>>3846379
It's more than nostalgia. By the standards of the time, the game was groundbreaking, a gamechanger.
The second part of the game had not been done before, where the world was torn apart and what had been set up as the end of the game was just the beginning of the end, and the rest was set in a destroyed world where the antagonist, effectively, had won.
And Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda's second quests on the NES don't count, since they were just harder versions of the same first game.