Excellent soundtrack. Strong art design. Charming characters. Everything that's not a dungeon is a dull, overlong fetch quest. Too much downtime. On-disc content locked by physical DLC. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD has many valleys, like locked-away DLC and way too many dull moments, but its peaks, including great characters and clever dungeons, are worth exploring. Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess returns as a remastered, high-definition game with updated graphics, Amiibo functionality, and the same flaws that divided GameCube fans a decade ago.
Replaying Twilight Princess years later, not much has changed; it's still an epic adventure, and it's still deeply flawed, bogged down by an overlong tutorial and too many time-wasting fetch quests. Basically, anything other than the dungeons, some of the best in the year-old franchise, is a forgettable slog. But if you have patience for the lows, you'll be rewarded with some compelling highs, including a charming cast of characters, excellent art design, and a bombastic soundtrack.
As Link once again, you must rescue Hyrule from a creeping 'twilight' that threatens to consume the kingdom. However, when Link comes in contact with the darkness, he transforms into a wolf.
As a beast, Link is aided by Midna, an impish sidekick with a sarcastic streak and a desire to save her own dark realm. Together, they embark on a sprawling quest that takes them to boulder-spewing volcanos, icy peaks, and other familiar Zelda locales.
You get to know the inhabitants and help them out with goat-herding, fishing, and other chores. While great for establishing the setting, the whole beginning is one of the worst in the series. It takes forever. I counted 3 hours and 45 minutes until Link finally acquired his first sword. In the relatively recent , Link gets his sword after 5 minutes; in the NES original, 5 seconds.
The rest of the game is sprinkled with similarly boring set pieces, notably whenever Link transforms into a wolf. They're both GBA-connectivity minigames, of sorts, that Nintendo will probably sell for cheap. Expectations don't get much higher then they do for a new Zelda game on a new console, especially one as unique as the Wii.
If you were expecting a fundamentally different Zelda game based on the unique opportunities of the Wii, you might be a little disappointed. If however you were expecting another excellent Zelda game that doesn't stray far from the series' conventions then you'll be more then happy with Twilight Princess.
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess like most of the installments in the series recounts the tale of a young boy who through a twist of fate becomes involved with a Princess named Zelda and tasked with saving the land of Hyrule.
This time Link has to thwart calamity in the form of an encroaching darkness that is slowly pulling Hyrule into the twilight realm. To accomplish this goal you'll delve into elemental temples, solve a myriad of cleverly designed puzzles, engage in exciting combat and traverse the shadow realm in the form of a blue eyed wolf. Its familiar territory, yet there are enough interesting twists to keep the game fresh for the 40 or so hours it'll take to finish.
The Wii remote definitely changes the way Zelda plays, but not in so fundamental a way that it feels like an evolution beyond traditional adventure game standards. You'll control Link's movements with the analog stick on the nunchuk controller while the Wiimote acts as your sword. As such, swinging the Wiimote causes Link to attack, which sounds more immersive then it is since Link's moves are canned and don't resemble yours to any degree.
Overall it works pretty well, and the fact that you can fire all the ranged weapons in the game by pointing the Wiimote feels quite intuitive. Twilight Princess from an artistic standpoint is a beautiful game to look at. The vibrant land of Hyrule stands in stark contrast to the dark and very cool shadow realm.
From a technical standpoint however, Twilight Princess isn't quite as stunning as some of the other next gen titles currently out. Similarly while the music is as excellent as it's ever been in the series, it lacks some of the orchestral umph that games like Final Fantasy XII possess, not to mention the voice acting.
Largely, these are split hairs. Taken as the sum of its parts The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess , is another excellent game in an excellent series. It's hard to fault it for not moving beyond its tried and true formula when that formula has produced so many good games.
This is definitely a game that new Wii owners should think about picking up. Browse games Game Portals. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Install Game. Click the "Install Game" button to initiate the file download and get compact download launcher. The sheer size of this location astounded me--it offered an even greater sense of scale than Hyrule Field the central hub in Ocarina of Time , but with nonstop action, as I fended off attackers from every side.
This battle segued into a thrilling and surprisingly tough duel on horseback, as I jousted with the enemy leader who rode a hideous boar. Dramatic stuff, indeed. All of that felt like a warm-up for the true meat of a Zelda experience--a complex, engaging dungeon. Spelunking through this Forest Temple reminded me of what's so amazing about the series' labyrinths: Each one offers a cleverly designed location, plenty of enemies to smite, tricky puzzles to solve, and well-hidden secrets to uncover.
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