The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks provides good dungeons and puzzles but its use of a train as the mode of transportation causes the game to slow down and become tedious at times and combine that with the clumsy stylus as the only way to play, it makes this one of, if not the worst Zelda game out there.
Before I go too deep into my review, let...
100% agree with you that the story is a bit of a mess compared to DQ4 and DQ5. I honestly can't remember what it was about except that it involved dreams somehow. Also 100% agree that grinding for vocations was a complete buzzkill. When I think back to my time with DQ6 in ZSNES on my crappy old Athlon64 PC, all I remember is grinding battles for vocation mastery while watching TV on a different screen. Not a good sign.
I think the point I was trying to make is that Nintendo made some drastic changes to the normal Zelda formula. And while in this instance it was not only acceptable but a nice change of pace, I don't see this as a winning formula that should be copied for the next 10-20 years.
When I spend over 100 hours on a game and have a great time almost the entire time I think I'm perfectly justified with my 5/5 rating of a game. No game is perfect and me pointing out a few minor problems won't stop me from rating it that way.
The amount of complaints and caveats you have with this game does not strike me as if you actually had a 5/5 experience. It seems more like you're trying to tow the line for the Nintendo status quo.
Sounds kind of like the annoying situation with White Knight Chronicles and White Knight Chronicles 2 retreading the same ground and feeling more like two parts of a half-assed whole instead of a game and a sequel.
Occasionally I've played video games that freeze/crash from time to time. But, that's usually once or twice during the entire time I play the game. This game routinely crashed every couple hours and what I was doing didn't seem to matter.
LOL, your naivety is so cute! Clearly you haven't been paying close enough attention.
Anyway, it sounds like your experience with this dud was about the same as my experience with "Terraria." Some people love games that feel like work, procedural generation, and so-called 'buried' lore, but it's all pretty half-assed.
I was really looking forward to this, but as I saw more and more reviews and such come out, my excitement was tempered. As you said, I'll wait a year or two down the liine when this is bargain priced to try it out. The explorer in me still wants to experience it, but I am by no means ready to rush out any more.
Adding NNID to MJ is something I would like to do, and I'm sure Nick would be up for it as well. Can you point me in the direction of something resembling a public ID service provided by Nintendo? If not, Nick will have to provide a custom solution.
