Yes. Everything Is Rubbish.

Upon playing Final Fantasy XV I was concerned for Breath of the wild . Final Fantasy and The legend of Zelda are 2 franchises I have never compared in the past. It's like comparing one of those FIFI or Super evolution football games to Super Mario. But with the latest entries in the series, it was difficult not to, because they both seemed to be seeking to achieve the same thing and going about it in similar ways. But the execution is where both games completely diverge and Breath of the wild is teaching Final Fantasy XV some lessons along with it. In fact, it's teaching all Zelda fans a lesson.

I was sceptical of Link's first new 3DS outing at first because I have a bad track record when it comes to handheld Zelda's. I start them, but never finish them. To this day I have not completed a single one of the handheld Zelda adventures. I had also read a rather negative review over at Destructoid which stuck with me, even amongst the hundreds of glowing reviews published elsewhere. But I finally took the plunge with Link brand new 3DS debut, because in all fairness; Nintendo has never released a bad Zelda game. Some are better than others, but not one of them has been terrible. A Link between worlds is set in the exact same Hyrule as  A Link to the past . For Nintendo to do this was a bold move, because it is such a highly regarded game and is my favourite Zelda game of all time. I should have been excited at a chance to revisit this world, but I was full of doubt going into this game because I didn't want my memories of the game to be ruined, tainted or desecrated. B...

Skyward sword  does something which no other Zelda game has done to date and that is to introduce Zelda to the player as a true character. Over time she's become fleshed out by Nintendo's standards (which is but barely) and has even proven a bit useful, albeit in a predictable role of arming herself with a bow and some light arrows. But  Skyward sword  is the first game in the series to introduce Zelda as  an actual character.  You get to know her and interact with her as Zelda. Not Zelda in a guise. Zelda as a pirate. Or Zelda as a ninja. Or even Zelda as a princess. But Zelda as Link's childhood friend. A regular girl. Nintendo pushed Link and Zelda's relationship a touch in  Spirit tracks  and we even managed to get  a  moment in the games' ending. But the feelings between Link and Zelda have always been unspoken and left to our imagination. Or in some cases down right non-existent.  Skyward sword  lays their feelings o...

I went into Skyward sword the same way I always go into a Zelda game, with expectations set from the game which came before and not so much those set by the reviews. It was hard not to go into this game expecting 'the best Zelda yet' given this was a tag line many reviewers had over used a week prior to its European release on November 18. But at the same time, this isn't something you're going to to be able to make a judgement on during a groggy 1 hour Friday night play through. By the time I'd switched this game on it was 11 o' clock at night. I was tired. I was fed up having had a shitty day at work. So I wasn't in the most joyous of moods to truly take in the opening experience of Nintendo's latest epic tale of green floppy hats, swords, princesses and ginger nut-cases on a hunt for gold triangles. It might just be me, but the opening to Zelda games are never that great. It's easy to be completely oblivious to how boring the opening to a Zelda ...