Self admittedly inspired by Zelda II, but certainly not just a blatant clone. It's another side scrolling action RPG of the time, and while it does away with some of the stuff that I felt like didn't work in The Adventure of Link, it still feels like an iterative step in quality. Dungeons are more varied, but repetitive and sometimes dull combat offsets that improvement. The story is also more involved than the light framing of its Hylian counterpart, but clearly not interesting enough to have made it into the pantheon of gaming legends. Worth playing for people who wanted more Zelda and Xanadu back in the day, but not good enough to have planted its own flag.