I often hear of this game spoken of as being slightly different from the other “black sheep” NES sequels in that it’s actually good in a lot of ways but just plagued by poor translation and clunky game mechanics. Even early AVGN at his most vulgar, after trashing it in all sorts of ways ends on a note of saying it’s a good game and misunderstood classic. After playing it for myself, I can kind of understand the nostalgia for it but this is just not a good game. And I’m saying this as somebody who enjoys old RPG’s with clunky mechanics and archaic and/or nonexistent translations. Past a certain point I was only playing this to continue onto better Zelda games I want to try. Only reason I’m giving this a 3 instead of 2 is 1)I find the more explicitly dark tone of the story in this game to be really interesting 2)the music is so good especially the Hyrule Temple theme.