The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
by Nintendo
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Video Game Reviews of The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
Customer Review: Good Game
Summary: 5 Stars
My 5 year old son got this for Christmas along with a DS. He loves it, and never seems to tire of it.Customer Review: Enjoyable adventure with unique controls, hurt by several design choices
Summary: 4 Stars
Praise:
- Stylus driven controls are fun to use, and aren't just a novelty. Items can be used in ways that wouldn't be possible with the d-pad.
- Beautiful cel-shaded graphics with expressive characters, fluid animation, and epic boss fights using both screens.
- The sound effects and music are expertly crafted, fitting perfectly with the visuals.
- The usefulnes of area maps goes deeper than simple navigation. The game encourages taking notes and drawing pictures on the maps to uncover secrets.
- Fantastic dungeon design made up of clever puzzles and short encounters. New pathways are always being opened to minimize backtracking.
- Story and dialogue bring personality to the game world without getting overly wordy.
- Save anywhere.
Criticism:
- There are a few unfortunate uses of the microphone. Blowing and yelling at the DS makes me feel foolish.
- The overworld is a large boring ocean. Tedious sailing is compounded by bothersome ambushes while making your way from island A to island B.
- Hand holding: Too often the fairy that follows you around will immediately blurt out the solution to what could have been an interesting puzzle. The dungeons are also littered with stone tablets. Some of which absolutely must be read, and others are just puzzle spoilers with no way to tell the difference between them. An option to turn off hints could have been implemented, but wasn't.
Other thoughts:
- Novice players will likely enjoy a decent challenge without a lot of frustration. Long time gamers will find it almost entirely too easy. More than one selectable difficulty level could have pleased a wider range of players.
- The single-player game will take most people somewhere between 15-25 hours to beat. Beyond that, there's a lot of optional stuff to collect, and a few multi-player mini-games.
Customer Review: the legend of zelda phantom hourclass
Summary: 5 Stars
this is a great game. i received it last christmas. i bought this one as a gift for my youngest son. he enjoyed the game a lot. it has all the fun that zelda games have,. you could easily spend hours on end with this game. hard to put down.Customer Review: Brilliant!
Summary: 5 Stars
I thought this game was absoloutely brill...hence my title ^^^ :)
It had a good story line and i was always on it !
This is the 1st zelda game i have ever played and i think it was a great one for me to play on 1st. I would love to play some of the other ones =]
I highly reccomend this game and to the people that say it is over to quickly i say 'rubbish!' it is a good game and is not over to quickly.
Even if you do the whole game by a guide it still takes a while.
overall i think ths game is very good (Y)
hope i helped :)
Customer Review: great game.A good challenge
Summary: 4 Stars
I got this game last year and loved the story and how good it looks on the ds.The game play took a couple of minutes to get use to but the training levels help and i got into a groove with the style.My big problem is you have to keep going to the same dungeon over and over.You do face harder enemies and new floors but after a few times enough is enough.