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Game Review: ゼルダの伝説：大地の汽笛
2018-Feb-04, Sunday 17:17
Love them or hate them, there's no one other than Nintendo who'd look at the Legend of Zelda series and say, "Yes, but...what if there were trains?"
I suppose it's not that much of a stretch when you think about it. The real groundbreaker was Wind Waker, which turned the expansive overworlds of the older Zelda games into an endless shining sea with a few points of light in the form of islands. Looking at it that way, a rail network is a pretty reasonable next step. It keeps the advantages of the points of light area design while restricting movement to the tracks, solving some of the problems of Wind Waker's enormous travel distances. It takes advantage of the DS touchscreen and allows drawing a path along the rails so there's no need to babysit the train. And Link gets a spiffy engineer's uniform. What's not to like?
The Japanese title, Daichi no Kiteki, means "Steamwhistle of the Earth." This is another case where the localized title is better.
"This is the Train of the Gods, used by the gods in ancient days..."
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I suppose it's not that much of a stretch when you think about it. The real groundbreaker was Wind Waker, which turned the expansive overworlds of the older Zelda games into an endless shining sea with a few points of light in the form of islands. Looking at it that way, a rail network is a pretty reasonable next step. It keeps the advantages of the points of light area design while restricting movement to the tracks, solving some of the problems of Wind Waker's enormous travel distances. It takes advantage of the DS touchscreen and allows drawing a path along the rails so there's no need to babysit the train. And Link gets a spiffy engineer's uniform. What's not to like?
The Japanese title, Daichi no Kiteki, means "Steamwhistle of the Earth." This is another case where the localized title is better.
"This is the Train of the Gods, used by the gods in ancient days..."
( Read more... )
