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What the fuck are you talking about? Zelda 2 released a year after but feels like it came before Zelda 1 as it is a downgrade in nearly every way. You're acting like Zelda 1 is some clunky, unplayable beast when in reality it feels much more like a traditional action adventure game (partly because it actually established many of these foundations and principles) than Zelda 2.
Zelda 1 has such straightforward but challenging and satisfying combat, with a strong focus on positioning, spacing, and learning enemy movesets. Whereas in Zelda 2, you just do gay footsies with your tiny little butter knife for every single enemy in the entire game. And that's IF you actually engage with them instead of just jump or fairy fly right past them because it's not even worth bothering.
There's nothing to "understand" about the levelup system, it's stupid, mindless, time-wasting jarpig garbage. The only caveat is the game expects you to either save the dungeon levelups until the end or do a bunch of repetitive grinding if you didn't. All it does is just make the combat an unbalanced mess, where it's too easy if you're overleveled, but just a repetitive slog if you're underleveled. RPG grinding shit has no place in an action game, and Zelda 2's implementation is one of the absolute worst as the power gain from even just a couple levels is absolutely massive, so it's a very delicate balance to not become underleveled or overleveled
You're that same retarded zoomer shitstain from the other thread a few weeks ago who thinks that all NES games are shit and have aged like milk. Just kys retard. Thinking NES games have all aged like shit but somehow latching onto Zelda 2 is just so fucking asinine and nonsensical.
