Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (NES) - Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN)
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- Опубліковано 14 лис 2011
- In this episode, the Nerd picks up his sword and shield to go on an adventure into Hyrule. We'll see the Nerd give his honest opinion on Zelda 2. Originally released in Japan in 1987 on the Family Computer Disk System and 1988 on the Nintendo Entertainment System in both America and Europe, Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link was the first and only official side scrolling Zelda game in the series. Going on to become known as one of the worst, if not the worst Zelda games amongst fans due to its radical change and difficulty from the previous Zelda game. Zelda 2 was one of the first most highly anticipated games back in the NES days, along with the likes of Super Mario Bros 3. This is Angry Video Game Nerd episode 93
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As a young child, I watched my mom beat this game. I loved every moment of it.
Your mom must've been cool
@@whatsthisaboveme6064 Yeah she's definitely awesome.
Wish my mom would play games at least she wouldve know that an online game cannot be stopped
what a lovely memory to have. kudos to your mum
My mom loved to play Dr Mario, i got to see the ending because i never got there :D
Its crazy to think he made all these before ads on UA-cam.
IKR
c man that's what we call passion.
That's what you call loss of income.
c man Hell, he made a fair amount of episodes before UA-cam existed
He made money from his site tho.
Anybody else who misses these days, when the game manuals where as awesome as the games??
There were so many shittygames back in the day. I realize the limitations but jesus games were often bad.even the ps2 generation is starting to get repetitive.
No
sure but we now have entire wikis and theyre vastly superior
I would never have figured my way around blaster master, hadn't it been for the manual. The best thing in a pre-internet world.
The manual was always a work of art.
My dad loved this game. RIP dad
Hope you're doing well, David...sure your pops was a great guy ❤.
F
F
RIP
Yo, same. My father past away when I was 10. I loved watching him play this game and other NES games as a kid. RIP.
Imagine Link having a kid. He'd hoist him up like Simba
XD do do do doooooooo~
Link, honey, put the baby down.
Link: Sees Zelda *drops the baby*
or Michael Jackson
@@johnnyboi7754 HYAH?
I just turned 33 and decided it was time to finally beat Zelda 2. One of the hardest games I've ever played but now I can proudly say I've finished every mainline Zelda game.
I beat it back in the day but only with the help of the game genie.
@@thomasfrazer8934 You didn't beat the game; you just saw the ending.
That’s like 19 games. Grats.
You want a true challenge? Then play Hagane (Japanese version with only 7 continues, not the easy western version with unlimited continues), and Magician lord (arcade version).
Both games are ridiculously difficult, especially hagane with only 7 continues.
Try Lemmings on NES with no codes. I beat it once as a kid and have never looked back, it was so infuriating. Battletoads was child's play compared to it.
Beating the game by accident at the end was genius. I love coming back to see your old content nerd, there's nothing quite as good on the internet!
I have seen the Nerds catalog at least 15-20 times in completion in the last decade. It's comfort food for my soul.
I wonder if it's a deliberate callback to the time he managed to land in Top Gun with the Power Glove.
Two hours later, at an arcade/video game museum:
"MORTALS... *KNEEL* BEFORE ROLFE!!!"
Let'sPlayers
TheRunnawayGuys, HcBailly, Helloween4545, NCS.... etc
eventhought i still love Cinemassacre
@@Vespyr_ Me too.
I love how the ending is also a "This is how you beat Dark Link" explanation
"I am Error" is actually not a legitimate error. It's actually more like a joke; There's a guy you find later in the game named Bagu, which is Japanese for bug. So, Bug and Error.
Also, I know a lot of people already said this, but the temple is not in the shape of a swastika, it's in the shape of a completely different symbol called the Manji. a symbol of peace which the Nazi's ripped off.
The thing in the game is a swastika. The thing the Nazis used is not a swastika but a version which is mirrored and turned by 45 degrees.
