Sunday Longplay - Zelda 2: Amida's Curse (NES ROM Hack)

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This week on Sunday Longplay, it's another ROM hack for one of my favorite NES games of all time, and a project I had been following for over a year that just finished development 4 days ago. Welcome to Zelda 2: Amida's Curse!

One day Link finds a strange portal to the world of Amida, a land with a deep emotional link to him. Link embarks on another adventuresome quest to unravel Amida's secrets and return to Hyrule!

This hack is a passion project that has spanned a year and a half that changes everything in the game, from the overworld, to the palaces, to the graphics (using Zelda 2 Redux as a base), new town architecture pieces, a brand-new original soundtrack, etc. The end result is probably the most beautiful and eye-popping Zelda 2 hack I've played so far.

Difficulty-wise, the hack was meant to be a little easier than the base Zelda 2, but it's still not without its tricky moments. Here, the emphasis is placed on exploration rather than combat, so the difficulty lies more with finding where you're supposed to go in some spots. I was stumped for a little bit trying to find the Jump and Ice (replacing Thunder) spells, and I got lost in the final dungeon for a little bit before realizing that one of the elevators went through the floor.

While other Zelda 2 hacks have used custom soundtracks before, like Resurrection of Ganon and the endgame of Winter Solstice, Amida's Curse probably has my favorite OST of the three. The side-scrolling themes for the action scenes and palaces in particular are almost as good as the base game. Bentglasstube did great work on it!

Speaking of new additions, while Resurrection of Ganon added one extra dungeon to the game, Amida's Curse adds two! So there are now a total of 9 dungeons in the game as opposed to the base game's 7. More is always better in that regard.

Conclusion: Zelda 2: Amida's Curse was an 18-month passion project, and the passion really shows in the end result. The most beautiful Z2 ROM hack I've played, with an intriguing new story, and puzzles that really make you think. Yes, the game is easier than Z2, but that doesn't mean it sucks. Far from it.
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