(Apr. 08, 2009 3:36 AM)Bey Brad Wrote: Both of these articles are awesome (moreso the first one rather than the response) and everyone should read them.
I love Majora's Mask to death, but honestly a lot of what that guy had to say about the game and its mature overtones, in my own personal opinion (which I fully expect to be flamed for, as always), could be applied to Twilight Princess.
Yes, the game was largely Ocarina of Time made pretty for the new batch of consoles, but thematically it was in stark contrast to the usual direction of Zelda titles. Throughout my entire experience with the game, the world of Hyrule always felt dark, lonely and oppressive,
especially in the Twilight realm.
When Link is turned into the wolf I instantly felt hampered and limited in my abilities, and it drew up a sense of hopelessness in me. Laugh at me all you wish, but I really do feel that the story line in Twilight Princess as well as the theme, setting and overall tone are strikingly similar to Majora's Mask, and that's really the reason I liked the game as much as I did. It felt like a Zelda title made for mature gamers, and it was this massive, epic game that really felt to me like an amazing culmination of the series highlights.
I know some of you will argue that the game didn't really try anything new, and that Link being morphed into a wolf isn't an innovation as it's been done in previous Zelda games, but what I have to say in response is that it's alright. Twilight Princess wasn't the breath of fresh air for the series that so many fans wanted, and I'm perfectly fine with that -- I thought, taken for what the game was and not the bloated expectations everyone had for it, it was an amazingly well crafted adventure that easily ranks in my top 3 Zelda games along with OoT and Majora's Mask.
Anyway, sort of got off on a tangent there, it just bothered me a bit to see this guy practically jerking MM off and then money shotting TP -- I think TP is the community's whipping boy and it gets a lot of hate that it doesn't deserve.