The Best Zelda...Words from a Longtime Fan
Post Via amazon in Wii Games ReviewThe Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
I have been guiding the little man in the green hat (Link) through adventures since 1987, when I was five years old. I've played most of the games - the two NES titles, LttP, Ocarina, and Link's Awakening. I didn't bother with Majora's Mask or any of the other gameboy titles, and I only got about 25% into Wind Waker before becoming bored.
I am the only carbon-based life form that didn't absolutely LOVE Ocarina.
Why didn't I love it? The N64 was an imperfect machine. It's limitations were such that Hyrule in Ocarina of Time felt to me like a day at Disneyland - all of these wonderful lands connected via a central hub - complete with cinderella's castle! It took less than 4 minutes to walk from one end of the hyrule field to the other. Remembering fondly the days in which walking across Hyrule was a TREK, a serious journey and not a galavant through a simple-polygon filled world, all I could do was play on. It was a great game, no doubt, but I felt the N64 did not have the ability to sustain a world large enough to be worthy of the Zelda moniker.
Friends...welcome to Hyrule.
Twilight Princess is the best, because it combines the absolute BEST things about two of the best Zelda games. It has all of the greatest gameplay aspects of Ocarina - the innovative control, the daunting 3D puzzles, the wonder of seeing Link in a 3D universe - and everything that made A Link to the Past amazing - a SUPERB storyline, and the feeling of sheer VASTNESS...my lord. Hyrule was NEVER this big. Without revealing too much, Lake Hylia is simply IMMENSE. You can see death mountain (a very oddly-shaped death mountain...) from a great distance before ever even being CLOSE to near it. Clearly, the sheer size of Hyrule allowed the creators to simply go bonkers cramming every nook and cranny with secrets, to the tune of 45 pieces of heart to locate, among many many other things.
People like to complain about the Wii version's graphics - do they understand that this is a port of a gamecube game? Doubtful. These people have been spoiled by their saccarine HD 1080i world. The graphics in twilight princess look stunning enough that the occasional muddy texture can easily be overlooked. If you don't like it, try playing 8-bit NES zelda for awhile.
One thing - The Wii controls DO seem a bit tacked-on, but they're fun anyway, and add a dash of novelty. Fishing is great, and I'm sorry, but I LOVE the fact that you aim things (bow, reel, hookshot, etc) with the remote. It's roughly 40 billion times easier than trying to manage it with a joystick, and SO many times now I've thanked the lord for the advent of having a handy remote to use - nothing between the game and my own excellent hand-eye coordination.
The breadth and scope of this game is unparalleled. In my OPINION, it is better than link to the past, and definitely Ocarina. It has everything those games have, only all problems have been eradicated and EVERYTHING has been improved.
If you disagree with me, I don't care, because I'm right.
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