The screens look cool. Too lazy to play it. Video?

Also:

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I don't want to put cactuses in this area because the Saguaro cactuses depicted in the original game are a stereotype of american western deserts and shouldn't be in a desert like this. This is a personal protest against incorrect facts. In Banjo-Kazooie the desert level had the wrong type of cactus for an egyptian desert. They obviously did no research or even bothered to google a picture of what a real desert looks like.

Holy fuck, kids today are retarded. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that he didn't imply that the Zelda 2 team should have Googled deserts in order to design proper cacti for them. I'm pretty sure he was only referring to Banjo Kazooie in this regard. But still. Banjo Kazooie was released in 1998. The internet has grown exponentially since then. In 1998, most people were still on dial-up, sites used as few images as possible, and non-commercial sites that weren't fucking Geocities pages were a rarity. You couldn't just Google any old thing back then and find relevant information. Back then, you were much better off using actual books for research.

Also, Hyrule is a fantasy world. They can put whatever fucking cacti they want in their deserts.

Also, "incorrect facts" is an oxymoron, isn't it?

Yeah, the towns were one of the coolest parts about the game. The first game is a very lonely experience. You wander around in the wilderness, occasionally hobnobbing with shysters and elderly hermits. The Hyrule in Zelda 2 felt like a real kingdom, and saving it somehow felt more important.

Cameron wrote:

(if I recall correctly, in the original Zelda 2, you could still see the floor and ceiling without the candle)

Yes. And you could see the feet of enemies as they moved along the floor. But you could not see fucking bats.