User:Dialask77/ Zelda Reviews

Ok, once again I am bending to popular will. Everyone else makes one of these, so I guess I will make one as well. Feel free to input your thoughts in the discussion page.

Review is based on the five stars system.

The Legend of Zelda Series
Gameplay: **** Graphics: Varies Main Story: *** Side Stories/Part stories: ***** Characters: **** Enemies: ***** Overall: ****

You know the series, you love the series, this is the reason why we are all here. Anyway I started playing Zelda before I even had rational memory. The first game I played was Link's Awakening with my Mom. She is the real fanatic of the series, but I love it as well. The gameplay has always been fun and challenging, but not so much so that it is unpleasent. The Graphics in the series are overall very good, but at times have been disappointing to me. The story has always been fairly generic, but the side stories, and points in the story make up for the overall story. The character cast has always been interesting, unfortunantly, lack of creativity has taken a point off because they have a bad tendency to keep the same characters game in and game out (I don't mean the big three, but I mean the smaller, less significant characters). The enemies are some of the best in any game, both combat wise and appearance wise. Overall the series is great.

The Legend of Zelda
Gameplay: *** Graphics: * Main Story: * Side Stories/Part stories: ? Characters: ** Enemies: **** Overall: ***

I played a little bit of the game, but did not care much for it. It was unpleasently difficult, the graphics were poor, characters were only saved by Impa, Zelda, and Link, the story was cliched. I give it an extra point because it was the first in the series and it was made as good as it could be for the time and the difficulty was favoured with games at that time. The enemies were cool and set the mark for future enemies. I suppose it's difficulty is just a secret to everybody, because I found it harder than Zelda II.

Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
Gameplay: **** Graphics: *** Main Story: ** Side Stories/Part stories: ** Characters: *** Enemies: ***** Overall: ***

This is one of the most hated games in the series, but I actually think it is pretty good. The difficulty is insane; The graphics are pretty poor, but are rescued by the artwork (especially Rebonack); Main story was a bit more creative, but not much; slight side quests were interesting; I liked Error (unlike everyone else); The music was the best in the series (think All palaces and especially the Great Palace); The enemies were all innovative and creative (and frustratingly difficult); overall it was better than the original, but wasn't so good that it should be considered a great game. My favorite thing about it was the 90ish feel to it...I dunno why.

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Gameplay: ***** Graphics: ***** Main Story: ***** Side Stories/Part stories: *** Characters: *** Enemies: **** Overall: *****

One of the best games in the series, perhaps the best ever. The gameplay had the original Legend of Zelda in mind, but made it much easier to navigate the world and made the fights possible. The graphics were my favorite graphics ever. The Main story was, for once, better than the side stories. The characters were a slight improvement from the other two. The enemies were some of the coolest in the series (think wizzrobe). Overall an amazing game.

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
Gameplay: **** Graphics: *** (DX: ****) Main Story: *** Side Stories/Part stories: **** Characters: ** Enemies: **** Overall: ***

Another very good game. The difficulty mimicked Link to the Past (maybe slightly easier); The graphics were sort of poor until they came out with the DX version (they may have gone a little TOO technicolor); the overall story was decent, but a little weird; The side stories were, in general, spectacular; Characters were nice, but kind of depressing when you pretty much kill them all; Enemies were the same ones (pretty much) in A Link to the Past. Overall a really decent game.

The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time
Gameplay: ***** Graphics: ***** Main Story: **** Side Stories/Part stories: **** Characters: **** Enemies: ** Overall: *****

A great game. The graphics were great; gameplay was very good; difficulty was tough at points; the main story of the game was pretty darn good; side stories were also somewhat exiting. The only big issue with the game is that it lacked the cool enemies (wizzrobe *cough *cough) that some of the other games had. Overall another spectacular game.

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
Gameplay: **** Graphics: ***** Main Story: *** Side Stories/Part stories: ***** Characters: **** Enemies: **** Overall: ***** A fantasitic game, period. The gameplay was almost exactly like Ocarina of Time, but it loses a point because of the annoying three day issue; Graphics were good; Main story was a little weak, but fairly unique; the Side stories and parts of the main stories were Fantasitic; Characters were really good; enemies were great (yay wizzrobe is back as is the new garo!!); just a great game in general.

The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons
Gameplay: **** Graphics: **** Main Story: **** Side Stories/Part stories: **** Characters: ***** Enemies: **** Overall: ****

Another great game. Gameplay was like Link's Awakening; Graphics were an improved version upon DX; Main story was intriguing; Part stories were fun; Characters were amazing and interesting, really making the game great; enemies were like in some of the other games. Overall a good game, it brings back memories...

The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages
Gameplay: *** Graphics: **** Main Story: ***** Side Stories/Part stories: **** Characters: ***** Enemies: **** Overall: ****

This game focused more on an intriguing story than it's counterpart. I preferred seasons to ages gameplay-wise, because Ages was so much harder; graphics were the same...; Main story was excellent; side stories were fun; The characters played a far more active role in that game than characters had played in some of the other games (Ralph even going as far as fighting the final boss before you); enemies were the same...; overall another good game...doesn't have quite the nostalgic feeling seasons has.

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
Gameplay: *** Graphics: ** Main Story: ***** Side Stories/Part stories: ***** Characters: *** Enemies: ***** Overall: ***

Though not my favorite game, it was a good game overall. The gameplay consisted of sailing which I found rather dull, but it had an allure at first; I hated the graphics, cell shading just doesn't work for me, sorry; main story was probably the most active story dealing with Hyrule; Side stories were always pretty fun; characters were a bit goofy to me; overall an all right game.

The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords
Gameplay: **** Graphics: **** Main Story: ** Side Stories/Part stories: * Characters: * Enemies: **** Overall: ***

The only thing that hurts this game is an obvious lack of characters and blazeness of story. I liked the gameplay better than four swords adventures; the graphics better than some games; story was really lacking; had no side stories; had no other characters; enemies were fun. overall it was an all right game, but lack of anything besides base gameply severely hurt it.

The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures
Gameplay: ** Graphics: ***** Main Story: **** Side Stories/Part stories: ** Characters: *** Enemies: **** Overall: ***

I did not like this game as much as four swords, but it was still an all right game. Gameplay freaking relied on other players, which was obnoxious; graphics were similar to A link to the past; Main story was interesting; side stories...well it sort of had some at times, but they were fairly disinteresting; Characters were boring except for Shadow Link; enemies were all right. Overall not as good a game as four swords, but it had redeeming qualities story wise.

The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap
Gameplay: *** Graphics: **** Main Story: ** Side Stories/Part stories: **** Characters: ***** Enemies: ***** Overall: ****

It was a decent game, not as good as some of the real games in the series though. The Gameplay was ok, but I didn't like minish form; Graphics were good; main story was dull and the minish certaintly didn't help; Side stories were pretty fun; Characters were awesome; Enemies were good and were redeemed the most by the awesome incarceration of Wizzrobes. A good game overall

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Gamepaly: ***** Graphics: ***** Main Story: *** Characters: *** Enemies: *** Overall: ****

A good game. The gameplay, especially the horse riding parts were great; Graphics were of course the highest quality; Main Story was a bit colorless; Characters were bland and irritating (except of course Louise...yes the cat); enemies were ok. overall another good game.