@@FrostedAvowals They also likely didn't consider the symbol in a western context too closely. In Japan, and the East they have their own "big bads". Western Culture obviously villifies the nazis more than anyone else. In The East most people don't make that association because the Nazis weren't their problem lol
@@BoydTheMilkmanX Hey, Boyd. You seem to have some degree of knowledge about this. Do you know what symbol or group that would evoke similar feelings as when we Westerners see swastikas and Nazis?
@@schmidth 'Murica
I’m 40...I hope I’m going to finish Zelda 2 this year
good luck and keep up the motivation! I played and finished it back when I was 8 but no matter how often I tried it nowadays, never beat it again. I guess I'm lacking the patience and time I had as a child (also we didn't have that many games to choose back then and stick with what we had. Now we get tired to easily)
Me too. I can get up to the last level but can't get to the boss.
Got far on my phone nes. On
the NES classic I'm stuck. I beat many Zelda's and the legend of Zelda but the adventures of link is hard.
Guys it really isn't that hard...
@@Westile It is when you're a kid and can't figure out how to get that final key. :P
When I was 5, I remember my mom taking me to Kmart to buy this game. Arguably the single best day of my childhood.
RIP most Kmart stores. F
AGiLE-EaGLE1994 I remember getting a lego star wars set from Kmart
the kmart in my area is still open
What year was it?
@@Takinthehobbitstoisengard It was 1988, a very magical time
I love how the power glove transmits such a random cacophony of controller input that Dark Link's programming couldn't cope.
"Oh, a rock..."
Killer Croc: It was a big rock.
Loved that episode
I thought it was a boulder
"Almost got'im."
"If you're gonna cheat, you might as well be a fairy while you do it." Lol
I love going back to old cinemassacre every couple of years / months. They hold up so well! Really feels like a TV show
A lot of classic youtube is like that
Does it?
13 years later, AVGN has evolved into ASMR. He's the new replacement for the bedtime story
What is "ASMR"??
@@g-nuts1219 If you have to ask, you should look it up...
@@g-nuts1219 It's like, a relaxing video.
If you think this is ASMR, then pretty much any video would be, lol!
@@g-nuts1219 it’s videos where people whisper and make various sounds or do barious things that are supposed to make you sleepy
RIP Star Wars poster.
I know, right? I bet those things are hard to come by nowadays.
My dad has a lot of those posters signed but does it make it even harder to find
Yeah Ripped Intensively Paper. Literally RIPPED the poster.
Yeah, good on James for staying in character.
I'm a huge Star Wars fan, and I don't wanna do that to MY posters.
"Why include a character that has nothing to say?" Most people, in the real world, are like that. .lol
JC Malone Except that this is not the real world, and that's the whole point of games overall.
Deroni76 it's the real world for link and sometimes link has to deal with useless butt heads
JC Malone just gives the town more character and liveliness
JC Malone Sorry nothing
Hello (then runs away)
Classic episode
Hey, ProtoMario.
Ah, I see you're on an AVGN marathon as well
But Proto!!!
who is rewatching this in 2020 December
@@anantonyproduction no one. you're the only view this video has in december 2020
This was the video that introduced me the the nerd. All because I got stuck on death mountain and looked up this game for help and this came up. My life changed for the better.
4:55 now i get how death battle get the idea
I Broly
I hope that it’s better than Zelda vs peach death battle
10:30 I love how he hoists Marin over his head in Link’s Awakening.
Is this your big chance?
@@lisvender W...what?
viljamtheninja play the game
Pretty creepy when you overthink it...
it's so weird to find a avgn episode where he's so calm.
That's what happens when he reviews a game that actually isn't bad.
he actually seems to enjoy this game just gets frustrated at the same hard parts we all do
Agree
still one of my favorite AVGN endings 😁
Like a 4 year old trying to fight Hulk Hogan lmao
Solution: Apply said 4 year old for the Make a Wish Foundation, and request that they want to "fight" Hulk Hogan, and "win."
U jelly?
@josue Fuentes exact same thing happened to me just not :P
hey man, never underestimate the power of a rock... it killed goliath, it defeated the storm trooper army.
