This game is an action-RPG that is set in a fantasy world with heavy steampunk elements known. Anthropomorphic animals known as Caninu and Felineko live all over Caninu and the player controls one of them, a dog known as Red Savarin who is tasked with tracking down a file that was stolen. This game became fairly popular when it was released among fantasy and RPG fans.
Despite being popular among Nintendo DS owners, it's still become a fairly rare game in more recent years. Powerbike is a motocross game with eight unique tracks. It's story follows a character who gets an offer from a mysterious sponsor. Taking the offer, they are thrown into the world of racing and must speed their way to the top. There is even a local multiplayer mode to play with friends.
Little Red must take on an army of zombies using various high-powered guns. In this game, there's only shooting and dodging, but this becomes increasingly difficult as it progresses.
The game was only physically released in North America. In Europe, it was published as a DSiWare title, but no other region saw its release. This life simulation game is similar to other games like Stardew Valley and Harvest Moon, in that it has the player running a farm and focuses on the management of that farm.
Unlike those two games, this one focuses more on trading and the economic management of the farm than having a relationship with an NPC. This game was released in on the Nintendo DS and has become one of the rarest games on the console. Kind of. The sequel, The Phantom Hourglass, was released on the handheld console, but that's not what we mean. Only around were made and they were only given out to the press at E3 , before the Nintendo DS was even released.
Wield the Light and Dark with equal mastery with these devastating Hunter builds. Share Share Tweet Email. The second dungeon in the game, Goron Mines, is a wonder to behold -- and if you've never fought the boss of the Arbiter's Grounds, you're missing out. OK, they aren't technically side quests; you're required to complete them to finish the game.
However, Twilight Princess does a fantastic job of pacing "quests" and events throughout the story. You never run into a point where you're knocking out dungeon after dungeon. This is often where character development blooms and when you obtain new gear and upgrades. These moments are what make Twilight Princess , they are why it stands out from other Zelda titles.
They bring the weight, depth, and meaning into a world that you otherwise may never get invested in. What is your favorite Zelda game? Why do you favor it? Join in the conversation below. Autumn Fish Featured Correspondent. Published Mar. Mathenaut March 3, , pm. Back when he was good, Egoraptor did a good deconstruction of OoT and why it survives mostly on nostalgia. I'll rank Twilight Princess at the top, but I don't blame others for not doing the same.
Almost every one pits you against a giant, screen-filling creature that at least looks tough, even if you're just going to grapple your way onto it and stick your sword in its weak spot over and over again, or use your ball and chain to bust it apart, without even breaking a sweat. Even the final confrontation is relatively easy, and if you get stumped going against any boss, you can ask Midna for help and get a fairly good idea about what you're supposed to be doing.
If you want to go off the beaten path, you can find a handful of side tasks to take on, like fishing and some other minigames. But aside from the combat-filled Cave of Ordeals, which is a stage area that acts as a survival mode, these aren't too exciting and the rewards you get for completing them aren't especially helpful. Overall, the game is paced well and it keeps you moving more often than not.
At one point you have to move around to various statues that are stashed throughout the world, and this bogs down the action a bit, but it's nowhere near the time sink that the late-game sailing marathon that padded out the back end of Wind Waker was. Your time spent in Twilight Princess involves very little backtracking, and not too much repetition, keeping the focus squarely on original, interesting stuff. If you spend a lot of time trying to pick apart the visuals of Twilight Princess, you'd notice plenty of low-res textures and jagged edges.
But that would be missing the point. Twilight Princess is an excellent-looking game due to some terrific art design. Much has already been said about the art style reverting back to a more mature or realistic look after Wind Waker took the series in a decidedly cartoonlike direction. While there's nothing terribly 'mature' about this T-rated game, it looks absolutely great from an artistic perspective.
The world itself offers the sort of variety you'd naturally expect from a fantasy game, with everything from lakes to deserts to dungeons, but it's when you start seeing the twilight realm that the game really takes off, visually.
Twilight realm portals that open up do so with an almost Tron -like glowing, computerized look, and when you teleport around or change forms, that same style shows through, breaking your character into cool, tiny black squares and reforming you in a new place or shape.
You're also going to fight a lot of crazy-looking dark shadow creatures, and many of the enemies in Twilight Princess look really nice, up to and including those large boss opponents. At the same time, the game gets a lot of little details right, too. You get a lot of close shots of characters' faces in the game's cutscenes, and their faces are often filled with emotion. The eyes, particularly, convey a lot of soul, which really helps make Link's wolf form work, too. It may have its rough edges here and there, but Twilight Princess is a superb-looking GameCube game.
The Legend of Zelda series' symphonic-style music has always been great, dating all the way back to the NES original. That same music keeps getting updated, and more new themes have worked their way into the series and become recurring, as well. You'll hear a lot of classic melodies in Twilight Princess, and those help give the game a nostalgic feel.
Much like the graphical portion of the game, the music gets by on the strength of the compositions, but at the same time, all of the music is rendered in the same sort of sample-driven, synthesized style that the series has had since the Nintendo 64 days.
While that might also give you a dose of nostalgia, it's also a little dated. When you consider the storage limitations that are inherent to the GameCube, it's easy to see why the game went this route and also why it relies on text and text alone to convey its epic story.
The rest of Twilight Princess' sound is about what you'd expect, and it's using plenty of the same sort of sound effects and battle yelps that the series has relied on, which again will tap into fans' nostalgia for the series.
All in all, the game sounds great. Objectively speaking, it's still a little disappointing that the series hasn't evolved much at all with this latest installment. You'll almost certainly enjoy the game for its terrific puzzles, colorful characters, and compelling story, but at some point the feeling of nostalgia crosses the line and holds this game back from being as unbelievably good as some of its predecessors.
So as impressive of a game as it is, Twilight Princess seems like it could have been so much more if Nintendo had broken from the formula a little bit more. But even without that, Twilight Princess is a great game that stays extremely true to the Zelda franchise's past.
That's excellent news for fans of the series, who'll find in Twilight Princess a true-blue Zelda game with updated visuals, some new twists, plenty of challenging puzzles, and a faithful dedication to the series' roots.
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