Quote Originally Posted by tomaitheous View Post
I don't remember Zelda II getting much, if any, hate when it came out. I personally loved it and was glad it was a different from the first one (which I loved at the time as well). I think the hate came from later fans that were digging back into the library of the series. Little bitches can't handle the awesomeness that's Zelda II
Didn't get any hate upon release from what I remember.

Frankly, I think some of the backlash started creeping in when the next two installments (Link to the Past & Link's Awakening) went back to the same overhead style of gameplay as the original, which resulted in an increasing number of people looking at Zelda II as an odd duck.

To some people, the fact that Nintendo scrapped the Zelda II design and never really used it again somehow meant Nintendo had admitted it had failed.