Rocks rock!
Unless you have paper.
There was also Chris rock, and at least one if the characters he has voiced has probably killed soneone
Rocks killed my father, and they raped my mother
+Marcos Danilo Stoned?
+Frabbledabble like Snoop dogg
"If you can't tell the difference between a snake and a rope, you're in trouble"
Indiana Jones: Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: *sweats nervously*
I’ve been eating to say this since back then but the music in this game is always pumping. The palace themes has to be my favorite part about the game. Other than the game itself
When he got to the I am Error part, no fucking around, I got a popup window.
Rapefest 2k15 A link to the future, Marty!
+Dermot Moriarty More like a link to the past. AMIRITE?
+Quiggity Quooty ha lol
+Quiggity Quooty what are popup windows
+Dermot Moriarty
Because...
I was there...
"A Geiger...Councilman?"
Ha you REALLY didn't get it at all.
« Oh. A Rock. »
@@DarylOrgan the point is the names are stupid so he says a random name because it's better than saying a rock.
It's probably a Gygar Councilman, to be exact. Gygar is an NES game where you explore mountains and caves and whatnot, so naturally, there would be rocks.
He mentions the game once in the Jekyll and Hyde Re-Revisited episode.
+Tollero Rygar
that's all.
Error actually is there to guide you to the entrance of a hidden location. You are told to go to speak to him later in the game and that is when Error tells you the tip. I has long been mistaken that all he said was "I am Error" but he has more dialogue.
2024? Anyone watching this
No
Lying.
🎉
Yee
🎉
Who else is on an AVGN marathon?
me
Hell yeah!
FUCK YEAH
me ;)
muaar I am too. Ever since I watched the movie, it's rejuvenated my interest in the Nerd
He beat Zelda 2 and Top Gun with the Power Glove.
Maybe it's not so "bad" after all.
Mitzos SirReal I bet he did, you jealous!
-oh its bad.. its so bad-
In the power glove episode, one of the only things he could consistently do in Zelda 2 was crouch. Just turns out that's all you need for the Dark Link fight.
Mitzos SirReal and I doubt james beat it I think mike probably did it for him tbh
Yeah, cause James had the Glove moving around. Mike was prob somewhere off screen.
I remember playing this game as a kid when it came out and not finding it weird. I absolutely loved it.
Depending on when you were a kid matters. It wasn’t weird when there were only like 1 or 2 other Zelda games to compare it to.
I can re watch these videos forever. Thank you for all your hard work over the years, James.
"high up or high on drugs, either way, you'll see glitches"
- Angry Video Game Nerd, 2010
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13:22 Is one of the best avgn moments.
Danny Anderson It is.
Agreed lol
Did it hurt anybody else when he ripped the Star Wars poster? I dont think that was intentional T.T lol
This is the only Link to save two Zeldas. The Zelda in Zelda 2 has been asleep for at least a century.
I had a friend in middle school who watched these episode with me every day on the bus ride home
Haven't seen him since I started highschool 3 years ago, hope he's doing alright
Who else is watching this for the 1,536th time in 2019?
Me...........no....ok
Maybe..ok yes
Me too
Over and over and over again.
I'm here again!
10:40 Imagine "Hey Link, do you know where I have parked my car?" xD
hey link do you know where to find my house
Hey link do you know where you are
Hey link have you seen the alternate universe? Oh thanks you can put that down now.
The look of sheer "what in the shitfuck?! how!??!?" made me laugh for like an hour
11 years ago 11 million views. Perfect.
I always thought of the 'like like' as a stack of pancakes
mike spence i thought of them as life saver gummies stacekd on eachother
mike spence I prefer calling it lasagna. Perhaps they made "like like" when they were hungry or while eating...
mike spence word.
mike spence cheeseburger for me
AL BUNDY yeah me too
I like Zelda 2. I suck balls at it but I do like it.
