I recall how Eiji Aonuma stated that Nintendo wanted to make Twilight Princess greater thsn Ocarina of Time. What do you guys think? Is TLP greater than OOT?
In my own opinion. a resounding NO (regrettably). TLP has many of the right elements, that propel it into that direction, but it is not greater than OOT.
Nintendo has failed trying to make it greater than OOT. First and foremost, the dungeons aren´t half as inviting as the ones in OOT. There is too much WW over them (simplistic). They are too simple, too small, over too quickly, and lack the complexity of the ones seen in OOT. The level furniture placement alone means that there is really very few things to come back for later on. I looked many times for more secrets to discover, after a particular dungeon was completed, but found none.
I don´t feel like going back to those places again. The Temple of Time has been just thrown in there for good measure, and has no relevance that comes near it´s significance to the story in OOT. Huge dissapointment.
The new Gerudo Desert looks more like the constricted desert land of Super Mario 64 (which was great in it´s time as no such world had previously been seen in a game), than the far reaching and awesome Gerudo desert found in OOT.
In Ocarina of Time, you could FEEL being in a living, vibrant world full of wonder, and enchantment. And THINGS TO DISCOVER thanks to little details placed everywhere in the lands they had created.
Such as looking over the sides of a bridge, and looking hundreds of meters down to see a mighty river roaring at the bottom. You could even go there. Such was everywhere in OOT. I have yet to discover a similar wealth of details in TLP. There is simply nothing but haze, if you gaze down over the sides of a bridge outside Ordon Village. The other bridges are the same. Princess Zelda is appearing so rarely that you might be forgiven for forgetting her existence! What about the music? Yes, the music sucks this time around! It is nowhere near the feel of being in the middle of an awesome fairytale as OOT was. And that sweet owl I would like to see back one day too. I could go on, but think I will not. TLP is "good". But it is far, far from OOT in terms of level ingenuity and detail in my opinion. Story wise it suffers, stutters where as in terms of gameplay mechanics it´s more advanced than OOT and the way Gannondorf looks? Straight out of Wind Waker! He looked WAY cooler in OOT.
I really don´t believe that I am the only forum member/Nintendo gamer, who can see that difference between the two Zelda games.
I regard TLP as an attempt by Nintendo to jump over where the fence was lowest (for reasons of budget restrictions, or time constraint?) in an attempt to reach to the former heights of magnificence seen in OOT. It is clear that this game has not been worked on the way OOT was (I read the online interviews concerning that games creation, and it had really one heck of a lot of people and time involved). They have spent too little time on TLP (which I also read somewhere was expressed by members of the developement team). I see it vividly demonstrated here in this game, how Nintendo has dropped the long developement cycles of former years, shifting into a faster gear of less developement time and more games.
Perhaps they are forgetting that there is many Zelda fans who cherished OOT for the rich, vibrant worlds it had? While it is ok to give us more games, they should never forget that Zelda is a very old franchise with a huge following and so it should be one of those games that are worked on extensively always.
Nintendo is about great entertainment, so I hope they will re-invent the Zelda series for Wii and give us back the awesome adventure we had in OOT. Until then, I will have my copies of Zelda games sitting on the shelf for a casual return to the only Hyrule that matters now and then. Until one day Nintendo wakes up, and return Link to where the adventures really rocks!
Topic: LOZ: 2005 (Read 720190 times)
