Despite the obvious pervyness in this game, this is actually a really good rail-shooter similar to games like House of the Dead or Time Crisis where you have to take down various enemies with different difficulties and bosses that are also challenging and fun.

I quite love the stories for the different romance options in the game, including the possible sister route which is a lot of fun as is Aoi's true ending where she attains her dream that you helped her reach!

I would recommend this more on a discount for those interested and it's a lot of fun for multiple playthroughs.

The only downside is, as of writing this review there has been a bug where it sometimes crashes (usually when in big picture) and it has yet to fixed in this regard.

I have a fairly rosy opinion on this game. Much in the same way that Skyward Sword feels like the quintessential "Wii Zelda", I think this game nails the quintessential "DS Zelda" energy. I do think this game effectively improves on everything Phantom Hourglass tried to do. The plot is better, the gameplay is better, the dungeons are better, the music is better, and the characters are on a whole better. You ride a train? Link gets a cute little engineer outfit!? You can control Zelda!?! It's a great game. The train controls worked for me and I thought it was a fun way to get around the world. This version of Zelda has more character than most of the Zeldas in the series, and the bosses are good and fairly memorable.

The Spirit Flute was a cute musical concept although I will say this is where I had a bigger struggle with the game. It didn't always feel like I was blowing on the mic properly when I tried to play the flute. The game is fairly forgiving but I'm still not fully certain how I'm supposed to jump between notes.

I don't think it is for everybody, and definitely seems targeted at my preferences, but if someone was to ask me "If I was to play one Zelda DS game which one should I play?", the answer would be Spirit Tracks easily.