Same here about Battletoads
same with Marvel Vs Capcom 2
+ShadowBOOM and TailsBOOM Mortal Kombat does that to me.
I have to agree
+Cuzjudd I was never good at it when I was 8. I was amazing at Ocarina of Time though.
Took me 17 years to beat this game. Lol I was screaming like a maniac when I beat it. Lol
Been coming back to this one for over a decade now
"If you're going to cheat, you might as well be a fairy while you're at it"
words to live by
Too bad it didn't have a spell to turn the fairy back into Link to break the blocks like the invisible pit in Palace 6. it's like no problem, I'll turn into a fairy to breeze past the hidden pit until *BUZZER* you run into that stack of breakable blocks, so you cannot continue forward. you have to go all the way back and try to get past the pit without the fairy so you can break the blocks at the end of the section.
@@chrisbailey7384 even worse in the randomizer because you can't be sure what you will run into
Yes its really hard game, trial and error, memorize everything, plays for countless time over and over. But thats what make NES memorable, right? The best moment and feeling when you beat the game after such dedication and hardwork
I played this game with state saves and still couldn't finish it
13:27 That poor poster :(
I am Unhandled Exception.
+WinVisten But Mister Misten Vhy stahp or i mac in to shit
godsadog ENGLISH! DO YOU SPEAK IT?
Tomi XD
+AGiLE-EaGLE1994 I am no keyboard detected press F3 to continue
Fun fact: Error is actually his real name. Bagu, on the other hand, is a misspelling. Bagu's name was originally Bug. They were supposed to be Error and Bug, the corruption duo.
Who else is noticing the thumbnails are getting updated and they're removing the Episode Numbers?
I noticed. I wish they at least kept the episode numbers.
I have no idea why, I can see the thumbnails getting changed, but whats the point in removing the episode numbers?
@@5nesta It's like removing End Labels on Game Cartridges.
my best guess is that he recently got the rights to use the artwork which will get millions more hits
now they put the episode name in a hashtag for some reason
7:27 perfect Ad placement
Zelda 2 was actually a good game it was just too damn hard!
I beat it once the hardest game I ever played and will never play it again 😃
Casually beats the final boss with the power glove while looking away from the screen.
Just a normal Thursday
Yes, that's what happens.
I love the power glove.... It's so bad!
Without even realizing it until the end.
Fun fact: The "I am Error" guy really IS named Error. His name was a pun in Japanese that was lost in translation; much like another character named Bagu (His name was meant to be Bug, as in a computer bug and error). ^u^
if his name was a pun lost in translation then his name isn't suppose to be error
EvanPlayzGames
I know, I realize I badly worded my comment. >_< What I meant to say was that Error and Bagu are named after programming errors, but the way the English version translated Error's sentence as "I am Error" confused people into thinking his dialogue itself was an error. (God I'm bad at explaining myself. >_
totofze47 ahh okay it's fine
totofze47
Assuming you haven't edited it, your comment is plenty clear.
I think the broken English is probably what confused people. "I am Error" sounds exactly like what some programmer would quickly put in to debug the game, as opposed to a final draft of professional writing. (at least... what counts as professional writing for 80s video games)
i love coming back to your old videos nerd, nostalgia overload
I love this series, it’s replay value is so high, makes me remember better times.
"what's that, a geiger councilmen? no, its a rock"
i don't know why that made me laugh so hard
MetalBlade nice mastodon pic 👍🏻
who/what is geiger councilmen
The "I am Error" bit was a joke developed by the creators. In one of the other towns you meet a guy who says "I am Bagu," which is Engrish for bug.
Who’s here in 2022 still enjoying the Nerd!! So much content built up I’m just watching episodes and finding some I missed.
Gannon’s laugh sounds like one of the boxer’s from Mike Tyson’s 🤜 Punch Out! 🥊
It is the same sound
8:25 Clockwork Orange reference
5:37 That pretty much defines Zelda II. It's a great game, like almost every Zelda title, but man it is hard to beat.
