The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Nintendo EAD
Nintendo
Action-Adventure
Nintendo Wii
19 November 2006




Following in the footsteps of past Zelda’s, Twilight Princess focuses on exploring and collecting items along the way to help you solve puzzles and advance yourself in the game. Link, armed with his trusty sword and shield along with many other tools and weapons, is on a mission to save Princess Midna (and Zelda obviously) but more importantly Hyrules realm of existence along with the Twilights Realm. Transporting, involuntarily at first, between the two realms, Link, either as himself or a wolf must fight the many enemies of Hyrule and Twilight to stop Zant from changing Hyrule and Twilight into is kingdom of darkness. Zant is not the only enemy posing a threat to destroy Hyrule as we know it. Ganondorf, though banished to the Twilight realm, is still planning to conquer Hyrule.



I was thoroughly impressed by the graphics and sound of Twilight Princess. To all the naysayers of the Wii’s processing ability you obviously have not layed your eyes on this beautiful gem. I used my entertainment center’s ability to give me 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround sound to navigate my way through many dark caves, foggy bottoms and enemy ambushes. The one added bonus of playing Twilight Princess on the Wii, for sound, is the feed back that you get from the Wiimote when engaging in battle with weapons from swords to bows. The control of this game, once you become oriented with the Wiimote and Nun chuck, is phenomenal. Whether you are slashing with your sword, shooting your bow or even fishing you are actually mimicking moves you would execute in real life. These techniques are then perfectly blended with movement and camera angles to give you a clean smooth controllability of Link through out the game.



The good; fun yet challenging, graphics, sound, control, game length
The bad; defeating bosses could have been more diverse, game length, game ends

I feel I have to make a special comment about the game length here. For those of you whom are not familiar with The Legend of Zelda series these are not games for the casual gamer. I easily spent 100+ hours playing Twilight Princess but this was not necessary, I spent A LOT of time exploring and just having plain old fun killing orcs and fishing. I would estimate if you cut straight to the chase and did the absolute minimal to beat the game you could fly through at the break neck speed of about 25-30 hours.



I give The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess 5 out of 5 Master Swords!