Well, gosh. I just finished the game and I have a few complaints.
UG.
What went wrong??
Now, I'm not a 'it needed to look realistic like OoT did" That's silly, given that OoT had characters with huge eyes, and heads cartoonly proportioned to their bodies.
So why does everyone think OoT was realistic?
Because it drew us in, and made itself part of our imagination. It had story, story , setting, and story. And characters.
Guess what? Saria (or something) in OoT didn't look as realistic as your sister in WW, but you *cared* when she got captured. It was because she was a character, and you care about characters.
WW lacked any setting. Physically, yes, it had a setting, but really.. what was new? What sparked your imagination? Water? You've seen it beofre, and this was not the impressive water you can see at many beaches.
(That being said, I live on the coast, so maybe other people haven't seen the ocean so much)
We have Fields, Castles, and mountains too.. So why did OoT Hyrule appear so great?
Because it wasn't "realistic" it was the best type of fantasy: it gives us something un-real, and makes us believe in it.
Why wern't the waves huge, why wasn't there any white caps. The WW ocean did nothing for me.
"But it was so big"
Big doesn't make a game good. In fact, if you took 3 stages in an adventure, and put them in a small area, then it would seem small, but you'd have a lot to do.
WW was big, but didn't have many more stages then the smaller OoT.
And thus: sailing became a chore, because there wasn't intersting trees to roll into, or holls to find, or anything else.
Windfall island was the best of the game. In a TINY area, they fit a ton of game play. There's all sorts of neat things to do.
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And the worst part (with spoilers) is this:
Where was that twist ending I've been hearing about? Where was the increadible boss fight I read in all the reviews. Did I miss something? It was the classic Zelda story, without introducing Zelda as a princess. (They turned a good character, Tetra, into Zelda, and promplty forgot that she had a character. THey ignored her mind once she changed clothes)
So maybe I missed something. I was expecting (what turned out to be) the last fight, to be a "Ganon kicks my ass and I need to go see the sages" thing.
So I do it, and then they do a cut sceen that puts me on a roof and in the last fight of the game?
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So yeah. I LOVED OoT and MM was okay... But I'm not a Nintendo fan, I'm a quality fan. I'd apreasiate no "lay off Zelda" "go get an x-box" or whatever, but I'd like some thoughts (even if they're different) about the points I just said.