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Nintendo Gaming / Best (not a boss or mini-boss) fight in WW?

« on: June 09, 2003, 10:38:04 AM »

I'd say that the place with 50 chambers (where you get the Triforce chart in Outset island) is the best. Fighting against four Darknuts after 49 levels is really, really interesting. And there was also that fight against that horde of different jelly enemies, that was nice.

[Good but not brilliant]

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Reader Reviews / My personal review: Good but not brilliant

« on: June 09, 2003, 10:31:57 AM »

WARNING: Contains spoilers of The Wind Waker and The Ocarina of Time!

Good but not brilliant

I don't know if it's me but somehow I expected more from the game. Okay, comparing to Star Fox Adventures it's superb. It may even be the best game yet released on Gamecube. I just think that the game lacks something.

First of all, it's too easy. Okay, I could have searched all the heart pieces (I only had 14 heart containers when I cleared the game) and clear all the side quests, but I didn't find that very interesting. Maybe I'll do that later. Anyway, the puzzles are too easy. The enemies are too easy. The bosses are too easy (Oh come on, it can't be that easy to beat Ganon.) The dungeons should have been as difficult as the water Temple was in The Ocarina of Time.

The game just wasn't as legendary/mythical as The Ocarina of Time. Take a look at the endings: I still get the chills when I enter Ganondorfs tower in The Ocarina of Time as Ganondorf plays the organs while the triforces react. After a fierce battle it's a race against clock as I flee from the crumbling tower with Zelda. After that there's STILL the final showdown against Ganon. The end of Wind Waker has a nice starts as Ganon sits by the sleeping princess, but then you have to fight against the puppets. Puppets. For God's sake, puppets!!!?? When you reach the rooftop it gets better but the final match is still too easy. The side characters aren't as interesting as Sheikh, the Owl, Saria and Epona.

Okay, it's not fair to compare any game with The Ocarina of Time, not even the Wind Waker. It has many advantages, like beautiful graphics(mind you, I didn't even notice the thing with Link's eyes, what a hype for nothing,)the fancy parry move, ability to pick up weapons and sound effects. I didn't even mind the sailing as much as other gamers who said it was boring.

It was a fantastic game but still a little disappointment. Did I expexct too much or am I just gettin too old to play video games?

Will there ever again be games like "A link to the past" and "The Ocarina of Time?"