Well I beat the heck out of Spirit Tracks. I beat the game in four days flat and I had to restrain myself from beating it in the first 2. XD The game isn't neccessarily short but there wasn't enough dungeon in it for me. Not that it had to have 8 dungeons it's just the dungeons were sort of short like its predecessor. Not as linear thankfully but still short. In any case I was satisfied witht the ending for the most part. The final boss part reminds me of.... well you can find out for yourself. It was much tougher that PH's final boss thankfully and despite GSs bashing it I think the difficulty was actually ramped up a bit this time around. The final part of the Spirit Tower made me feel like jumping off a cliff.... well that is until I discovered the other magic powerz of the whip. Defeating demon trains made me happy because the frustrated me to no end when they were roaming the lands. XD

Well I'm gonna talk about the ending now so for those of you who haven't beat it or wish to not spoil the ending for yourselves I suggest you don't read between the spoilers.

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Alright so the final battle was alright. Malladus almost seemed like a sidekick though and Cole was the real villain imo. Cole is doing all of this evil junk and Malladus makes this brief epic end of game battle appearance. It's sort of similar to TP except Cole was already insane lol. The Demon train was a fun battle, puppet Zelda was tough and annoying but overall somewhat enjoyable. I though it was hilarious that Cole persistently launched electrical mice at Zelda. Guess he knew her weakness. Oops.

Malladus in Cole's body was not enjoyable at first. The very first part was pretty stupid, defend Zelda from fireballs. It seemed like it was put in there to tag a little more time into the "epic final battle". It was for the most part senseless taping and I could have done without it. However the final part was the most satisfying part of the battle. It reminded me of of two battles. It reminded me of a Ganon battle from either TP or OoT combined with the Ganondorf battle of WW. It was probably the easiest of the four stages of Malladus but the most thought out and creative and honestly difficulty just doesn't triumph over that.

Now to discuss the ending. OMG ZELDA AND LINK HOLD HANDS. *whistles* Nintendo took it a step farther right thar. Not to say I didn't see it coming. By the end of the game the strength of the young couple is powerful and you're just thinking "gosh something is going to happen". The reason why I say Nintendo took it a step farther is because I believe this probably triumphs over a kiss on the cheek. I mean when you think about it that could be a sign of just gratitude. The holding hands thing in my opinion signals more of a relationship especially when occuring between seperate genders. A kiss on the cheek is just meh. I'm sorta surprised Nintendo did it too. It seems like in the past they have innitially just avoided the whole Link x Zelda or Mario x Peach thing and just left you to speculate.They always want to keep a more light hearted feel to their games. Now I could see it happening in a more realistic Zelda with a more mature theme but in the toon link games they seem to keep it as nice and easy as they can. Then again Zelda and Byrne both technically die (Byrne explodes and Cole laughs which frankly creeped me out) so even the toon link games are approaching mature. So to sum it up Nintendo seems to be granting some fan appeal by confirming what we had previously speculated even in something as small as holding hands. It wasn't any kiss on the lips but it certainly did help confirm speculation.

Now was the ending believable? I thought so. Did you guys? I mean it seems like at first they were just doing this whole thing to get it over with and they kept to that but secretly missed eachother. I thought PH had a nice ending too. The DS Zeldas seemed to have the most pleasing endings to me next to OoT or MM. So needless to say I felt a sense of accomplishment with the words "THE END" appeared on my screen.

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In other news I beat N.O.V.A. If you don't know what that is chances are you don't have an iTouch or iPhone and/or you don't play games on it. Anyways I'll have reviews for both of those games up sometime soon. And that means in the next month. XD

Well that's it for this blog I guess I'll see you later.

The iTouch gamer you never knew, frogloe