The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Reviewed by Tommy Lop
The Legend of Zelda has been a game series form Nintendo back in the 8 bit
days of the original games it has had four other games for it's series. and
it is probably of my favorite game series. almost each one has a kid name
Link out to save his kingdom of hyrule and protect a golden triangle
called the triforce. Now gear up for Nintendo's fifth Legend of Zelda game
and the first Zelda game to be released in over five years. In this game
Link gets to too more in it then he has he can do anything from playing a
flute to riding horses and even traveling through time in later periods of
the game. (note this game is supposed to be a prequal to other games
though it is meant to answer some questions in the story line of Link to the
Past in some areas but in the end it makes the Zelda story line even
more confusing.)
Graphics 10 out of 10
Nintendo did not waste any thing on the graphics this one of the smooths
3D games I have ever played things look big things have shadows and your
shadows move has the sun sets. There is very few things that look like
they are made out of polygons. You can even see everything link puts on from
power braclets to magic boots appear on him.
Music and Sound 9 out of 10
The sound on the game is very good the music is clear and gets to the
setting of the scene. The music changes when you get near an enemy which
is sort of nice because you know when your about ready to get attack and
can mount a defence before you die. The only thing that they missed out is
that they did not put the over world music from the original game in the
64 version of it.
Game Challenge 8 out of 10
I would like to point out that this not the most challenging game I have ever
played and probably took less amounts of turns to beat the first time then
any other Zelda games. But it does have it stumpers and almost unseemly
impossible puzzles (which in the end for me turn out to be the simplest
puzzles in the game).
Game Play-Fun 10 out of 10
This game is incredibly addicting and kept me up till odd hours of the nights
trying to solve a final puzzle of a stage. Next to the 8 main stages it also
has many side things to do like getting your horse, sealing masks, collecting
100 Gold Skulletes, and finding pieces of heart.
Rumble Pak 9 out of 10
The rumble pack has a use in this game one you collect a item called the
Stone of Agony (which you can get my killing 20 Gold Skulletas and then going
to the house of Skulletes in Kakariko Village.) With this item and a rumble pack
it will let you know if you are near a treasure of some sort.
Frustration
There are relatively few frustrations but they do pop up during the game. one
of them is some areas are harder then others and playing avoiding the guards
can be annoying after the 100th time of being caught especially in the Gerdo
fortress. Second Nintendo pour a lot of things into this game but probably
should of spent more time of debugging it so you have the old 8bit age problem
of the game freezing up and starting over in the middle of it.
Replayability 10 out of 10
For one thing is that you can never ever really be done with a Zelda game
even after you have beaten Ganon for the millionth time. you can still search
and find more secrets because there are tons of them in well kept places
and even after you find all the secrets in the game you can always go back and
try to beat the game another way like not collecting any heart pieces or
Gold Skulltiloas.
Game Value 10 out of 10
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is defiantly worth the $65 I paid for
it. It hooked me for three weeks in front of the N64 and kept me up all nights
sometimes on my days off trying to figure out some the riddles.
Best game ever made
Although Zelda 64 is an awesome game it is not the best game I ever played.
(Although it is second to the best game ever made, the best game ever made
in my opinion is The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past) it needs more stages,
a better story line and a bigger over world in my opinion.
Overall 9 out of 10
I thought it was a very good Nintendo 64 game and an excellent Zelda game
(name one Zelda game besides the second one that is not good) it is defiantly
worth the price but has for the 2 year wait I don't know about that one.