Ninja857142
Since: Nov, 2015
01/04/2021 00:00:00
I know nearly no one cares but me, but you could play Zelda in Spirit Tracks.
Valiona
Since: Mar, 2011
01/04/2021 00:00:00
There were also two of the three CD-i Zelda games (Wand of Gamelon and Zelda's Adventure), but both those games were terrible for various reasons.
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Bad title, worse story, excellent gameplay.
Every once in a while some minds within the Grey Goo that is Ubisoft break free and deliver a game that feels truly fresh, despite being a semi-spinoff to Assassin's Creed: Odyssey and an obvious-riff on some other big game I haven't played.
STRENGTHS:
- Your moveset is slick and fun whether you are traversing the environment, solving a puzzle, or fighting gorgons. This is not an immersive, breathing world but a giant playground. It's The Witness for kids, but without those terrible bird-call riddles.
- The sandbox is free to explore. There's no level-gating though harder challenges will be marked as such. You can upgrade your abilities to outright negate the harder puzzles. Sequence-breaking is very much welcome.
- They cut a lot of fat off the usual progression-systems. You can mix and match equipment looks and perks. You can alter the difficulty of puzzle-types. There's no inventory management. You can play a female character. Eat crap, Zelda.
- It takes 50 hours to platinum instead of 100. The map is varied, dense, and no bigger than it needs to be.
WEAKNESSES:
- The story tries to be a Saturday Morning Cartoon version of the Greek Myth, but can't help reconcile it's futile attempts at humour with the depravity of the source-material. It also kills the replay-value when your exploration is overlaid with the constant snarky narration. I skipped through all the damn dialogue.
- It's pretty annoying trying to track stuff on the map. I don't know why Ubisoft stopped providing checklists. You'll never find all the Mounts or Legendary Monsters without a guide.
CONCLUSION:
Fenyx is a five-star experience provided you skip through the plot. No level of cringe can hide what a joy this to play from beginning to end. Anyone from age twelve upwards will love this.