies in the game, and pribably would be if those flying eyeballs didn't exist lol.
Thunderbird was quite a struggle for me, specially getting good enough Magic and attack to defeat him. And the Knight Boss (the 3rd one) was quite hard for me. Surpisingly, Dark Link and the wizard were the easiest bosses
Yeah, I was basicslly using his jump and strike method to beat the Iron Knuckle warriors. And yeah, the Wizard is the easiest to beat, but like a lot of the bosses, you need to know the trick to them. Like if you don't know to use the reflect spell on him, then he could be a bitch to fight.
The final boss is Dark Link instead of Ganon
Had absolutely no respect for Dark Link!
3:23 what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck
I saw you take some damage after one of the boss fights was over... Shame.
Mario, no sabía que eras verde
OK.
defeats barba. well damn😕
3:22 Whaaaat?
What a waste of free xp... killing a boss gives you all xp needed for the next level, so you want to kill it with basically no xp
Well, that was easy...
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Lol
Nope this is impossible
Did you just....downward thrust Volvagia to death? Dude Triforce of Courage seriously no fear at all!
this one's volcania
Its called Barba
That's more like a Wisdom thing. I never thought to do that.
@@DesertDragons13 Ikr? That was such a cool strategy, I just put on the jump spell and went one by one. If I ever play this game again, I'll have to try that cuz it looks slick.
Come to think of it that's also a Courage thing cause he could have fallen in the lava real easily.
Link's shield is so good it makes Dark Souls players jealous
Robin Hunter This game is so hard it makes dark soul players look good.
Jeffrey Salmeron what
@@kirito_kun5072 Zelda 2 is pretty easy
Zelda 2 is really hard actuslly on NES
@@kychale I've played it on NES too, it's not that bad aside from Death Mountain and some parts of Valley of Death
Am I the only one who genuinely likes this game. Sure it has its flaws but it also has a ton of interesting ideas
I sort of agree. I’ve beat it once 100% so I did everything. It’s a decent game in my opinion, one I’m glad I beat but not one I’ll play again for a long time (especially because it’s hard a shit) but I think a remake with more polish, maybe something with combat similar to that of say Hollow Knight (quick, precise, challenging, yet fair trial and error combat) would make it the best 2D Zelda
Clearly not the only one since there are tons of other people here
A most improvement from the first Zelda game but still Zelda 1 and most other older games are still good golden!
Poor Volvagia, you didn´t even let it attack
That boss’s name is actually Barba.
Barba is also known as Volvagia. Don't correct people if you don't have the capacity.
@@hawkeye2958 He went down like a little bitch...
And yes, the Zelda wiki says that the Japanese name of Barba is Volvagia - so you're both right. However they are different Barbas / Volvagias...I think.
@@AenimalCannibal985 He's allowed to give the original name if he wants though
Original Japanese name: barubajia. Localized in NES release as Barba. Later changed to Volvagia for Ocarina of Time
this game facinates me . the sprite work is amazing and the boss designs are sick ! this game would really benefit from a top down remaster with some quality of life improvements
They should redo everything about this game. Though a different company, DuckTales and Castle of Illusion have been redone. Imagine what they can do nowadays to this game. I'm not talking about custom hacks or anything but completely remaster and correct all of the issues.
@@bryanna72 In theory, OOT was intended as a reboot of this and TLOZ games, fuse toether. You can even see it in some aspect of this game, as the music the fairies do, that owns the same notes of the Hyrule's field in OOT.
For me, the bosses were the easiest, because you could go all out to beat them, knowing your health and magic get replenished. It’s getting to the bosses that’s the hard part. _Everything_ is out to get you and is stressful getting through all of them, without wasting too much health, magic and lives, or it’s back to the very start.
I agree, the levels are basically walking on minefields, so crazy full of obstacles.
Such a Hard game
I beat that tunnel level when I was 9. But got a game over right at the next level.
Michael the Legendary Super Human. Yes but a great game.
Ikr
In some spots, but it's otherwise challenging but fair.
If u properly level up, it's not so bad
Im Error
i am bug...
too bad i never made it to the game
lithium 1817 1 like = 1 bug
Me too.. Pe0p1e d0nt 11ke me at a11 10101010101010101010101010101010101010101 ERR Reset c:/Shutting down...
lithium 1817 You did
I used to scratch my head reading that like WTF does this mean. Like is he an Error in the game or is this cryptic!??!? Like seriously WTF lol
Damn you didn’t even raise Life?! I had a hard enough time with everything at Lv 8!
No damage vs Thunderbird? Maybe the most kickass thing I've ever seen.
I spend like 1 hour of my life defeating Dark Link and you beat it in just 1 minut Hahaha
Cool video bro.
This game was so hard I had to use game genie
Was my favorite game, and had the best bosses that u could fight.
This masterpiece of a game corrupted and possessed so many children with its level design and soundtrack!... excellent!
Why does everyone hate Zelda ll? It's one of my favorite Zelda games
I always liked it, too. It's probably a combination of the difficulty and how different it is from the games immediately before and after it.
