Zelda: Spirit Tracks

[BreakABone]

Originally Posted by Vampyr

Yeah, I'm probably not going to be picking this up...especially after hearing your description.

There needs to be some real innovation with Zelda, especially on the handheld ones. The Oracle games were really awesome. They took place in two totally unique worlds, they had about 60 rings you could collect that gave you all sorts of powers, and the rod/harp were really fun gameplay mechanics. Not to mention you could pick one of three pets to use throughout the game.

So just curious... though guess we've been debating this in the other thread, what would you like to see to change up Zelda?

Not disagreeing with you, but I know a part of the problem with a legacy franchise like Zelda is people wanna see change, but they also want it to stick with the core gameplay mechanics.

Unless you just want a completely new style of game.

Also, I am still debating this game. Want to pick it up, but it has a central dungeon like PH, which wasn't fun, but you don't need to replay sections.. so who knows.

[Vampyr]

Originally Posted by BreakABone

So just curious... though guess we've been debating this in the other thread, what would you like to see to change up Zelda?

Not disagreeing with you, but I know a part of the problem with a legacy franchise like Zelda is people wanna see change, but they also want it to stick with the core gameplay mechanics.

Unless you just want a completely new style of game.

Also, I am still debating this game. Want to pick it up, but it has a central dungeon like PH, which wasn't fun, but you don't need to replay sections.. so who knows.

Well, sort of like I mentioned about the Oracle games. They pretty much had the exact same game play, with the addition of some different items (which basically every zelda game does), plus the rings, the three pets, and two different worlds. One also had a time travel component which affected how you solved puzzles (not necessarily new, but they did it well), and then the Season's game let you change between the four seasons to solve certain puzzles.

Another reason I won't get it is because I'm getting tired of the way those look, I miss the look and feel of the older handheld Zelda's.

[TheSlyMoogle]

Originally Posted by BreakABone

So just curious... though guess we've been debating this in the other thread, what would you like to see to change up Zelda?

Not disagreeing with you, but I know a part of the problem with a legacy franchise like Zelda is people wanna see change, but they also want it to stick with the core gameplay mechanics.

Unless you just want a completely new style of game.

Also, I am still debating this game. Want to pick it up, but it has a central dungeon like PH, which wasn't fun, but you don't need to replay sections.. so who knows.

I know I just said a lot of this in MSN but for others:

I really want to see some actual puzzle innovation. They tried in ST but basically you end up with the new thing being really simple logic puzzles.

You know the stuff you did in school like with 5 people standing there and you had to pick out who was who. Like "Sam is tallest" "Brian is standing on the left side of Sam" etc. Just it's super easy, and I'm not opposed to those type of puzzles, but unfortunately I've also always been really good at logic stuff like that. I dunno. Not opposed to that stuff, but nintendo please try harder.

Also the central dungeon is probably the most fun thing about the game so far.

There is a musical instrument again by the way. They could have done much more with the musical part of the game though, especially with touch screen but... Meh.

I would take a whole new game. Link doesn't have a sword or shield and starts wielding fucking nunchucks, anything. I would take it.

Also really sick of items you find in dungeons only being used in said dungeon like earl said.

Oh well.