PS3: Is it worth it?

[senjuro]

So there could be Game Cube version

Then there should've been JUST a GC version with mediocre graphics OR a Wii version with fantastic graphics and better music. Instead. the GC version looks great, and the Wii version looks disappointingly the same.

Are you kidding? This game had the least repetitive gameplay.

You can cite a bunch of the more exciting gameplay elements all you want, but it's the 20 or so hours in between that make the game, not the few memorable checkpoints in between.

Voice acting does not always equal a good game, and it takes much more space and thus causes more load times and machine stressing. Plus, the hero doesn't speak at all which would make the game a bit akward.

Getting around a silent protagonist with voice acting is easy, much easier than Final Fantasy X's getting around never saying Tidus' name. Hearing some quality voice acting would be great. It not being there wouldn't be such a big deal 6 years ago, but voice acting is pretty much expected these days. And for the game to include people saying nonsense syllables is childish and, I felt, insulting to a mature gaming audience.

This is more of a taste preference but I thought the music really fitted in the game. What, should there have been more rap and heavy metal or something?

Note that I said "MIDI quality" meaning that the sound quality is ASS. I was expecting grand orchestral gestures that would thrill me to my core. Instead, I get electronic beeps and boops, vainly simulating orchestral music. Was the music good? Sure, it had all the classic old tunes and a bevy of new ones, but they wasn't presented very attractively. It sounded tinny, and the Wiimote's controller buzzing with equally abysmal quality every time I did ANYTHING was equally atrocious.

On Wii, you perform the spin slash with one good wrist move. On GC, you have to hold your button down which feels very akward after trying the game on Wii. The aiming also works much better and faster.

The spin slash and the shield attack were pretty much interchangeable in terms of execution, and I found often that I got one when I wanted the other. And what's wrong with executing the spin slash the same way it's always been done since its inception? No comment on the aiming, as one or the other is just as intuitive to me after 20 years of gaming.

I'm sorry that you felt that I broke it down inadequately, but I'm not going to fawn over a game and make excuses for its slipshod quality simply because it bears the name "Legend of Zelda."

If by boring you refer to good and fun gameplay, yeah this game is pretty boring.

No, I meant boring, as in "The fishing mechanics suck," or "Walking around with no direction until I randomly run into the bridge I need to teleport," or "I can't find the last two of those damned teardrops," or "Okay, I got the dungeon item and have been around the whole dungeon fifty times...now what the hell do I do?" Y'know, that kind of boring.

Yeah! There's no anti aliasing or bump mapping! Grr, the game doesn't have realistic shadows! The sounds aren't fully orchestated (However you spell it) so clearly this game has less value than some other adventure game with all those things in it!

I'm pointing out that the game has lots of sore spots that fanboys snap back at when people poke them as I did. Thanks for proving my point. Like I said, a gamer with an eye for quality can appreciate games as a package deal, but is also capable of looking at its flaws and judging it fairly. Sorry if you think I'm wrong to expect high quality for a 7th gen system; I do. Sorry if you think that clipping is excusable; I don't. Sorry if you think MIDI quality music is acceptable for a 7th gen system; I don't. Sorry if you're satisfied with a less than excellent product; I'm not.

Maybe I have higher standards for a game than you. That doesn't make either of us better. It just seems that I'm able to review a game far more objectively than you because I see things you either don't see or decide to patently ignore.