Severely underrated NES game
Jackson 101 I don't believe people hate it, it's just they dislike it's different style and difficulty.
I dont think anybody besides you has ever disliked it because it was on the NES. The NES has far more complex games than Zelda 2 that work fine. Its underrated because it was very different than its popular predecessor (also its brutally hard).
I think a major reason why people don't like this game is that the hints towards getting progress in the game where very cryptic and the brutal difficulty turned people off.
I think that Thunderbird is the hardest boss to kill in the Zelda series :o
You just skipped Barba like a boss B)
Thunderbird is easy as hell. Cast Shield and Reflect. With the right reflex you can beat him unscathed.
@@deuce5546 can you really use Reflect against Thunderbird? :o
Maybe you was thinking about Carock...
@@Psykhos Yes. Reflect cancels out it's fireballs, and as long as you face them they will not harm you at all, this way you can fight Thunderbird with minimal damage so you can duel Dark Link at full capacity
@@deuce5546 oh I didn't know that!!! Thanks for the tip, that'll be very helpful when I'll replay this game!
@@deuce5546 oh, yeah. The manual talked about Link's shield abilities.
dear lord...life level 1 the entire time, never got touched...HOW?
this game deserves a remake like samus returns
I didn't know there was another way to beat Dark Link besides crouch-stabbing him from the corner
That's the only way I know how. Any other way doesn't seem to work. It also sucks that you have to go into the fight already weak from Thunderbird. Unless you have some extra lives or decent health it isn't a fair fight. No magic left for powering up since the previous fight wipes you out. I wanna say I remember a room nearby where you can find a magic jar. Sometimes though it's an enemy so you have to be cautious. Thank goodness you can start from the palace. That would be cruel to make you go all the way back to the beginning and expect to make it there and beat both bosses all on 3 lives and you might not have them all by the time you got there.
This game separated the men from the boys.
All right, what you did to Barba was totally hilarious.
At 5:09, I see how Shadow or Dark Link falling through the floor in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time originated. At 2:44, oh! You can strike Gooma anywhere on the body and hurt him. You can't do the same thing to Mazura because he is heavily armored. I get it now.
Gosh man, give Barba a chance!
3:24 Hell naw 😂😂💀💀
Aren't the first two bosses named Horsehead and Helmethead? :P
every time a boss explodes you can see links shadow!
IT TOOK ME HOURS TO BEAT BARBA!
HOURS!!!!!!!!!
I FEEL SO DUMB!
Although it's probably just NES sound limitations and the sword hitting an invulnerable part, I consider the two separate sounds when attacking to be normal attacks and critical attacks. :)
So how did Link get back to the Hyrule palace from the great palace WITHOUT dying? Lol
After defeating Dark Link, nothing will dare attack him.
The fight with Shadow Link is surreal. I feel like I may have to do something similar with my own shadow one day.
Bosses
1:mazura
2:Jermafenser
3:rebonack
4:carock
5:gooma
6:barba
7:thunderbird
Final boss:dark link
Ending
Unpopular opinion but AOL has much better bosses than ALTTP.
Heck even the original has some bosses that are better (Ganon, the eyeball thing you use the flute on, the multi head plant thing)
To me Zelda bosses should be clever and puzzle like and ALTTP although a great game imo has bosses that feel kinda lazy.
Like I know people complain about “use dungeon item on boss” for pretty much every single Zelda game after ALTTP but honestly ALTTP inclusion is the worse because they are straight forward and boring imo.
Like say what you will about OOT or LA but they had some very creative boss battles (Phantom Ganon, Genie, Twinrova, Ganon, the eel hook shot one) while others sucked (morpha, ghoma, bongo bongo, Ganondorf)
The quickest boss fight at @ 3:21!
The cavern that had the flying enemies near the end of the game was so annoying. I always got knocked into the lava.
Yeah that is a difficult part in the game. I just use the fairy spell and fly through the area lol.
Moa's are a pain, as long as you have the cross.
Dude this game is so hard, I honestly just pretend the game is over once I reach the Great Palace. I've spent so much time trying to kill the stupid flying sarcophagus looking thing. I really wish Link Dolls permanently gave you an extra life, that would make this game so much more balanced and enjoyable.
This looks like it's TAS
If someone out there has done this entire game without taking damage once just to prove a point: you aren't just doing God's work - you stole his job.
3:23
Wow
That was not fighting that was just pure sword rape
Teach me master
I don’t buy the Dark Link. I’ve never seen that kind of behavior from it. Always crouch attacking and didn’t even attack at height level once? Something is fishy.
U make it look easy lol. I remember dying like 1000 times on some of those bosses
Wery god viedo like and abo for my
As I young kid could not see on the bad TV Zelda lying... was persuaded it was some chicken leg roasted in a kitchen.
What did you use on the thunderbird? Could never beat this damn game because i could not get past that boss, also could not find the last heart tank
You get a like and subscribe from me for simply having the best video quality! Great work!
*Jerma*fenser
WHEN THE IMPOSTER IS SUSSY!!!!!1!
carock is not even a boss lol it was to ez just had to crouch at one of the 2 border
Barba will always be my favorite boss in this game!