Easily the best way to experience Twilight Princess. Some extremely minor things I prefer in the GameCube version but overall irrelevant. I've 100% this game on both normal and Hero mode. I don't recommend anyone does that lol.
The slow beginning is a bit annoying upon replay but it sets up the Hero's Journey perfectly, capturing the Ordinary World of Ordon Village and all its residents quite masterfully. A really cozy village. I don't understand how Link has a giant tree house with no bed but whatever it's his life.
The complaints about items not being useful after their dungeons I don't find particularly relevant or that truthful honestly. That really only felt like the case with the spinner and even then there's a few secrets you can find in the overworld with the spinner. Everything else is extremely useful in and out of combat depending on the enemy you are fighting.
Another annoying part I always get stuck on is in the Lakebed Temple when you have to clawshot onto a grassy wall which is almost comically out of view. I get stuck there everytime and I've been playing this game for over a decade at this point.
My main complaint is still that the game is way too easy. You have so many movement options with the sword skills Link learns and the enemies are still fodder. I used maybe 1 bottle during the Hero's mode enemy gauntlet in the desert. Bomb arrows trivialize lots of tough enemies like Stalfos. Darknuts are the most interesting enemies to fight but once you get their pattern down they are cakewalk.
The most challenging thing was playing through the Wolf Link dungeons with the amiibo on Hero Mode. That actually got very frustrating and felt impossible unless you had Zelda and Sheik as additional healing Amiibos. Wolf Link feels unresponsive sometimes to how you want him to move and he is really terrible at fighting the ice enemies. Still I got through it to get the 10k rupee wallet and those last Amiibo stamps.
Crazy how this is likely the last traditional 3D Zelda game. Skyward Sword can be argued to be another traditional 3D Zelda game but I felt like its world was not as fun to explore as this one even with its janky ugly textures throughout Hyrule.
The slow beginning is a bit annoying upon replay but it sets up the Hero's Journey perfectly, capturing the Ordinary World of Ordon Village and all its residents quite masterfully. A really cozy village. I don't understand how Link has a giant tree house with no bed but whatever it's his life.
The complaints about items not being useful after their dungeons I don't find particularly relevant or that truthful honestly. That really only felt like the case with the spinner and even then there's a few secrets you can find in the overworld with the spinner. Everything else is extremely useful in and out of combat depending on the enemy you are fighting.
Another annoying part I always get stuck on is in the Lakebed Temple when you have to clawshot onto a grassy wall which is almost comically out of view. I get stuck there everytime and I've been playing this game for over a decade at this point.
My main complaint is still that the game is way too easy. You have so many movement options with the sword skills Link learns and the enemies are still fodder. I used maybe 1 bottle during the Hero's mode enemy gauntlet in the desert. Bomb arrows trivialize lots of tough enemies like Stalfos. Darknuts are the most interesting enemies to fight but once you get their pattern down they are cakewalk.
The most challenging thing was playing through the Wolf Link dungeons with the amiibo on Hero Mode. That actually got very frustrating and felt impossible unless you had Zelda and Sheik as additional healing Amiibos. Wolf Link feels unresponsive sometimes to how you want him to move and he is really terrible at fighting the ice enemies. Still I got through it to get the 10k rupee wallet and those last Amiibo stamps.
Crazy how this is likely the last traditional 3D Zelda game. Skyward Sword can be argued to be another traditional 3D Zelda game but I felt like its world was not as fun to explore as this one even with its janky ugly textures throughout Hyrule.