Battle of the Zeldas: Phantom Hourglass or Spirit Tracks?

[Helios]

NYANKS said:

irstupid said:

NYANKS said:

I like the water travel better, but I cannot stress enough how LAME the Ocean King's Temple was.  I got so bored with the repetitiveness that I just didn't feel like playing anymore. 

Like people have said though, neither game is anywhere close to the best Zelda games.  Link's Awakening and the Oracle games destroy these two in my opinion.  Zelda didn't have the strongest presence on DS to me.

the repetiveness of ocean temple gets brought up a lot

but how did you not get annoyed by the repetitiveness of sitting on a train, following tracks to every location.  I dreaded getting on my train, i hated it.  the ocean temple was once every so often, the train was all the time throughout the whole game, it was its main component and it was beyond repetitive. there was crap to do on it, but shoot pointless snowmen/trains or bunny rabbits

all you could do was go faster or slower.  at least in boat you have some control over it.

Well you could say the same thing about the repetitiveness of the water in PH, which people even brought up for Wind Waker but I love the water.  See the train required no thought or brain function, so it was easier to deal with.  With the stupid dungeon, you had to actively do stuff over and over AND OVER.....and it was just a bad design choice imo.  Also, if you just got buy timewise on your last visit to the dungeon, the crappy time carries over no? So it makes it tougher the next time you visit.  I dunno, it made me not finish the game lol.  At least I finished ST. 

The only reason you did the same things over and over in the Temple of the Ocean King is because you didn't put any thought into it. Each floor has multiple solutions to its puzzles based on what items you have. And no, the time only carries over from the halfwaypoint - running through the first half of the temple even once with a decent time is enough to get to the end with more than enough left to spare.