one of the best stories in any zelda game, the writing is amazing and really gets you invested in the world and the people living in it. unfortunately the characters kind of balance each other out. i love midna and shad but hate all of the children, who are sadly a big focus of the game (for a reason, they do have growth and are beneficial to the story but i personally do not like them). the world is beautiful but feels a little empty, however this is sort of fixed as you experience each section both in light and twilight. overall, a very solid experience that i hold close to my heart ♡

This is the most Zelda game of all time, there isn't any game that is more Zelda than this one, if there was a Zelda game award this would be the number 1 Zelda game because it is indeed a Zelda game.

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD is an HD remaster of a Gamecube/Wii game from 2006 sharing the same name, this game follows more in the footsteps of Ocarina of Time rather than trying to be its own thing like Wind Waker. It pretty much takes the best of both Ocarina of Time and Wind Waker to make the ultimate modern Zelda experience, but did it deliver what Wind Waker couldn't? In my honest and humble opinion, it did a wonderful job at being Ocarina of Time 2.

Twilight Princess takes place in a more darker and realistic world with a really intriguing premise that starts really well but unfortunately gets dragged down by the recurring Zelda tropes that just keep Twilight Princess as a Zelda game and nothing more. What I'm trying to explain is mostly what Ganon does to the story, I personally have no issue with Zelda tropes I really do like them, and I get happy whenever I see a nod to a previous Zelda game, but then you already know what happens and what will happen, the whole dark world idea was great till it was revealed that it was just Ganon being responsible for everything, it's really just like any Mario game where the bad guy always ends up being Bowser, but then again it's just a Nintendo game, we enjoy them for the gameplay and not the story but it's always nice to see a nice and original plot from time to time, I love the Zelda franchise but I wish they did a bit more with it story-wise.

Outside of the story feeling somewhat unfinished and the Zelda tropes being overly present in this game whether you like it or not, the gameplay is still fantastic. It really feels like a big next step for the franchise, not an innovative step like Breath of the Wild but a step that just really polishes what was previously made. The game takes a more linear approach to its story, the idea is the same as in Ocarina of Time where at first you start with the three elemental dungeons and then go for the dungeon related to the mages, the only difference is that the "open world" is barely used, especially early game where you'll spend most of your time as a Wolf without the ability to do anything as Link. So the world ends up just being a transition in between dungeons with barely any exploration or character interactions, it may be a good thing for some but I did like the NPC-based puzzles in OoT with some nice fetch quests here and there, it made the world more alive and I barely felt like any NPCs actually matters in Twilight Princess, they ended up making a more realistic world but at the price of losing its liveliness.

The dungeons themselves are honestly the main focus of the game, most of them are overall really well made, some like the water temple can be somewhat infuriating to figure out but overall they all are fairly simple to figure out, a guide is not necessary for this game. The item pacing is really good and the new items are really fun like the spinner or the double Hookshot, god bless the double Hookshot. And surprisingly the bosses are really well made too, my favorite being Zant, it uses the boss refight near the end of the game trope that usually often sucks like in Wind Waker but this time instead of refighting the boss you have to fight Zant using the ability of the bosses in their respective arena making you use reuse the same item you previously used for that specific boss.

Overall this game might not be the most original game of all time, and it might have not inspired the game industry like with OoT and BOTW, but it did a really good job at being a Zelda game and I will forever appreciate this game as the ultimate 3D Zelda game, so unless Nintendo actually brings back the OoT tropes/formula, Twilight Princess will stay as the ultimate modern OoT experience.

Absolutely god-tier game that I've noticed getting some unnecessary hate for its bug-hunting wolf segments that last like fifteen minutes at most. Everything about this game absolutely screams "Dark Fantasy". The atmosphere, music, story, villains, settings, and monsters all feel more twisted, strange, and evil l than any other game in the series (besides Majora's Mask). It also has quite possibly the most satisfying combat in any Zelda game. This game is damn near flawless, and is even better than BotW and TotK for my money.

Zelda é uma franquia que despensa apresentações e Twilight Princess não é exceção a fórmula dos Zeldas 3d clássicos. Em muitos quesitos, é o mais semelhante ao ocarina of time, tanto pelo tom, mapa, história, ciclo de gameplay e formato das dungeons e gadgets, mas ainda assim apresentando algumas novidades no combate com as técnicas secretas e diferentes formas dos ataques básicos. Tendo isso em mente, considero este o pior Zelda 3d dos que joguei por inumeros motivos e realmente é um game que não envelheceu tão bem quanto seus irmãos mais novos e muitas questões se dão por decisões má fundadas.

1º A uma lentidão no ritmo do jogo que não deveria ocorrer: Movimento do jogador, limitação da epona, não há botão de corrida e a constante limitação da transformação do Link em lobo, parecendo mais um filler do que uma parte realmente integrante do conjunto do jogo, quebrando muitas vezes o ritmo do jogo, parecendo só uma parte chata antes de voltar pro ciclo de gameplay tradicional.

2º ponto é em relação aos personagens e vida em Hyrule. Enquanto em Oot, MM e até WW há muito mais interação e personagens interessantes, nesse parece um mundo morto, sem graça e sem vida, tanto pela falta de interação quanto pelo estilo e paleta de cores escolhida. Todas as cores parecem lavadas e sem contraste. Midna é a melhor coisa do jogo, mas até ela mesmo é fraca. Devo ter jogado até metade do jogo aproximadamente e literalmente nenhum personagem demonstrou algo interessante. Talvez o mais próximo disso foi o Colin, mas ainda assim foi bem apagado. O Vilão é extremamente fraco, sem personalidade e com design pífio, sendo totalmente esquecível. Provavelmente deve desenvolver mais ao decorrer do jogo, mas você luta contra ele sem nem ao menos ter uma grande motivação.

3º Desafios. Ou melhor, a falta deles. O jogo parece ter como objetivo alcançar pessoas que nunca jogaram algo na vida, pois não há literalmente momento algum que você é desafiado e o jogo trava muito sua experiência com interações sem sentido e tutoriais extensos.

No fim, o jogo acaba sofrendo muito por uma crise de identidade, tentando buscar coisas dos antigos jogos mas pecando em criar uma identidade boa para si, sendo que muito dos problemas desse jogo já tinha sido aprimorados em jogos passados, como o pacing e velocidade geral apresentados em MM, as cores vibrantes de WW e os momentos marcantes. Outro ponto: Esse é o link MENOS EXPRESSIVO DE TODOS. ELE PASSA O JOGO INTEIRO COM AQUELE SORRISO IDIOTA! Pra que focar nele em cgs se é para deixar ele tão apático? Outra: a ferocidade demostrada na forma de lobo, considerando que o Link tem total controle nessa forma, não faz sentido algum, tendo em vista que ele nunca mostra esse lado como Humano, nem parecem os mesmos personagens.

Enfim, decepção.