My Thoughts On The Zelda Series, and it's players...

Zelda, one of the most successful franchises, and yet another creation of Miyamoto. Quite a few people now notice the repetitiveness of the series since Twilight Princess had too much hype. None of the games are bad, yet many people have started picking out the tiniest flaws and eat away at them. People complain it's not modern enough(not one of the tiniest flaws previously mentioned), so what do they want added? Orchestrated music. But one of the best things about Zelda's music is the transition. If it was orchestrated, that couldn't happen. Still, I would love to see some orchestration in cutscenes. How about voice acting? Everyone loved Navi, right? Okay, so much for that, how about a different set-up? Oh, The Wind Waker, Zelda II, and Majora's Mask. No, wait, buncha people complained about those, too. 'Cause you want something different as long as it stays the same, right? Voice acting, you'd love it, but you hated it before. Being different, highly criticized as 'bad' because they were different. Oh darn, MM only had four dungeons. Look past that, and you'll see its amazing mood, great story, and extreme depth for the time. Wind Waker, oh it's cel-shaded. Boo hoo, now that I whine about the GameCube being too weak to effectively pull off lifelike graphics, I whine when they take a different approach, and remove the lifelike. How about Zelda II? It was a side scroller! Oh, no, so half the games were top down, and half were side scroller? It could have gone either way. Zelda II wasn't even bad, it kicked most other NES game's asses, and you know it, but since it's a different Zelda, it was bad? Zelda II was easily the hardest Zelda, and what Zelda fan doesn't want a harder Zelda for once? Not these fans, because it was on Zelda II. Where's the logic in that? All the people whining about what Zelda needs to fix has been fixed, yet you whine when they do it, so they stop. The Great Sea was a lot less empty than TP Hyrule Field, wasn't it? Oh, wait, Wind Waker was cel shaded and not in Hyrule, so it's still worse. Maybe if you wanted them to change Zelda, you'd let them for once. Think about that. They listen to the fans.

Nice job, liked it better then the runescape one.

Not quite a review, but close enough to be in here. Both were like five minutes of writing, though, but I had stuff to go off of in this.

I agree with your post, for the most part. To be honest, I'd love to see voice acting, but I hated Navi's high pitched "HEY!"

And 'look' and 'listen' and 'hello' and some gibberish.

Yeah. But if they could manage to put in voice acting without making it to dramatic or corny, I'd be all for it.

But not for Zelda or Link.

But, to be fair, that would be really hard to ignore.

I know that people these days are all about voice acting, but back in the day, we enjoyed games without it.

Also, 90% of all video game voice acting a load of crap anyways. Ashley in Resident Evil 4, for example.

Miyamoto has said that Twilight Princess will be the last Zelda game of it's kind. Maybe this new evolution will include voice acting. I'm praying to God that it won't, but, I dunno. Nintendo has been leaning towards the mainstream more and more lately, and the mainstream has to have voice acting.

Also, I have to say, I think TP was just the epitome of fanboy fodder. Everyone wanted a realistic Zelda, like Oot (My personal LEAST favorite in the canon series, excluding the first two, because they play really badly). TP wasn't a bad game, per say, but it's looked down on some (including myself) because it killed itself with hype. We'd been expecting this game for like, 4 years. It wasn't nearly as polished as it should've been in after those half a dozen postponements. The under water dungeon wasn't hard, just poorly made. Wind Waker has some hard parts, sure, but not to the point that you through your controller down in disgust.

I'm uber hyped for PH, because WW was my absolute favorite of the 3D games. (I have a soft spot in my heart for the games that were developed for the GB's.)

It killed itself with hype? Everyone else killed it with hype, you mean.

I think that's what he meant. I admit it was as great as I was expecting, but it was still an awesome game.

Well, Nintendo. When you show an awesome trailer at E3 '03, and then make us wait nearly 4 years, well, the game is going to lend itself to hype.

But, yeah, it could've been phrased better.