It puts Dark Souls to shame
with respect, I completely disagree, especially the clip at 5:37 you're referencing here; its only difficult if you don't understand the game. In the sequence shown, the character is under-powered for that moment in the game, and he also doesn't use the spells and buffs available.
people just didn't "get" that this game is an rpg. they tend to not raise their levels optimally, and forget to use spells like extra jump or shield to make the combat/navigation easier.
sure, the game can be hard if you don't know what you're doing or if you don't bother to learn the game.
but its by no means a "difficult" game, especially by NES standards.
@@adamellis8829 The Adventure of Link is definitely a difficult NES game, as it requires very fast reflexes. But it's not one of the most, or _the_ most difficult NES game as others are saying.
@@adamellis8829 When I think of difficult NES games I think Megaman
@@bricaaron3978 I agree. One of the harder games I’ve played
I never beat this game. The furthest I got was the Final Palace but I never could beat the Thunderbird Boss.
A MISSED opportunity for Nerd to reference Thunderbirds by Gerry Anderson.
9:40 *sheer heart attack has no weakness*
8:55 *"Link's a poon hound"....I spit up my drink! lol*
FireTiger941 I didnt get it, please explain
theone itself he was having relations with zelda while shes askeep
@@vfspectrum4652 a very personal relation lel ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Beat it with the rolling rocker
are you cereal?
+Game Archer No, he's about as true as the rolling rocker's controls itself
XD
*Roll n' Rocker
while drinking roller rock
1:26 that is a Manji, a Buddhist symbol. You will find it all over Asia.
I'm sure he's been aware for years, but I think it's funny how people on twitter currently can only equate it with nazis.
you beat dark link by running all the way back and ducking and stabbing in the furthest left bottom corner down slashing only in the foot
There's a trick to leveling up MUCH easier. Once you reach enough XP to level something up, skip it. Skip the second and the third. Then it won't level you up until you reach massive points. Beat a boss, then put the gem in the altar. It always gives you enough XP to reach your next possible level, so you can get thousands of XP, and level up a lot of things all at once. Game gets MUCH easier then.
Yea, good luck surviving with any XP at all. Every time I'm close to a level up at all, I die and lose it all.
Id say that you always buy up your exp BEFORE the boss, unless you count the boss money which is around 500, then when bought up all your exp, place the crystal and get all the exp you need for the next level. try to make it a sword level since they are the most expensive ones in the beginning.
Or I could hire someone to hack the game so I get 14 bars of health instead of a measly 7. Seriously, besides this game, the lowest amount of hearts you could max in this series was 14 in Link's Awakening, which wasn't even that hard of a game. Why only 7 bars/hearts in this game?
@@Chad_Eldridge or you could git gud.
GREENWOLF 1337 game genie didn’t work with this game when it came out...
7:25 me when I fall and someone laughs
so true lmao
Here in 2022.
It’s still my favourite musical intro of all Zelda games.
Oh man, what hit me hardest was the 2010 at the end. Is this vid already that old?
The power glove strikes again!
First landing the plane in Top Gun,
and now beating Dark Link!
Who knows, it may eventually beat the final boss of Ninja Gaiden.
Bubblegum Panda Noup.
The power glove beats hard stuff, don't does miracles.
Dash Kagamine don't does^^
Power glove = infinity gauntlet CONFIRMED!!!!!
Mr ganondorf, i don't feel so good
@@adgg2269 LOL
No
Thano's preferred controller to play God of war
@@tanveerarkate5967 hahaha i saw what u did there xD
10 years later and still watching these old videos!
thank you for preserving this piece of history, I did not realize how important it was until today
I can't fucking believe I beat that game without reading Nintendo Power. I was smarter as a kid then I am now.
Titanus Maximus Same. Myself and my friend used to try and work it out together. One of the few games where I didn't mind if it was my turn to "play" or not.
*than
tightlypackedcoil
*crowd erupts into a state of not giving a shit*
Meavy Hetal awww thanks ;)
Meavy Hetal
shut up and kiss me.
