The game is a graphical adventure, with you controlling Link very much like Mario, but the main difference is that you can interact with all the non-player. Zelda 64 is also not a level-based game. You get the whole world to explore, arid if there's an area which is blocked off, you must first solve a puzzle elsewhere to access it.
The original game was viewed almost from directly above and battles merely consisted of you slashing away at sprites until they expired. What Zelda 64 brings to the series is full 3-D battles, very much like Tekken 2 on the PlayStation, and instead of having a fixed viewpoint, you can change the camera angle at any time. Link must collect rupees cash on his quest, as well as hearts lifeforce and as in the original, special hidden hearts can be found which extend your overall health rating.
You will also have an inventory to store precious items, and as you kill more enemies and open up the game, your weapons and skills will gradually increase, allowing you to perform even more outrageous moves.
Zelda 64 will be THE game to have on the new console. Start saving, pester games shops, don't take no for an answer. When Zelda 64 arrives you will not leave the house for a month. Look forward to an in-depth report in the next issue of 64 Magazine.
Prospects: The Jurassic Park or videogames, zelda will be bought by everyone and show just what bit power can do. How would you spend? You could buy a private jet, a huge yacht, a fleet of Ferraris, a diamond the size of Chris Evans' ego.
Or, as Nintendo did, you could use it to create the greatest videogame ever. Your choice. Before we start, it's worth pointing out that this is not a typical review. The conditions under which 64 Magazine played the game were less than ideal; your editor had to travel to Nintendo of Europe's headquarters in Assendoneinvhere, Germany, to discover that not only was there only one computer capable of taking screenshots in the entire building, but it also had to be shared between 14 journalists from all around Europe, and didn't even become available until the afternoon of the flight back.
On top of that, Nintendo was decidedly paranoid about the game, resulting in the laughable spectacle of various hacks being escorted around the Nintendo building by German officials with N64's under their arms, the Zelda cartridges padlocked firmly into place by some dastardly apparatus from the Marquis de Sade's bedchamber.
As one of the other Brits commented, "You wouldn't get this at Sony. After that kind of build-up, very few games are actually able to meet everyone's expectations. Case in point, this very issue; Turok 2. It's good, but it's not quite the knockout that people had anticipated. Zelda, on the other hand, not only meets every expectation you had of it, but actually exceeds them.
When it comes to what people will now demand of a top videogame, Nintendo has moved the goalposts off the pitch, into a lorry, down the road, into the airport, onto a plane and halfway round the world to a different continent entirely. There isn't a single square inch of the vast game world that hasn't been subjected to intense scrutiny by Nintendo's designers, programmers and testers, and then polished to a finish so glossy it makes Dulux jealous.
Zelda has the perfect learning curve, which makes what is actually quite a complex control system as second-nature as breathing by the time players leave the safety of the forest where they start and head into the wide world beyond.
Link begins the game as a child with a couple of basic skills and the clothes on his back. In the process of exploring his home, Kokiri Village, he picks up the essentials of adventuring. As the game begins, Link who can be renamed if you want is summoned by Navi the fairy, who from then on becomes his constant companion, to see the Deku Tree. This big old stick is the guardian of Link's village, but his roots have recently been infested with evil creatures.
He also knows that Link's been having nightmares about a malevolent force taking over the world - realising that it could be a prophecy, the Deku Tree decides that Link is the key to preventing a catastrophe. Once the Deku Tree has been fumigated, Link has to set out into the world of Hyrule to find the young girl glimpsed in his nightmares Princess Zelda.
If you've played any of the previous Zelda games , there are many things about the N64 game that will feel familiar - places, people, being able to pick up chickens and hurl them around like feathered beachballs. If you haven't played one of the older games, there's no need to worry - the Tolkien-style world is a fantasy archetype, and after a couple of minutes you'll feel right at home.
On the surface, Zelda might look similar to Mario 64 or Banjo-Kazooie , in that you control a character who can roam freely through a 3-D world. If you're expecting a platform game, though, you're in for a shock.
While there are places where Link has to leap from ledges and climb up cliffs, the game engine is smart enough to perform these actions automatically when needed. What, no jump button? Run Link at the edge of a raised area and he'll jump, move him to a ladder and he'll climb, send him into water and he'll swim.
Taking these actions out of the hands of the player may seem as though control is being surrendered, but it isn't. Only donkey work is being given up - more specific actions are still entirely up to you. The key to all this is the incredibly clever control system.
