Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link by Error72 in  

I like that a game that came out a good three decades ago can still evoke this much joy and happiness. ^^

In case you're wondering, the bird knight things are called "fokkas." I figure that the blue ones are the mothers.

I like how the game gives you a preview of the final boss after you beat each dungeons boss by showing Link's shadow while the boss dies and the screen flashes. It's the only time you see his shadow as well, I think, besides the end of the game.

I just love how one of the donation comments was "don't while fighting Thunderbird" and the runner guaranteed that wouldn't happen...and finding out why was incredibly amusing

The Death Mountain warp is crazy!! Ive played this game for nearly 30 years and never figured that one out. Definately adds a new challenge to it. Great run Error72!

Yooo, i had ZERO clue that THAT song from Smash Bros. was the Zelda 2 Palace theme... i am floored.

Nothing short of just mind blowing. I thought i knew this game like the back of my hand but i have been shown I have much to learn. Never dared to play through with no candle.

Great playing and explanation by ERROR72. Really enjoyed it.

You all make it look so easy. Thank you for all your time invested.

I always look forward to a Feasel Zelda II run. Have to say it was cool to have him on the couch while Error72 ran an amazing game.

Just beat this game yesterday after 20+ years. Zelda 2 is such an awesome damn game! Play it now and beat it! It is such an awesome feeling, taking this beast down!

This was awesome. Great commentary ! Throughly enjoyed. Thank you

I've always loved this game and never get tired of watching someone destroy it - such an awesome run. One thing about this game is that I'm always surprised it never get its due credit for being the game that really revolutionized the "New Game +".

14:27 "what happens if you stick your sword above you? mnneeehhh" i fucking died that is like tim and eric level of awkwardness and i love it

I love how enemies exploded back in the days :)

Error72, you are real hero! Love this run, so entertaining.

That Thunderbird skip was epic! Nicely done!

As a kid I could never figure out how to get the candle so I eventually figured out how to see the enemies feet in the floor, so I was able to get through to the other side. I didn't know that the game had a candle until my friend told me that it he,led for a puzzle and I just look at him and said "what candle?" I was half way through the game at that point.

Really awesome run Error!!

Man I love playing Zelda II but even more watching people just straight up murder it on speed runs!

Awesome run! Great to see Feasel there too.

By far the most difficult game of the Zelda series. A great challenge.

Sick run. Love it. Has to be one of the harder games to speed run.

Holy shit, I remember those blue knights, Holy shit does this bring back memories, even clap My f'in two hands and I rarely do that to any game. A+

ive had this game for 30 years and havnt beaten it and this guy does it in under an hour

I remember back in the day training myself to fight Shadow Link straight up. I knew about the corner, but didn't want to use it. It's the same reason I didn't use the kode in Contra

This run is legendary.

Badass Run!!!

This one is the only one I need.

The armoured beam-shooting enemy in the last temple is "fokker" in japanese.

I like how in the Zelda you could grind a bit if the enemies were too difficult initially.

That big bot scared the crap out of me as a kid the first time I played the Grand Palace

Just beat this game today on my NES Classic Edition without save states. Such a fulfilling feeling beating this beast of a game!

That was awesome!

Nice run!

That was impressive!!

This game made me so angry as a little kid, but i still love it. Thanks for destroying it. Awesome run.

Love this game

I don’t even play Zelda, and I find this entertaining.

and underrated Zelda game. I loved it. It as its dark atmosphere. I finally beated it this year on a gameboy advanced. lol

I never knew the fairy could pick up items!

7:46 glitch town is actually a clone of the left side section of the town you learn the fire spell. Though the NPCs that appear in glitch town are different, based on where ever you trigger the warp glitch.

"Gannon-dwarf" is funny af

I still can tear through this game.got my original nes. Gold cartridge. Still 30 years later can beat it beginning to end. But never this fast.

35:14 A SWEAR WORD A SWEAR WORD!

one of the hardest games ever made

Watching this gives me anxiety lol

I just watched oney play this, and ihad it on my wiiu. Never knew how in depth you could plan your shit like that. Already thinking like a souls game where i do a vitality/magic/attack only builds, or base stat builds.

I like most all speed runs but I get extra enjoyment out of ones where a game that frustrated me as a kid is obliterated. Makes me feel some sort of revenge lol.

The in-game hug was only matched by the hugs on the couch

Always loved the random cemeteries scattered for no reason throughout the game. Is that why the bridge is there to get to Death Mountain? I always thought you needed the letter to give the guy so a bridge appears and you enter Death Mt. from the north. Had no idea that you could get to the River Devil without a raft. These guys must have at least a thousand hours put into this game.

nice job!

Amazing :o

Duckfist, Feasel, Sinister1, Klaige, PJ, Mitchflowerpower Off the top of my head, those are all the best runners I remember from when I first started watching speedruns (not to say they dont do GDQ at ALL anymore, just less). Those were the days. Oh! And that dude who ran Super Mario: Lost Levels. I'm sure Im forgetting tons of other cool people too, but oh well, GDQ is full of 'em

man this game seems so ruff and hardcore compared to part 1 no wonder I never got it but now I must PLAY!

One of the few Zelda games that I've never finished.

Second best Zelda after LTTP. Fun run to watch.

