A serious look and critique at the new Zelda game for the Nintendo Wii
The game starts like most of the others do. You're a striking young lad in a small village who is different from everyone else in one way or another. One thing leads to another and before you know it you've been burdened with the heavy task of rescuing princess zelda and saving the world from pure evil. So it is. So it's always been.
The Wii remote offers some ideas for aiming and swordfighting and in the end they really just add up to a fancier way of getting the job done, not necessarily better. But if your playing from the GCN then you should feel right at home.
Gameplay: The tried and true method of the Zelda series is alive and kicking in this "next-gen" game. You'll be exploring dungeons, helping strangers and doing all sorts of crazy crap that for whatever the reason we've all grown to love. It's not amazingly deep but it does offer a wide variety of new ideas and things to do. It's fun and enjoyable, theres no question about it. Not exceptional but by no means is it any lower than "good"... 9
Graphics: The hardest part about grading graphics at this point in the Wii's stages is that theres not much to compare them to. Zelda has the best graphics on any launch Wii Game so does it deserve a 10? but it's the same as the GCN from the last generation so should it be around a 5? Well, the graphics are pretty good either way and they certainly show the world of hyrule in the beauty that it is... 8
Sound: Possibley the most disapointing part of this game was it's audio. Not only was the music a bit lacking compared to Ocarina of time (which was from the N64, mind you) but also the overall sound quality from both the game and the wii remote were somewhat displeasing. It was tollerable, but it just hurts to know that it could have been exceptional... 6
Value: This game is a 40 hour game, give or take. Some people baet it in 30 hours, others are yet to see the end at 60. It took me 40 hours, and i did many side quests and things like that... almost all of them in fact. It's nothing special and compared to games like Oblivion (no that i am) it is a bit lacking, and most disapointing from a zelda game. You barely have enough time to really enjoy the world before it's over. If you just stick to the main quest you'll get around 30 hours. For those who try to get most of the secrets (not secrets like in ocarina, just little unnecessary side quests) then say 50 hours. But all in all don't expect more that 40 even in that sense. The game doesn't let you save once you beat it so technically you can play forever, but there really isn't a point... 8
Tilt: I'm not really sure what this means actually... So i'm just going to go ahead and assume it's there to include all the little things that made aslight difference, if that makes any sense... It's a great game, what you expect from a zelda. But you look at games like ocarina and you start to think if this was really the best they could do? They do have many characters that you grow to love, but you don't really get to know them. The wolf idea is really entertaining, they did that right. They did a lot of things right with this game and overall it is really fun and refreshing. It deserves to be played and in no way was disapointing... 9