@Felthry I just picked Mario because i like Mario better than Zelda in general to be honest

@Siph to be fair zelda 2 is way more disliked than mario 2

we think it's good, but a lot of people just hate how different it is
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@Felthry I think Zelda 2 is really cool and unique if not a bit too hard but that's just games from this era

@Siph @Felthry kinda like the 'real' Mario 2

@noiob @Siph @Felthry lost levels is just a troll hack from before people figured out how to make them funny. hot take

@monorail @Siph @Felthry well yeah, people love hard Mario games, Nintendo knew that before everyone else

@monorail @noiob @Felthry most of the levels from Lost Levels are from Super Mario Bros VS, an arcade game. Those are designed to be difficult so you spend a lot of credits on them

@monorail @noiob @Felthry I really think it's a good thing they decided to go with another game to distribute as Mario 2 outside of Japan because it's a very cheap and lazy sequel. A nice challenge in itself if you're into that but not a good sequel.

@Felthry is Zelda 2 really that atypical? like, the mario one is literally a different game reskinned, Zelda 2 is just trying to innovate on the first game

@noiob innovate on the first game? it seems way more like a complete and total reimagining in the style of castlevania, honestly
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@noiob like if you compare zelda 2 to the original and link to the past and link's awakening and all the other 2d zeldas

zelda 2 is drastically different
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@Felthry maybe but at the time there was only one other Zelda game

if they made one now it'd be odd

@noiob i'd say that mario 2 is a lot more similar to mario 1 than zelda 2 is to zelda 1
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@Kilroy honestly i was going more for "which of these games (which are both odd ones out in their series) is better" than "which is more unlike the rest of its series"!
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@Felthry Oh! My mistake! Unfortunately I would have to go with SMB2 then as a personal preference, but I did still have quite a bit of fun with Z2