Enthralling story and gorgeous art direction!

User Rating: 9.5 | The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess GC
This game has its plusses and minuses. By itself it is a solid game with an enthralling story and gorgeous art direction. I really wanted this to be a perfect game; however I don’t believe it is. The textures are low quality, but other than that the game is graphically perfect. I have no other graphical quarrels about this game. It is beautiful.

The controls are a little weird; they feel like they ported the Wii controls back to into Gamecube instead of just using the original Gamecube controls. I don’t think it affects game play enough to warrant a lower score; it is just an observation

The sound effects are really well done, however I do feel that this game would have benefited from having an orchestrated soundtrack. There were times where I felt the synthesized music fit really well, and others where I felt it was out of place.

Some people argue that the game needed voice acting, and scrolling through text is dated, however I feel it just depends on your taste. I personally like the way they balanced the text with a little hint of the characters voice. Far too often have I played a game where bad voice acting ruined the experience.

Compared to other Zelda games I don’t think it is the best in the series, but that doesn’t change the fact that it is an awesome game. I think WW and OoT did a better job of introducing you to the game. This game does, however, have one of the best Zelda storylines.