The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

THE BAD:
- No multiplayer. Then again, if there was multiplayer, how good would it really be?

- In my own experience, the puzzles were too easy. I'm not showing off me "skillz" but maybe to others they would seem harder. I personally felt they were all common sense appliable.

- The fun "interactive" attacks can get boring after hours and hours of gameplay.

- Storyline, although in-depth, predictable and usual Zelda style. Almost on the verge of being corny.

- Dungeons were repeated and boring after a while. When I was playing it I almost just fought my way through so I could finish the dungeon. I just wasn't enjoying it.

- To put it frankly, I felt that this game was too easy. But maybe to others it would seem more fun...

SUMMARY:
Twilight Princess has received huge amounts of publicity and attention. The Zelda franchise has been waiting for many a month and day.

But is it really up to the hype? I beat the game, and gave it a 3.0. To sum up this entire review in my own words: It was too boring and easy. Especially with the arrival of the Wii, it has been looked at as the next generation Zelda game. However, I felt that after the first couple of fights that the sword system (Where you could stab, lunge, swing, swirl) got very repetitive. Unless you unlocked a cool new technique, I felt that fights were almost a pain.

The storyline. The storyline I thought was in-depth. You had a lengthy storyline which lasted until the last boss battle. However, after the arrival of the proagonist and the antagonist, I felt that it was drag and repetitive; it seemed to be dragged along by Midna, your companion in destorying evil. The ending I felt was good, and surprisingly unexpected. However, the meat of the story was boring.

The game play was fun at first, I'll admit. It was fun defeating baddies by slashing the remote or thrusting the nunchuk. And the puzzles. The puzzles were at first interesting. There was the old block puzzle, where you moved blocked to land on a certain square. However, once you got into the meat of the game, I felt it was repetitive and dull. It was just one dungeon after another, one boss after another. Oh, the bosses! They were some of the most pathetic battles I have ever done. Not only was it easy, it was too easy. The bosses had virtually no mind of their own, and I could almost say they were the easiest part of the dungeon. The dungeons and bosses definitely let me down in this game.

I must admit, the graphics were good. They weren't spectacular, like the Playstation 3 or Xbox 360, but they were good enough to make the game feel like you were actually inside it playing, along with the somewhat interactive controls. The animations were realistic, and the blocking and jumping and running made it feel like they were real people.

In conclusion, let me sum up my main points. The graphics were well done and thus were a positive. The controls were, although fun at first, overall a downgrade with the repetitiveness and ease, and thus that gives it a negative. The storyline was catching and interesting at first, but like many other things, got dull and boring towards the middle but heated up in the end. The gameplay itself was, yet again, head turning in the beginning, but sadly got dull and in my opinion easy towards the middle and especially end. The dungeons and bosses were a complete letdown.

And thus this ends a moderately lengthy Twilight Princess review. Well, I hope you liked it, and hopefully like Twilight Princess. Although I may not have loved it, compared with other games on the Wii I think it is worth a buy and hey, maybe you have different tastes than what I have. I gave this a 3.0, which is better than average. This game especially leaves the Zelda franchise a lot of promise.