Still he looks a lot like a young Ganondorf.
Zelda's plot isn't exactly Inception, and everything else is carefully planted with hints, so a rival red-headed yellow-eyed guy can't just "be there".
Well played fan-trolling Nintendo, you got me thinking "how chichè" and then BAM! unexpected character un-twist! Incredible
Maybe next time try to avoid making everything else clichè for real, ok?
Well, to be honest this Zelda's story is imo by far the best in the series, as you could actually relate to Link, Zelda, and other characters - for once enough to keep playing to see what happens next - but apart from the cutscenes, plot is hugely absent and always throws in huge premises just to send you ONCE AGAIN in the same dungeon.
Still this is the Zelda I enjoyed most after OoT and WW, and I'm amazed about how I enjoyed it out of pure gameplay - the kind of enjoyment you get playing an arcade for the sake of it. I just liked to play it, and I was willing to take any random story thrown in to solve that one more clever puzzle.
It has modernized the gameplay in the right way, with few all-around items (I would have merged the Gust Bellows and the whip too, giving a "vacuum" function to the first, maybe) that are interesting throughout the game and aren't one-shot puzzle solvers.
And hey! Weapons can be used as weapons! They aren't really made to solve puzzles! it was good to be able to deal real damage with the bow most of the time; usually it just hurt predefined enemies.
But, the game has shortcomings that put it a lot under OoT: excessively recycled settings and lack of epic.
And with epic I mean that feeling you get when you first set foot in the Hyrule Fields, that sense of wonder and hugeness and being lost and exploring and whatever.
That you don't get in SS because everything is carefully crafted, tight, polished, or downright too easy. It is engineered to make you do things. You are on rails. To put it straight, sometimes it plays like an huge iphone game. And this is bad.
But still, the gameplay is rock solid, I hope that they get more adventuring in next time
PS: I just wanted to write something about Groose, then the ranting happened
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