Beat Phantom Hourglass last night.
Rating: 6.5/10
Now don't look at that as a bad thing, nothing gets a 10/10 unless it is flawless. However, the game was never really caught my undivided attention. Near the end I was playing it just to beat it so I could say that I did. The game was undeniably a difficult to control game at first. However once you get the hang of it, it's still not the best way to go about it, every time I'd start it up I'd find myself saying "if the controls were only like... instead of like..." Now I'm not saying they were horrid however they surly could have been so much better. The graphics seemed a little elementary, but for the DS they weren't that bad. Could have been a little more crisp but I'm not asking Nintendo to be magicians. The puzzles were actually very well designed and enjoyable but the bosses were often times easier to defeat than some of the enemies in the game. This creates a little bit of a sign that they knew the controls could have been better. Story wise, I enjoyed it some what. ***SPOILER*** It was fairly clear from the beginning that the old man was in fact the ocean king. ***END SPOILER*** I liked the idea of the Phantom Hourglass but at the end I literally found myself saying "NOT ANOTHER LINK'S AWAKENING ENDING!" Not that I didn't like the way that game ended but just the unoriginal ending of it all. Now I'm an adventurer, I go and talk to all the people everywhere at least once every time I go to a specific place but I caught myself not doing that because most of the characters had one line of dialog the entire game unless they moved positions. ***SPOILER*** For these reasons I have to say I was pleased regaining the memories of the fairies but after getting the first pure metal I was completely done with it.