cpskuja's Full Review: The Legend Of Zelda Ocarina Of Time for Nintendo 6...
It really mystifies me, just what people see in this game. I mean, everyone says its one of the best games of all time, revolutionizing the platform genre and at the same time bringing one of Nintendo's most loved (ha!) series into 3D.
None of this is true. Well, ok. It's in 3D. But aside from that...
To start off with, the most irking thing in my opinion is the odd balancing act between the hyper-cutesy, anime-style world featuring fairies, weird talking fish, and little elves, vs. the dark and evil empire of Ganandorf (WHAT IS HE?) and how he turns all 2 square miles of hyrule into a dark and evil world 7 years later. Or something like that.
To get through the game, you must first endure 3 kiddie dungeons 7 years before the main story. These really don't do a very good job of setting the tone for the story, as the puzzles are either blatantly obvious or mind-boggling. After about an hour of poorly scripted cutscenes, you finally arrive 7 years later at the new, worse world that Ganon has somehow created. Think an alternate-universe star-trek style ensemble.
Hour after hour after hour of dungeon-plodding will slowly numb your mind. The weird control scheme, in which B always controls your sword, A controls everything else and changes its function every 2 seconds, and C buttons control, um, deku seeds, deku sticks, a deku seed shooter, some masks, a magnifying glass..... you get the idea. The control scheme isn't all that great, but I guess it's the best you can do on the N64's controller.
This is really out of place, but I'm not sure where to put it, but it has to be mentioned. Each of the dungeons is scattered across the landscape. Now, to get to anything, you either have to walk across Hyrule field, which takes about 10 minutes, or memorize 12 songs on the Ocarina, which you play with the C buttons. Oh, decisions, decisions.
A fairy follows you around and reminds you every five minutes what you need to do. By the end of the game, you will wish you had a flyswatter, I guarantee you. But maybe you'll be so distracted by how horrible this game is that you won't even notice the fairy. Well, I did.
To top it off, the music is either
a) insanely repetitive
b) insanely annoying, or
c) all of the above.
Plus, whenever you swing your sword, link shouts. Every. Time. He shouts one of 3 shouts: Hiya!, Yah!, or Hyi!. It. gets. very. very. very. annoying. why. cant. you. just. die.
What more can I say? Please, for the good of yourself, your family, and mankind, don't believe the hype for once. Spend your $60 on Final Fantasy VII, or at least a few CDs. This isn't worth your life.
PS - there's a fishing mini-game. That's right. FISHING. Kill me now.
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