Just beating zelda 2 is an accomplishment

my younger brother got this in the christmas of 89. had tons of fun and i got the first 5 crystals placed but didnt find the hidden palace until i got the game again in late 97(since the game went missing around 91). so i thought the great palace was for the final crystal at the time boy was i wrong then. but i figured it all out and beat the game within a week in 97.

Is it possible to fairy past the Great Palace's force field? I tried as a kid but always fell a pixel before getting past.

Awesome run and very informative. Brings back memories.

Nice to see this beat because as a kid me and my brother just wrote the game off. We decided that while we could do it that it wasn't fun to do it. So moved onto quite a few other games. Which kinda says something because we'd rather play the first three megamans as kids than this game.

Anyone notice how much Error72 sounds like Harold Ramis ??? It's almost an exact replica.

43:37 You can down thrust through him if you aim for his belly. Kills him almost instantly.

Most of what I remember was not getting the gems at the end of the temple until way later... and going to a swamp and using turbo to kill endless enemies to max out....

fun fact. According to speedrun.com/Zelda_II_The_Adventure_of_Link#Any_No_Scroll_Lock this actually beat his PB in this catagory

*Skips Thunderbird* Me in Shelia Broflowski's voice; Wha, wha, WHAT?!?!?!?!?

Anyone a lunk to this image with overworld enemy movements based on their relative position to lunk? :o

Holy crap! I had to see this to believe it, and I still don't believe it! When a friend (who's into all the MOBAs and newfangled modern stuff lol) told me speed-runs were a thing, my first thought was, "okay, maybe for Super Mario or Donkey Kong, but not Zelda II!" Now I grew up playing Zelda II and love it, but OMGosh it's fokka brutal! All those iron knuckles (and later fokkas) firing beams like machine guns, all those bots and bubbles and other cheap shots near lava/water, Thunderbird and THEN Dark Link, I could go on and on and on... I love it but nowadays if I decide to pick it up again I know I'm in for a long weekend! I could probably beat it in a weekend, but you just skated by in under an hour! Of course glitches are a big part of that, cuz you definitely skipped some huge chunks of the game, but you still beat the game! Way to go! :) PS: I wonder if it really is pronounced "fah-kah" in Japan (and what it really means) lol

One time I beat the dragon palace without the key only using faeries and my wits. I was seven years old. No RU-vid, no guide, no word of mouth. I was the man. Even made it to the final dungeon but couldn't open the door. That was probably the only thing preventing me from beating the game.

so if he would have beaten the world record if he hadn't been Fokkeru'd over?

almost had that hero slime around 27:00 man oh.

Too bad Nintendo won’t make a 3D Zelda that implements mechanics from this gem. Levelling up, upgrading weapons and needing a candle (lantern, torch) on at all times to make your way thru pitch black caverns sounds awesome. I may be one of only a few people who genuinely enjoyed Tomb of the giants in dark souls.

great game, ive always liked zelda 2 more than the original

Aww, why couldn't Error meet himself?

52:40 'Spicy Chicken' Fokkeru

"missed the key, RESET"

Best Zelda ever. Fight me

It felt like they reUsed sprites/backgrounds for Zelda 2 from Super Mario Bros 3.

Imagine if Zelda I and II had an SNES Zelda All-Stars version

If you could get through death mountain then you were on your way to beating the game, for 2 years I couldn't get through death mountain so I paid my friends older brother 5$ to get me through, the rest of the game was basically a piece of cake. Another year later I completed it all from scratch just because buying my way through that part of the game was always stuck in my head bugging me. In opinion one of the greatest Zelda games ever.

The vector field.

The song is the same as Motley Crues "Looks That Kill"

I wonder what this guy's time would be if not for the "up and A"? The strategy for leveling up would be different as the original pacing of the game is being used. I think I would be more impressed with a "play and react" as opposed to some one who has memorized all the game triggers. But either way this guy is really good and has mastered a classic.

Really great run, and this Zelda doesnt look so bad like most people refers at it :/

The main boss' weapon in the ocean palace is NOT a mace, it is a flail!

If I close my eyes the speed runner sounds like Egon Spangler.

The guy playing sounds like Fozzy Bear

Wait, there's a Zelda 2 randomizer?

is there anyway to do the up + A shortcut in retroarch or another emulator?

when did he get the down thrust? he didn't go to that town yet

After months and months, and months, of playing this game as an 8/9 year old, then an older one, I finally made it to dark Link. Never beat him. My game crashed on me eventually and I never felt like doing it all over. Shit, I remember having to leave the Nintendo on for days to save it before I knew how to change cart batteries. Now I see this video. Wow, this dude is freaking amazing at this game. It almost makes me angry watching him breeze through this 😎 does the second controller up A work normally or is that a hack??

Fokkeru is the name of those red birds

an hero jajajajaja adventure of link its my favorite zelda game :)

Looks like Prez lost some weight!

Not even phased by getting a new PB lol

I can't believe the only other time nintendo try anything that resembles the depth of this games attack options its skyward sword doing simon says. I don't know enough about the game, but it doesnt look like there are any items compared to other zeldas, but if they combined this level of combat or thought about combat to the utility of the zelda items. Shit would be incredible.

48:39 _Don't drown..._

I know this is older, but can anyone describe in more detail the fairy glitch he used at 31:30 ?

8:50 The Fuck Is Tha- Aaah xD 19:52 Outchie Ouch! Dx