GAMER LOUNGE 20XX (NO CASUALS!!)

[Kriven]

Well, here's how I'm feeling about it:

Not particularly excited. Twilight Princess was a tough game for me to get into, and I haven't managed to get into Skyward Sword just yet... in both cases due in large part to their visual styles, and Zelda U looks like it's kicking the bloom up to eleven. It was just so difficult to figure out what the hell I was looking at in both of those games, and the Twilight segments gave me incredible headaches. At least Twilight Princess still had engaging characters and a compelling, interesting world to explore, and the more I played it the more it felt like a Zelda game. I want to like SS because the character designs are really great and the whole Skyloft thing is cool, but there seems to be way more emptiness than in previous games, the stamina meter is a huge pain, and I really don't dig the controls. I'll try it again sometime though, maybe my opinion will change.

With Zelda U, we haven't really seen a whole lot of sigificant gameplay, so I'm holding off on that... What does make me uneasy is comments from the director where he's stated things like "I want this to be more like Skyrim and other western RPGs" which... don't appeal to me. I play Zelda because it's Zelda, not because it's Elderscrolls. And I think a lot of other Zelda fans are hesitant because of those comments as well. Right now that's really all we have to go on, and it isn't encouraging.

But it's still very early days and we haven't seen anything that wasn't test footage, so I'm reserving judgment until we know much more about the game.