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I’m A Happy Gamer!
Now eveyone who reads this can find out where my free time has been going this past week. Opening the game file inside the memory card, it says that I’ve been immersing myself in the land of Hyrule for over 20 hours. Wow!
For the uninitiated, The Legend Of Zelda series is one of the most prolific and successful game series ever, alongside of the Final Fantasy series. The objective in all the games in the series is to guide a young warrior whom, by default, is named Link, through several quests and a number of huge dungeons to save the land of Hyrule and/or the princess Zelda who rules over the land. Very few of the games stray away from that formula. While you lead Link in his quest, he’ll pick up all sorts of new abilities. The epic scope of the adventures, the imaginations behind the storylines and the sheer quality of gameplay is what has made these games so successful. Also, each of the Zelda games rely on a different theme, especially the later games. One dealt with music and time (Ocarina of Time), one with masks and music (Majora’s Mask) and one dealt with the element of wind and conducting (The Wind Waker). In this game, The Legend Of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Link needs to mainly utilize an ability and theme very new to the series: Animal. He gets to shapeshift between wolf and human forms and also talk to other animals. This makes for some very interesting puzzles! Of course, the puzzle aspect is also what draws gamers back to the series time and again.
I’ll be making an in-depth review of the whole game as soon as I finish it. Luckily, I haven’t needed much help in the way of hints, mainly because I’ve gotten used to the kind of puzzles in these games (but they’re still a challenge!). Right now, I’d say I’m more than halfway or maybe two-thirds of the way through the game. From what I’ve seen so far, Nintendo did an outstanding job polishing off the finer details of the game, like individual personalities and character nuances. They also added some things that simply made my jaw go through the floor! I only wish I had a way to record my entire gameplay. I’d love to show some of the juicier scenes to everyone (especially you, T—-s!). If I had to compare this game to Zelda: Ocarina Of Time, arguably the best in the entire series, Twilight Princess just might have a good try at replacing the beloved Ocarina.
Just wait for the review…
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Hey, I love the Legend of Zelda! I had it on my Game Boy (yes I had a Game Boy) and it was so addictive. I got stuck at one of the levels and never really went back to it… but I will someday. My husband got stalled at level 9 on an old nintendo Time doesn’t permit at the moment as you can imagine. So I hope you aren’t going to give away too many secrets. Although, probably the tips might be good. I assume you are playing it on a wii? It must be different from the GB. At least there is the Internet to find the tips
Actually Britgirl, I’m playing the GameCube version (hence, the picture of the GC version). I figured I’m not missing out since really, when Nintendo did the preliminary testing on the game elements, they used the GC’s processor. It was more made for the GameCube than the Wii, but they were easily able to transtion the game control scheme to the Wii specs. This is all from what I’ve read. They only released it first for the Wii since it was to be one of the Wii’s launch titles, a distinct honor for any game. It even uses a modified version of the Zelda: Wind Waker’s graphics engine… and Wind Waker was freaking beautiful on the GameCube!
I grew up totally on the 3D Zelda games, so I’m a little deprived of the old school Zelda games. My wife, though, does have the original NES with the first Zelda game (the gold cartridge one!). Lotsa fun!
As Chris said there’s no big difference between the Wii and the Gamecube version of Zelda. The only ones that I can think of are no Widescreen support on the gamecube and whatever happens to be on the left on the Wii version is on the right on the Gamecube version (or vice versa, not quite sure) which is pretty odd if you ask me.
Regardless Zelda games have always delivered as great pieces of game making. Truly one of the best videogame franchises out there.
Looking forward to that review Chris!