45 of the funnest Hours of my life.
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Story: I was expecting something much deeper since it was rated Teen, and by god we got it. In this one Hyrule is being taken over by Zant "the Twilight King" and after you are transformed into a Wolf by his world taking over part of yours [I usualy just call em dark zones], and you are aided by the little Imp Midna and you find Zelda and she tells you what to do, you have to colect 3 Fused Shadows from 3 temples, after you do that Zant comes and jams a crystal into your head and wounds Midna, and you have to go to Zelda [best song in the game plays during that] and she sacrifices herself to save Midna and you need to find the Master Sword to heal, after that you get a "shadow crystal" that allows you to transform at will, then you need to find 4 "Miror Shards" and you see a cool video of Ganondorf being stabbed in the chest, and discovering Midna is the "Twilight Princess". After you get the miror shards you go to Zant's castle and discover Midna's people transformed into monstrosities, you need to defeat Zant but you also discover that Ganondorf gave him his powers. Then you need to go to Hyrule Castle and kill Ganondorf in an epic battle which also kills Zant [because Zant lives as long as Gannondorf does], then Midna is transformed into her real form, she then goes back to her realm and breaks the Mirror so noone else gets in.
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Gameplay: You are Link, and you are now a righty and the game was mirored because you hold the Wiimote in your Right hand [why diddnt they just redo Links model, or leave him a lefty]. You are aided by Midna who works like Navi or Tattl from OoT and MM and enables you some abilities, she also rides on you in Wolf form and preforms an energy attack and allows you to jump large distances. Luckily the Swords are much longer in this game because it felt like in Wind Waker the Master Sword was as big as it was in OoT, instead of the menuvers in WW where you hit "A" when the symbol pops up and you do a counter attack you now have to learn them from the Hero's Spirit and preform them in battle, and they work quite well. You are also able to collect many items and powerups, and there is a massive ammount of them, I only got around half of the Heart Pieces bugs and poes and it took me 43 Hours to beat the game and I spend a Week and a Half on it [December 25th/ January 4th], so I suppose if I went to get everything I would of spent around 60/70 hours on the game, it is quite long and is the LONGEST Zelda game ever made, experienced players of Zelda will problay find the game to be easy and I found it to be a little bit to easy [Wind Waker was WAY too easy] and this was the fastest I have ever beaten one of the games, but I will call it hard since there will be plenty of newbies out there and it will take them longer.
Controls: It did feel like a mistake making link a righty for some people but damn it it did work. The sword movements arent as percise as the buttons but it felt fine for me, also aiming was drasticly improved and the hidden moves were easy to pull off, but some of them [shield push] did not work right every time. Personaly it felt great how it worked and I hope that the next Wii-Zelda works even better.
Graphics: This games eye candy alone is proof that Nintendo has some amazing people working for them, everythign had the unique charm that Zelda games have and the sheer beauty of the massive enviroments was mindboggling. Techicnaly comparing the game to games on the 360 and PS3 will not work very well but the artistic direction is what made the graphics so good, everything looked so real and Zelda-ey at the same time. I was really impressed and the Lip-Sync looked great... though there was no VAing [except for Midna].
Sound: Like always Zelda has amazing music made by the brilliant composers at Nintendo. Some people complain about it not being a full orchestra, but I don't really notice it sounds fine to me. All of the little sounds and the small details coming through the Wii-Mote speaker were great. All that could of made it better was full VA work, though that may of ruined parts of Zelda for some people. [by the way, if anyone knows where I can download the song that you hear while you are as Wolf Link trying to bring Midna to Zelda so she can heal you after getting the 3rd Fused Shadow, someone please PM me the link].
Replayability: You can get 40 hours doinf minimal runs of the game, so you should be able to get a lot of time in there finding everything, also the epic battle against Ganondorf is fun to replay.
Overall: This game is the sole reason to buy the Nintendo Wii right now, and if you are too much of a cheap bastard to buy one then try and find the GCN version.