It's the worst Zelda game. You're not missing much.  The entire overworld is a series of linear paths with no exploration. Miss riding around hyrule field with Epona? Miss sailing the seas finding new islands? Too bad.   The game is also a motion controlled tech demo, the entire game is built to prop up its garbage controls.   The music is also below average.  There's a few great songs like Ballad of the Goddess, Koloktos, and the Sand Sea, but the rest are just "oh we have an orchestra so let's make bland compositions because it'll sound good anyway".  The game also reuses content like crazy.  2 bosses are fought 3 different times, and entire areas are forced to be backtracked through multiple times.  You even have to redo a dungeon at one point with minimal changes.  The story is also trash, it starts off decent but then it turns into "go do some predetermined shit to prove your worth",

It feels like a parody of Zelda. 


This is the best Zelda design, by the way.

Quote from: Faliz on July 16, 2016, 05:24:14 PM

This is the best Zelda design, by the way.

Aesthetically, yeah, but in terms of personality, she's a cardboard cutout of a cardboard cutout.

At least in SS, they took strides in giving her a personality, and it worked very well.

They gave her a generic あにめ かわいい です personality.  If you want a good Zelda personality, play Spirit Tracks.  Wind Waker's Tetra was also great until she became boring again and chilled in some basement for a third of the game, and OoT's was cool because of the whole Sheik thing.

Quote from: Faliz on July 16, 2016, 05:37:15 PM

If you want a good Zelda personality, play Spirit Tracks.

but then i won't get a good game

You won't with SS either

ST is actually great. Great dungeons, great story, decent overworld, great bosses

I enjoyed Phantom Hourglass, but I don't remember much of it.

You could just play It on a Wii U if you have one of those.

PH is pretty shitty.  ST is leagues above it.

bad taste

I like Ocarina's art style the most but graphics are old.

tfw the TP remake did nothing to address how badly it aged visually

tfw I said this a lot prerelease but the fanboys refused to listen.  I've seen them actually say that TPHD is every bit as good as WWHD.

Wind Waker looks phenomenal now, they actually put effort into remaking the characters and environments and shit.  TP is literally just an upres

tfw I said this a lot prerelease but the fanboys refused to listen.  I've seen them actually say that TPHD is every bit as good as WWHD.

Wind Waker looks phenomenal now, they actually put effort into remaking the characters and environments and shit.  TP is literally just an upres

Keep in mind the OG Wind Waker was already a visually fantastic game, and only the lighting was actually updated in the re-release iirc. Twilight Princess is like, the only game in the last 15 years I'd look at and say 'yeah, this is a good enough game that aged badly enough to warrant a new version' and they fucking did nothing after upscaling the damn game to HD.

Every time I bring up this issue in some Zelda forums It gets shut down by people saying it compliments the so-called 'dark theme' of the game. They'll stick to this argument like glue too, because they know there's no other possible way to justify it. Like, nigga, no major character died and the only emotionally dark part of the game was when the Bulbin King had Colin strapped to his Bull thingy. It's like they've never even played the Romani Ranch defense mission from MM, or that god forbid, a bright (or actually good) aesthetic doesn't necessarily clash with a dark story (which TP wasn't).

I've actually encountered people who have taken major issue with the aesthetics of BotW. Shit's Lemon levels of contrarian but they're far from trolling.

Original WW looked better, too.

HD remakes should just never be done. Re-release games if you want, but don't try to use "updated graphics" as a selling point.

ikr. I don't see how 60fps/a slight retexturing changes the experience enough to warrant purchasing another copy in the event you already own the game.

The name "Lorule" is so dumb.

ALBW was pretty great, though.