Game Review: ゼルダの伝説：トライフォース３銃士

The Legend of Zelda series has gone through several strange shifts in its history. It started with Zelda 2, where the question was what Zelda would be like as a side-scrolling action RPG. Wind Waker asked what Zelda would be like if most of the land was replaced with a shining sea, and Spirit Tracks wondered what Zelda would be like if most of it involved trains. But admit, I never expected that the Legend of Zelda series would become a fashion simulator.

I had started to pay a bit more attention to games discourse when this game came out, and much like Four Swords Adventures, a lot of the talk was about how it was multiplayer. And not just multiplayer, it required exactly three people to play. Still, there was a lot of goodwill toward Nintendo after the success of A Link Between Worlds, so people were willing to give it a try. And while I didn't hear that much about it, I heard mostly that it was okay. Fun with the right people, extremely frustrating with random people, and not worth playing solo. That's pretty much correct.

The Japanese title is Toraifо̄su sanjūshi, "The Three Triforce Musketeers." Honestly, what a great title. I guess they couldn't resist the "tri" reference in the English.

Solving problems through T pose.

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