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« on: April 28, 2015, 01:15:52 PM »
So yesterday I picked up my save file that I had randomly started two years ago. I had left off right before you had to melt Zora's Domain.
So, some impressions on continuing my second playthrough of this game.
1) The Wii controls suuuuuck. I don't recall them sucking like this my first time through the game, but I was still very much in the honeymoon phase with the Wii and its crazy controllers at that point (I got both the Wii and TP on launch day) which may have effected things. I'm also sitting much further away from my TV than the first time I played this, that might also be an issue. Anyway, the game consistently doesn't register sword swings and it is really annoying. The pointer stuff works fine though.
2) I flip flop between thinking the game looks really good or really ****. I think the Twilight World looks pretty great, if maybe a bit monotonous. The normal overworld mostly looks good but every now and again I see textures that look straight up N64-esque. For example, looking at the waterfall in Lake Hylia from across the lake is not good.
3) Collecting the light tears, at least around Lake Hylia, is tedious and unintuitive. Spent waaaaay too long stumbling around trying to find them (hint! one of them is at the castle for some stupid reason!). Almost gave up on the game during this.
4) I recall the stagecoach escort mission (among other set pieces) being one of my favorite sections of this game and playing it again, I was still impressed with the tension and action it provides but was let down by the controls and the sad realization about how very scripted it is. There's a couple "gates" the game throws up that you can't pass unless you kill a certain enemy at a certain time and he keeps coming back until you do it right. That was too bad.
5) The cutscenes, at least the ones I saw yesterday, are great. The one that plays after you get all the light tears around Lake Hylia is so bizarre and unsettling. There was another that I genuinely laughed at. The rest were at the very least well shot and the characters all "act" well even if their design isn't always great.
I admittedly just said mostly negative things here, and yet I mostly enjoyed my time with it yesterday and I wasn't even going through a dungeon or anything. I would absolutely buy a HD (or 3D, but preferably HD) remake with better controls, be them either buttons or Motion Plus.