ShatteredMinds

Celebration! We got us a Nintendo Wii!

Those who havn’t tried Wii yet, don’t know what they’re missing. It is a new fun way to play games, and I got adapted to it pretty fast, it’s a new and refreshing playstyle. The controllers are nice and fits well in your hand, the buttons are well placed, probably except the 1 and 2 buttons, they’re at the bottom of the Wii-mote. It’s also very comfy that you can turn the Wii on and off with the remote. You don’t have to leave your chair or sofa to start playing, right after you watched another movie featuring Jenna Jameson!

I am having a blast with “Zelda: Twilight Princess”, our only game for Wii at the moment. Me and my brother loves the Zelda games, and currently we’re obsessed with this masterpeice. The whole new concept of becoming a wolf in the Twilight-world and introducing the helper Midna, adds plenty of stuff you need to adapt to.

The game starts out very un-Zelda’ish if you know what I mean. You can’t resemble anything from previous Zelda-games for the first 2 hours in the game. It makes you think “Shit, did I buy the wrong game?”, but the story binds it all together.
For starters, the game is a serious mindgame, you really need to think and reason on your own, not rely on NPCs giving you obvious ideas, they just give you very small hints, for you to figure out the whole picture. Ok, I havn’t got very far since we just got Wii, but I am at a point where you need to cross a canyon by bridge. The thing is … the bridge isn’t there! Here, you need to think on your own. And I can bet money on that your first thought isn’t “Where can I go grab a bridge for this?”, for obvious reasons (a wolf carrying a bridge?). I won’t say much more, in case you’ve just got started with the game or getting it soon.

In Twilight Princess, in order to do attack with Link, you need to swing your controller, not press any shiny buttons… ok you can attack with just the buttons, but it is very limited. Shake the remote left and right to make Link do horisontal attack, stab at your screen to make him stab, and shake the Nunchuk (left image) to do a 360 degree spin-attack. Or just hold Z and tap A to do a powerful blow, or smack your opponents silly, when in wolf-form.
The only special item I got so far is the classic boomerang. But it is far from the good old thing, now you can designate where it should go! You can make it target up to 5 targets, and hit them all after you release the B-button. In the first dungeons, there’s puzzels that can only be solved using the boomerang, who also spins like a tornado, causing serious wind-power (which is needed for puzzels).
There’s tons of more stuff to discover and do, and I’ve just got started. Howling as a wolf is funny though, quite different from pushing C-buttons to use an ocarina.