*Spoilers* I have problems with TP

[Red_Fury]

I have some problems with TP. I don't mean that that I'm stuck (although I do only need to find one more poe; which I can't find!) what I mean is with the game itself. I'm not saying it's a bad game and it certainly has the Nintendo magic of making want to play the game again but there were some things that meant that my enjoyment of the game was not as high as it could of been.

I say some things but I guess that most come under one heading: 'things to do'. The game for me throughout didn't have much going on outside the main storyline. Which is a surprise for a game that lasts around the 40 - 50 hour mark. After the two dungeons I was already finding the new game to be rather devoid of things to do.
Taking the opening areas from both OoT and TP (which are very similar, both in a wooded area both have to dungeons in their vicinity and both have a lost woods complete with skullkid) OoT has more things going on. You can shoot at a target to get a bigger ammo bag, you can play songs with the skullkids for rupees and a heart piece not forgetting the business scrub and the scrub beauty contest or the skulltulas that lurk around. In comparison TP has a round up, two golden bugs (although I'm not sure if a snail is tecnically a bug) and a Poe.

What's happened to all the games and sidequests? I may be wrong but I feel that OoT had more sidequests than TP although, in TP, they last longer with the Poe searching and bug hunting requiring that you beat almost every dungeon in order to complete them. (Especially the Poe hunting) I often found myself wanting at every area. Why is there no horse race, why no sumo contest or diving game and why populate Hyrule town with people, if 90 pecent of them don't acknowledge you. There's not even any little things like catching cuccos.
So where does all the time go? If had to guess I would a good 10 percent if not more of the time is conversations and cinematics and a further 10 - 15 on actually getting to the dungeons. Every dungeon in the game has a task put before you can access them. It's not as simple as catching a fish in a bottle or bombing a boulder. Not that I mind, it's just that, by doing so it makes the game feel larger than it really is.

Other things that I find annoying about the game is that some aspects seem superfluous. After Ordon village what is the need for the hawk, and once you get the bow the slingshot might as well not exist. In fact they seem to know that it is a pointless weapon, which is why you can't increase it's ammo capacity or why it doesn't even have an ammo bag.

Yet after saying all this about it I still enjoyed TP it's a great game the dungeons are big and the characters, for the most part, are well developed and seem to have their own personalities. Especially Midna who most probably thought would just occupy a Navi like postion but turns out to be one of the best developed characters in the game. (Although a part of me still wishes that I could find out an enemies name a short desription through a couple of button presses.) Twilight Princess is a great game but not that great.

[Shadow Link]

i agree, although the game is easily the best legend of zelda game, neigh, the best video game of all time, it has a certain... emptiness to it. it is missing something, most likely the games. the STAR game is just plain boring and i do wish you could sumo   wrestle more, ive found it to be quite fun but you barely sumo wrestle at all. i also wish you could call your horse any time as lone as the area was accessable for your horse, like in OoT. i do hope nintendo will improve upon this in the next game.

[LadyNintendo]

I agree as well (and therefor would never consider TP the best (zelda) game ever). I thought it's size was mostly fake. Though realistic, what's the point of putting so much area in a game if there isn't anything to do in it? At least TWW had a lot going on, though nothing spectacular. Where's Lon Lon Ranch? If there's one thing that could've filled up Hyrule Field, it's that. And I hate how boars can only be used in one area and not taken to another. They just stop at the bridge and worst of all, can't even talk! While the goats are just scared of Link, there's no excuse for the boars.

And yes, I've noticed the pointless temporal changes in gameplay. ''Wee! I can sumo wrestle with Gorons. O ho wait, I guess not." The hawk is a wasted model and gameplay and the Slingshot is pointless. The mini-games are a little too easy. Like the key to winning Iza's game is simply not to touch the peddle and only focus on shooting. If you hit everything, you should have 26 points, more than enough for the upgrade. And what about fishing? It's fun but it doesn't do anything.