Yeah, you already knew that.....but I didn't. I got the game the Wednesday after it came out and I fired it up. I was quite disappointed. The graphics looked worse than Twilight Princess. The controls felt overly complicated. The narrative was as slow as molasses. I played the game for a few hours and never touched it again.
Well, my kid has been asking me to play it for weeks now. I kept putting it off and putting it off. I tried to distract her with games like Kirby's Epic Yarn, the Gunstringer, and Saints Row the Third (which she beat. I'm a terrible father!). Today, there was no saying no. She wanted me to play it and I was out of excuses. I put the game in my Wii. She grabbed her teddy bears and something to drink and I let the torture begin.
Set the picture so that it took up maybe a third of my TV screen so that the shit graphics could be remotely tolerable. Turned the music up. It was pretty good, I guess.
I grumbled to myself, "Goddam Wii.....fucking up my favorite franchise with this motion control crap.....goddam Kikwi. I gotta find.....three of you.....got a slingshot.....combat isn't toooo bad.....this.....this....IS.....AWESOME!!" And thus, the game clicked. And now, a little bit into the first dungeon, it happened. I got that old Zelda feeling back. And yet, it feels so new. So unfamiliar. Wow.
And as of this typing, I even set the picture back to full screen. Looking at it doesn't make me want to kill myself! I thought Nintendo had messed up. Looks like I was too quick to jump to conclusions. Just thought I'd share. And now, back to Zelda!!
