That's cool, I understand that not many people share my thoughts on the recent zelda games. I think I'm kind of an old geezer cynic when it comes to these things.
Even though the Spirit Tower was infinitely better than the Ocean King's Temple, it was still the same enemies and puzzles to work through. Up the stairs, collect the tears, get a phantom, go look for keys, switch to another phantom, repeat. I don't know. I just felt like it was the same thing over and over (but not in the same sense as PH, where it was literally the same thing.).
I did find Malladus quite easy. The only part I found somewhat difficult was on top of the train, when Cole is shooting ghost rats at you, but that was just because I hadn't become accustomed to his patterns yet. I didn't have to use a Continue once in the entire game.
I really enjoyed the final boss fight with Malladus himself. It was reminiscent of OoT, which I liked, without being extremely overt about it (like, for instance, ALL of Twilight Princess where nearly EVERYTHING was a reference to OoT). It wasn't difficult, but it was definitely fun. I believe the Water Temple Boss did more damage to me than the entire Final Boss trilogy.
It was REALLY sweet to be able to control/play as Zelda, I thought. I loved the way they worked death and such in to the game. That, again, reminded me of Majora's Mask without being too in your face about it. Since OoT's ending I had wanted Zelda to have more influence in the game, seeing as how she's kind of awesome. Being able to switch to her in the last fight was awesome, and having to sing with her was really cool too. I liked that she actually had a struggle and did things about it this time instead of just hiding (granted, she was dead. Not really much else to be scared about.) The whole rat thing was irritating some times. I think the rats hurt me more than any of the other enemies.
But again, INFINITELY better than Phantom Hourglass. Godddd I rue the day I considered buying that game. What a horrible horrible waste of money/time. I watched the second half of the game on youtube because I couldn't stand it anymore, and the ending was easily the most heart breaking part about it (and not in a good way). Nintendo copped themselves out by practically re-making Link's Awakening only much much worse.
I don't know, again maybe it's just my personal view, but from what I see it seems like good Nintendo games are sooo rare these days. Anything I get enjoyment out of is either a port of a PS2 game or something on the virtual console from the SNES, N64 or sometimes GCN.
When a game like "Style Savvy" is rated as the number 2 game out for wii, I lose what faith I have left in the new gamer generation. I haven't played a Mario or Zelda game I truly loved since the N64 versions back in the late 90s, bar Wind Waker. It just seems like they're not putting in the effort anymore now that the A-lister games are such household names that kids will "love anything with the name Mario in it".
Anyway, likewise I'm not trying to argue. This is just something I've felt strongly about for a couple of years. I like to think things are finally getting better, but I guess we'll have to wait and see.
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