The A button is the 'action' command, which depending on circumstances lets Link open doors, talk to people, enter small spaces, climb walls, push objects, uproot plants, attack enemies, jump in battle You only have to glance at the icon at the top of the screen to see what Link can do at any given moment.
The B button controls Link's main weapon - by using this in conjunction with the analogue stick, he can make different kinds of attack - and R brings up his shield.
The ingenious part of the combat system is the use of the Z trigger as well. By holding Z while attacking. Link locks onto an enemy and will always face it, even while moving around. The combination of these three buttons gives players what is quite simply the best combat system ever.
Until you've used it in action it's hard to appreciate just how good it is, but Link can dodge, feint, probe for weaknesses, defend and dart in for devastating effect against multiple opponents, without the action ever becoming confusing.
Even the inventory system is ingenious, with no need to keep stopping the game to switch between items. Using the objects that Link collects is simplicity itself. On the Select Item subscreen, move the cursor over an item, push whichever C button you want to assign it to, and that's it. Back in the game, every time you push that C button the item will be used, be it a weapon, a magical spell or a fish in a bottle. Once Link gets out into the big wide world, the game becomes a mixture of combat, exploration, character interaction and puzzles.
Hyrule is vast, but is laid out in such a way that players don't have to spend hours slogging back and forth between areas. It's usually made clear where Link needs to go next, and if you forget, the in-game map helpfully puts up flashing icons to show places of importance.
Later in the game, shortcuts become available to cut down still further on travelling time. A few people have been heard to complain about Zelda's lack of support for the Expansion Pak. You know something? It doesn't need it. The game looks gorgeous enough as it is; it's hard to see how banging in a few extra pixels on screen could improve matters. Watching the sun set over Hyrule Castle, battling against the massive bosses, seeing the lengthy expository cut-scenes unfold or just sitting down to go fishing Zelda, unlike most games, goes to great pains to give its characters Minor actors are given typically Nintendo exaggerated facial characteristics to make them stick in the memory the Quasimodo-like gravedigger.
Talon the bog-eyed, sinister-'tached farmhand with ideas above his station and major characters like Zelda, Seria, Ganondorf and Link himself have facial expressions that perfectly emote their feelings.
The characterisation helps pull you into the story in a way no videogame has managed before. There are also plenty of delightful comedy moments that help provide relief from the main story. From Navi banging head-on into a fence in an opening scene, to Goron disco dancing, to fun with chickens, even the most cynical will crack a smile.
Because Zelda never takes you out of the game world, unlike FFVII constant stop-start turn-based attacks and CD access, Nintendo's game completely immerses you in the story and gets you involved with what happens to the characters.
I speak from experience. Like most adventure games apart from Holy Magic Century, which took the brave step of not bothering with all that tedious discovering stuff in favour of hour after hour after hour of random monster attacks Zelda has loads of puzzles and problems that have to be solved before Link can progress.
Some of them are straightforward enough -anyone who's ever played Tomb Raider will feel right at home with the sliding block sections. Other parts require more imagination to solve. Some of the puzzles seem impossible to work out at first, until with a mighty slap of the head and a cry of "Duh!
If you remember that all the necessary clues and items are available by the time you reach a puzzle, and that for the most part things behave as they do in the real world, you'll get there in the end. If you ever get stuck, then it's almost certainly your fault for not exploring the vicinity properly. In the whole intensive odd hours play at Nintendo HQ, there was only one time - quite near the start of the game - when Link had to go back to an earlier point to get something he'd missed in order to solve a puzzle.
The rest of the time, when you reach a problem, the means of solving it is either a short distance away or already in your grasp - you just have to work out how to use it. Just as a hint to new players, which won't spoil the game at all, once you've been given the ocarina it's worth going back and finding the person who gave it to you again before you begin the main adventure.
It'll save you a walk later on! Just how big a game is Zelda? In the course of two days at Nintendo of Europe's headquarters, 64 Magazine put in about 22 hours of play.
To put this in perspective, it took 12 hours to complete just the first, relatively straightforward part of the adventure, at the end of which Link winds up seven years older. According to Nintendo, a player who has already completed the game, knows where everything is and how to defeat all the enemies, would take about 40 hours to reach the finish.
Double Dragon is best known for its NES port, though it came from an arcade game. But, how could they port the arcade game to the Atari , when the Atari is so limited? The answer is, they didn't. Or, at least, they didn't make a playable port of Double Dragon. Considered by critics to be "darker" among the Zelda games franchise, Majora's Mask is set in Termina, an alternate version of the usual series setting of Hyrule, where the Skull Kid has stolen Majora's Mask, a powerful ancient artifact.
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