Zelda II: The Nightmare of Ganon is a comprehensive romhack of the original NES game, Zelda II: The Adventure of Link. It features an entirely new story, redesigned overworld, towns, caves, and palaces, along with altered item placement and gameplay mechanics. This challenging hardtype variant enhances difficulty through level design rather than enemy strength, offering a fresh experience for players.
The Nightmare of Ganon is a complete redesign of the NES game Zelda II with new story, overworld, caves, palaces, towns, item order, random encounters, and more.
It's a hardtype and more challenging then the original game. Enemies don't take more hits then usual, the difficulty lies more in the design.
It's much longer because of a bigger overworld which has more caves and bridges. There are longer caves and deeper palaces.
There are a couple custom changes to gameplay which include enemies that respawn & you can restart at the palace if you game over.
This romhack will give a feeling like it's a totally new Zelda II game because none of the design is similar to the original.
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V e r s i o n 1 . 4 f i x e s :
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V e r s i o n 1 . 5 f i x e s :
- S o m e c a v e s w e r e n o t d a r k w h e n y o u d i d n ' t h a v e t h e C a n d l e . A l l c a v e s h a v e b e e n f i x e d t o b e i n d a r k n e s s w h e n y o u h a v e n o C a n d l e .
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