That fartversion of the Zelda theme is legendary
Well, it originated in the 3rd CDI video.
It took 3 of us, playing in shifts, all day everyday, to beat this. I remember there being two distinct halves to this game:. Before you get the hammer on death mountain, and after you get the hammer.
I actually love this game. I never successfully beat it though. Im pretty sure I got stuck at that part with the hidden doorway and spell. I dont remember doing that and I never had any of those magazines. I learned alot of secrets in games just through word of mouth but lots of times it was difficult to differentiate secrets from rumors.
What was it with the NES. It always made sequels in a different style to the original. Between this, Super Mario Bros. 2 and Castlevania II: Simon's Quest.
And Street Fighter
I forgot the strangest sequel of all: Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight.
not a sequal, just dubbed title...
Peter Williams But i understand what you mean.Sega wouldn't do that...right? *looks at Alex Kidd in High Tech World*
well technically Lost Levels was Mario 2 but we got the dumbed down easier game of Mario 2 lol
I remember a weekend playing this all through the night with my cousins. Wed take turns and watch. So if someone got stuck, another would be able to go through. Ya its hard as shit but you dont realize it then. Its just cool going through the pain with your friends and the elation when you get it done. I wish I had the patience now. Or rather, all my cousins able to go through 48 hour binges to do this stuff. Thanks for the memories Nintendo.
Online gaming killed that :(
Damn you online gaming!
Yeah, couch co-op you will be missed...
avgn
nitramletnan good times. Just bought the Nintendo classic mini and my son who's 10 can have these memories too.
Ive watched these videos for more than 10 years now. Its almost become a tradition.
8:37 there IS a band called Kontrust... lol
Silvestre Leandro is it possible that the band got the name because of this episode?
RIP Star Wars poster
Zelda 2 was ahead of its time. a true challenge.
Anyone else notice the controller D pad is on the wrong side in the drawing at 0:55? Just me?
Love this one, the hack roms are great too. They managed to fix some frustrating issues like going way back to the start from the palaces, new levels and graphics and so on. You just gotta love the Nintendo fan base really, people are freaking amazing
Yep rom hacks by fans fix a ton of old Nes and other console games, or at least made old Nes games etc. be a finished polished product of stuff we should have got
What's this monster. It's like... like... **DING DING DING** What?! It's called a Like Like?
I was actually gonna make fun of it saying something ridiculous like Blob the Builder or Blobby and friends.
Okay, eavesdropper
8:05 I checked. His name actually really is Error. Its some kind of joke, but its hard to tell. They incorrectly translated his friend Bagu's name. It should be "Bug". As in, Error and Bug. I didnt say it was a *good* joke, just that it was what would technically be called a joke.
etherraichu *insert shitty comment that sarcastically says that you must be fun at parties*
Lawl jk
RPGtourguide Well its only confusing because Bagu is Japanese for bug. Otherwise I think people would have got it long ago.
etherraichu My guess is, since in Japanese L and R are the same, dude's name is supposed to be Errol.
etherraichu He was named error because then you can remember him clearly. If I remember correctly you had to go back to him. That is why he has that name.
Martijn van Zanen I like your thinking but no - surely "Sunny" is better - i am sunny - i sure they just wanted to be clever and thought error being a video was smart
Great video. The ending with the power glove was especially clever and entertaining.
"You're like a 4 year old trying to fight Hulk Hogan" lol
How to beat Dark Link:
Step 1: Camp
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit
Well that's how the speedrunners do it!
Not in the Japanese version!
step 2: attack continuosly
step 3: ending
Step 1:Camp in corner attacking endlessly
Step 2:Realize you're the worlds biggest Pussy when he Dark Link dies
Step 3:Profit
7:25 when your dad mocks u for laughing at him
Hey Nerd Would you ever do a video on Luigi's Mansion I know it's November but I feel like it would be a great video/review even if it's a game more for October
1:29, that’s not a nazi swastika, it’s an Asian religious swastika.