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disappointing. Mainly because we waited 5 years for this  and it was just good, not great.

My favorite Zelda is Wind Waker.



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Amazing game, my personal all time favorite. The art style, the music, the locations, the story, the controls, the puzzles, and of course the gameplay are all amazing.

Don't listen to the haters, play the game and decide for yourself.



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Controls relatively well and it had some fun and interesting moments and innovations that I greatly appreciated, plus, some areas like Skyloft are some of my favorite areas in any Zelda games. Overworld was kinda boring though and some of the dungeons really weren't my cup of tea and the music overall felt lacklustre, especially when it came to dungeons, but it's still a great game.



mZuzek said:
ExplodingBlock said:

Why do people hate Twilight Priness so much? It's my favorite Zelda game out there

I was referring to the beginning of the game, which, like it or not, I think we should all agree is very bad. Twilight Princess had a very, very slow start, with no story, memorable characters, interesting gameplay or just about anything of note, and it took quite a long time to get good. Honestly, I think that game only really started to get going after the first dungeon, and that was 4 hours into it.

That said, I'm not a big fan of Twilight Princess as a whole either. The beginning and ending specifically ruin it for me - it's a shame because from Arbiter's Grounds to the Twilight Palace it's absolutely brilliant (much like the 5 temples in Ocarina of Time, actually).

The beginning of TP might not be very good, but even if we ignore that the game is still a lot longer than Skyward Sword. I loved the ending of TP, the Twilight Realm made for an amazing dungeon. I think TP has the best story in the entire Zelda franchise, I don't know why people hate on it so much. Ganon's execution scene is still my favorite cutscene in videogame history. Can't wait for a remake tbh, I haven't played it in many years. I hope they fix the prologue.

I think Midna and Zant are far more memorable than anything in Skyward Sword. I never got the love for Ghirarim (or whatever his name is).



Samus Aran said:

The beginning of TP might not be very good, but even if we ignore that the game is still a lot longer than Skyward Sword. I loved the ending of TP, the Twilight Realm made for an amazing dungeon. I think TP has the best story in the entire Zelda franchise, I don't know why people hate on it so much. Ganon's execution scene is still my favorite cutscene in videogame history. Can't wait for a remake tbh, I haven't played it in many years. I hope they fix the prologue.

I think Midna and Zant are far more memorable than anything in Skyward Sword. I never got the love for Ghirarim (or whatever his name is).

I couldn't stand the grating sound effects in the shadow or twilight world, hated those sections. The rest of the game was good though. I didn't mind the prologue either, slow start is fine. I mucked about on the start island in windwaker for a long time as well.



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Slarvax said:
Pikmin and Metroid > Zelda

Yes. 



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I loved it myself. The setting, art-style, and characters were all amazing, and the dungeons were some of the best in the series. Ancient Cistern is actually probably my favorite Zelda dungeon; I loved the Buddhist theme and the contrast it drew between light and dark (which is something I thought the game handled greatly in general).

The only thing I really disliked about the game was the lack of a real overworld. Flying was fun, but I wish I was able to do it in a more populated area, not just clouds with a few islands here and there. Motion controls and stamina bar didn't really bother me as much as it apparently bugged others. All in all, it's probably tied for my favorite game in the franchise alongside Windwaker, and the only Zelda game in which I completed a 2nd playthrough immediately afterwards.



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It is very fun, has great area and dungeon design, has good graphics and really good music, and has the best plot in the series!



mZuzek said:
SvennoJ said:

I couldn't stand the grating sound effects in the shadow or twilight world, hated those sections. The rest of the game was good though. I didn't mind the prologue either, slow start is fine. I mucked about on the start island in windwaker for a long time as well.

It's one thing to have an interesting first area with lots of things to do, NPCs to talk to and just hang around if you want to - it's a completely different thing to have an extremely boring first area with lots of mandatory pointless things you have to do and no direction whatsoever so you're just lost doing random fishing and "goating" with no story or anything.

If you like to just hang around in pointless first areas, that's fine, but it shouldn't be mandatory, and Twilight Princess' start was just really bad.

Sure if you put it like that. I never noticed you couldn't leave right away as I was fine getting comfortable with the controls, art style and especially getting used to not having direct camera control (played it on the Wii) I guess I would have noticed in a second playthrough yet the game wasn't that good to play again. (I played Windwaker 3 or 4 times, Skyward sword 0.85 times :/)




The story is phenomenal.

Meh about the rest.



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