Nintendo News | Zelda: Phantom Hourglass Details

By Jorge Ba-oh 12.05.2007 33

The latest edition of Famitsu details new information from the upcoming Legend of Zelda game for DS, Phantom Hourglass - soon approaching a much anticipated release in the land of the rising sun.

The game takes place in a large central dungeon that holds an evil curse, limiting the time our hero can spend. As players venture deeper into the temple, they can use found sea-charts to navigate to islands to aquire "Sand of Time" to buy more time (by beating bosses) to spend in the dungeon.

To accompany him, Link ventures around with a fairy known to the Japanese as "Shiera" and Shii-wan

Box art for The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
Developer

Nintendo

Publisher

Nintendo

Genre

Action Adventure

Players

1

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Reader Score

Rated $score out of 10  9/10 (39 Votes)

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Dr_R is offline. Dr_R 14.05.2007#26

What I loved about WW was that you would sail for a couple of minutes then reach an island that had a puzzle to solve, a treasure chest buried somewhere near it, a platform to climb up and sort out, and perhaps a submarine or a big octo. Almost every island had multiple things to do. Added to that, the figurine quest is amazing, Windfall Island has sidequests aplenty, and the Tingle statue quest was great if you had the GBA (as was the Knuckle sidequest).

Oh and the amount of time spent sailing has really been overstated by some. Sailing was also fun and relaxing.

However, don't get me started on those bloody bokoblins on top of the Islet of Steel. Spending ages angling your cannon just right to blow them up, only to find that there was absolutely no reason for them to be there and no secret to the island at all, was a real annoyance.

"This man has advanced communist views ... He dresses in a bohemian fashion both at his office and in his leisure hours."
 
dartmonkey is offline. dartmonkey 14.05.2007#27

Dr_R said:
Sailing was fun and relaxing.

Star for you.

...
the figurine quest is amazing

Hold up, I changed my mind.

Balladeer said:
(The figurine sidequest was brilliant, though.)

What? Does nobody else think the figurine thing was long-winded, unrewarding and generally shite?

Less posty, more gamey.
 
Balladeer is offline. Balladeer 14.05.2007#28

Nope. Just you. The rest of us are either completionists or very sad people.

As for the sailing being 'fun', five minutes' worth maybe, but half an hour...


Screwing the rules since 1989.
 
James2t3 is offline. James2t3 15.05.2007#29


What? Does nobody else think the figurine thing was long-winded, unrewarding and generally shite?

Yes I did, i never do that kind of stuff in games, i'm saddened to see people actually got some sort of entertainment value from collecting them.

 
Dr_R is offline. Dr_R 15.05.2007#30

Balladeer said:
Nope. Just you. The rest of us are either completionists or very sad people.As for the sailing being fun, five minutes worth maybe, but half an hour...

The figurine quest certainly appeals to the completionist in me. I also think it's a really nice way to be able to look over the fantastic characters in the game. But it is very much an aside and I can see why people might have preferred extra content in a different form.

As for the sailing, if you're ever sailing for half an hour you really need to think about changing the direction of the wind, or perhaps using the Ballad of Gales. Either that or enjoy the little extras like stopping to search for treasure, or going through the barrel gates to start a rupee race.

Also, pan the camera lots, it's nice and cinematic.

"This man has advanced communist views ... He dresses in a bohemian fashion both at his office and in his leisure hours."
 
ohm is offline. ohm 15.05.2007#31

The Sailing in WW really did let you get scope. You really felt like travelling in the game, you feel like a real sailor when you see a little speck in the distance grow. I think it was handled well, only that the Wind Changing was tedious.

 
Balladeer is offline. Balladeer 15.05.2007#32

Dr_R said:
As for the sailing, if youre ever sailing for half an hour...

Aha. I think I see the problem. My personal opinion is that any game which forces 30 minutes of travelling over a landscape which is essentially the same in every direction throughout its entire duration has something wrong with it. Any game which thinks that such travelling is fun and gives you annoying fishing to cope with as well (Triforce Shards anyone?) needs a very serious rethink.

( Edited on 15.05.2007 16:35 by Balladeer )


Screwing the rules since 1989.
 
Dr_R is offline. Dr_R 16.05.2007#33

Balladeer,

You've just got no sense for the romance of the sea. Smilie

"This man has advanced communist views ... He dresses in a bohemian fashion both at his office and in his leisure hours."
 

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