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[QUOTE="texasgoldrush"] nope. Okami seems to have the better reception, in fact IGN gave Okami GOTY in 2006. okami is even rated higher here at GS. TP does nothing new, it was a rehash of OOT with an inferior story. I found th eboss battles in TP to be weak as well. I take Orochi over them anyday.Scythes777
you didn't explain yourself at all. you pointed to the community - of course I know how much blind hate goes towards TP from the community.
tell you what, since TP and OOT aren't similar in the slightest other than the core game design,
why don't you tell me how it's such a dissapointment to the series, a rehash with no redeeming qualities ect. ect.?
boss battles were easy, but their design was great. as were the dungeons - in fact, TP may have the best level design of all the zelda games.
so yeah, explain to me in detail about how TP is such a failure, then I'll reply.
Well since I hate on TP alot, I will post my thoughts. TP had great dungeons, probably the best in the entire series, possibly one of its few redeeming qualities. While the bosses looked cool, however their simplicity and easiness made them not fun to fight at all. Ganondorf felt tacked on and was unneeded. Zant could have been fleshed out more and made a better character. The soundtrack is the worst among the 3D Zeldas. Wolf parts were bad and repetitive. World was huge, but empty beyond belief(OOT had this problem as well, but the world was nowhere near as large). The Dark world thing was done before in the series in ALttP, and it was done better there. Well thats all I have for right now. Overall I enjoyed the game, but it disappointed me.
these are some legitimate complaints, And I have to agree with some of them to an extent.
the bosses were definitely easy, no doubt, but the way you took some of them down were certainly the most unique in the series. there's many examples, like the 4th boss which had you riding the spinner during the fight, which was really awesome, or the seventh which used the double clawshots in a really cool way. those were the most notable examples, but all of them were great.
this is something I can undestand someone would say, but I'll tell you why he wasn't tacked on to TP. because of what happened in ocarina of time and the two different timelines in it, *Ocarina of Time had two endings, one where Link was a child, and another where he was an adult.*
in the adult timeline, after the seven sages locked away ganondorf in the sacred realm - the next game in this timeline was the windwaker. after many many years, ganon broke free of the sacred realm and came back into hyrule. the gods then flooded hyrule in an attempt to stop ganon, but they failed. so the next link had to stop him, (wind waker) and that was the end of ganon from that time.
in the child timeline, after the sages sent ganon to the sacred realm, link placed the master sword back into his pedestal and became a child again. he and zelda then told the sages about ganondorfs plan, (which at this point in time hadn't happend because link never picked up the master sword) and the sages attempted to execute him. - this is where TP comes in, which is part of the child timeline. there was a cutscene of that happening in TP, after you find the mirror of twilight after the 4th temple, and the sages explain all of that. in short, ganondorf didn't just come out of nowhere and was part of the main story in TP in the beggining - so ganondorf wasn't tacked on.
here's the article on the split timeline
on the soundtrack, I will admit that it's not quite as good as the other's because it's midi and not orchestrated, but it's still outstanding.
for some examples, this or this, are just a couple of them which are really great because I know I'm making this post horrendously long :P but come on TP had a beastly soundtrack.
I'll cover the rest in another post I know I'm writing a ton for this one :P
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