Hmm... Spirit Tracks.
Mar. 26th, 2009 04:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dagronratMy darling sister has been demanding I update my blog more. I told her I wanted to make a locked post in the near future and she needs to get an LJ so I can add her to the "can-read" list. Sister? That still applies.
On the other hand, there is something I do feel like talking about in a public entry.
A< new Legend of Zelda game has been announced.
(And it already has fanart! O_o Lolwut Fandom?)
I've just watched the trailer, I've seen some of the pictures and read one or two reports, and am still not too sure what to think of this Spirit Tracks.
As I had thought when I first heard about it, it is a pretty direct sequel to Phantom Hourglass for the Nintendo DS. And yes, it has Trains. Considering that PH had steam boats, it is pretty much in keeping with the universe/timeline. I think our perception of trains (at least in the west) is pretty much that they are what divided us from the Middle Ages, into the technologically advanced times. And apparently Trains won't be the only technological gimmick in the game. The trailer shows Link using a robot, a sort of electric fan-boomerang thing and I have no doubt more such tools will abound. It feels like quite a leap from the backwater middle age epic fairy tales setting the Zelda series has us used to. Yet the game is most definately still a Zelda game, with Link wearing his trademark green when he's not prancing about in his new shiny train-driver uniform, puzzles, switches, epic bosses with painfully obvious weak points that you probably only need to hit three times, and of course, the princess the series is named after.
Yet I'm not feeling overly enthusiastic about it.
When I heard about it, I was surprised. I had not expected to hear about a new Zelda game for some time yet. And it's a fairly obvious sequel to Phantom Hourglass, which, though I enjoyed, I felt was acutely shallow and short (and inhabited by selfish pigs). Somehow I'm not expecting Spirit Tracks to improve on that. I'm expecting more of the same, riding on the past successes of PH and WindWaker to fill in a gap in Nintendo's release schedule. Though maybe I'm just being cynical about it. I don't think it'll be a bad game, I just don't think it'll be much to remember.
Apart from the WTF!TRAINS? part, naturally.
On the other hand, there is something I do feel like talking about in a public entry.
A< new Legend of Zelda game has been announced.
(And it already has fanart! O_o Lolwut Fandom?)
I've just watched the trailer, I've seen some of the pictures and read one or two reports, and am still not too sure what to think of this Spirit Tracks.
As I had thought when I first heard about it, it is a pretty direct sequel to Phantom Hourglass for the Nintendo DS. And yes, it has Trains. Considering that PH had steam boats, it is pretty much in keeping with the universe/timeline. I think our perception of trains (at least in the west) is pretty much that they are what divided us from the Middle Ages, into the technologically advanced times. And apparently Trains won't be the only technological gimmick in the game. The trailer shows Link using a robot, a sort of electric fan-boomerang thing and I have no doubt more such tools will abound. It feels like quite a leap from the backwater middle age epic fairy tales setting the Zelda series has us used to. Yet the game is most definately still a Zelda game, with Link wearing his trademark green when he's not prancing about in his new shiny train-driver uniform, puzzles, switches, epic bosses with painfully obvious weak points that you probably only need to hit three times, and of course, the princess the series is named after.
Yet I'm not feeling overly enthusiastic about it.
When I heard about it, I was surprised. I had not expected to hear about a new Zelda game for some time yet. And it's a fairly obvious sequel to Phantom Hourglass, which, though I enjoyed, I felt was acutely shallow and short (and inhabited by selfish pigs). Somehow I'm not expecting Spirit Tracks to improve on that. I'm expecting more of the same, riding on the past successes of PH and WindWaker to fill in a gap in Nintendo's release schedule. Though maybe I'm just being cynical about it. I don't think it'll be a bad game, I just don't think it'll be much to remember.
Apart from the WTF!TRAINS? part, naturally.
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Date: 2009-03-26 05:28 pm (UTC)(Breath of fire III, Grandia, Vandal Heart...)
Personnaly, I've always loved the mix.
...but...I agree, it definitly don't match with the classical Zelda's universe.^^;
(On the other hand...In the good old game boy version, you've phones and arcade games...)XD
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Date: 2009-03-27 08:10 am (UTC)Interesting parallel though: both Link's Awakening and Phantom Hourglass involved a dream world.
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Date: 2009-03-27 01:57 am (UTC)Wow, that's such crack.
Amusement and WTF!TRAINS? aside, though, this makes me kind of sad. They're commercializing a perfectly good series. This is why I've afraid of the DS and Wii and Nintendo in general; in making things 'mainstream' to appeal to wider audiences, they're really dumbing everything down.
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Date: 2009-03-27 08:14 am (UTC)I wonder how they'll manage to make the trains interesting. (More interesting than the boats, I hope?)
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Date: 2009-03-27 08:15 am (UTC)XDDDDDD I'm almost afraid to find out.
'darling sister'
Date: 2009-04-10 10:37 pm (UTC)