Some Spoilers ahead:

First thing I would like to mention is the game starts you off already having the downward slash which was always my favourite sword attack in Zelda II and which was easier to kill harder enemies with and easy to get your XP up. Some of the levels were the same as the original but with stronger enemies and longer ledges you’d need the jump spell for in the palaces. Was easier to gain your XP with (which had golden ruppes as P-bags). They made the sword longer in the game so it would be easier for the player to kill tougher enemies like Darknuts and not be right up in the enemies face when fighting them.

Overworld is almost the same as the original, but Magic and Heart containers in different spots of the overworld, Death Mountain was pretty difficult but gained lots of XP from all the enemies there. Shield spell also let you shot fire balls (nice add) so fire spell later is actually useless (Oh well). You did though need certain later items in the palaces to get earlier spells to go on later, so sometimes had to do palaces after palace before going back to a town. The boots made you travel every water zone in the game to go searching for caves and getting magic and heart containers. Nice change to Grand Palace too, made Thunder Bird and Dark Link fight a little harder so you couldn’t cheese the fight in the corner of the screen

This hack was great, was able to finish it in under 4 hours, just a nice relaxed call back to a game I still enjoy to this day, exploring areas of this game was fun, and I think a good Zelda II player would enjoy this little re-done of a game

7.5/10