Author Topic: First Twilight Princess Review (Read 43802 times)

GoldenPhoenix · « **on:** November 13, 2006, 02:00:25 PM »

Sonds great! I especially like that the game is not saturated with lots of pointless, and redundant tasks. BTW this review is spoiler free, so you can read it without fear of spoiling the game. It took the reviewer 35 hrs to beat it.

Dirk Temporo · « **Reply #1 on:** November 13, 2006, 02:30:00 PM »

I don't think he beat the game. He said that after playing for 35 hours, he felt comfortable writing a review.

Hostile Creation · « **Reply #2 on:** November 13, 2006, 03:22:51 PM »

He doesn't sound enthusiastic enough to me. Plus A Link to the Past is his favorite Zelda, so I can't trust his opinion. NEXT

(seriously though, I hate reviewers, nearly all of them. Especially when it comes to Zelda. As if I'm on the fence about Zelda)

Edfishy · « **Reply #3 on:** November 13, 2006, 03:32:18 PM »

Hm, I'm hoping he's ommiting a bunch of information, because one thing I was really hoping for in this next Zelda was the inclusion of many more unique items. So far it sounds like another Ocarina of Time, which got just about everything from A Link to The Past.

Regardless, I'm up for another Zelda adventure (Can't get enough of it) and even though I'll be getting the the Boomerang, Hookshot, and Magic Mirror all over again, it sounds (or... reads?) like it'll be a blast.

Heck, at this point, I'd take "A Link to the Past: Master Quest".

Dasmos · « **Reply #4 on:** November 13, 2006, 03:52:26 PM »

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Originally posted by: VGrevolution
It took the reviewer 35 hrs to beat it.

Did you even read it? He says in the review it will take over 60 hours to complete.

mantidor · « **Reply #5 on:** November 13, 2006, 04:02:40 PM »

Its different to complete a game than to beat it.

KnowsNothing · « **Reply #6 on:** November 13, 2006, 04:07:03 PM »

I play Zelda games so ridiculously slowly that it's not unlikely that I will spend around 60 hours to just beat the thing...I take my time and savor every moment ^_^

zakkiel · « **Reply #7 on:** November 13, 2006, 04:36:18 PM »

This reviewer did not mention either the BROWN or the INABILITY TO READ SIGNS WITHOUT PRESSING BUTTONS. Therefore, he is clearly dishonest and a nincompoop.

Hostile Creation · « **Reply #8 on:** November 13, 2006, 04:40:57 PM »

Same here, Knowsnothing

The guy has played 35 hours and it doesn't seem like he beat the game. He says 60 hours to complete it in its entirety, which I found doubtful; it will probably take longer. We'll see how long it takes to beat first, and who knows how long it'll take to unlock everything.
How long it takes really doesn't matter to me, though. However long it lasts, I'll savor every moment of it.

xanrastafari · « **Reply #9 on:** November 13, 2006, 04:48:13 PM »

Hostile Creation, I can no longer trust your opinion on anything, as you dismiss those who favor Link to the Past.

See how silly that is?

Ceric · « **Reply #10 on:** November 13, 2006, 05:07:37 PM »

It's amazing what people can do when your single-minded on the beat a game way.

Viewtiful mario · « **Reply #11 on:** November 13, 2006, 05:31:49 PM »

Well he gave it a perfect score so it's fine for me. It's not like he penalized it for something that can be fixed later in the game.

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Hm, I'm hoping he's ommiting a bunch of information, because one thing I was really hoping for in this next Zelda was the inclusion of many more unique items. So far it sounds like another Ocarina of Time, which got just about everything from A Link to The Past.

Well, it was stated that all the items will have new functions, maby he didn't reveal anything new because he didn't want to spoil anything.

Hostile Creation · « **Reply #12 on:** November 13, 2006, 05:45:58 PM »

"Hostile Creation, I can no longer trust your opinion on anything, as you dismiss those who favor Link to the Past."

Well, I was sort of kidding, but A Link to the Past IS one of my lesser Zeldas (I really like side quests and NPC interaction and such, and ALttP is almost entirely quest and fighting), but I still love it. I mostly just dislike the way he states that in the beginning, as if it's relevant. It's like he's saying from the start that Twilight Princess is inferior, which gives the rest of the review a sour taste. I didn't need to know that, no one does. It's irrelevant.

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #13 on:** November 13, 2006, 06:13:48 PM »

Thank you, HC.

Thread is irrelevant.

