Legend of Zelda: The Twilight Princess from Nintendo
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Our Editorial Review
Amazon.com Preview Despite all the hoopla surrounding the next generation consoles, the most anticipated gaming event of this year is undoubtedly the latest The Legend of Zelda game. Subtitled Twilight Princess, the game looks radically different from The Wind Waker with less stylized, more realistic looking graphics. As ever with a Nintendo title, much of the game is still surrounded in secrecy, but previews have already shown the game's enormous scale with huge areas of rolling countryside for you to ride your horse and battle various evil enemies. Indeed, the game seems more action-focused than previous adventures, both on horseback and on foot. One major new feature revealed in the game is that Link is now able to transform into a wolf. This gives him a whole suite of new features including the ability to "see" smells and access areas impossible as a human (or elf). Despite the greater emphasis on action, the puzzles in the game are even more elaborate than before. A forest dungeon reveals your ability to communicate with animals. You order around a troupe of baboons to solve puzzles and to help battle the level boss. The GameCube could hardly have asked for any better swansong than this, with utterly amazing graphics and an apparently endless range of features and settings. Even with so little still known about it, this is still on course to be the best game of the year. -- Harrison Dent, Amazon.co.uk This preview is based on an incomplete version of the game; features or problems mentioned above may not appear in the finished game.
Product Description The Legend Of Zelda: Twilight Princess brings you back tot he land of Hyrule, as you uncover the mystery behind its plunge into darkness. Link, a young man raised as a wrangler in a rural village, is ordered by the mayor to attend the Hyrule Summit. He sets off, oblivious to the dark fate that has descended upon the kingdom. When he enters the Twilight Realm that has covered Hyrule, he transforms into a wolf and is captured. A mysterious figure helps him break free, and with the aid of her magic, they set off to free the land from the shadows. Link must explore the vast land of Hyrule and As he does, he'll have to enlist the aid of friendly folk, solve puzzles and battle his way through dangerous dungeons. In the Twilight Realm, he'll have to use his wolf abilities and Midna's magic to bring light to the land. Revisit classic and new characters - Link, Zelda, Midna and many others
Customer Reviews
Latest Zelda does not disappoint! Posted 19 March 2007
If you have been a fan of the whole series, this latest iteration lives up to expectations. With a look and feel very reminiscent of Ocarina of Time, but with updated graphics, I was very pleased - and the fact that it is available for both the GameCube and the Wii is just fantastic.
Great Zelda Game! Posted 12 March 2007
This is the best zelda game I have ever played, and I've played all of them. Its a great change from Wind Wakers Cartoonish Graphic style, It is the best looking of the games and looks like an anime in style. You will not regreat this buy.
Fun game. Sometimes too complicated. Zelda fans will like it. Posted 12 March 2007
We are all big Zelda fans in my home, but I am the only one who has stuck with it. I bought the "official" guide, have used multiple help web sites, use my son to get through the skills-games and still get stuck occasionally.
However, the game is very imaginative, and when it works it works well and is a lot of fun to play. It just doesn't leave much room for error.
Buy it if you like the other Zeldas. Not for impatient players.
Final Gamecube Epic...Gamecube goes out with a bang of Glory Posted 11 March 2007
Lets face it, the current generation systems (meaning XBOX, Playstation 2 and the Nintendo Gamecube), are on their way out the door. Some, most notably the Gamecube have forefully jammed their foot in the door and are relenting to move. With the release of The Legend of Zelda: The Twilight Princess, Nintendo shows that they wanted Gamecube fans to have one last great game before the end comes, which it will. And a great game this is! The Twilight Princess was relased on both Gamecube and the Wii, and the graphics for the Gamecube version rival that of the Wii's!!! However, since the Wii is still in its trial phase, that doesn't really say all that much, just that the Gamecube version is no slouch at all! With THE best graphics to ever grace Nintendo's dying system, the Twilight Princess presents us with smooth looking and "darker" graphics. Those of you who have played The Wind Waker and hated the child like animation, fear not! The Twilight Princess' graphics are much more "grown up" looking and much darker, in both shading, look and feel. While the game still has the same problems that other games do on this system (notably the jagged edges that you will see once in a while in the graphics), the game looks stunningly beautiful and fresh. The controls are good ol' zelda controls, so there is nothing to complain about there.
On to the game...
The story like mirrors the Ocarina of Time, the Zelda game released for the Nintendo 64 (way back in the day). For those of you that have spent much blood, sweat and tears trudging through that challenge, your in for a treat! All of the temples, villages and even the great Hyrule Field make their appearance again, this time revamped in both graphics and challenge. For example, you go to the Gorgon mountain, Zora's temple and the forest temple, just like in Ocarina of Time. And you start off in the same viilage (in the same hut!) as you do in Ocarina of Time. Your horse is the same (Epona). But the graphics are much better looking! The sound (especially if you are playing in surround sound digital) is amazing! Everything from chains clanking against the ground, to echos sound true to life and awesome.
The dungeons (in my opinion) are much more challenging in a puzzle aspect, however the bosses are somewhat simplistic. I suppose they made the battles easy because Zelda fans range anywhere from 10 years of age and up. Nevertheless, the boss battles are inventive and creative, many of them have left me in awe (wait till you fight the boss of the Gorgon Mine dungeon)!
I am about halfway through Zora's temple (not even sure how far in the game that is), and I am still intrigued.
Now, don't go thinking that Twilight Princess is an exact port of The Ocarina of Time. No, they have added enough new content to keep it fun and new. For example, following the story of the Twilight Princess, there are "Twilight" versions of the world, where you are transformed into a wolf and you have to complete certain missions before you can turn back into human form. And, you have a permanent sidekick named Midna, who is from the "Twilight" world and who aids you.
I would have to say that sometimes the gameplay when you turn into a wolf seems a little contrived, as if they threw it in just so there would be variation. The wolf missions are all similar (i.e kill a bunch of insects and gather a life force of some sort), but they are fun in their own right. Heck, the graphics and the dungeon missions are worth this game alone!
Overall, if you are a Zelda fan, or just a fan of great adventure games, and you own a Gamecube, pick this one up! Even if you don't own one, this game is worth picking up a Gamecube for. They are really cheap these days, and I would recommend you not go without this experience!
Ocarina of Time Times Two! Posted 09 March 2007
Excellent graphics. Excellent game play. Intriguing plot and memorable characters. The magic is back!
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