The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

THE GOOD:
-Beautiful/ creative Story and realistic character emotions.
-Home to the most meaningful cutscenes i've ever seen.
-Various quests and mini-games throughtout the whole game.
-Ingenius designs in everyway, enemies, bosses, dungeons, items.
-Items and the controls to use them mix in well and different from most games.
-Sounds and music in Hyrule is something to behold.
-Story grows and entertains you like nothing before.
-60+ hours of gameplay and never does it get lame.

THE BAD:
The only flaws are graphical and texture-like, but they come to no real importance.

SUMMARY:
When I decided to go pick up this game, I had NO CLUE it would be this much of a masterpiece. The games epical story has a huge impact on the gameplay. It introduces Links wolf side and his adviser, Midna. The story mixes the cinematic feeling throughout cutscenes and gives characters surprising personalities and emotions, there's...

THE GOOD:
This game was great, there was some funny moments, some serious moments, and even some downright corny moments. There was tons of variety everywhere, from items to enemies to dungeons. The Wolf mechanic added interesting stuff to the game, which will be put in full detail some other time maybe.

THE BAD:
The music just didn't cut it for a Zelda game, I mean the Hyrule field music, The Hyrule Castle music, and the Zora's domain music were the only quality themes, the bossfight music was neat, but theme-wise, the music's not enough. Also, the gamepley feels a bit rushed and the item usage was greatly underdeveloped, a first for Zelda games, in a bad way. Something that really got to me was the cutscene after all of the twilight has been removed, that just downright creeped me out. Finally, the Twilight sections were almost a waste of time, the Wolf's abilities barely evolve, and you can't leave wolfhood without gathering all the Tears of...

THE GOOD:
-Inclusion of classic songs and memorable enemies from the past games in the Zelda series is a big plus!
-Interesting Story.
-Great graphics.
-Fascinating new characters and enemies.
-Beautiful cinematics rendered with the game's engine.
-Flawless controls, for the most part.
-Intense, epic boss battles.
-Innovative new items and weapons.
-Cave of Ordeals is a worthy challenge.

THE BAD:
-Too short.
-Much too easy for veterans of the series and long-time gamers in general.
-Replay value of the main story is somewhat low.
-Controlling the statues with the Rod of Dominion can be a difficult and irritating task at times.
-Not enough substance to make up for the long development time.

SUMMARY:
When I turned on the game and was welcomed by the title music from the original Legend of Zelda along with a title screen animation remniscent of Ocarina of Time's, I had high hopes of the...

THE GOOD:
-Love the cinematic feel.
-While nothing is revolutionary, the game still has it's little things that add to it.
-The music seems more epic than in other games.

THE BAD:
-The music during fights with minor enemies is lame and dull.

SUMMARY:
Graphics
Being as this is a Gamecube game, I must say I am a little impressed. This game has probably the best graphics of any Gamecube game I've played. They really help to immerse you into this huge and epic world. Everything's been scaled up. The environments are so much more detailed than that of any other Zelda game to date. The art style is very great too. Instead of continueing the cartoon art style of the Wind Waker, the Twilight Princess has a more realistic and less of a childish feel to it.

Music
While the music in some areas are good, particulary in the temples, and during boss fights, and towns. The fights with the regular enemies have dull music.