Okami Wii-ports for duty on March 25

And my Zelda, I mean Twilight Princess.

And by Twilight Princess, you mean UR RONG.

*checks references*
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"Oh snap!"

(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want To Be Right.

And by Loving You I mean Twilight Princess.

I completely agree Samfish...

It might be blasphemy to some but Ocarina of Time while being a great game was NOT and will never be better than Twilight Princess.

TP was epic and absolutely stunning to me.

I don't understand all the hype surrounding this game but I'm willing to give it a try. Are there any videos showing how the Wii version plays/looks?

I loved that background music when you are in the dark world and get jumped by the baddies. You know that creepy bassy synth sound they used.

TP's bosses were epic... And that's about it. The story was mediocre for a Zelda. I don't know, it just didn't feel like Link really had a purpose in this story or something...
Twilight Realm was cool, in how bizarre the atmosphere (both sights and sounds) were, but was underused.
8.8 was a good score for it, really. It's a great game, sure, but Nintendo could've done more with it.

Personally, though, my favorite Zelda will always be ALttP. But as far as 3D Zeldas go, Majora's Mask is my favorite.

My take on it between the two is that Okami did everything that Zelda (in some cases very badly) needed to do in Twilight Princess, but ultimately, TP was something of the paragon of the Zelda series.

Okami had a good bit of gameplay problems, while TP was absolutely flawless in that respect. I enjoy fighting enemies in a Zelda game. In Okami, I absolutely dreaded it. It didn't help that the brush gave the battles a turn based feel which slowed the game down quite badly at times.
Okami also felt too long at times. Part of me loved how it kept on going, but there were other times where I was just wanting to get to the end.
Plus...how many freakin' times do I have to fight Orochi?!


If Okami had more refined and perfected gameplay like Zelda did, I'd say it would be the better game.
The only place Twilight Princess falls short for me is in the story department, since it gave me (and a lot of others, it seems) a feeling of "been there, done that". You just couldn't help but notice to formula they had been using pretty much since aLttP.

Despite that, though, it did still have arguably the best TOLD story of the Zelda games, which helped it a lot, too. It just didn't have that epic feel that Ocarina had. And if you add in Wind Waker as it's direct continuation, you have a real one-two punch on your hands.
If Twilight Princess had Okami's story elements wile keeping in tact it's perfected gameplay, it would have potentially rivaled Ocarina of Time on every level.


As for the 8.8, initially I disagreed with it...then I agreed with it...now looking back and having played TP a little bit again, I think the game is a good 9.5.
Okami, by contrast, I would give a solid 9.0.

Okami had an epic, amazing storyline and a lot of really good but not great gameplay.

TP had epic gameplay with a lot of cool puzzles, ideas, and temples, but a pretty mediocre story.

TP > Okami

But both amazing games.

Better than A Link To The Past? Now you're just poking at a bee hive, chief.

And not just any bees. NUCLEAR bees. NUCLEAR BEES that were created by ex-Nazi scientists in conjunction with the US Government in an effort to frighten the populace into an unthinking state so that Project Blue Beam would be more accepted without question.

I like the bees.

They're somewhat arousing when placed in certain orifices.

I'm told.

Agreed, Phantom Hourglass does not beat A Link to the Past. It doesn't beat The Minish Cap either, which is my favorite handheld Zelda despite being so very, very short. I'll say that it beats the Oracle games, but I've only played Seasons. Also, I'll say that Okami is great, but not as good as most Zelda games in terms of gameplay. I have it for PS2, and lost motivation to finish it. It's definitely on my todo list, along with a nice stack of other neglected games. If Capcom makes it cheap enough, they might be able to sway me to buy it for Wii like they enticed me to repurchase Resident Evil 4 when it hit for Wii for $30.

LA > OaA/OoS > PH > MC

That's my view on portable Zeldas.
(ALttP not counted since it was a port, and Four Swords is fun but needs friends to even be played)

Waka kicks ass. And his theme is probably the best song in the game.

...that or Rao's theme.

This was my first Zelda game.

I got the GBA version of Link to the Past and it was too hard. Plus, apart from numbers on the dungeon map, there was nothing to advise me on what I'm supposed to do. You'd reach a dungeon and something will prevent you from progression.

Or maybe I just wasn't good enough.

Or maybe it played like a Snes game: the difficulty. Hard games aren't fun. (Final Fantasy 3 suffers from this as well).

I preferred the Mega Drive anyways.

Now you're being ridiculous. LttP is exactly the certain level of difficulty, PH is WAY, WAY, WAYYYY too easy.

Kids today. (Lol I was born in the 90s XD)

Ushiwaka, that's the one. I'd play a spinoff game about him :P

As for difficulty, I suppose, but I found ALTTP to be fairly average on that level, and I was a kid back in the nineties (though sometimes these things just make more sense when you're young, heh). A better "first Zelda" for difficulty is probably Link's Awakening or Minish Cap, I guess. PH was just too much of a repetitive cakewalk for me to get much enjoyment from it.
Also, FF6 (calling it the SNES' FF3 just confuses things) hard? Maybe in the very very late stages of the game, but that's still one of the easiest RPGs to date. FF3 on the NES (and now DS), however, is tough as nails.

Since Brawl was supposed to be Feb 18th, they THOUGHT they gave enough of a buffer. Maybe it'll be pushed back to April to match.

Nintendo screwed them over :(

I agree, I loved Okami, amazing game, but it seemed to be tedious at times. By the time i got about 3/4 of the way done, it felt like I was just doing the same things over and over again. The game might have been too long or the battles might have just gotten boring (not on the boss battles though) or there might have been just not enough depth. I had to stop playing it completly for about a week before I could get back into it and enjoying it again.

I didn't have that problem with TP, which is why I would say TP is the better game to me.