The Official Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass Thread
 

Talk about the game here rather than the Nintendo thread, and please use spoiler tags. Europeans still have to wait three weeks for the game.

What should I do, get it this Friday with my own money or get it as a Christmas present?

How about make up your own mind? We don't know your monetary situation.

I am in no financial crisis so it doesnt really matter. I just wanted to know if this game is that good of a DS game.

Might want to wait until it comes out to ask us that question, as none of us have played it. In the meantime, there are plenty of reviews popping up on various game sites, so you could always check those.

I'm picking this up tomorrow after school. I'm excited for it. WW was a really great game.

As a Zelda fundamentalist I have concerns, but on the DS scale it will probably be the best on the system.

Yeah, so I forgot Nintendo releases their stuff the day AFTER the announced release date, so I went to Gamestop like an idiot and didn't get it. I did put all my money down on it, though, so I'll get it tomorrow when I have my 3 HOUR break between classes. It's a subway ride, though, so maybe I'll wait. Who knows. Either way, I wanna play it badly.

Master Chief is teabagging this thread.

So hard.

Hahahaha.

So true. I won't be picking this up for awhile. Not until I'm sick of H3...maybe by Christmas break.

I'll pick it up, because that's the way I am, but I don't know how quickly I'll beat it. I certainly don't think it will be as quick as I beat OoT, tWW and TP. That's for sure.

Loser. I thought you were a Wind Waker whore.

I've been playing this for a month already.
Thank god for Chinese fan-translated patches.

I am, but I've just got too much on my plate right now. I'll probably end up playing it at night before bed, which will no doubt make me stay up until all hours of the morning. We shall see!

I just started the game up. I just wanted to check the boards before disappearing into this game for a while. I like how the game is played, with the stylus. Well, I'll be back later with an update.

Okay, well, the game is very good so far. It has that Wind Waker simplicity, yet fun atmosphere that I was looking for, but....



But so far? Enjoying it a lot. So...did anyone even buy this, or am I alone? TMB? I know you wouldn't turn down a Zelda game. You made the damn thread.

Guess no one cares but me.

This game is getting really lame. Really fast. That's all I can say.

Please elaborate. Yeah, I know you said "That's all I can say" but I must know!

Well, since no one f'n bought it, I'm going to leave it out of the spoilers.

The phantom hourglass puts a timer on the "big" dungeon of the game. You return to it many times. There's puzzles you have to do, and the hourglass makes it timed. So if you can't finish in time, you lose. And if the puzzles take a while, it gets ANNOYING if you have to do it more than once. I really hate pressure like that. Especially for a game that's on a portable system.

My mom actually just brought this home for me. I'm gonna start playing now!