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Quake II on the PlayStation 1 is an incredible port. Here is why. (youtu.be)
submitted 1 year ago by xandowsk to c/retrogaming
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This one was really an incredible port and although I also had the PC version, I still played a lot of this PSX port on split screen with my little brother at the time.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

OG Links Adventure is borderline not fun at all. I managed to get to Death Mountain when it was new. But man it's a damn chore, and theres still another continent after that to play through. Id put money down that 80% of the people that played Zelda 2 didn't even know about the other landmass .

The most popular hack for it, [edit: here's a Link to the Hack] it balances leveling up and the magic spells and changes a bunch of dialog so it actually makes sense.

"I am error" for example. If you look into the making of the game it's a cute little thing, but it's useless when you're playing the game. The hack changes that and another NPCs dialog to link them together as brothers so you actually know to talk to one and then the other in order to progress.

The spell changes make the game immensely more playable. All in all it's a bunch of really good QoL changes while still keeping it a challenge.

I highly recommend the Zelda 1 Redux hack as well.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Very cool! Thank you for the link, I'll check it out!