GoldenPhoenix · « **Reply #14 on:** November 13, 2006, 06:26:01 PM »

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But after running a critical path through the entire game, there's no doubt that this is the longest Zelda game ever made. I can easily see the playtime rising to the 60-hour mark if you try to accomplish everything that the game has to offer -- and trust me, you'll want to.

Sure sounds like me he beat the game, and only said if you try to accomplish everything the game has to offer that it could be 60 hrs, meaning side quests. If anything though he isn't really clear, but it is not due to misreading.

Oh yeah Link to the Past is the best Zelda of all time, so take that Hostile!

Hostile Creation · « **Reply #15 on:** November 13, 2006, 06:33:56 PM »

Okay, so he did beat the game. I even read that part, wonder how I missed it (his first sentence is what threw me off).

But A Link to the Past is not the best Zelda game. Link's Awakening is. This is scientific fact.

GoldenPhoenix · « **Reply #16 on:** November 13, 2006, 06:36:57 PM »

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Originally posted by: Hostile Creation
Okay, so he did beat the game. I even read that part, wonder how I missed it (his first sentence is what threw me off).
But A Link to the Past is not the best Zelda game. Link's Awakening is. This is scientific fact.

Yeah I can now see where it would throw people off, the review isn't the best written one but hey might as well get some thoughts from someone who has played it all the way through. Also you are so wrong, Link to the Past is the best, because, well it is. So take that!

Ceric · « **Reply #17 on:** November 13, 2006, 06:39:25 PM »

Link Awakening is the first to introduce the You can't go there just because. Didn't like that at all.

GoldenPhoenix · « **Reply #18 on:** November 13, 2006, 06:41:47 PM »

Someone hurry up and close this thread so I win the argument!

Nick DiMola · « **Reply #19 on:** November 13, 2006, 06:50:10 PM »

Debating which Zelda is the best seems stupid to me. They are all amazing. The experience offered in ALttP is different than the experience in OoT and the one in WW and the one in MM, etc etc. Without ALttP, OoT would've never been as amazing as it was. I love all Zelda's equally, each has dominated my life at their release and I'm sure TP will be another games that carries the torch of the amazing Zelda series.

Ian Sane · « **Reply #20 on:** November 13, 2006, 07:00:37 PM »

The review gives a perfect score for a game that everyone here has decided is going to be awesome no matter how it actually turns out and yet some people are complaining? Huh? I thought we were supposed to wait until someone gives it a 98.7 and then start a thread about how the reviewer is an idiot for giving the BEST GAME EVER a less than perfect score.

Hostile Creation · « **Reply #21 on:** November 13, 2006, 07:23:31 PM »

Link's Awakening influened Ocarina of Time a lot more than A Link to the Past did, seems to me. I could go into detail, but I really don't want to get into it if I don't have to.

I'm not complaining about the score. I didn't even look at the score. I'm just complaining about the poorly written review. And really I don't care that much, but the comparison to A Link to the Past (whether or not you think it's the best Zelda, and I don't, and that's a personal opinion, to each his own boat) annoyed me for some reason.

Artimus · « **Reply #22 on:** November 13, 2006, 08:35:58 PM »

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Originally posted by: Hostile Creation
Link's Awakening influened Ocarina of Time a lot more than A Link to the Past did, seems to me. I could go into detail, but I really don't want to get into it if I don't have to.

Except that LttP came out before Link's Awakening, so therefore LA owes a ton more to LttP than Ocarina does to it. The difference between Zelda 1 and LttP is far greater than LA to Ocarina.

Hostile Creation · « **Reply #23 on:** November 13, 2006, 09:58:40 PM »

I would argue otherwise. A Link to the Past is basically a really glamorous Zelda 1, with a highly advanced engine and better graphics and improved gameplay methods, all that. Link's Awakening added another dimension with the numerous side quests, trade exchanges, secret locations, side plots, and the depth of story.
A Link to the Past was basically all fighting and puzzle solving, with few things to do outside of it (almost everything you did outside of the dungeon led you right to the next dungeon). I think Ocarina took a lot of influence from Link's Awakening, in that sense.
Not to say they're not influenced by A Link to the Past. Of course they are, and heavily at that. But I think that influence is mostly carry-over from the first game, which established that method of gameplay. A Link to the Past heavily improved upon it, but Link's Awakening and Ocarina of Time were the games that really changed it into what it is today, by adding the things that they did.

GoldenPhoenix · « **Reply #24 on:** November 13, 2006, 10:16:41 PM »

You are still wrong Hostile :-P.

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Author Topic: First Twilight Princess Review (Read 43802 times)