Phantom Hourlgass is incredible
I think i shall start this by telling you about the beauty in this game its so great even the opening when you first insert your game into your ds the way you see bright blue waves splashing up against the side of your boat and the amazing differences in environments from sunny beach's to cold icy northern islands. The character design is brilliant too how link is made to look along with the other great characters and companions.
The story behind the game is that link has to go off and find his friend who has been captured by an evil sea demon who has thrown down the ocean king and taken control of the oceans which you will explore during the game. As you can imagine your job is to go and find your friend on a great journey across the oceans. I can't explain the story fully because it is difficult to explain and i definately don't want to give any spoilers away so i will just say that you have to go through alot of hard sometimes annoying levels to complete your tasks and i wont lie these levels can be incredibly difficult but if you want to carry on you will push forward and when you have completed a level it feels really good and satisfying. However the levels are only on the islands and the islands are only one half of the game the other is when you are in your boat with your companion who is the captain and you can navigate wherever you want to go and he will take you there the boat is a great addition to the game you can fully customise it to have a cannon and even a salvage arm so you can salvage treasure marked on your map.
The touch screen brings this game to life you can do anything you want by touch from navigating your character to slashing baddies with your sword. Which brings me to weapons, you can get a variety of weapons in phantom hourglass but all of them have to be earned you can get a sword , boomerang, bombs, a giant hammer, a grappler and a super sword and as you can imagine once you have found these weapons your next mission will need you to throw your boomerang at something you can't reach to get a door open or bash something big with your hammer which really helps you to figure out how these weapons work my personal favourite was the boomerang it got me out of some really sticky spots.
I know i must have missed something out but there is so much to phantom hourglass i can't possibly fit everything into one review. All in all phantom hourglass is a truely incredible game although the ending left me and many others scratching our heads saying ... ''EH'' but it all comes together. Anyone with a ds who hasn't even played a zelda game before should get this and play it its a beautifull game full to the brim with excitement and emotion and it should always be remembered as one of the best games to ever come to the ds because that's what it is.