I forgot all about FSA. I love that game. It is probably in between MC, and the GB games for me.
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I forgot all about FSA. I love that game. It is probably in between MC, and the GB games for me.
FSA is the only Zelda game I've never played. Well, I've only done the last boss of WW, but I've never touched FSA. It looks good though, and me and my friends love playing FS, so I'm guessing it's a fun game.
FSA is actually a game that I liked a lot, even in Single Player. Unlike Crystal Chronicles, FSA can be enjoyed without 3 friends who all have that dumb GBA link cable that you can't find anywhere...
Yeah, Phantom Hourglass, I own it, but after like, the 6th time of going through the temple of the ocean king, it just got annoying. I couldn't make it. I got far though, and it sure was fun. Overall, I had a fun month trying to figure out where to go, and it brought the original concept of collecting heart containers, rather than pieces of them. I came across a house that I couldn't exit, it's not till later I found out that it's because the touch screen is too small.... Or at least DS phat's.
Which house? I've got the normal DS (which is far superior to the DS Lite) and I've never become stuck in a house.
*spoiler warning* (Not that you'd want to play the game after reading this, but just to be safe)
Gameplay: I have two things to add here: new useless items and sidequests.
First off, the items, and I'm talking about the extra sand and ship parts. Extra sand? Come on, Nintendo; we don't need any more extra time to beat TotOK than what we start with. I even found part one of a video that proves it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E37bAAAAmMQ That's right. It can be beaten in 0 secs, and it's not even that hard to do so! Next up, ship parts. "Hey look, another chest. Let's peek inside. (open) WTF! It's another !@#$in' ship part!" That's pretty much the sensation you'll be experiencing throughout the entire game.
Next, sidequests. As I think I recall, there were only TWO sidequests throughout the entire game: the trading quest and fishing. The trading quest is VERY predictable as all trades are done on the overworld in 4 different boats, one for each corner of the map. I didn't even finish the fishing quest because it takes so long to complete! To basically summarize fishing, there's only one fish out in the overworld at one time. Now, does this even make sense? Only one fish in such a vast ocean? I think not.
Rating: 3/20
Graphics: Not much more to say. It looks like they took WW and downgraded it.
Rating: 2/20
Controls: All I see is a huge gimmick. I mean, come on, sleep mode as a control? The instructions that tell you to use sleep mode or even draw for other things *cough*time freeze*cough* aren't always obvious as to what to do. I honestly would give a better rating if Nintendo had just given an option to choose between using the buttons and using the stylus like they did in their other DS games (SM64DS and MPH, for example).
Rating: 5/20 (for some innovative controls)
Sound: Blech! I remember the songs being short, but I forgot they were THAT short!
Rating: 0/20
Plot: Horrible. It looked like an attempt at making another Link's Awakening (dream world) that failed epically.
Rating: 0/20
Final note: Repetition all the way through that makes the game incredibly boring. 10%
All your complaints about Phantom Hourglass mean nothing compared to the fact that you get to SCREAM AT A POLS VOICE. AND IT WORKS.
I'll give PH this: it's great for kids. While in Germany I spent a lot of time talking to my teacher's 8-year old son, and he loved the game.
And something else I just remembered. On that ice island, there's a puzzle you have to do which involves figuring out who is lying out of 6 people, using only hints that each of those people give you. This could actually have been a decent puzzle, but you can pay someone 200 rupees (and it may have been 100, I really don't remember) to have them just tell you the answer, so you don't have to do any thinking at all. Not to mention that 200 rupees is nothing in PH, since it suffers from "Rupee Flood" even worse than TP: Even if you spend as many rupees as you can at every chance given, you'll still easily continue to get your pockets full and you won't be able to pick up anymore while you're out and about.