Want lastable games? Wait for Mario Sunshine and Zelda. The last `big` game I had time to finish was Shenmue, over several months. There`s about a half-dozen big games I still haven`t had time for and never will these days. So if Nintendo are giving me shorter but much more entertainment packed games that I might actually have the time to play through, yes I`m gonna go for those.
There`s a difference between sequels and sequels which have actually enhanced the gameplay of the original and not just the graphics. On average, Nintendo have had a higher ratio of the second type for how long now? Zelda looks to enhance what has gone before. Firstly, I`m more an artist than anything else. Perhaps this is why I can see and appreciate what has been done with the games visuals. Why being able to appreciate something seems to make me a `fanboy` I really don`t get. It also looks to have enabled them to give us huge areas into the deal, and some of the smoothest most fluid animation ever seen.
The concept of breaking up the main game into islands is something new for the Zelda series. The story (and Arill) look to be an interesting thing to get into; THAT and not the graphics are what intrigue me the most. The way enemies will drop weapons you can now use is new to the series. The stealth elements and context-sensitive battle moves are new. And I think its pretty safe to assume a proper day/night system (and weather? It has been seen to rain later on...) which doesn`t `cheat` in quite the same manner as in Majora`s Mask. If you`re a long time player of a series, these are the kind of refinements you`d like to see too.
If everyone thinks original ideas are so easy to come up with, go make them yourself. And would YOU buy a system without recognisable big names behind it which have a reputation for never being bad?
*cough*XBox*cough*
