Zelda 2nd Quest is Bullshit

I'm posting this here because I don't think it's good enough to be in Video Games.

Last week, I dug out an old NES and hooked it up to the TV in the living room. A friend of mine who visits often got excited and said he'd bring his games over. One of the games was The Legend of Zelda. He got into playing it and before long beat the game and started doing the second quest. This guy knew all the secrets of the first quest and none of the secrets of the second. He went from being tough shit to dying every five minutes.

For those who have never played the 2nd quest, everything is jumbled. The dungeons are hard to find, and you have to blow the whistled (which you get in the second dungeon) on every screen to reveal secrets. The other day, he had beaten the third dungeon and was looking for the fourth, and he spent three hours playing the game, unable to find the fucking thing. Of course, I would have gotten online to find out what the fuck to do, but just our luck, the internet company fucked up and turned my internet off. I had to go two days without any internet, which sucks pretty fucking hard when you're an addict like me. It sucks even more when you're trying to figure out what the fuck you're supposed to do in fucking Zelda and can't connect to the internet to find a goddamn guide!

Has anyone ever played the 2nd Quest of the original Zelda? Anyone ever beaten it? It's bullshit. It fucking sucks. But when he and I beat the game (he's playing on the NES, I'm playing on my laptop), we're going to be the only people we know that have done so. And that's going to feel sweet.

What? The second quest is awesome. A complete different game is a fresh experience.

Seriously, what were you guys expecting? A slight raise in difficultly? The first Zelda was all about exploring and discovery. Jut have fun and try to discover everything all over again.

Man, newer games have really spoiled current gamers a lot.

There's a difference between bombing walls to find new things and walking through walls. One makes sense, seeing as the game gives you bombs, but how is a person even supposed to know that you can walk through certain walls?

And using the whistle in every area to see if something special pops up is similar to bombing every thing to see what happens in the first quest, but who would know to try blowing the whistle? The only reason my friend and I knew to do it is because I found a super old issue of Nintendo Power that said that the whistle would be used a lot during the second quest. If we hadn't read that, we wouldn't have known to do it at all.

Water Temple anyone?

Torture. Plain and Simple.

Fuck that place. In all Zeldas. Fuck that place ROYALLY! UHGHHH! It's hell in every single Zelda!

Only in "Link to the Past" did I ever love the Water Temple

brb, gonna go cry in the corner due to PTSD

Excuse me while I do the same.

Awesome. Best dungeon in Zelda history.

:)

You guys want a hard, confusing dungeon? Try beating Jabu-Jabu's Belly in Oracle of Ages without a guide. That thing makes the Water Temple look like child's play.

I remember that shit, when I was like 13. It's easy shit now.

Seriously, you are weak compared to me if you think J-J's belly was super fucking hard.

It is hard. You're the exception of the rule.

*cries in a corner*

Oh yeah, I also hated that tile puzzle in the last dungeon. Took me ages to find the right answer to that.

Yeah, I beat it, the Water Temple was even harder then.

You know what's real bullshit though? Opening a door with a key in the last dungeon of Link's Awakening (DX), only to find out that it was a dead-end and didn't have another key in it. This resulted in making it impossible to complete the game. It happened on my second play-through.

I never played Zelda.
I wonder why, hmm.. probably because of those puny characters that remind me of pokemon. (old versions)

wutlolski!?

I'm sorry, but did you play Pokemon before you played Zelda?

Oops, didn't read that line, I didn't see it.

Hahahahaha

May God have mercy on your poor soul.