Zelda Wii: "Expect Surprises"

[Gnac]

contestgamer said:

Gnac said:

Khuutra said:

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Go play LttP, you! It's better than whatever you're playing now!

Oh god YES. I recently replayed LttP in front of someone whose introduction to Zelda was OoT. They asked to borrow my Gamecube + TP, and after hearing their comments on the game, I insisted that they experience LttP, just to see how drunk on cinematics the Zelda Team has become.

I'm trying not to sound too Malstrom-y here, but I'll get around to posting in the thread you made about this very thing when I have some quality time to play through the games again, and explain just how bloated the formula has become recently.

Not that I don't enjoy recent games; I just want more people to experience what I have, y'know?

I play games, mostly, for the storylines...And thus cinematics are the focal point of the experience to me, above and beyond the gameplay quality. I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I can understand and see the flip side as well but I wouldn't say either way of judging games is better or worse than the other.

Fair comment (Khuutra too). I consider OoT to be the "middle ground" between LttP and TP in terms of narrative / production, though I feel that all of them lack the combination of things that would truly make the "ultimate" Zelda game, and I wonder if that's actually intentional. It would be so easy for Nintendo to make a mirrorworld as effectual as LttP, a future as moving as OoT, a world as immersive and beautiful as TP. If Nintendo were to do all this at once, they may as well give up trying to top it, so rather than try to create the BEST Zelda, they appear to be trying to create several really great ones. This ties in with my belief that there is no true timeline, just a legend, as told through a different chronicler.

Despite the negligable difficulty of TP, I enjoyed the experience immensely, and wanted more. I just feel that I was punished on replays by having to slog through the first part of the game. This is more of a pacing issue, and certainly the responsibility of the director, which is why I have confidence in Miyamoto's input. But as Khuutra mentioned above, this is something I should expand on in the appropriate topic. I just hope that the new Zelda is something I can enjoy as much as the other console iterations.