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[SantaC]

Which of these two games do you think is better?

These two NES games have similar game mechanics, and BoO was even built on the Zelda II engine.

IMO Battle of Olympus is a more enjoyable game than Zelda II. I don't know really why, but Battle of Olympus is one of my fav games ever. I really liked the adventure setting plus that I love Greek history & mythology. I remember it as a hard game as a kid, I always got lost in the woods because the hidden doors were pretty tough to discover. I wish they made a sequel to BoO, but it will probably not happen because the developer who did the game does not excist anymore.

 

[Baron Aloha]

I've played and beat both about half a dozen times each and BoO > AoL. No question. No debate necessary.

 

[Semjaza Azazel]

They look VERY similiar, but I've never heard anything about them actually being built on the same engine. Are you sure about that?

I honestly prefer Battle of Olympus. I don't really know why, specifically. It's incredibly vague, some of the music is annoying as hell (although some of it is great) and enemies reset their locations constantly compared to Zelda II... but in the end I just found it to be more fun. There just seemed to be so much more to do, the items were more interesting, I prefered the setting and enemy designs.

Good game. Broderbund had a lot of random entertaining games back then... Like Legacy of the Wizard heh.

 

[MightyHedgehog]

I love both, but I'd have to go with BoO.

 

[jooey]

engine sure is a nice cop-out word for people that think they know what they're talking about, isn't it? (people on G4, etc.)

 

[SantaC]

They look VERY similiar, but I've never heard anything about them actually being built on the same engine. Are you sure about that?

Yes.

FACT: This game uses the same engine as Zelda2!

http://www.glasko.com/Reviews/Danoz/battleofolympus.shtml

 

[Mejilan]

I liked Zelda more. Better music, better level design, tighter, more focused experience.

BoO fucking rocks though.

 

[MoxManiac]

BoO for me. But they are both good games, and an interesting take on side scrolling.

 

[Blackace]

I've played and beat both about half a dozen times each and BoO > AoL. No question. No debate necessary.

This man is soooooo right

 

[belgurdo]

WHY CAPCOM WHY????

 

[MightyHedgehog]

I hated those commercials and couldn't understand why Capcom decided upon using that annoying bastard in a game... Little Caesars blew them away back then.

Anyway, as I picked BoO over Zelda II, I'd pick Magic of Scheherazade over both.

 

[Kobun Heat]

I'm still not seeing any proof that BoO uses the Zelda engine.

I didn't know that about Yo! Noid, though...

 

[Semjaza Azazel]

Yeah, I wanted to post about that. I don't even know that site that was used as proof... What reason is there to trust it? I've never heard that was true anywhere else before.

 

[Mermandala]

The answer is the game that had those sandals that let you jump up then flip and run upside down on the trees... so BoOya!

 

[Invader Zim]

Yo! Noid was a great game. Don't go hatin' on that son.

I played that game a lot when I was a kid. Pretty hard for a Capcom game from that time.

 

[belgurdo]

Yo! Noid was a great game. Don't go hatin' on that son.

I played that game a lot when I was a kid. Pretty hard for a Capcom game from that time.

I liked it myself (rented it all the time), but I wonder why Capcom just slapped the Noid license on a ninja game instead of releasing it as is and making something more in tune with Pizza for Domino's...

 

[GIR]

Battle of Olympus is very much one of the most underrated games of the 8bit era much like Gods (Bitmap Brothers) from the 16bit era, most people would have been put off by its difficulty level, I remember playing this one weekend when my family went away to go to a relatives wedding, I chose to stay home and play Battle of Olympus, I REGRET NOTHING!!!

More recently though I played it via an emu, collecting the olives sure was a pain in the arse, so much so that I stopped in frustration and wrote a saved state editor for it, and continued on my merry way though the land of ancient Greece, I give it 9/10.

Oddly enough I've never actually played though Zelda 2 so I cant really say which one is better, from what I played of Zedla 2 I would have to go with BoO, but I very much doubt that BoO is based on the Zedla 2 engine, I'd be very surprised if it was, think about it, do you really think Nintendo the most secretive video games company of the day would turn over even one byte of code over to some other developer?

 

[Mystifizor]

BoO is one of the greatest games ever.
Can't wait until GOD OF WAR,.....

 

[NotMSRP]

BOO is hard? I didn't have any difficulty with it.

 

[BenT]

It was hard in that you often didn't know quite where to go, and it had a lot of weird shit that you just had to discover through sheer luck. Like hitting that one tree in the woods to make it drop ambrosia, or crouching and hitting the 9th or 13th or whatever pillar in .. was it Crete? ... to make it drop the water flask. Crazy-ass random shit that would never pass muster in a modern game.

Still liked it lots.

I think Zelda II has much more solid-feeling combat, though, as well as a much smoother difficulty curve.

 

[hobbitx]

Not only did I love Battle of Olympus more, it's also one of my all time underrated favorites right next to Equinox. I loved everything about this game, the unique art style, the beautiful greek folk music that really helped establish the feel of the game, and the wonderful yet often very frustrating gameplay. Even though I loved this game more, it's only by an extremely tiny margin and most of that is because of my huge love for Greek Mythology.

Why oh why couldn't BoO get at least a SNES sequel? *cries*

I still love Zelda II a ton as well though, out of all the Zeldas I've played, that one made me feel the most like I was in the land of Hyrule. Yeah seriously, an 8-bit game made me feel more there than a modern 3d one. The music and the cool style of the houses and cities, it just made me feel like I was right there talking to those people, those homes looked so cozy too. In some odd ways, WW sort of reminds me of Zelda II, yet in alot of others it couldn't be anymore different. I'd kill for a Zelda game that has the same feel and type of world Zelda II had.

 

[Mau_Mau]

Having recently completed Zelda II on the GCN Collector's Disc, naturally I'll have to go with it. Battle of Olympus had great, quirky music and some of the most annoying enemies in video game history (specifically those small, stuffed-animal-looking bear things that would throw an arrow at you and then just run away), but ultimately it was the game's insane difficulty and loose controls that ruined it for me. Was it my imagination, or did it feel like the main character controlled like he was on ice skates?

 

[lordmrw]

Anyway, as I picked BoO over Zelda II, I'd pick Magic of Scheherazade over both.

Now thats what I'm talking about. Those of you that don't know need to find the rom or buy the game in the flea market to experience one of the best nes games ever.

 

[The Promised One]

Personally, I'd have to say Zelda 2. I absolutely loved it. But, BoO certainly was awesome. Heck, I wish they'd make a GBA port of it!!! (and Zelda 2)