Bangin\' good time with Twighlight Princess.

[GmanJoe]

Yeppers.  As Link, you can literally whip your wiimote to unsheath your sword and also kill baddies with a swipe of your remote. Just don\'t sit too close to your wife or GF, else you may knock her unconcious.

This game gets a 9/10 from me. Could have been higher....but since this console is supposedly 2x more powerful than an Xbox, I\'ll deduct .02 points for it having GameCube graphics. Yes, it was meant for the GC and delayed for the Wii. Yay! It\'s a straight port from GC.

But you know about Nintendo\'s mantra - it\'s the game play that matters. And it truly does! The controls are precise! Story line is....well...Zelda as usual: There are your townsfolk, chicken and fishing, night time critters, Epona, the Gorons, the faux native Americans and Zelda needing some rescuing.

I like the twist in the story where Link is....changed. I won\'t spoil the story for anyone but it is an added element to the game. "It" has its advantages and disadvantages and that\'s what I like about this one.

That\'s it for now. Two bosses vanquished so far!

great mini-review, has me psyched to try out zelda all over again.

one thing I\'d like though is for the characters to talk.  It\'s 2006 and I heard they still make the same cheesy grunts and giggles :banghead:

See if you get tired of it. I\'ve completed a storyline milestone and am apparently about 1/3 of the way finished, and it\'s getting boring for me. Cool story line and cutscenes and stuff. But the gameplay feels pretty rinse and repeat.
 
This might be my last Zelda for a while. I need a break.

[GmanJoe]

See if you get tired of it. I\'ve completed a storyline milestone and am apparently about 1/3 of the way finished, and it\'s getting boring for me. Cool story line and cutscenes and stuff. But the gameplay feels pretty rinse and repeat.
 
This might be my last Zelda for a while. I need a break.

It\'s a little easier than Z:OoT. But that may be coz the controller makes it easier. Who knows? But it\'s a charming story and I\'m not really expecting much.

God of War has redefined (or re-calibrated) my sense of taste as far as adventure games go.

I wouldn\'t mind having characters speak in certain cutscenes, ala Grandia II.

Link should really never have dialogue, though.

[GmanJoe]

I wouldn\'t mind having characters speak in certain cutscenes, ala Grandia II.

Link should really never have dialogue, though.

He doesn\'t even have text in this game. The screen would just fade out and back after he finished.

Link has never had dialogue/text of any sort, Gman. I believe it should stay that way.

[GmanJoe]

I\'ve only played one other Zelda game, OoT. Unlike OoT, Twilight Princess has Link "responding"....but when he\'s about to , the screen fades to black and back when he\'s finished his "line".

He responds in Wind Waker too. Still, no dialogue.

[GmanJoe]

Last night, I beat the third boss.

This game is easy. It might be the wiimote making it easy, though.

The remote doesn\'t really change things much in this game, especially with the lock on aiming button.
 
The bosses are easy and the game is much more linear or obvious than, say, the original Zelda.
 
But I find the length of it gives it this kind of challenging, overwhelming feel.
 
There\'s a couple of collect-a-thon mini games that are kind of tacked on. These types of things annoy me ever since Donkey Kong 64 drove the concept into the ground. I wonder what you get for collecting everything...

[GmanJoe]

Aiming the arrow at the 3rd boss was beyond easy. I think an analog stick would have been less forgiving.

[GmanJoe]

I hated the "esccort the wagon" scene! Jeebus! That was hard!

Yeah I did too at first, but then I realized the main thing was killing those birds before they bombed it.

[GmanJoe]

Yeah I did too at first, but then I realized the main thing was killing those birds before they bombed it.

My Z target kept targeting the wrong target and not the birds! Pissed me off. And now I just found out that I missed a "wolf" point at the Zora place. Dammit! Gonna have to play this over.