Twilight Princess: Overrated or Underrated?

Is Twilight Princess overrated or underrated? Or is it rated evenly?

Over rated last gen game, with nothng special about it, stays stuck in the past with no voice acting and really looks poor when you consider they never really bother enhanching it in anyway.

It's the same as every other Zelda game.

Wow, I really loved Twilight Princess, and for me this was my second favorite Zelda game (OoT is the first one obviously :) ). In my opinion, the game deserved at least a 9.

Solid game, strong technical achievements, but little to none of the stuff that makes Zelda as special as it should be, not to mention an awful marketing history that makes it taste even more bitter.

Its one of the few games where I honestly feel very few really appreciate it for what it is.

Half of the people wish it was as good as or better than Ocarina, the other half think its the best one yet. I refuse to assign myself to either group.

Its just another Zelda game, that alone gives it a stronger foundation than a plethora of other titles. It was solidly built, looked great, played even better, and is easily the best launch title this side of SMW.

TP was never competing with Ocarina. Ocarina was ecclipsed by Majora's Mask long ago, and MM was ecclipsed by Wind Waker.

Wind Waker is not a very easy game to follow up.

It was a good game late in gamecube's life, but I still never understood why it was ported to Wii. It controlled much better on GC and you could have played the GC version on Wii... it just seemed like a desperate move by Nintendo to generate more interest in the Wii's launch.

By today's standards and even at its time, I found the game to be overrated. It was a solid game and looked great (for GC), but it never pushed the Wii to do new things... it didn't even push gameplay boundaries on the GC. It seems at this point, until Nintendo realizes how dated the franchise is, each instalment is going to be stuck in the same cycle that only serves as fanfare and won't attract new attention.

wintry_flutist hit the nail on the head.

Great game, but not up to par with the rest of the zelda series. It just didn't have that feel of being in a magic fantasy world like the other Zeldas I guess.

I think the gamespot review of it was very accurate.

I'm a huge Zelda fan, and I....wanted a game similiar to Ocarina, but expected more from it as well. Yes, it did do everything that OoT did, but better. But other than controls, gfx, and being bigger....it failed imo at the same time.

Hyrule was a barren wasteland

Barely any interaction between characters

pointless items that only had use for a specific dungeon

pathetically easy

etc.

OoT had tons going for it, and TP (Nintendo) couldn't pull it off. You can't really blame them when they have to create something better than OoT, because that's a difficult task to do. But I still expected more.

I thought the game was pretty much rated evenly. It sold okay, it didn't sell quite as well as Nintendo imagined it would, but it wasn't a total flop. You don't really hear much about Twilight Princess anymore, it isn't as nostalgic and memorable as Ocarina of Time was, but it is still the latest game in the series. It isn't as bad as Phantom Hourglass was and Spirit Tracks probably will be, and it was a lot better than Minish Cap and the Four Swords games, but not as good as Link's Awakening and the Oracle games. It's actually probably one of the more average Zelda games out there.

I guess I'd say its underrated considering all the haters on the internet. It's exactly what Zelda fans were asking for after OoT. Besides the pacing, It did everything better than OoT. Rocky32189

Agreed. imo it's the second best game in the series, after Majoras Mask.

I really don't understand it when people say TP's story sucked. It was the first Zelda story to actually involve the partners (Midna) life as a very important factor in the story.

Overrated, and the biggest flop in the whole series (Nintendo made wise).nintendoboy16

So Zelda II wasn't?

[QUOTE="nintendoboy16"]Overrated, and the biggest flop in the whole series (Nintendo made wise).Brawl578

So Zelda II wasn't?

Severely underrated. The old saying "if it aint broke dont fix it" has never been more true than with Twilight Princess. It basically takes the formula of Ocarina of time and improves upon it by miles. Better gameplay all round. Better dungeons, better design, better controls, better combat, a bigger and more interesting world, its much longer and has way more fun things to do outside of the main story. Plus it's better in the less important ways such as the graphics and storyline. It's just better in every single way. That's what I want from a sequel.

Far too often I've seen sequels stray away from a winning formula in an attempt to try something new, only to fail miserably. Twilight Princess is the perfect sequel. It sticks to a winning formula but makes necessary changes and improvements to make sure it's not just a rehash. It's my second favourite game of all time, behind Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. San Andreas is an example of another fantastic sequel. It sticks to the winning formula but makes enough changes and improvements to make it a fantastic sequel. Look what happened when Rockstar tried to fix what wasn't broken by going the realism route with GTA IV. The fans were not happy.

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[QUOTE="nintendoboy16"]Overrated, and the biggest flop in the whole series (Nintendo made wise).Ovirew

So Zelda II wasn't?

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[QUOTE="nintendoboy16"]Overrated, and the biggest flop in the whole series (Nintendo made wise).Ovirew

So Zelda II wasn't?

Don't get me wrong, I liked it too, but it just wasn't Zelda.

Twilight Princess is cool.

Very Underrated.

Evenly rated, as there are various people promoting both extremes. I'd say it's and 8.5, which is great. Not one of the best Zeldas, but solid fun nonetheless.

