I… I can’t stop. I borrowed The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess from my friend Kyle and I’m pretty sure it’s one of the best games I’ve ever played. Ever. And I’ve played a lot of video games (my first system was the Odyssey 2, but I was down with my homies Ataris before that), but man this one takes the cake. The Wii-mote is what makes it the experience that it is; sure the gameplay is friggin’ outstanding, but swinging my sword for real is always a bonus as far as immersion goes. The game is HUGE and there’s so much to do. The “meaningless” dungeon crawls made me feel like I was playing Hackmaster and the bug collecting reminded me of Animal Crossing – with death involved. Overlaying it all is a fantastic plot and beautiful graphics.
Whenever I need a break from Zelda I play The Godfather: Black Hand Edition on the Wii. Or Super Paper Mario. I have to steer clear of Wii Sports a lot of the time because of my nerve pain. That’s the only real strike against the Wii in my opinion: sometimes it hurts to play if you’re already in some form of pain. I’ve also been playing Hotel Dusk: Room 215 on my Nintendo DS. Thus far it’s been pretty awesome: nice graphics, great dialogue and a deep, mysterious plot. It plays out like a detective novel (you even hold the DS sideways like a paperback book) and uses the stylus for everything.
And last but not least, Resident Evil 4 for the GameCube rounds out the video games I’ve been playing. I hate that game. I mean, I love it… but I hate it. It scared the shit out of me quite a few times and ARGH! It reminds me a lot of the movie Dagon, only there’s no Deep Ones (I hope).
-=Grim=-
How far into Zelda are you? I just made it to the Sand Temple.
Also, Circuit City is selling Mario Party 8 for $10 off today!
The Wii version of Resident Evil 4 comes out in a few weeks 6/19 IIRC.
It has all the additional content from the PS2 version and it uses the Wii controllers for sweet aiming and stuff.
Scrap dat GC version! The SRP for the Wii version is going to be $29.99