One of the
best gems that Nintendo has to offer comes again with a powerhouse that showcases
what the Nintendo 64 can really do…

Coming out
on November 21, 1998 on Japan and November 23 of the same year; an action-adventure
game of extremely high caliber which boasted three dimensional graphics and a large
scale map with beautiful scenery. This game offered and introduced new features
such as the target lock-on and context-sensitive buttons.

In sales, the
legend of Zelda came in at a whopping 820,000 copies in Japan, making it the
tenth best-selling game of the year and to this date it’s sold approximately 7.6
million copies worldwide.

This game has
had four releases including of course the Nintendo 64 version, the game cube
version, the 3ds version and on the Wii’s virtual console. These releases were
well received in each of these despite some critics which considered the game
unchanged and outdated.

Box front:
Includes the title of the game, Nintendo logo and the Master sword and hylian
shield. The background of the box is gold and the side, where the logo as well as
the esrb rating are is colored red.  The collector’s
edition shares the same qualities as the other, but has some golden colored
lines that go around the hylian shield.  There’s also the game of the year edition box
which states that the game was declared game of the year on 1999.

These are
only for the Western version of the game. In Japan the box art is quite
different. It depicts old link, already riding Epona in black, the center of
the box’s background which is behind link and Epona’s color is blue and the
side background is black in some spots, blue in others. The black on the side
looks like fog. The same as the American version in the name of the game and
the sword and shield.

Now, onto
the review:

10/10Graphics:
The game’s graphics are astounding with each of your own movements and the
enemies being fluid as well as well detailed. Grand expanses of lands, rivers,
trees, a city, a town, a desert, snow, ice… It’s all here and beautifully
depicted. Hell, you can even see things in the distance… The menacing look of Death
Mountain after you turn into adult link is still vivid in my mind. There’s also
the few cut scenes that play throughout the game.

10/10Sound:
Sound wise it’s just grand, majestic and simply breathtaking. Every piece of
music on ocarina of time is something that will stay with you after you’ve played
it and even after that. From the original, epic main theme which we all know and
love and can practically hum completely, to the several songs you play with
your ocarina, to the music that plays when you fight bosses, to the song that
plays when you’re in the main menu, I could just stay in the menu to listen to
that alone by the way <3… This game’s music is just fantastic and there’s no
discounting this.

10/10Addictive:
This game… This game’s addictiveness is not even a question. You can play this
game throughout a whole day, beat it, go find the heart pieces, be a fisherman,
go back in time and be a mask salesman, come back through time to go through
the several errands in order to get the biggoron’s sword, do the poe side
quest, do the skulltula side quest (Sorry if I spelled it wrong), get all the fairies…
Well… I don’t need to say more right? 

10/10Story:
Well, we all know this story right? For those who do not I will place a spoiler
warning before I write it and make all of it a different color in order for
you, the readers to be able to avoid spoilers if it’s your first play  through.

Spoiler warning: We start with our young hero, Link, a young boy who lives in the kokiri
forest. In one of his dreams he sees a young girl riding a horse with an adult,
running away from a red haired colored male… Later on in the game we discover
that the small female is named Zelda, the princess of Hyrule and that the red haired
male is the king of the Gerudo’s, Ganondorf.  He is the main antagonist in the game who
wishes to reach the sacred realm. Once he finds out about the tri-force within
that realm; he goes to grasp it, but because he is not chosen to wield its
whole power, it divides into three pieces. The three pieces of the tri-force are
courage, wisdom and the one acquired by Ganon, power. The tri-force was created
by the three goddesses of this world you play in and is extremely powerful.

The way you
are at the start of the game is not strong enough to defeat the power of Ganon;
so you must take up the legendary sword, the master sword, and become an adult
with time travel. Being one of the chosen by the tri-force, courage; you must take
up your blade against the many enemies to bar your path and become the legendary
hero of time to fight the evil king. 

Can’t say I’m
not impressed with how epic in scale this story is… I left out a lot in order
to give new players who chose to read these spoilers in the dark about a few
things. Either way, play on and enjoy this amazing tale of sword and shield.

10/10Depth:
This game has so much content hidden within its cartridge that’s it’s not even
funny. I mentioned most of them before in the addictiveness section. It’s not
just the quest… It’s how you go about completing it, and my lord there’s a lot
to see beside’s the main story. 

7/10difficulty:
This is the only part of the game I have a small gripe with… The difficulty is
time. The only hard part in this game is sitting there and waiting patiently
for that one skeleton dude with the sword and shield to freaking swing his
sword…  Other than that the difficulty is
pretty easy if you don’t count the puzzle element for newcomers; even then it’s
not much of a challenge.

The control
scheme is easy to get used to and easy to manage. You will be using Z targeting
a lot so get used to it early within the game and never stop using it; it’s
your best friend.

With this
ends my little review of the game. Hope the people who see it enjoy it.