It's a completely fine shooting gallery minigame made with the stupid Wii Zapper attachment in mind.
This game started a war in my house.
genuinely really good. vr before vr
It might just be that I played a lot of mediocre arcade shooters on the Wii before this but this game is a ton of fun and actually made me want to go for a high score. Plus the way they implemented the Darknut and Stallord fights were really cool. Controls felt responsive too, no real issues other than the length which I do think was a little short.
Mid-high 7/10
Mid-high 7/10
I had a lot of fun with this one and I still wish they had made a longer follow-up to it. The world is ready for a full-length Legend of Zelda third-person shooter. It would be really funny.
Link's Crossbow Training can currently be picked up for single dollars from just about any random retro game shop or eBay storefront. It's lost what little value it had at launch as a Wii Zapper pack-in, relegated mostly to a joke within the Nintendo community. But in reality this is a really well-designed and nuanced light gun game with the level of polish that you'd expect from a Nintendo EAD game. There's really no reason for Link's Crossbow Training to be reevaluated on a larger cultural level because it's such a low-impact title, but I do think it's an extremely replayable and fun entry in its genre. A lot more depth and density in the missions than I expected, and a lot more risk vs. reward in the combo-based gameplay than it appears. Definitely worth checking out, especially for how cheaply it can be found.
another accidental stream clear, a friend was shocked because i hit a bell or something and he didn't know that was possible.
This game comes with a Wii zapper and you best believe that I am getting my money's worth out of that thing
Everyone's always asking for Twilight Princess on Switch, wouldn't it be hilarious if we ported this one instead
Did anyone actually like this gun controller?
It's jank but it's hella fun
Nah
the fact this couldve been twilight princess 2 kills me
I have three copies of this game. Literally every person I know owns this game. Even my grandma owns this game and she doesn't even have a Wii. Decent game, not much to it! Beating that knight meant a lot to me as a kid.
Stranamente, questo spin-off di The Legend of Zelda funziona davvero bene, tuttavia l'assenza di una campagna singleplayer rende questo videogioco fine a se stesso, come se fosse una tech-demo.
Definitely one of the more gimmicky Zelda games, if you can even call it a "Zelda game". It's actually more similar to Wii Sports or 1-2 Switch ---- a game in which Nintendo shows you what a new system or peripheral can do. In this case, the Wii Zapper. And from what I recall it was perfectly adequate. It's a silly, somewhat amusing arcade-like shooting game with a Zelda: Twilight Princess coat of paint.
A Zelda-themed on-rails shooter with a goofy plastic peripheral that Nintendo never really uses again. What's not to love? (It is actually pretty fun)
Starved for everything Zelda I could get my hands on after Twilight Princess, I got this on release and was massively let down by it not having any sort of story or, in fact, any logical reason for existing. But I guess I still squeezed it for all the bucks I had spent.
Beating every Zelda in timeline order 6.5/20:
Link's Crossbow Training boldly asks: what if the shooting gallery from Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask was fun?
I expected to just play through each stage once and call it a day but I was enjoying myself so much that I went ahead and got a platinum medal on all the levels. This game rocks and it's a shame more people haven't played it.
Link's Crossbow Training boldly asks: what if the shooting gallery from Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask was fun?
I expected to just play through each stage once and call it a day but I was enjoying myself so much that I went ahead and got a platinum medal on all the levels. This game rocks and it's a shame more people haven't played it.
actually a pretty decent lil zap gun tie in. the combination of traditional zelda aesthetics with the wii's was like discovering nostalgia i never had
Absolute classic.
fuck this game we were supposed to get a twilight princess sequel and it turned in to this fuck this game
A silly arcade shooter related to Twilight Princess that kind of remixes elements of the original game in a fun way, making you approach these challenges differently. It's not too long to complete unfortunately but rewarding getting a silver rank and being able to progress. Only 2 stars for not being a full sequel to the best Zelda made.
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Was fun playing with family
Pretty nice to discover
This scratched an itch and im not afraid to say it
They made wii play minigames out of Twilight Princess. This game just confuses me. Why use Twilight Princess to make a demo pack-in game for the Wii Zapper? Why does the Wii Zapper even need a pack-in game? The wii zapper is just a piece of plastic, this game is 100% playable without it. No particular features of the zapper are utilized in this outside of the pointer controls, but Wii Play already kinda existed to be a demonstration of the pointer controls.
The actual gameplay itself is just a bunch of rail-shootery light gun gamey missions that you do in a quick succession. The game really favors accuracy over speed as getting hit combos is the easiest way to get points by far, and missing one shot drops a combo. If you play cautiously and refine your run, getting platinum rankings on each of the stages is a cakewalk.
When I looked up the development of this game, thinking it was just a quick job to make a quick little pack in title for the wii zapper, I was even more confused with the development history of this game than I was with the actual game itself. Apparently this could have been a sequel to twilight princess, or some weird terminator-styled side story where they gave link a gun. Despite the empty-calorie feeling this game has in its own playtime, it's like an hour long to go through everything and the minigames still have a solid level of polish put into them so it doesn't feel like no care was put into it. Worth a shot off of curiosity alone, I'd say.
The actual gameplay itself is just a bunch of rail-shootery light gun gamey missions that you do in a quick succession. The game really favors accuracy over speed as getting hit combos is the easiest way to get points by far, and missing one shot drops a combo. If you play cautiously and refine your run, getting platinum rankings on each of the stages is a cakewalk.
When I looked up the development of this game, thinking it was just a quick job to make a quick little pack in title for the wii zapper, I was even more confused with the development history of this game than I was with the actual game itself. Apparently this could have been a sequel to twilight princess, or some weird terminator-styled side story where they gave link a gun. Despite the empty-calorie feeling this game has in its own playtime, it's like an hour long to go through everything and the minigames still have a solid level of polish put into them so it doesn't feel like no care was put into it. Worth a shot off of curiosity alone, I'd say.
It's an ok spinoff. The Wii Zapper controls were pretty cool and I liked how it was connected to Twilight Princess.
The wii was really a crazy time.