Just as a Recount

[Ric]

Metal Gear Solid 2, I am sure you will agree looks very pretty. They say gameplay over looks but I truly feel this game proves that looks can enhance a game and its gameplay by adding a whole new level of realism to it.

And this 'whole new level of realism' is something I truly wanted for the next zelda game, it would be huge, it would be marvellous, it would look, feel, sound, smell and even taste real. After the huge and highly successful thread I started waaaaaaaaaaaay back on Nintendose which was carried to here and lived on for many months I had very high expections for the 'next zelda game'. Then came the spaceworld video and I crapped myself, OH MY GOD, this is precicely what the genra needs to evolve into.

And then... then came Link's next appearance, I waited with high hopes and... got crapped on by Nintendo. I am sure you remember the first and perhaps rash reactions of many forum members, myself included. The thread I made 'The Legend Of Zelda: Adventures Of Pansi Boy' springs to mind.

I commend Nintendo for branching out and experimenting with new things, buy why oh why did they have to do this to Zelda, how hard would it have been to develope a completly new franchise and give the consumer what they truly wanted, a 'Real' Zelda.

Final note: I feel this is a downward spiral for the Zelda genra, I/we wanted a real, living, breathing, interactive world so they didnt give it to us. I will not be able to take this game seriously as I had wished to and Zelda may well be knocked from the top spot of my personal favourite games. All I can say is, it better damn be good, not what I expected, but it better be damn good Mr. Miyamoto.

Hope: This is a remake of the first Zelda game for Nes, the video clip was even called The Legend Of Zelda. And the one we really want is in development, this is a quick cash in, next comes a remake of TLOZ: The Adventure Of Link and then the much called for, Link To The Past. Wishful thinking???? Perhaps.