I don't see how it's overrated when everyone and their mom thinks it's overrated. When everyone thinks a great game is overrated it becomes underrated and that's what's become of TP. Twilight Princess is the best Zelda in my opinion. Granted, I haven't played any of the handheld games or the original so my knowledge is narrower than some others but I've played enough Zelda to know a good one from a bad one. TP is a perfection of the Ocarina model and I understand that some are bored of that model but I doesn't make Twilight Princess worse than other Zeldas and it certainly doesn't make it bad or overrated.

i loved it. in the end, that's all that mattersfunsohng

Woohoo! I've only played Phantom Hourglass and Twilight Princess, but to me, TP was awesome! Everything I expected Zelda to be. Probably one of my top 3 games for the Wii, along with Galaxy and SSBB.

I guess I'd say its underrated considering all the haters on the internet. It's exactly what Zelda fans were asking for after OoT. Besides the pacing, It did everything better than OoT. Rocky32189

I agree.

Underrated. The game really did wow me. I also really like the wii controls (especially regarding the arrow/boomerang).

It's a great game but the 9's and 10's it was getting at it's release were a little crazy. It was mainly due to hype on the new Wii system and the fact that it was a brand new Zelda game.

I gave it a 10/10 when I first finished playing it, and now as I play through it a second time... I'd still give it a 10/10. :P

I don't get all the hate it receives.

In terms of reviews its overrated, my least favorite 3D Zelda. Just didn't wow me like the other Zeldas did.

Solid game, strong technical achievements, but little to none of the stuff that makes Zelda as special as it should be, not to mention an awful marketing history that makes it taste even more bitter.

Wintry_Flutist

I think this game is underrated. Maybe not in general but by many Zelda fans. I think a lot of it stems from the war between WW fans and TP fans. TP was made to look more realistic so its judged more for its appearances and game play. WW has the advantage with Toon Link. When you make a game so cartoon like you have more of a freedom with appearance and how Link will work meaning how he moves, shows emotions, etc. TP is an impressive game but I think people judge the game more from a 'well this is how the real world looks, this is how hyrule should' kind of attitude. I think both games are great in their own design and its unfair to compare apples and oranges

underrated, they should give this game at least 9.5!

It was a good game, unfortunately it had a huge amount of hype before it was released. Too much hype for any game to live up too. In the end I found it to be a good title, but not the ultimate Zelda game that the hype had led me to believe. Hopefully the next title will go in a different direction and use the Wii to its maximum capabilities.

I thought it was a good game. Not great but a good game.It just felt stail to me though, as strange is it sounds i rate it higher as a GC game than a wii game. I just expected more from a current gen zelda game. of course in truth all it was was a gamecube game with tacked on wii controls. Of course all the wii is is a gamecube with tacked on wii controls lol :p j/k

I gave it a 10/10 when I first finished playing it, and now as I play through it a second time... I'd still give it a 10/10. :P

I don't get all the hate it receives.

GabuEx

^agreed

I like it. Story was ok, graphics good (GC version), controls ok (I didnt leke the wii ones Links sword should have been in his left hand), Dialog maybe the npc`s should have speach but meh. I would say its O.K not the worst not the best, but good (Kinda liked Windwaker better)

that's a good yet tough one ... I've been thinking about how good this actually is for quite some time. And while I'm convinced it's a great game, I'm just not quite sure whether every great game makes for a worthy Zelda

I first played it on Wii. I'll never forget when I saw that nice fairy-style pointer and thought like "wow, finally I can control Navi". But then again, that damn pointer was only there to fool me. And it really set the tone for what was to come: A game obviously designed for another console.

Second time I played it, it was on GC through a friend of mine. The nice thing, by the way, was that it's mirrored vertically, which totally blew my orientation. It was almost like I hadn't played it before. The GC version was, IMO, noticably better than the Wii built, especially control-wise. So blame Nintendo for delaying this great experience just to release a half-assed port for their new console, but be all happy you finally played the game the way it's supposed to be? Mostly, yes

I really liked how they softened that clear distinction "overworld - dungeon". I mean, most of those dungeons where dungeons gameplay-wise, but not ... I don't know, let's call it story-wise. To make that clearer: the house Big Foot and his wife live in ain't a dungeon, it's a house. At the same time, at least the first few where just to easy for fans of the series (You knew all the way what you had to do.)

I also enjoyed playing as a Wolf, although, if I remember correctly, the reasoning behind you being able to switch forms as you wish later in the game was just contradicting rubbish (ok, rubbish reasoning don't make any game bad). At the same time, I would have loved to see interacting with other animals a more important aspect of the game. It felt like a great idea that never quite got beyond the state of an idea. The same is true with the smell thing.

Finally, I thought TP had a way to large arsenal of items. The problem with that was that with some puzzles, I really felt like you should be able to solve em with varous items, but in fact, only one worked - oddly enough. For example, that big ball-flail thin would have been useless had the game had a physics-engine worth the name.

All in all, I don't see why anybody would rate this higher than The Wind Waker (which would have been better than OoT so easily if not for the repeating sections at the end), but I do see it as an awesome gaming experience if compared to games as such, not only Zelda games. I've seen reviews that overrated it, I've seen reviews that underrated it, so I'm guessing it's pretty evenly rated on average