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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Skyward Sword vs Skyrim: Bosses

Skyward Sword: Bosses in his game are huge and I mean huge! From giant flaming monsters to flying whales to tentacled monsters. Most of these bosses are defeated by using items you acquired in the temple before you fight them, but some rely almost purely on swordplay and shielding. Each boss has at least two stages to beating them. You have their initial stage where you fight them using the item you acquired, but then the stage will change, or they'll raise their defence, of they'll change tactics, forcing you to rethink your strategy. These fights are awesome and are accompanied with fantastic music to suit. Never has hacking away at a gigantic eyeball seemed so appealing. Also, I must add that most of these fights are more challenging than ones in previous games. Chug those health potions. 


Skyrim: The bosses in Skyrim certainly look great, but most of them play out like the normal enemies. Okay, so you rush through a cave filled with frostbite spiders and risk life and limb to get to the obvious treasure at the end. Before you can reach the chest, you come across a slightly bigger spider which does slightly more damage and is slightly harder to kill. That's the boss. There are a fair few more though, like Trolls, but they aren't exactly tough...Giants and mammoths are huge, but all you have to do is keep away from them and blast them with frost and you should be fine. Werewolf boss was...brief. However, hands down the best bosses are the dragons. WOWOHMIGOSHFREAKINDRAGONSPLZDONTEATME%
These guys fight so differently to anything else in the game and are so much fun to engage. Also, they breath fire/ice. Hell yes! 

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Twilight Princess haters?

Ah, Zelda games. Each one I've played holds a special place in my gaming heart. What can be said about these games that hasn't already been said. They're fantastic. They're awesome. Most of the are masterpieces. Course, there was one game involving crossbows...
Aside from that, the Zelda franchise has been highly influential and critically acclaimed. Who doesn't like these games? The series has even built up a huge fan base to go along with mainstream success. Take a look at Twilight princess. It Sold around 6.5 million copies. With good reasons the game was...AWFUL?
What the hell? Awful? Who thinks this game is awful? Well, a few people... Some hate this game. They think the storytelling in this game is mediocre at best and that the level design was terrible. Also, the haters claim that this game tried too hard to be dark. I disagree. This game was plenty dark. Not in the same way as Majora's Mask, but it is still pretty unnerving at times. Especially at the end where Midna...no, we don;t speak of that. Anyway, the puzzles, motion controls and story are better than any of the other Zelda games I've played (except for Skyward Sword) Perhaps the only reason that Twilight Princess wasn't as acclaimed as Ocarina of Time or Majora's Mask is because they came first. The three dimensional Zelda games are the best ones, however after Ocarina of Time, they began to follow a formula. After the 2D ones changed from stuff like the Minish Cap to Phantom Hourglass, it became a very different style of game. The 3D ones didn't change to drastically after Ocarina of Time. Sure, Majora's Mask had a clock and Masks to wear, but still fairly similar. Wind Waker brought in a boat and an ocean which made things different, but Twilight Princess strayed closer to Ocarina of Time more so than the others, which (for a series with similar but different games) might not have been the best idea. Twilight Princess may have done it better, but it didn't really differ enough to have the same critical reception. Put it this way, if Twilight Princess was the first 3D Zelda game instead of Ocarina, it probably would have been considered the best of all time. Anyway, I love Twilight Princess more than my own children...uh...
It is a great game, and I just don't see where the hate comes from