User:Sariatheforestsage/Reviews

Note: all of the reviews below are made by me, a 15 year old lad who did not get to play all the games in their original and undoubtable glory. Some games were first played on an emulator or not on the original console or in the time when they were new and amazing.

Hello and welcome to my review section on the Zelda franchise. I wanted to do this for a long time seeing as I have an interesting perspective on the games and my own way of writing the reviews. I will do my best to do the reviews properly and with the respect they deserve.

Ocarina of Time
Ocarina of Time launched in the late 90's was and is one of the most loved video games in the world. This game is perhaps the closest to utmost perfection anything will ever be. Rather then randomly rambling on about it's perfection let's do this in an orderly fashion.

Story

Ocarina of Time tells the story of the young Link a young boy who is an outcast of the Kokiri Tribe living in Kokiri Forest. He is the only boy who does not have a fairy and Mido often comments on that. One day Link is called upon by the Great Deku Tree to save him from a curse caused by Ganandorf, Link is accompanied by his new fairy Navi.

Link fails to save the Deku Tree but with his last breath he asks Link to go to Hyrule Castle and find the Princess. He is given the Kokiri Emerald and he leaves the forest. Saria who is rumoured to be in love with the boy gives him the Fairy Ocarina as a momentum and let's him leave.

Link arrives at the castle and meets with Princess Zelda a small girl in a beautifull dress who tells him of her dream claiming it to be a prophecy. She also tells him part of the story aout Hyrule's creation and the Sacred Stones and Realm. Link is to gather the other two stones and return to Zelda.

When Link found the other stones he finds Hyrule under attack by Ganondorf and Zelda fleeing the city. Link receives the Ocarina of Time and heads to the temple of time where he pulls the master sword and is thrown right into adulthood. 7 years have passed and Link has to awaken Six Sages and fight Ganondorf.

After Link awoke Saria, his sworn brother Darunia, his wife Ruto, the Sheikah Impa and the Gerudo Nabooru he if off to Ganon's Castle and fights him for Zelda. He wins and escapes the collapsing tower only to find Ganondorf transforming into Ganon. Link defeats this monster and is sent back to his childhood by Zelda who remains in the world where she is an adult.

Gameplay

The game is easy to learn but hard to master and has many secrets. The main focus is as always on dungeons and in Ocarina of Time they have no mercy for the brain. Forest Temple, Water Temple and some others are great examples of absolute brain torture and require alot of skill to complete.

The Items are fun and some like the Boomerang and Bomb can result into great treasure. Sometimes you will have a little fight with the camera but that were merely the less amusing results of the amazing 3D world.

Design

The Nintendo 64 was the first Nintendo console to produce decent 3D worlds, but the artist went beyond dreams and created a Hyrule that is amazing and beautifull. Hyrule Field is huge and yet not empty, the characters are simple but still beautifull and some simple extras finish it off.

The characters are my favourite part and Ocarina of Time has some of the greatest characters ever to appear in videogames. Nobody could match some of these characters: like the farmgirl Malon, The Zora Princess Ruto and of course Zelda herself. Although Link's expression failed at times, the characters mentioned above have some amazing emotions and expressions not to mention that the majority of them had some use either for the main story line or side quests.

While Hyrule field was a massive open field there was plenty to see and visit, like Lon Lon Ranch where a new friend that has remained a trusted friend troughout the franchise was waiting for you. There were also Poe's to be hunted, golden bugs to be killed and fairy's to be found.

And of course the world was not limited to just Hyrule Field, Zora's Domain a cozy water palace was found south of Death Mountain and home to the Zora's. Death Mountain was a rough and impressive place where the Goron's reside and it has an active vulcano and dragon's. Not to mention Goron City which was a nice little place where anybody would feel at home. Kokiri Forest was also beautifull and I would do alot to live their with the other Kokiri and the Deku Tree and comes with the amusing Forest Maze where the Forest Temple resides. and finally we have Gerudo Desert the lands of the gerudo Thieves and their great Gerudo Fortress.

Emotion

Nintendo has always beign able to hit you emotionaly one way or another but Ocarina of Time was truly the top of the mountain. Link went trough many trials and if you played this game back in the days you have some great and unbelievable memories.

You had to see the Kokiri Forest and the Deku Tree die before you own eyes, Hyrule burn and Goron Children starve. Eventualy you picked up the sword and slashes your way trough armies, returned the Deku Tree, Free the Gorons and Save Hyrule and know that you just lived the greatest story ever told in a video game.

You will love the characters for their humour and great attitude's the cheerfull Malon, The mysterious Sheik and the friendly Navi. If you are very weak for emotional stress you will hate Ganondorf and truly want revenge and it is to be known that no game has ever beign able to come so close to destroy the barrier between character and player as this game.

The beautifull music composed by he legendary composer Koji Kondo added yet another amazing layer to the emotion this game shines with. 10 unique themes were made each with a function and requiring Link to use his ocarina of play them himself. Saria's Song, the Song of Time and Epona's Song were each amazing results and it becomes even more amazing when you consider that each song only has 5 different notes to use.

Ending

Recently I played Wind Waker and when that intro started telling the Legend of the Hero of Time who rescued the ancient land from certain doom I fell into tears and remembered everything that happened. There have been Zelda games with a better design, with a bigger world maybe even better music but there has never been any with a better story that is told in every game that came after it or a more emotional experience then this one.

Ocarina of Time was the start for many gamers and if not the best game ever, is one of the greatest masterpieces and a legendary work in the entire world of art. Every adventure ever made in the past few years has looked at Ocarina of Time as a standard and never has a new feature like 3D ever beign used to great,

I could ramble on and on about how great I think everything is about this game and how I think Malon, Saria and Zelda are the most beautifull designed female characters ever, but I do not have time anymore.

Thank you for reading this!